From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently bought a second hand book, called This England - I went and squandered a whole L1.50 on it. It describes itself as " a hilarious portrait of Anglo-Saxon attitudes and eccentricities from the This England Column of the New Statesman." They date from about the end of WWII to about 1980. Two of them struck me as particularly funny: Cin‰ Cure (I wish I'd have thought of that - KP) The Unit was born after films of drill on a six-inch gun had shown that No. 6 'stood stiffly to attention at the back of the gun, doing absolutely nothing.' No reason could be found for this until a sergeant-major of the Boer War recalled that No. 6 had been the man who used to hold the horses. - Manchester Guardian Warbottoms It is necessary for technical reasons that these warheads should be stored with the top at the bottom, and the bottom at the top. In order that there may be no doubt as to which is the top and which is the bottom for storage purposes, it will be seen that the bottom of each head has been labelled with the word TOP. - Admiralty instruction dealing with the storage of warheads of torpedoes Kenneth Pantling Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A http://www.topica.com/t/17 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
