# A new and unknown race of people on Earth? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 1, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993 "2003-10-01T21:45:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/1 "2003-10-01T21:45:34Z")
A lot of people apply for public housing, and not all of them have got their frequencies completely dialed in, if you knowed whut I mean, Vern. We get a lot of the slack-jawed, the no-chinned, the jug-eared, and just plain out-there types who move to Alaska to commune with the gods or their sisters or even those whose presence is not made known to the mortal man. A recent applicant insisted that he be allowed to include a checkbox on the application, under the heading of “race”, of “LMH”. He insisted that he was a member of this race and that there are only a few of them presently existing. He would not elaborate on what “LMH” meant. Does anybody have a clue? 'Cuz unless he thinks that “Mohican” is two words, I’m afraid he’s deluded. But maybe I’m missing some important information and _I’m_ the one whose cheese has gone moldy. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/2 "2003-10-01T23:16:22Z")
This fellow is taking a vehement stand against all race-based data collecting, and invites “the Man” (i.e. you) to “Lick My Hole”. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/3 "2003-10-02T03:33:58Z")
Why not just continue to bin his improperly filled out form until this chap finally decides to provide complete information as requested? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/4 "2003-10-02T04:26:29Z")
Googled LMH and race together and deep down the list came up [this page](http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/cleanup/guidance/ma05.cfm). There’s no explanation of the acronym but while it doesn’t seem to have jack squat to do with race, apparently it does have something to do with public housing. He might be confused, or it might simply be a weird coincidence, and he really does believe he’s one of the Little Mole Humans. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/5 "2003-10-02T07:23:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTA \* > \*\*This fellow is taking a vehement stand against all race-based data collecting, and invites “the Man” (i.e. you) to “Lick My Hole”. \*\* Then why does he not say KMA? ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/6 "2003-10-02T15:33:05Z")
I don’t know. He’s a rebel? ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/7 "2003-10-02T16:02:34Z")
**LMH** is Star Trek Geekspeak for _Longterm Medical Hologram._ Maybe he’s an obsessed Trekkie. Too bad the guy didn’t think he was a _Red Dwarf_ hologram instead. Then he’d at least he’d be wearing an **H** on his forehead and you’d know what the hell he was talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/8 "2003-10-02T16:14:04Z")
I think you mean EMH, Emergency Medical Hologram. Now if he’d have styled himself an LMD I’d have know right away what he meant. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/9 "2003-10-02T16:25:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*I think you mean EMH, Emergency Medical Hologram. > > Now if he’d have styled himself an LMD I’d have know right away what he meant. \*\* Surely you’re not saying that he would be a 2003’s styled “LMD”, are you? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/10 "2003-10-02T18:26:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aryk29 \* > \*\*Then why does he not say KMA? \*\* Because, at least in my experience, LMHing and KMAing are two totally different things. Getting KMAd does nothing for me; but getting LMHd . . . oh yeah . . . ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/11 "2003-10-02T18:43:58Z")
I forgot to mention that he also claims to be a ‘messenger of God’, but didn’t elaborate on the message itself. He did promise to create his own form, complete with little boxes and give it to us. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/12 "2003-10-02T19:25:25Z")
Well, he’s almost certainly going to need public housing, because LMHs are traditionally discriminated against when they note the designation on an employment application and only really desperate businesses hire them. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/13 "2003-10-03T23:32:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chefguy \* > \*\*I forgot to mention that he also claims to be a ‘messenger of God’, but didn’t elaborate on the message itself. He did promise to create his own form, complete with little boxes and give it to us. \*\* Just tell him that God has to fill out her _own_ paperwork. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/14 "2003-10-03T23:42:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chefguy \* > \*\* 'Cuz unless he thinks that “Mohican” is two words. \*\* Dude, you induced a fit of uncontrollable giggling. Good thing nobody was around… Messengers of God are the worst for filling up the “race” box – Da Man’s got the most thorough affirmative-action plan youever saw… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/15 "2003-10-04T02:43:58Z")
> [@](#): > > There’s no explanation of the acronym . . . . In HUD - speak, LMH means [Low Mod Housing](http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/systems/idis/resources/cdbg_xref.cfm) (whatever that means), so I agree that the fruitcake may mean something else in his race category. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/16 "2003-10-04T03:00:14Z")
Anyone claim to have a 1920s style death ray? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/17 "2003-10-04T03:08:09Z")
I’m betting this chap was Last in the Main Heat, e.g. not the sharpest knife in Momma’s drawer. ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/18 "2003-10-04T06:18:37Z")
[http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=lma&Find=Find](http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=lma&Find=Find) Maybe he wants you to leave him alone…? ---
**Author:** ![cbm77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@cbm77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbm77)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2003, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-and-unknown-race-of-people-on-earth/204993/19 "2003-10-04T10:01:49Z")
I agree with typhoon and RTA. I know of plenty of people who prefer to submit the “other” option on applications and such. Not because they are trying to hide something, but that these people find race and other collective related inquires offensive and uncalled for. Or perhaps these individuals do not want to be involved in the statistics, or other wise data collection of “your” Alaska housing project. Personally I really wouldn’t want someone like you involved with my housing if I were to move to Alaska. > [@](#): > > “A lot of people apply for public housing, and not all of them have got their frequencies completely dialed in, if you knowed whut I mean, Vern. We get a lot of the slack-jawed, the no-chinned, the jug-eared, and just plain out-there types who move to Alaska to commune with the gods or their sisters or even those whose presence is not made known to the mortal man.” WOW ! Did your momma teach you to that? Or do you not get out much?