It was war.
Build them fast and in huge quantities...................
Teddibly English. Strong silent types disarming big duds and delayed action bombs with trick fuses dreamed up by those cleverly fiendish NAZI swine.
BTW, farmer turned up a live one around Sharpsburg, MD. Army came and blew it on site. Not an unknown occurrence. Over in Euroland, farmers still turning up WWI duds by the hundreds and WWII stuff all the time.!
I like your tagline. Did take me a second or two for complete comprehension though...