[BITList] Why do they do it?

[HUGH]

Fred,

Why do they do it?  Because they employ numpties. The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey (under the only floor slab that can't be walked over) dates from around 1922, and in 1922 anything "dumped in a shell crater" would have stayed there uncovered - stupid notion.  As you say, the coffins were taken from graves, and they were returned to graves after a senior officer had selected one at random from their number.

Numpties have been around for a while. At the time when Kincaids were still open and building engines, the local paper sent someone along to cover the shop test of a particular engine that had caught someone's interest. They published a photo of the directors standing in one of the erecting shops. According to the caption they were "standing beside one of the mighty pistons" - why are pistons always mighty?  The mighty pistons were still where they belonged, attached to the crossheads in the engine in the background - what they were standing beside was a  common or garden valve spindle that happened to be there.  It was big, given it was in the late 80s, but not mighty.

Hugh.

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