Johnny Horton's song "Sink the Bismarck" includes this line. "With guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees."
It almost doesn't matter, because much worse is: with the knowledge of such uses, for the rest of my life terms like "shaped charge" or "AP" take on a whole new, disturbing meaning.... sigh
Also a whole new meaning to 'Jerry doesn't like it up 'em'. I leave you with this mental picture, and bid you a lovely 2nd Advent. All the best Andreas
I did laugh. And while appreciating, naturally, that there were many 'D-Days', I suspect the wider point is STOP USING LAZY WW2 REFERENCES WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND F ALL ABOUT WW2, FFS! Gah.
After the Bavarian forest 'hand grenade' of earlier this month, today's mistake - has to be: Hospital evacuated as man, 88, has WWI shell removed from inside his body The octogenarian assured staff the shell, which was stuck inside his rear, was a collector’s item which had been deactivated ..... (nonetheless) ....... staff at the Sainte Musse Hospital in Toulon scrambled to evacuate some of its patients, redirect others, and call in the bomb squad. “An apple, a mango, or even shaving foam…we’re used to finding unusual objects ...... where they shouldn’t be,” an unnamed ER staffer told the local paper Nice-Matin, which broke the story. “But a shell? Never.” To extract the shell, which measured around six centimetres in diameter and 20 centimetres in length, doctors had to perform abdominal surgery and remove it from the other end. Any guesses on the ordnance?
1: it was not a war wound 2: I don't want to think - as with a certain hand grenade - about HOW it got into the patient. 3: Ouch! 4: Why do I feel the urge to research this of all things?
My partner noticed that in a climactic scene of the Robert Powell version of The Thirty Nine Steps, set in early 1914, an Admiral played by Tony Steadman is wearing a British War Medal before the war had broken out...