RE: [OT] Honor Harrington miniatures

>The reason the back, or "kilt", end of the wedge is narrower 
>is that the ship 
>is riding the bow-wave of the pressure generated by the two 
>grav bands.  
>Described (by David Weber himself I believe) like squeezing a 
>watermelon seed 
>between your fingers.	As far as clothing analogies goes, it's 
>more a case 
>that the shot is going into her/his ass-end then it is a comparison to 
>relative end-widths of Scottish fashion.

Thanks Chris for the reference, IMO its a bad metaphor he
could have said up the a** but that would have been a 
a bit *too* offensive (though swearing in most military SF is 
pretty much standard along with detailed descriptions and metaphors 
for disembowelling :-/) but a better match to the throat metaphor. 
The seed metaphor is excellent however. 

-= tim jones =-