Mar 28, 2025 · I’ve heard (apocryphal) stories of how a white phosphorous grenade can burn through a metal plate. Is this true? Could a WP grenade be used to disable a vehicle or artillery piece be being placed on the engine or breach?

Apr 13, 2025 · Ostentatious, but hey, you paid for it. Single straggly string with a couple burnt-out bulbs thrown randomly over a shrub? Bless your heart, sweetie, you tried. But that’s one of my favorite Christmas childhood memories. Dad driving, Mom “navigating” and me in the back seat with a candy cane, oooh-ing over the displays.

Sep 1, 2007 · Jelly (and jam), as a substance composed of gelled, cooked fruit and/or fruit juice, relies on an abundant supply of refined cane sugar, which is what gives it its preservative properties. Abundant supplies of cane sugar first appeared in the Middle Ages, in the Middle Eastern countries, from whence it then spread to Europe via returning Crusaders.

Mar 23, 2025 · I’m suprised that it took two weeks to pass all of them. Seems like a really long time to stick around that neighborhood. When officers caught up with him later that day, they saw Mr Gilder “swallowing several objects believed to be the stolen earrings,” police said. Officials transporting Mr Gilder to jail allegedly heard him say, “I should have thrown them out the …

Jun 13, 2015 · Let’s say your left leg is in a walking cast/boot, and you’re using one crutch. Which side should it be on? I was walking behind a woman this morning in that situation, and she had her crutch under her right arm. It seemed to me that she was using the crutch to relieve pressure on her RIGHT foot, not the left foot, which was in a walking boot. Every time she took a step …

Jan 13, 2003 · Pimps are always (seemingly, at least) portrayed in movies and such in expensive pinstripe (often colorful) suits, a fedora hat with a feather pinned to the side, walking with a cane (usually for cosmetic purposes, not health), and no pimp is without his Rolls Royce/Bentley, fistful of rings, massive ice around the neck, and often a mynx coat to top it all off. What is the origin …

Apr 22, 2013 · I hear this lyric in “I Am The Walrus” and “Mrs. Robinson” but I have no idea what it means nor the significance of it in either song. What do the members of the SDMB have to say?

Jan 20, 2006 · I think she’s had her eyes done, but it has changed her face so much, I didn’t recognize her until she began speaking. It reminds me a bit of what Jennifer Gray’s nose job did to her face. Jenna before Jenna after

Apr 3, 2025 · This past summer when I was visiting my parents, we went to that restaurant on a Monday, and they still offer the same deal! I ate two servings, which is the same amount that I could eat in high school as a hungry teenage boy after swim practice. Hypno-Toad April 3, 2025, 6:18pm 16 Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker:

Jan 26, 2025 · Most Americans (or Canadians for that matter) don’t even know what potash is, but a huge amount of it is exported from Canada to the USA. Potash is an absolutely irreplaceable product, a critical precursor in the production of fertilizer. The USA cannot stop importing it because you cannot just dig a potash mine tomorrow, there is no practical alternative, and …