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Helen> and anthropologist use a whole different set of digging tools...And archaeologists use small spades and little brushes... and carry the dirt away in buckets (all by hand) - can take what seems like forever! But the result is FANTASTIC!  Shoshannah
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Having just put a foundation under a jacked up house, I'm very familiar with all those initial oversized/heavy duty equipment terms. Back-Hoe and Bob Cat (a brand name) were the two we used most! Although the common term is jack-hammer, I've heard a few city workers refer to them as "jewel-busters"  .
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Jack hammers may jiggle the jewels, but they can really wreck elbow joints if the users try to add their weight to make the tool work faster.
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You wanna dig a hole? Ask ex-PFC Wintergreen. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Dear CK: Please enlighten me. Who is PFC Wintergreen? The only Wintergreen vaguely familiar is the musical comedy candidate for President la,di da,di da.
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Who is PFC Wintergreen?Dear Uncle Bill: For an answer, I direct you to that illustrious source of our infamous "callipygian" discussion--Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Have fun. Love, Rapunzel
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Dear Rapunzel: I remember Milo, who introduced a logical way to cut military expenditures., but Pfc. Wintergreen got lost somehow.
And, showing my sportsmanship about not piling the posts on too fast now that I am close to 400, I want to express my surprise that nobody beat me to the very first thing anybody who wants to dig a bid hole must do:
GET A WHOLE BIG BUNCH OF P;ERMITS, OR YOU WILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE!!!!!!!!
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Geez, there's an American out there who doesn't know who ex-PFC Wintergreen is!
[Skipping merrily off into the sunset with copy of Catch-22 under his arm emoticon]
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Re: ex-PFC WintergreenOkay, confession time: I couldn't quite remember, which is why I directed you to the book.  What I do recall is that ex-PFC Wintergreen was continually getting himself into trouble of some sort, and was punished by being made to dig holes endlessly and uselessly. What I don't recall is exactly why he was always in trouble or why he was always ex-PFC Wintergreen. Unfortunately, I do not own a copy of Catch-22, so I can't LIU. Care to bail me out, CK? By the way wwh, I hope you don't mind if I call you Uncle Bill.
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Dear Rapunzel: Alas,I must be resigned graciously to the fact that pretty girls will allow me avuncular privileges, but nothing more. But since I have been long incapable of more, I must be content. I love you, Uncle Bill
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