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To: tumblindice
re :There was some sort of dust-up with muslims and redcoats in India a long time ago, wasn't there, over paper cartridges (that you had to bite) lubricated with pork fat, so that native troops rebelled?

That was in the back of my mind when I first started posting to this thread.

68 posted on 04/18/2006 8:20:57 AM PDT by tonycavanagh (We got plenty of doomsayers where are the truth sayers)
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To: tonycavanagh

I believe it lead to the infamous `Black Hole of Calcutta' debacle, didn't it, with the irony--I think the `bullets lubricated w/pork-fat' was just a unfounded rumor.
My father told a story of having to pay the French company Michelin for rubber trees we damaged going after VC.
I'd say that was ridiculous, but here, as silly as `Zionist bullets' seems to us, discretion may be the better part of valor.


72 posted on 04/18/2006 8:31:49 AM PDT by tumblindice (`I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.'.... Groucho)
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