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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Graht)
Subject: About Ghoul rules (Was Re: Very Odd, But Important
Date: Tue Jul 2 13:35:03 2002
At 07:09 PM 7/2/2002 +0200, Gurth wrote:
>According to Lars Wagner Hansen, on Tue, 02 Jul 2002 the word on the
>street was...
>
> > Actually, thats on if you want to be _a_ cannon, as it is impossible to
> > be cannon.
>
>You can if you find a way to copy yourself :)

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To Life,
-Graht
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader II
http://www.graht.com
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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Anders Swenson)
Subject: About Ghoul rules (Was Re: Very Odd, But Important
Date: Wed Jul 3 14:15:01 2002
On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 15:26:49 +1200
"Bryan Pow" <bryan_pow@*******.com> wrote:
> >In the common tongue of teenage America, the term cannon, when used
> to
> >refer to a really big gun, has been replaced with the term "BFG".
> I'll
> >leave it to you to figure it out. ^_^
>
> That is, of course, if I used the slang of Teenage America. Not being
> American and caring little about its teenage use of "english". Round
> here where you don't use pistols, but shotguns are common, a BFG
> really has to be FB before it will be called such.
> Back to the point, what is a Howitzer if not a cannon? Or is it
> improper to refer to artillery pieces as cannons?
>
A howitzer is a cannon for all practical purposes. Technically a
howitzer has a relatively shorter barral than a cannon, but for the
average civilian or infantryman on the ground, it's a trivial
distintion. Now, land pieces versus naval rifles...
--Anders

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