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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If someone would just reveal the fact that we make our gunpowder with pig fat so it doesn't matter if you get shot with a bullet or blown to bits with grenade or even a 500 pounder from an unmanned aircraft, you still have bacon bits strewn around with your blood and flesh.

Not a damned one goes to paradise and gets one damn virgin. HeHehehehe!

They don't read FR do they?

25 posted on 01/02/2009 2:01:49 AM PST by chuckles
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To: chuckles

“If someone would just reveal the fact that we make our gunpowder with pig fat so it doesn’t matter if you get shot with a bullet or blown to bits with grenade or even a 500 pounder from an unmanned aircraft, you still have bacon bits strewn around with your blood and flesh.”

Actually . . . that’s not too far off. Before industrialization, the nitrates in gunpowder were obtained using the bodies and/or excrement of animals. In cities it was scraped from the deposits formed in peoples’ cellars due to the amount of horse pee in the streets, but in rural areas they had to create nitre fields, often using dead animals that were not appropriate for other purposes (usually because of disease or because it died due to accident and didn’t get used before it spoiled).

Just need to publicize the fact that nowadays gunpowder is primarily made from pig urine :p


226 posted on 01/13/2009 11:10:14 AM PST by Ellendra (Most eco-freaks wouldn't know nature if it bit them on the butt . . . and it often does!)
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