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Which one's the mortar...
KB Started conversation May 22, 2011
...and which one's the pestle? I've never really known this, because I've never known them to be used (or even spoken about) separately. 
So £5 says the mini-baseball bat is the pestle.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted May 22, 2011
the 81mm and the 51mm ones are the mortars
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KB Posted May 22, 2011
Does everything make you think of explosions, Taff? Tell me what you see in these inkblots...
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted May 22, 2011
Me109
T64
APFSDS
Mushroom cloud!!!!
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anhaga Posted May 22, 2011
I ain't betting against you, KB: The Mortar is the part with the hole in the top, just like the one Taff is thinking of.
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hygienicdispenser Posted May 22, 2011
*creeps up behind Taff*
BANG
Yes, the mortar is the dish.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted May 22, 2011
hello zero this is Mike32alpha, contact, wait out!!!!
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted May 22, 2011
COCK IT, MAG OFF, MAG ON, CARRY ON FIRING!!
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Rod Posted May 23, 2011
Don't heed them heed bangers
You pound with the pestle.
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MonkeyS- all revved up with no place to go Posted May 23, 2011
I thought the pestle was the vessel..... 
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Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee Posted May 23, 2011
An easy mnemonic is to think of Elizabethan English. The slang word Pizzle is derived from Pestle. If you can imagine what a pizzle is, you can see which is which by analogy.
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Cheerful Dragon Posted May 23, 2011
It's 'quite interesting' to note that the mortar you pound stuff in and the mortar you fire come from the same root word - Latin mortarium, a vessel for pounding things in. Builder's mortar also comes from the same root, 'cos it's made from stuff that's pounded together.
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Cheerful Dragon Posted May 23, 2011
Oh, and the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, but the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true. Or was it the flagon with the dragon? 
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Sho - employed again! Posted May 23, 2011
sorry, but Taff has now made me nostalgic for the T64 with the reactive armour 
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted May 23, 2011
Military confusion? Alliterative mixups? This thread appears to have devolved into "Allo Allo"!
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Which one's the mortar...
- 1: KB (May 22, 2011)
- 2: Taff Agent of kaos (May 22, 2011)
- 3: KB (May 22, 2011)
- 4: Taff Agent of kaos (May 22, 2011)
- 5: anhaga (May 22, 2011)
- 6: hygienicdispenser (May 22, 2011)
- 7: Taff Agent of kaos (May 22, 2011)
- 8: Taff Agent of kaos (May 22, 2011)
- 9: hygienicdispenser (May 22, 2011)
- 10: Taff Agent of kaos (May 22, 2011)
- 11: hygienicdispenser (May 22, 2011)
- 12: Taff Agent of kaos (May 22, 2011)
- 13: Rod (May 23, 2011)
- 14: MonkeyS- all revved up with no place to go (May 23, 2011)
- 15: Rod (May 23, 2011)
- 16: Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee (May 23, 2011)
- 17: Cheerful Dragon (May 23, 2011)
- 18: Cheerful Dragon (May 23, 2011)
- 19: Sho - employed again! (May 23, 2011)
- 20: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (May 23, 2011)
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