What is it?

[meow2222]

What is it? Bottom item here, entitled 'run!!'

[Terry W.]

[e-mail] wrote in news:1181310255.176384.326690 @w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

[Dave Liquorice]

A small bomb. Impossible to tell if it's still live...

[The Wanderer]

[Peter Twydell]

In message , Terry W. writes

But it does say "PRACTISE BOMB" on it, and it's painted blue, which indicates it's inert.

[Dave Liquorice]

I couldn't decypher the writing through the jpeg compression shit.

Blue or green with pink spots doesn't mean a thing to me.

[Graham]

Don't buy a house thats full of red pointy arrows?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

[Peter Twydell]

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

Not necessarily - the dastardly Hun sometimes stowed bombs "upside-down". Look at the way they are leaving the aircraft.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Peter Twydell saying something like:

Pretty clever, actually; prevents embarrasing explosions should one drop onto the runway while you're waiting to take off.

Even so, while they're actually being used, they're the other way round.