On Dec 19, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Andy wrote: > Ne plokho, tak cebe. A viu kak pojivaete? (Okay, okay, the transliteration > is atrocious, it says I'm okay, how are you?) But seriously, there's > something here I'm not getting. What war would require a supply of rubies? > And why would anybody want to shoot a fellow in Las Vegas? > > I'm assuming that your reference to "rubies" is a joke, a deliberate misreading of Robert's post. But there were armored rubies: http://smnmcshannon.hubpages.com/hub/World-One-War-Armoured-Rubies-of-the-Desert David Ritchie, Portland, Oregon