Sure, I just think that's a very odd way to characterize the project. Basically anything can be universal vm if you put enough effort to reimplementing the languages. Much of what sets Parrot aside is its support for frontend tooling.
I certainly think the humor in parrot/rakudo (and why they come up today still) is how little of their own self image the proponents could perceive. The absolute irony of thinking that perl's strength was due to familiarity with text-manipulation rather than the cultural mass....
