Happy Birthday Trudy!
Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Sep 11, 2007 4:11:16 am PDT #9627 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Jars - Sep 11, 2007 4:12:54 am PDT #9628 of 10001
When I have pink hair I wear far more brightly coloured clothes than when I don't. Which seems a little counterintuitive, I know.
But I can only get away with orange when I'm not pink.
Fred Pete - Sep 11, 2007 4:13:31 am PDT #9629 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Happy Birthday, Trudy!
tommyrot - Sep 11, 2007 4:15:10 am PDT #9630 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy Birthday, Trudy!
ION,
If I remember my "Engineering Disasters" documentaries from History Channel right, the US infantry actually didn't use the Springfield rifle during WWI due to some bonehead in Washington realizing that they were better than anything anyone else had, so if they were taken from a dead doughboy, they would lose technological advantage. As a result, the US sent the boys over there with a vastly inferior POS rifle that blew up in their faces more than fired effective bullets into the Germans.
You're thinking of a machine gun the US had but didn't use. There was a French machine gun that was given to US troops instead, that had an open magazine that tended to get dirt in and jam like you said.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 11, 2007 4:18:45 am PDT #9631 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hippo birdies, Trudy!
Jars - Sep 11, 2007 4:19:05 am PDT #9632 of 10001
Happy birthday Trudy!
tommyrot - Sep 11, 2007 4:23:56 am PDT #9633 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The headline of this story is the best part:
Prosthetic leg stash found under floor
Plumbers who pulled up the floorboards at a Dorset, England home discovered a cache of hundreds of old artificial legs. Homeowner Mike Sutton told the Dorset Echo he thinks the previous owner "must have been a bit of a Del Boy character," referring to the silly scheming wheeler-dealer in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Sutton is investigating whether a charity might be interested in the prosthetics.
Kathy A - Sep 11, 2007 4:40:26 am PDT #9634 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
There was a French machine gun that was given to US troops instead, that had an open magazine that tended to get dirt in and jam like you said.
That's the gun I was thinking of--I forgot that it was French. Still, it was stupid not to use the perfectly good Springfields.
Jars - Sep 11, 2007 4:45:55 am PDT #9635 of 10001
My new boss is obsessed with military archaeology. Half the office library is devoted to guns and battlefields. One of the sites produced a 17th century pistol a while ago and he's still printing pictures of it for he walls.
tommyrot - Sep 11, 2007 4:45:58 am PDT #9636 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The US did use Springfields in WW1. The Springfield is not a machine gun. It was some other machine gun that the US had but didn't use.
Info on the Springfield: [link]