To: OddLane
Their crystal-pummelled Sorry to nit pick but shouldn't that be pommeled or are we to think someone pummeled the swords with crystals.
8 posted on
03/09/2011 11:49:00 PM PST by
calex59
To: calex59
Maybe the Persians were throwing quartz rocks at the Romans?
![](http://www.vikingsword.com/ethsword/tibet/tibet5.jpg)
(Good catch, looks like there are a few literate folks among these "knuckle-dragging conservatives", huh! /sarc)
To: calex59
Thank you. It bothered me too.
13 posted on
03/10/2011 8:33:34 AM PST by
Ro_Thunder
(I sure hope there is a New Morning in America soon. All this hope and change is leaving me depressed)
To: calex59
Sorry to nit pick but shouldn't that be pommeled or are we to think someone pummeled the swords with crystals. I'm not sure, but it's possible that 'pummel' is an expression derived from 'pommel', and that to be "pummeled" is to be stricken with the pommel.
19 posted on
03/11/2011 6:20:04 PM PST by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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