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

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