craig@sco.COM (06/11/91)
> From: ed@wente.llnl.GOV (Ed Suranyi) > [From Ron Hill's posting of the unedited MTV interview] > >[K:] So it was really designing something that was a > >cross between an Akatan [???] gun and a pipe organ. > > She used the British term for an anti-aircraft gun, whatever it is. Archie in WW1, Ack-Ack in WW2 (Ack being A in the RAF radio alphabet used at the time, c.f. Ack-Emma for Aircraft Mechanic - my uncle was one!) --- O__ .... Craig R.P. Heath Europe: /| bang Looking for an angel with ...!ukc!pyrltd!scol!craig / \ a broken wing... Internet: craig@sco.COM