[lit-ideas] Re: Slim Pickens

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:40:29 -0800

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

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