| Subject: | Re: Friday: a further word about jerry cans |
| From: | Andrew Grebneff |
| Date: | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:56:40 +1200 |
>Another meaning for the term jerry can besides the flat 5-gallon gas >can with a spout was, I think, the WW2 German hand grenade that >resembled a can on a stick, different-looking from the american >"pineapple." That was the "potatomasher". -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin s New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toota van nut
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