Inspired by the dead elephants request, I'd like to request some dead animals... cows, sheep, horses, whatever. Dead animals make unobtrusive but very noticeable markers on a battlefield. See that dead pig? That's a German jump off point... the dead sheep? That's a British jump off point. The horse? That's the cavalry...

(The major source of meat for the Third Reich was pork, whereas for Britain it was sheep. But pigs eat a lot of stuff that could be eaten by humans, whereas sheep eat... grass... So Germany wasted a lot of resources feeding their food...)

Not quite sure about pigs, but when cows die they tend to lie with their legs sticking out. Couldn't you could just snip the base of an existing cow and lie it on it's side?

Quote from: Wulf on 24 November 2018, 01:35:33 PM
Inspired by the dead elephants request, I'd like to request some dead animals... cows, sheep, horses, whatever. Dead animals make unobtrusive but very noticeable markers on a battlefield. See that dead pig? That's a German jump off point... the dead sheep? That's a British jump off point. The horse? That's the cavalry...

(The major source of meat for the Third Reich was pork, whereas for Britain it was sheep. But pigs eat a lot of stuff that could be eaten by humans, whereas sheep eat... grass... So Germany wasted a lot of resources feeding their food...)

On the other hand, almost every bit of a pig is edible and tasty if your cook knows the job.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 24 November 2018, 02:24:17 PM
On the other hand, almost every bit of a pig is edible and tasty if your cook knows the job.

Haggis

Yes, Mike, but mountainside haggis have legs of different lengths (left & right)....depending on whether they go around a hill in a clockwise or anti-clockwise direction....as you well know.

I'm sorry matey...but I think you should have made that a bit clearer. 

(We'll be talking about Drop Bears and Hoop Snakes next.)

Cheers - Phil 

Quote from: fsn on 24 November 2018, 02:05:40 PM
Not quite sure about pigs, but when cows die they tend to lie with their legs sticking out. Couldn't you could just snip the base of an existing cow and lie it on it's side?

They do once they bloat up with stomach gasses, yes, but only briefly until they burst or leak, and only if they didn't die from multiple abdominal punctures.

Armoured bears?

Quote from: Wulf on 24 November 2018, 03:01:01 PM
They do once they bloat up with stomach gasses, yes, but only briefly until they burst or leak, and only if they didn't die from multiple abdominal punctures.

Again....Honestly, this is true.

When I started to 'push putty' about......even before I worked for the now Evil Empire....A very good friend of mine worked in London, and walked past umpteen little stores....One of which sold old medical and dental equipment.

One day, he came back with a piece of equipment, which he thought might be useful for making little soldiers. (For about £1)

It's never been a great deal of use for moving green stuff about......But I worked out what its original use was.

'You' stab the sharp wossname into the gut of the affected sheep/cow......withdraw the 'pointy bit'.....leaving a stainless steel 'straw'..... which lets any nasty gasses out.

It's a horrible little thing.

Just think what you could do with a match or a ciggy lighter.

Cheers - Phil

Zombie zebras please!  

Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 November 2018, 02:27:49 PM
Haggis

A much-underrated foodstuff, but I fear you'd have a mutiny on your hands if you fed it to the troops. Curious, since a good one really is delicious.

My grandfather (Highlander) used to try to persuade my grandmother (Afrikaans) to make it for him by saying "ye cut i' open and i' sor' of smiles a' ye"; she was not convinced, and he wasn't a man to go into the kitchen and make it himself.

She later converted to Judaism after watching A Fiddler on the Roof too many times. Fortunately long after I was born, so I was not denied bacon and intact sexual organs.

Quote from: Techno on 24 November 2018, 03:48:10 PM

Again....Honestly, this is true.

When I started to 'push putty' about......even before I worked for the now Evil Empire....A very good friend of mine worked in London, and walked past umpteen little stores....One of which sold old medical and dental equipment.

One day, he came back with a piece of equipment, which he thought might be useful for making little soldiers. (For about £1)

It's never been a great deal of use for moving green stuff about......But I worked out what its original use was.

'You' stab the sharp wossname into the gut of the affected sheep/cow......withdraw the 'pointy bit'.....leaving a stainless steel 'straw'..... which lets any nasty gasses out.

It's a horrible little thing.

Just think what you could do with a match or a ciggy lighter.

Cheers - Phil

Have you ever read any James Herriot vet books... that is how Tristram blows up the byre....