🚀 go-pugleaf

John Fleming <nospam@sprynet.com> wrote in message
news:3a3afd17.5569166@nntp.sprynet.com...
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:20:41 -0800, "Mark"
> <nospam@dontspamme.com> wrote:
>
> > -- $A good reason to wear chain mail underwear.
> > -- $
> > -- $(for those of you who don't know, chain mail is a body
> > -- $armour made up of linked rings of metal)
>
> I understand that many years ago (like late 70s/early 80s)
> some mebers of the Society for Creative Anacronism made some
> chain mail out of coat hanger wire.

That should protect you well if someone ever attacks you with a coat.

> They then took it down
> to an archery range and had some target practice (AFAIK,
> nobody was *wearing* it at the time).  Even with the very
> soft metal used in coat hangers, the chain mail was quite
> resistant to penetration by the arrows.

Did you hear the news story recently about the two guys who bought
a used army bullet proof vest.  One of these geniuses put it on and
had his buddy shoot him with a 22, and then a shotgun.  He actually
survived, with some broken ribs and bruising.

>
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>
> John Fleming
> Edmonton, Alberta
>
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