Found: POL can spout..

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

Not anymore Ed. I had some guys from 2VP over to borrow the M548 from the museum, and it was out of fuel. When I asked them if they had a horsecock in their vehicle, they kind of looked at me sideways. I had to explain what I was asking for, and one of them told me they weren't allowed to call them that anymore.

And thus ends a tradition dating back to at least 95 A.D. when Caeser's XIV Centurion Guard used actual horse cocks to fuel their battle chariots with ether. Or not.

[Ed Storey]

How about "equus cantavit gallus" - or at least that is what Google tells me it is called in Latin.

Does this mean that the 'F' word is no longer used as well?

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

Does this mean that the 'F' word is no longer used as well?

'F' as angrily shouted when the horse's do-hicky (do-dickey?) leaks spewing petrol all over you...that 'F'? I hope not because I plan using it should that occur.