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[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Well, sure, it's the most powerful handgun in the world. It can take your head clean off.

I'm just saying... there are pistols and then there are pistols.

If you have ambition to have ambition...

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by evenodds

If I am wearing 4 inch heels and I have to lean down to kiss you, you are not 5'10.

Sounds promising. Add in a small cat o'nine tails I am game.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

There's no reason for it to be terrifying, if you're confident and know what you're doing.

Is this terror at the root of your other issues, miss E(gbjsslmm)O

I have shot many rounds. What I am saying is that I have a healthy fear of a loaded weapon. Knowing I am holding something created for the sole purpose of killing or maiming a living creature (or for Coltrane, coffee can) is very real and intense and very scary.

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by Fugee

Somebody, please take Penske's sock drawer away.

That was not penske.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by evenodds

I have shot many rounds. What I am saying is that I have a healthy fear of a loaded weapon. Knowing I am holding something created for the sole purpose of killing or maiming a living creature (or for Coltrane, coffee can) is very real and intense and very scary.

Wow. Sounds like you could use a couple drinks before you try it the next time.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Adder

Because even if you have accepted his height, there is no way you will be caught continuing to date a secret fat?

How could someone be a secret fat? Do they make spanx for men?

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I'm just saying... there are pistols and then there are pistols.

If you have ambition to have ambition...

I am with you, if for no other reason than my undying suppourt of the whole of the bill of rights, especially the 2nd most important one.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Wow. Sounds like you could use a couple drinks before you try it the next time.

Is this still your attempt at flirting? Maybe you could sit behind her and dip her ponytail in ink too?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by evenodds

How could someone be a secret fat? Do they make spanx for men?

I knew a fat skinny guy in college. He weighed about 150, but if he took his shirt off, it looked like he was molded from lard.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

Or, you know, just hand her a straw.

i left this one on the table a few hours back, first because of my pseudo-fight with GGG, but, more importantly, b&b has title to all good jokes re. that particular little headache.

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by evenodds

How could someone be a secret fat? Do they make spanx for men?

No, but the women's versions work fine. I had my tailor put in a velcro fly....During my decades in the game, I never peed my wetsuit, despite prevalent custom and am not going to start now.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

What about gun shows takes understanding? Is there anyone here who doesn't like guns?

This is the description of an activity at a camp out a group of our friends is putting together for the weekend. My boyfriend is irritated we can't go; he suspects he'd do very well.

Shotgun golf:

come play the sport of the new millennium this sat at decom!.

what you can bring:

9 iron or similar
lots of golf balls
shotgun
big game load

it's pretty simple:

one person drives for a "green" about 100 yards out - the other person tries to blast it out of the air.

if there's enough interest - we will do this FAR AWAY FROM CAMP and into a visible backstop. probably sometime in the late afternoon saturday.

Our friends are dumb.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

ouch

It ricocheted backwards?? What were you shooting at?

A guy in my first year LS section was a former cop and a licensed gun dealer specializing in Smith & Wesson. We didn't see eye-to-eye about much, but Jeff and I got along just fine. We were always arguing about gun control -- me for, him against -- and he pontificated that people who had never fired a handgun had no business forming opinions about gun control policy. Jeff declared me unqualified to continue the discussion, given his pronouncement, so he set about remedying the situation by arranging for a group of us to go to an indoor range with a selection of his wares.

The range was a long corridor with a parabolic baffle made of steel plate at the far end, about 50 yards away. The bullets would ricochet against the baffle and up, then against another parabolic baffle in the ceiling and back, after which they would fall harmlessly to the floor behind the baffle to be swept up. Jeff therefore told us that firing into what looked like a steel wall was safe as kittens, because it was a mathematical certainty that all projectiles hitting the parabola would reflect upwards, not back. Each "lane" (I'm afraid I don't know the terminology; to me it seemed a bit like a bowling alley) had one of Jeff's guns, and you would progress from the smallest (the far right lane) to the largest (the far left). We progressed from a .22, to a .38, to a 9mm, to a .44, and finally to Jeff's pride and joy, a 10mm auto. (Jeff was the type of former cop that would occasionally go on a tear about how a 9mm didn't have adequate "stopping power" for beat cops to carry.) Each lane had a waist-high shelf on which you kept the ammunition and where you placed the gun when finished. I progressed to the left until Jeff motioned for me to take the far left lane, where the 10mm auto was.

Jeff had brought with him a selection of paper targets, including a couple with cartoonish drawings of vaguely ethnic looking robbers menacing white ladies with purses -- you would shoot at the exposed portion of the mugger/rapist without hitting the lady. So I'm firing the gun into the target and rescuing the lady from the Hamburgler with my powerful penis extender, when all of a sudden I feel a hard punch to the chest by an invisible force. I look around, thoroughly confused, when I see Jeff laughing silently (we were all wearing those headphone things), and he pointed me to the shelf in front of me, where there was a strangely beautiful bit of twisted copper and lead just sitting there. Through a series of miming actions, Jeff explained that I had edged too close to the right side of my lane, and was firing through the target at an angle to the left, so the bullets were striking not the parabolic baffle on the end wall, but the cinder block side wall on my left. He said he could see from his angle behind me what I couldn't -- there were puffs of debris where my shots were hitting the cinder blocks, then, for the most part, ricocheting safely into the baffle. But one of my shots apparently hit a seam in the cinder block and ricocheted straight backward toward me.

Jeff said that if it had hit me in the face it could have lacerated a cheek or broken my nose, and that I was lucky merely to be bruised in the chest. I kept the bullet -- it looked a little bit like a tiny partially bloomed lily -- but lost it when we moved.

[PresentTense Pirate Penske]

Originally Posted by evenodds

I have shot many rounds. What I am saying is that I have a healthy fear of a loaded weapon. Knowing I am holding something created for the sole purpose of killing or maiming a living creature (or for Coltrane, coffee can) is very real and intense and very scary.

You have nothing to fear except fear itself.....and if you are holding a loaded 9MM even fear doesn't look so tough anymoure.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske

Are you retired? I thought you were on the road to kona......kids derailed that, huh?

I actually was training for the marathon this year...until I ran a 1:31 half. That made me call it off. Well, that and the fact that the baby was due 4 days before.