@muskanity paternoster = Pater Noster ->-> The Lord's Prayer. (for those not schooled in Latin or Catholicism.) The irony of naming a scary method of conveyance after one of the prayer folks are likely to say when they are really fekkin' scared. (The other prayer, in the Catholic context is the Hail Mary - or, to quote St. George Carlin, "The really fast version: Haa-men!")