End of ADS-L Digest - 17 Jan 1998 to 18 Jan 1998 ************************************************ Subject: ADS-L Digest - 18 Jan 1998 to 19 Jan 1998 There are 13 messages totalling 348 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. "shake and bake" (=explosives) 2. New York vowels (2) 3. Bugs & Koons 4. english novels 5. signoff 6. C-SPAN & Metcalf (3) 7. Diversity (2) 8. Happy tenth anniversary, 2000! (fwd) 9. "on the level" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:16:24 -0600 From: "Donald M. Lance" Subject: Re: "shake and bake" (=explosives) > Paul Dickson's _War Slang_ presents "shake and bake" as a verb: "to >employ a mixture of weapons in an attack." The expression arose during the >Gulf War. > ............... > > I assume that "shake and bake" refers to bombs that destroy via their >explosive force ("shake") and to incendiary bombs ("bake"). Incendiary >bombs were use in World War 2. Were they also used in the Gulf War? >--Gerald Cohen My uninformed, off-the-top-of-my-head assumption would be that it refers to buying separate ingredients (fertilizer, diesel fuel) and mixing them up and then inserting detonators. The run like hell. DMLance