Just when you thought you were safe from the bats carrying fire-bombs.
The bottle is then riddled, so that the lees settles in the neck of the wine bottle... Manual riddling is still done for Prestige Cuvées in Champagne... mechanised riddling equipment (a gyropalette) is used instead. (Wikipedia)
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
In your burning tight leather
you're a firebomb
The plan is worthy of Baldrick in its cunningness. The falcon is wearing false boobies so the crew of the U-boat will be distracted by the view through the periscope and will not notice the explosive-laden toy boat it is towing just below.
Just when you thought you were safe from the bats carrying fire-bombs.
Just when you thought you were safe from the bats carrying fire-bombs.
Petrel bombs.
ReplyDeleteI am left fulmarnating.
ReplyDeleteThis trick's older than Hardrada.
ReplyDeletePetrel bombs.
Well played!
See, I could have mentioned the episode in Harald's Saga when Harald Harðráði used the firebomb-birds, but I refrained because SELF-CONTROL.
ReplyDeleteThere is also Olga of Kiev, of course.
ReplyDeleteSomebody set up us the bird!
ReplyDeleteHell pigeon needs a better haircut.
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ITTDGY (if that is his real name) has neglected to mention teh sweetest part of Hellpigeon story.
ReplyDeleteThere is also Olga of Kiev, of course
ReplyDeleteSo the Primary Chronicle was recorded about 1113, and predate Snorri Sturlason's description of Harald Hardrada's incendiary-bird-related activities by a century or so? I am disappoint.
Did Snorri have access to a copy of the Primary Chronicle from which to borrow stories and embroider his own novelisations? Wouldn't surprise me. Otherwise, the Google machine informs me that Hardrada was hanging around Kiev around 1040, in time to hear oral accounts of Olga's ruthless ingenuity. I can imagine him or his cronies latching onto the story and deciding to incorporate it into his own Don't-fuck-with-Harald propaganda.