On 6/7/2017 12:26 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:48:42 +0100, Frank "frank wrote:

On 6/5/2017 2:29 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 18:46:55 +0100, Frank "frank wrote:

On 6/5/2017 9:26 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 02:12:58 +0100, Dean Hoffman

wrote:

On 6/4/17 12:14 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jun 2017 16:21:13 +0100, Bod wrote:

A gun wouldn't stop a rogue van suddenly ploughing into a crowd of
pedestrians without a warning at high speed .

Not initially: but, once observed the van could be stopped by others
shooting the driver and filling the engine with lead.

Have you ever been to a demo derby? Vehicles can take an
incredible amount
of damage before they won't move. Maybe these modern buggies won't
take
the damage
a '57 Chrysler would though.

Pretty much all you'd be likely to hit is the radiator. So you'd
have
to wait 5 minutes for the engine to overheat after all the water fell
out. Best to shoot the tyres and the driver.

You're probably wrong. A round into an aluminum engine would stop it
right away.

I mention this because you often give hunting advice based on zero
experience.

There's no such thing as aluminum, I assume you mean aluminium. If
you're going to use our language, spell things properly.

And good engines are not made of aluminium. It warps, too low a melting
point. Ooooh, efficiency and all that, but it breaks, it's ****e.

We improved the language dropping extraneous vowels. Saves paper.
Saves trees.

Sorry, OCD isn't cured yet.


Thread got me looking at a document I just reviewed for someone in the
UK. In printing from the database I had the choice of English or
American English. Few years ago I had looked at US equivalent of
several hundred English words to help create this data base.