JOLTS; bullpen

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:51 PM -0400 8/11/02, James A. Landau wrote:
>
>(Is JOLT Cola---"all the sugar and twice the caffeine"---still on the market?)

Yes, as of a month or so ago, last time I saw my 20-year-old son with a bottle.

>In place of the not-yet-invented barbed wire, soldiers sharpened stakes and
>planted them in front of the breastworks, with the sharpened ends facing the
>enemy.  The jargon term in English-speaking armies for the stakes was
>"cheveaux-de-frise", generally rendered "frizzy horses".  This will provide
>an antedating for "frizzy" in the OED if anyone can locate a contemporary
>soldier's reference to to "frizzy horses".
>

Can we assume this was CHEVAUX rather than CHEVEUX?  If the latter,
it's more like frizzy hair.

Larry