we've always done it that way

[Big Dog]

I'll bite.
Tanks were invented by the British late in WW1, say 1916 or later.
The first Russian railway was the Riga-Dinaburg Railway which opened in 1861
http://www.parovoz.com/history/LDz-history.html

I was more referring to steam powered artilliary. I apologise for any mis interpretation.

State of our educational system!

Yeah but the I was never the one to let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.


Pick an answer that you like. I was merely passing on a story I first heard 16 years ago.

[Oscar]

That's an oxy - moron!

Well,we was looking for a red car,now my girl drives a Nissan March.Is the new one red?

Nah, it ain't red.
They call it Cosmic Mica..??
I call it deep purple. This is the very colour:

[SPman]

Well,we was looking for a red car.........Is the new one red?

Aah - you want a Lada, you do!