On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:47:49 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:01:18 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
>
>> I have neighbors, John and Ruby Claymore. Do you think that they
>>would be
>> interested to know that they will be shot from a canon?
>
> Roger,
>A claymore is an anti-personnel mine.
>(can be detonated either manually or through the use of a "trip
>wire")
>Therefore, they would not be shot from a cannon.
>BTW, The correct spelling is cannon.
>A "canon" is a "code, decree, law, principle, ordinance".<vbg>
>
>> Coincidently, the
>> Claymores were recently ordinance items as recent city council
>>action
>> mandated that they remove what the Claymores regard as "spare
parts
>> inventory" from their property. <VBG>
>
>In this case, they were not "ordinance items".(plural)
>They were the legatees of the enforcement of "an
>ordinance".(singular)
>
>Terri,
>Did I correctly portray these points of grammatical usage?<g>
>
>--
> Glenn
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A claymore is a (pardon the language) BLOODY GREAT sword about 6ft
long and extremely heavy, as used by William Wallace, the real one,
not my namesake Mel in the Braveheart movie. It is/was a two-handed
wielding weapon intended as much to break limbs as well as to
decapitate, hack limbs off and other general mayhem!
On record as having been capable off hacking poor old horses legs off
from under them.
Hope this helps, return next week for more tales of grisly horror,
Scottish style!
Regards
Mel
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