The Mullah Nasruddin

Another big difference in the culture from thirty years ago is the big picture attitude about Arabs and the Middle East. I don't think 'Marrakesh Express' would so naturally and joyously become a hit today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYq9RjdYYU

We will probably never again have a popular song with 'Striped Djellabas' as a lyric. And it used to be that the saffron color made us think of Hare Krishnas bothering you at the airport - not as the color of ersatz jumpsuits in propaganda snuff films.

Although Arabs could occasionally be super villains in media:


I always thought of the sayings in Moon Over Morocco as belonging to Mullah Nasruddin - but MN doesn't do sayings, he does stories!

The top 3 rows of the Lotus jukebox select from a large collection of sayings - many from the Moroccan collection in Moon Over Morocco. There are also large swathes of the Third Chinese Patriarch of Zen, assorted quotes from popular and historical figures, and various patterns and themes across families of buttons. The -13 family has a large selection of cases where you get 'unluckily' tossed out of the game. The P- family is all about Power, Pain, the Present, ... The T- family is all about Truth, and the U- family is all about 'You'.

I still can't see a pattern in the spaces in the Fibonacci group. But some ways further in the game, an apparent dead end is capped with: 'The knowledge you seek is in the wisdom you have abandoned' - and you will notice that there is a floppy labeled 'Wisdom' that has the graphic of a hand with a nickel in it.

Reviewing the rest of the stranded graphics ... Roger does repeat some key patterns for trick extended messages as he kicks you out of the game, but there is one saying that is duplicated that does not look like there is a reason to intentionally repeat it. I can't tell which one of the two remaining graphics should replace one of the duplicates - but here is another graphic that has not been seen for thirty years!

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