What is it?

Jun 08, 2007 9 Replies

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

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snipped-for-privacy@care2.com wrote in news:1181310255.176384.326690 @w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

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

In message , Terry W. writes

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

I couldn't decypher the writing through the jpeg compression s*it.

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

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

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@care2.com saying something like:

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

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

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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.

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