Talk:Daisy cutter (fuse)

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Missing Daisy cutter page history

The page history to this article Daisy cutter (fuse) prior to 18 March 2005 remains at the Daisy cutter disambiguation page because the present article content was copied instead of being renamed. --Blainster 00:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Daisy cutter talk copied here

note, old discussion moved (copied not moved - Blainster) here by me to fix the Daisy Cutter disambig problem... Avriette 04:12, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC):

I thought a daisy cutter was a really fast-moving shot on goal that stayed on the ground??? Which term was used first? JHK 06:41, August 27, 2002 UTC

I realise this question has been hanging around for months now, but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary (1973) dates "daisy cutter" to 1791 with the meaning "a horse that in trotting steps low"; the meaning of a ball that stays low dates from 1889 and is first associated with cricket. --rbrwr 03:35, April 13, 2003 UTC

Could someone who knows clarify the point of what the gun barrels/water pipes were used for? It sounds like they were used for the fuze extension mentioned in the first paragraph, but it's not quite sure the way it is now. -- John Owens 10:19 Apr 13, 2003 (UTC)

Even worse than that - how exactly does this clear out foliage? I'm assuming it's not just blast effect (especially as author said it wasn't a FAE), or at least it's some innovatative use of a blast effect...

~ender, 2003-04-13 03:34 MST

daisy cutter older than vietnam

vietnam was not the first time daisy cutters were used http://www.thefreedictionary.com/daisy+cutter also consider the "daisy cutter" entry which calls a large jungle clearing weapon a daisy cutter. apparently the daisy cutter name was mapped onto the BLU-82 but this was not its original meaning. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0211b&L=ads-l&D=1&P=12724 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.116.50.223 (talk • contribs) 19:11, May 2, 2006 (UTC)

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt07/nose-extension-rod.html 84.56.138.24 (talk) 14:01, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At about 40 minutes into the contemporary American propaganda film the The Fighting Lady, the narrator says: "the kind of anti-personnel bombs we call daisy cutters", so it would seem that the term was used about a type of US bomb already during WWII.--Sus scrofa (talk) 16:47, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]