Barry H wrote: >No Steve, >It's a 13k cylinder of propane! Sorry, couldn't resist it! >:-)) In Fire Brigade training school @ Southwark, anyone >calling a cylinder a 'bottle' had to run up the training tower >with the cylinder on their shoulder & shout out ''This is a >cylinder, not a bottle!'' at the top of their voice on each of >the thirteen floors-both up & down!
Why? Reminds me of my old physics master who used to insists that the thing that lit up when you connected it to a battery was a "lamp", and that the word "bulb" merely referred to the glass envelope and not the whole thing. David Mack
