Well, the Army developed a fission device for their Davy Crockett tactical nuke, so they did reduce the size (check out the one built for the Ivy Mike - 1st HBomb -test. It was the size of a building. They can be relatively small. However, the physics package is determined by the critical mass of plutonium - too…

Colloquialisms are a blast!

We all know ‘this guy’.

Right? Though when I lived in Baldwin Hills (‘53-’85), we just called Dockweiler ‘the fire pits’.

Here in central NH, the G.B. Herons are affectionately known as ‘shitpokes’ for their feeding postures.

I prefer J. Wambaugh’s “Scrote”.

Disagree. Weasels have a definite and fulfilling niche in the biosphere.

New lantern, Lantern?

Shit. Crabby neighbor Mrs Smutski would yell at us for riding on the sidewalk.

Erin go Bragh!!

I cannot stop a friend of mine from saying, ‘Great Blue Herring’

I only saw that movie once, in its initial release.

It shouldn’t, I agree..

JFK caught some of that.

Biden can probably repeat prayers and responses in Latin.

Once you‘ve used it once, you know exactly where it is.

Love it!! How many hands tall is it?

Ivanka was there?

A local bakery company ( that I can’t remember the name of - this was 50+ years ago) from Culver City used these or something almost exactly the same and had a route in my neighborhood. If you were a good kid, and your mom (remember the time-frame) allowed, he would let you ride for about 100ft.

Perhaps they thought folks were conflating it with the verb.