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From: IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject: Ghillie suits
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 16:12:30 -0400
At 17.36 09-07-99 +0100, you wrote:
>..And to be honest, your posts are the only place I've seen the word Ghille.
>The actual word you are hunting for (sic) is 'Ghillie', and is taken from
gaelic...

OK, I've been leaving out the the "i".

This is the equivelent of being told my fly is open. Thanks, but why
couldn't someone have told be earlier.
(I know it's gaelic- the name comes from the Welsh gamekeepers who taught
the British sharpshooters in WWI, IIRC)



Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."

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