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[janm@dramba.neis.oz.au (Jan Mikkelsen)]

Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Path: janm
From: janm@dramba.neis.oz (Jan Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: MTV raw footage interview
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.152647.12856@dramba.neis.oz>
Sender: janm@dramba.neis.oz (Jan Mikkelsen)
Organization: Dramba Holdings, Lindfield, Australia
References: <m0jmhjF-0000QBC@crash.cts.com> <9106101611.AA18010@wente.llnl.gov>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1991 15:26:47 GMT

In article <9106101611.AA18010@wente.llnl.gov> ed@wente.llnl.GOV (Ed Suranyi) writes:
>[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.

Probably a Gatling gun, which had multiple barrels, allowing rounds to
be fired more rapidly.  I think Gatling was American ...

-- 
Jan Mikkelsen
janm@dramba.neis.oz.AU or janm%dramba.neis.oz@metro.ucc.su.oz.au
"She really is."
-- 
Jan Mikkelsen
janm@dramba.neis.oz.AU or janm%dramba.neis.oz@metro.ucc.su.oz.au
"She really is."