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To: nihil who wrote (29055)6/16/1999 7:52:00 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 71178
 
I looked for a while on the internet, but "Fire in the Hole!" has passed into the vernacular, and all I found were sites for porn, chili, and music.

I will ask my brother-in-law, Chris' brother, the Cobol programmer, not the Buddhist one, he is a military history buff, he may know.



To: nihil who wrote (29055)6/16/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White  Respond to of 71178
 
Before that, muzzle loaded cannon were fired with a quill (often rolled up from copper sheets although originally a goose-quill I would guess) loaded with gunpowder and thrust into the touch hole.

This state of affairs led to the quaint Prussian army proverb:

Alle Kunst
Ist Unsunzt
Wenn ein Engel in der Zundloch brunzt.

Roughly translated as:

All art is in vain, when an angel pees in your touch hole.


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