I heard in the news that NASA is planning to bomb the moon in an effort to find water.
What happens if angry moonies retaliate and bomb the earth?
Which raises another matter: what do you call possible inhabitants of the moon? The "moonies" I mentioned tends to refer to followers of Sun Myung Moon, or members of the Unification Church. Countries that end with the letter "n" and their inhabitants have various extensions or modifications to describe their inhabitants: Japan - Japanese, Iran - Iranians, Spain - Spaniards. So, Moonese, Moonians or Moniards? Perhaps we need to use a derivation of "Lune", after all, we have the lunar landscape. Would that make them "Lunies"?
This reminded me of an anomaly that's puzzled me for some time (although I haven't lost any sleep over it): what do you call people from the USA?
They call themselves Americans, but they might as well call themselves earthlings, because they're not the only Americans! Canadians, Mexicans, Peruvians, etc are Americans too.
So what do we call them? Usans? Usanasians? Usanites? Usanese?
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