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Offline hawker238

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« Reply #90 on: January 01, 2005, 10:59:26 PM »
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But the quote of the millenium would be "The eagle has landed."

As to the millenium before that, I'm not sure.


Why not "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for man kind,"?
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« Reply #91 on: January 01, 2005, 11:07:10 PM »
Because that was just what some guy said when he stepped out.  The moment the lander actually touched down, on the other hand, was the first time a human touched another natural body in space.  THAT was amazing.

'one small step' was good, don't get me wrong.  But 'The Eagle has landed', THAT'S the stuff.
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« Reply #92 on: January 01, 2005, 11:34:23 PM »
Because it's almost a metaphorical statement about america. She had arrived.

What do you think was the quote of the prior millenium ?
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« Reply #93 on: January 01, 2005, 11:41:03 PM »
How about "I wash my hands of this issue"?

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« Reply #94 on: January 01, 2005, 11:53:25 PM »
Who said that?
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« Reply #95 on: January 01, 2005, 11:55:25 PM »
"butter."
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« Reply #96 on: January 01, 2005, 11:58:43 PM »
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Who said that?

Pontius Pilate.
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« Reply #97 on: January 02, 2005, 01:30:28 AM »
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -- Bill Watterson, through Calvin and Hobbes
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« Reply #98 on: January 02, 2005, 02:12:20 AM »
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another dangerfield one about high school football... "those guys were so tough that after they sacked the quarterback they went after his family"

or clemens... (on the pepperbox)  "it was a marvelous weapon,  the only trouble with it was that you couldn't hit anything with it."

lazs




Interesting side note about pepperboxs.



I have a black powder .22 pepperbox I bought in Spain.  It has some neat engraved patterns on it and that's the main reason I bought it.  Paid $50   Dang thing is heavy as can be and probably better for throwing or hitting someone over the  head.  Shot a board with it from about 5 feet away and the bullet bounced off and hit me between the eyes and bounced off there too.  It felt like a hand thrown pebble.  I'm lucky it didn't hit me in the eye, but that would be the only effective target for such a weapon.

I was using snipped off .22 leads lightly tapped into each barrel, so some lead was sheared off (to make a tight seal.)  You'd probably have to have a special method or press to load it with round ball or full size .22 leads.  I even tried .22 air gun pellets, but they didn't make a tight seal.

It was fun to shoot, despite it's shortcomings as a practical firearm.  If you load it with enough black powder, a "ring fire" occurs where all six barrrels go off in rapid succession, about as fast as a semi auto.




Carry on.




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« Reply #99 on: January 02, 2005, 02:33:26 AM »
on smooth bore black powder pistols your ball is generally .01-.015 under sized and loaded with a patch.  

the rifled barrels they usually have a loading lever under the barrel that gives you enough leverage to shear a bit off of the slightly over sized ball you use in them.
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« Reply #100 on: January 02, 2005, 02:53:03 AM »
Every word R. Lee Emery said in Full Metal Jacket
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« Reply #101 on: January 02, 2005, 09:55:49 AM »
"Im surrounded by idiots"
-Originally by me and later stolen by Walt Disney
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« Reply #102 on: January 02, 2005, 10:00:09 AM »
The DUKE


"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be whoopee sure I intended  to. " John Wayne


      "Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home"-John Wayne

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."  John Wayne

""Out here, due process is a bullet." -John Wayne

"Sorry don't get it done, Dude." -John Wayne

"Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."John Wayne
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« Reply #103 on: January 02, 2005, 10:00:16 AM »
leslie... peperboxes came in a lot of calibers up to as big as 54.  Some were pretty powerful.  they are basicly a revolver without a barrel and any blackpowder revolver suffered from the possibility of the dreaded chain fire... the way to avoid that is to pack the area above the ball with grease.

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« Reply #104 on: January 02, 2005, 11:27:18 AM »
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The DUKE

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them."  John Wayne

 


a great quote and a damn good guide for life.
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