Staple of old time comic strips and movies. Round black objects, a bit smaller than a basketball or soccerball, with a wick coming out of them.
Did such bombs actually exist, and if not, where did the image come from?
See here.
And in that whole thread, no-one thought to mention that they were the bombs “bursting in air” in that song – you know the one, I’ll think of its name in a minute…
AC/DC, right?
Is it? That doesn’t seem right… hang on…
La la de da da
Bombs bursting in air
And tumty tum-tum
Something something still there
Does that sound right? I’ll have it in a minute…
La la de da da…
Oh yeah, the fourth verse goes:
"And what of that band
who so vauntingly swore
a home and a country to leave us no more?
Their blood hath wiped out their
foul footsteps pollution,
from the land of the free
And the home of the brave."
Yeah, love that one! And they say Rap has violent imagery! ! !
Aha! You fell into my little trap! You see, no genuine American ever knows the fourth verse of the Star Spangled Banner! Which means that you must be… A spy!
What have you to say for yourself now, “TruCelt”? Or should that be… Von TruArian?!
Oh, wait… that’s the third verse. And you got it wrong anyway. As you were, then.
The Bar-Strangled Spanner?
I’m not an expert on cannons but from what I’ve seen they started out as external paper fuses and then eventually morphed into the borman fuse which is to a metal capped groove on the outside of the cannon ball. The groove was filled with gunpowder and led to a hole drilled into the cannon ball. A metal cap was fitted over the fuse and allowed the user to poke a hole along the line where the fuse would ignite (from the cannon fire) and thus could adjust the timing of the explosion.
They all did basically the same thing but technology made it more reliable. You can see a borman type of fuse here.
The old fashioned bomb was the basis for a toy game when I was a kid.