OT bullet was [Sca-cooks] Numbers, pates, and spreads...

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Tsk.  That doesn't work, bullets pre-date firearms.  Basically, it is a
> round shot originally used in slings.  It derives from "boulette," a
> dimuntive of the Old French "boule" or "ball" originally derived from the
> Latin "bulla."

Rosetta Clarkson commenting on something out of John Evelyn... "James,
bring me the cannon-bullet, I am preparing to make a salad..." *grin*

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
"Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."