Kirk Elder is Life President of The Peebles Showboaters Amateur Dramatic Society. For many years a columnist on The Scotsman newspaper, he is currently "in recovery" from the experience. He enjoys parma violets, cloudless winter nights, and the films of Mr Burt Lancaster. He is currently writing his autobiography, "And Not For the Better".
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
You Say Tomato - The BBC Reveals How To Make An American Bomb
Reporting on the French riots on last night's Ten O'Clock News, Mr Gavin Hewitt of the BBC talked of "gasoline bombs" being thrown. How, I wonder, do these differ from petrol bombs?
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
...or indeed from the Finnish Molotov Cocktail? Also, shouldn't "the authorities" be alert to a sudden rise in tampon sales to angry people who smell strongly of petrol? Or do I perhaps know too much about the manufacture of incendiary devices?
1) "Petroleum", old fruit, is not petrol but crude oil. 2) The Beeb man prob said "gasoline" because the report will be sold to countries, perhaps including the USA, that say "gasoline" and cannot find reporters courageous enough to brave the wrath of the Paris suburbs. Just a guess, of course.
2 comments:
...or indeed from the Finnish Molotov Cocktail? Also, shouldn't "the authorities" be alert to a sudden rise in tampon sales to angry people who smell strongly of petrol? Or do I perhaps know too much about the manufacture of incendiary devices?
1) "Petroleum", old fruit, is not petrol but crude oil.
2) The Beeb man prob said "gasoline" because the report will be sold to countries, perhaps including the USA, that say "gasoline" and cannot find reporters courageous enough to brave the wrath of the Paris suburbs. Just a guess, of course.
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