G'morning Vern, 

Go to www.dhmo.org for facts.html sometime...

 VH> You excrete a substance from your body, and while it's still warm and
 VH> pliable, you shape it into a trowel, and let it freeze.

The only time I needed to build a cave, we had snowaxes that saved 
us from trying that kind of solution...   and I still think that 
such a trowel might be as useful as one made from frozen mushy 
peas...

 VH> And then wash you hands VERY thoroughly before eating. :-)

Heh, heh - in what ?

Reminds me of my first visit to the top of Mt Ruapehu here in NZ;  
used a neat thermos to pour me some hot coffee and rum - and put 
the alloy `cup' down to snap someone sliding into the hot crater 
lake.  Picked up the drink again and nearly got the metal stuck to 
my lip - frozen solid in less than 60 seconds...

 VH> By the way, am I the only one who noticed that the ventilator pipe for
 VH> Saddam's spider hole looked like a field latrine?

Probably - I didn't see any shots of the top of the bolt hole - 
just the entrance;  different news services, I suppose.

 VH> Made me wish I was still a company commander -- "First
 VH> Sergeant, detail two men to watch the exit hole while the
 VH> rest of us use the latrine."

Aha, the old flush-`em-out routine, Agent 99...

The whole thing seems incredible to me - were Saddam half as 
cunning as they had him painted,  he'd be nodding off in a 
Retirement Village for Non-English-Speaking Immigrants somewhere 
in the South Pacific.  Doing an ostrich-hide on the outskirts of 
your old home town smacks of a total regression to childhood 
behaviours...

There'll be another bolthole somewhere full of WMD in battered 
suitcases, no doubt...   what an awful mess it all is when the 
next smiling face your lead scout encounters up the track might 
invite you all in for a family welcome - and/or take out 1600 
square metres of life in a sudden blinding flash.

:-(
 
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