comfort capsule
25 Jul 2008 11:07pm GMT The paper reported that at least four ranking generals have been deeply involved in designing airborne “comfort capsules.” These two-room luxury pods, with all the amenities of sports arena skyboxes, would be inserted into the fuselage of military aircraft to carry top brass and their V.I.P. guests..
jingly market
25 Jul 2008 5:27pm GMT Tuesday is market day in Camp Bastion and you can buy everything from plastic encased scorpion key rings, Afghan flags to the “Sex and the City” DVD box set. It is a hive of activity with soldiers from all over the massive base making the trip across to pick up some goodies. The “jingly” market, as it is known by the military, is set up beside the NAAFI—Bastion One’s only coffee shop—a little oasis in the desert. Outside there are picnic tables where...
pull chain
25 Jul 2008 5:24pm GMT “In 2002 (or) 2003 I sent a letter to Prairie County Sheriff Randy Raper."…During the same evening in 1974 Smith along with Spencer and Essie Mae Wilock also kidnapped six individuals in the Brown Grove area holding them hostage, which would have been family to Raper. Although Raper said he could not communicate with her or set up a visit and he gave a date when he was coming to “pull chain,” as he called it—he brought an inmate—and Smith got to meet Raper..
Scottish cocktail party
25 Jul 2008 5:21pm GMT If I get into a Scottish cocktail party with a business, I commonly ask for a written letter of apology..
play pump
25 Jul 2008 5:18pm GMT Two men in South Africa recognized that the average woman in rural Africa has to walk three miles to get clean water. And they created something called “play pumps,” which is a hydraulic system, in which they put a well in rural villages. On top of the well, they put a merry-go-round for the children to turn and play on. Then on top of that they put a holding tank for the water, and they put advertisements that help support the funding to keep the pump going..