MaDuce

What about the original meanings? I didn't forget Jap, just couldn't come up with a good example.

You're never going to let that rest, are you?

As we all know, most cuss words have a genuine origin as real words with real meaning. Behold a few examples: Ass Definition: "short for "jackass", a donkey like creature. Example of use: A man let his jackass feed on his neighbor's farm. His neighbor came to him and said, "I better not see your ass on my land again. If it happens again, I'm going to beat your ass." Dick Definition: An alternative name for Richard Example of use: A woman brought her husband to the Johnson and Richards family reunion. Her husband asked about a man from the Richards family and she replied, "He's a Dick" poop Definition: Simplified for "shiat", an Arabic fragrant. Example of use: A man was expecting company so he scented his house with the fragrant. When visitors arrived, they said, "your house smells like poop." Nigger Definition: Misspelling/loose pronunciation of "Niger", the Latin word for "black" Example of use: A Spanish-Latin speaking priest was invited to a youth dance by a member of the congregation. The member introduced him to a black friend who was wearing a black leather jacket with Doma's name brand visible on it. The parishioner patted his friend on the jacked and asked the priest, "what do you think?" The priest replied, "Doma niger" and was promptly punched. Bitch Definition: Word for a female dog. Example of use: A man's girlfriend stayed the night, unaware that he had a pet dog. During the night, the dog crawled in to bed with them and she said, "Hay, what's that bitch doing in your bed." Gay Definition: Originally a word for being in a state of happiness. Example of use: A teenager was filled with happiness after being kissed for the first time by his girlfriend. He went home that day, approached his parents and said, "Mom, Dad. I have something to tell you........I'm gay." Flip (sometimes used as a raciest word for Asians) Definition: A common word in the English language to describe spinning in the air. Example of use: A couple were visiting Japan and decided to go watch some Japanese acrobats. During a peak in the performance, one said to the other, "man, look at all those flips". Crap Definition: Short for "Crapper", the last name of the man who invented the toilet. Example of use: An artiest was painting a picture of Sir. Thomas Crapper. A bypasser said, "Wow, that painting looks like Crap."

I just spoke with the lady in evidence and she said the gun has a couple minor dings on it and needs a thorough cleaning but is otherwise in perfect shape.

Spray paint it black with color palace flat paint and oven bake it at 300f for 3 hours. Then it'll look professionally done.

This thread isn't jacked. It's a verbal break dance, going all over the place in a slight rhythem.

I don't know who Led Zeplin is (I only know the blimp) and I can't stand Pink Floyd music, but I DID start but never finished a parody of Kids don't need no education in music video form. Someone borderline forced me to sit through the wall in highschool, so I partially wrote a parody of it, about some mental patient who thinks he's the Messiah.

You people are thooooo thilly.

Yes. Everything on it that's not stock I did myself. BTW. people often ask me how much my auto slide release design effects the size and handling of a gun. If you ever wonder and want a partial real-world answer, that gun had a working auto slide release in it when those pictures were taken.

These are pictures taken of it shortly before it was stolen:

I had a hell of a time with it. I told police and they came out and took a report. Neighbors said the detectives came by a few days later when I wasn't home but that was pretty much it. I figured out who it was who stole it (neighbors watched it happen but thought he was a visiting friend) and that guy is serving 36 years for man slaughter as he supposedly killed someone while drunk driving or something like that. After several attempts to get through to the detectives, I eventually flagged down a cop and gave him my collected evidence. That was the last I heard until the guy got convicted of man slaughter. I have always been a little haunted by the though of someone using the gun in a crime but otherwise I just moved on after learning of the thieve's conviction. It is or at least was a peculiar Beretta. It had a rare gray Hogue 1 piece grip on it, black frame and stainless slide with orange and white details. I had a video of it on youtube for years and allot of people were swearing up and down that it was an airsoft gun. It was also the test prototype for my automatic slide release and had one in it. The magazine; which contained part of the features needed to make it work had it's component crack after 3000 uses (it was made to prove the concept, not last forever) and had been taken apart for repair when the gun was stolen, so the thief only got part of it. I am hoping and guessing the criminal/s who had it didn't even know it was there.

not in the way you think. Someone broke in to my house and stole a Beretta 92FS among other things from me 5 or 6 years ago. I just today got a letter in the mail from Mr. Robobot's department informing me that they recovered it and want to return it to me.

Magwa, I am guessing you're Native American? I don't think any subculture in America understands and appreciates the importance of gun rights and ownership like our Native Americans. There's a reason why we think of cowboys with guns and natives with bows and arrows. Anyway, not everyone in that discussion is an idiot. In any case, I stated my case in that discussion.

It's a joke fellas.

I just put this picture together and though you folks would enjoy it.

I found this video by an imbedded journalist, shot mostly from inside a Ukrainian navy base occupied by the Russians. What's funny is how the Russian and Ukrainian troops get along, particularly in the 3rd quarter of the video.

That's the .577 T-Rex mentioned in the article.

This just came up in another discussion and I realized that I don't recall ever sharing it here. Forgive me if I did and just forgot. This is a funny article about rifle rounds that have ALLOT of stopping power. That is, they knock down both the target AND the shooter. The article is humorously written. http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/ammunition/2009/06/petzal-hardest-kicking-cartridges

That's grouse but funny.

If Mr. Robobot were there, he would say, "Hello. I am Mr. Robobot. I am crying a Beretta Auto 9. It is loaded with Winchester Ranger SXTs, also known as Dumdums. It has a 50 round magazine capacity and is capable of firing in 3 round bursts. It is operated by a CNC controlled robotic arm, capable of accurately hitting a different terrorist's a** without endangering their hostage with each of the 3 rounds in a burst, or all 50 within 3 seconds, whichever I so choose.

An announcement like that would genuinely make me feel much safer.

The hundred years war REALLY brought about the beginning of the end for those days. One, (specific to England) was obviously the peasant revolt of 1381 which taught not just England but the rest of Europe a lesson about abusing their citizens. Some countries got the message more then others. The other and perhaps more significant one was the opening battle of the war, the battle of Crecy. The English long bow tactic for one brought about a break in the code of chivalry in addition to the fact that one of the reasons for it was that knights by that time were turning more in to fat slobs then real warriors and hard to get on the battlefield. One of the reasons why King Edward III would knight just about anyone who would show him worthy skill and dedication.The other big game changer in the battle of Crecy is one significant detail that keeps getting overlooked. It was the first time powder guns were used successfully on the battlefield. In other words, it was the opening battle of the age of gun fire. So, all in one century, aristocrat knights turned in to spoiled cowards, peasants became elite warriors and armor was made useless. I fear that brain enhancing computer systems will threaten to bring those days back before the end of this century.

Based on everything I've been able to find in history, this is the most accurate AND entertaining documentary series I've been able to find on the medieval period. The entire series was uploaded to youtube by the copy write holders. MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS This one has allot of "booers" from people in to chivalry as it brings out the dark truth about medieval knights and the real culture of chivalry. If anything, this gives medieval knights TOO much credit. Allot of the individual cases I've studied of knight behavior from this time sound allot like the murder videos by the Mexican drug cartels that are going around on the internet right now but more amped up. The best short description I've ever heard describing medieval knights was actually a historian on another program who said, "Real medieval knights had more in common with Tony Supprano then Sir Lancelot. BTW. The Cesana Massacre, as you can imagine was one of the historical examples of the purpose and function of gun control that gun rights activists sometimes used during the Clinton and Early GWB years. Now that we're on the winning team, it's once again been swept under the rug. MEDIEVAL SCIENTISTS IMO, this is the least funny but most interesting episode in the series. I was turned on to this subject in the early 2000s when; while looking online for information on the "Roger Bacon" character in the video game, "Shadow Hearts", I discovered he was a real person and a medieval scientist. Needless to say, I was pretty shocked and fascinated by how much of our scientific knowledge we owe to not only medieval scientists, but medieval scientists who were among the catholic clergy! It also gives insight to what sort of motives Issac Newton might have had for involving himself with the search for the philosopher's stone. In other words, that it had a serious and practical side to it. I've spent nearly a decade pulling my hair out listening to people go on about the church persecuting scientists in the middle ages and so on. When I heard Roger Bacon's name brought up in this episode, the effect it had on me was probably the same as the effect Penn and Teller's BS episode about gun control had on you if you saw it in it's premier year. I could be wrong but I think this is the only historical documentary I've seen that gives medieval scientists and the catholic church any real fair credit for their contributions to science, even though there's no way a half hour episode can even cover all the general subject matters, let alone cover that whole world. If you are religious but are in to science, then you are going to LOVE this:

There are 3 chief real world reasons to go to war. To defend, to steal and revenge. If Switzerland has no interest in bullying other nations, then creating the situation where foreign powers have nothing to steal knocks out 2 motives right there. And as long as they stay neutral, there will be little reason to seek revenge against them. Leaving foreign nations no motive to go to war with you in the first place is a great defense strategy. And letting everyone else know you have that system in place is just saying to potential enemies, "there's nothing for you here".

That was a good article, though I am going to have to help you with better explaining that last point about how to grip the gun. Some additional notes.The purpose of using the tip of your finger is to keep your finger bone from moving the gun at the handle when firing. When I make pistol grips I carve a "dip" in to the area where your bone moves the handle to reduce the likelyness of that happening. Whether or not using the joint on your finger is better depends on the gun, the hand size/shape of the shooter and the trigger pull. The main issues are whether or not your bone is moving the hanndle of the gun by pulling the trigger that way and whether or not you can pull the trigger that way without accidentally setting the gun off. I myself; being a trigger person have found that there are different ideal solutions for different guns. For example, my HK USP has a fairly average trigger pull and a good but simple handle fit to my hand I've found that; if I touch the joint against the edge of the trigger, I sort of mount my finger there and can then have very good controle of when and how the trigger is pulled. On my 10mm Beretta on the other hand, the trigger on that gun is a custom trigger pull that's virtually identical to that on a S&W revolver, with roughly the same weight, no creek or drag and the trigger set to the back position when cocked just like a S&W revolver. But the handle is one I can very firmly wrap my hand around very snug, so what I do is wrap my finger around the trigger, the crease in the very middle of the trigger, the tip of my finger mounted against the other side of the handle and then use "clinching" of my finger to carefully and precisely pull the trigger which works even in short notice. My CZ-52 has a custom, long handle (front to back) and a trigger like on the Beretta PX4. I shoot that the old fashion way but with my trigger finger mounted against the top or bottom of the trigger guard. In all cases, I am mounting my finger against something solid (side pressure against the USP trigger gives a solid base) in order to assume tight control over when and how the trigger is pulled. I've never fired the USP past 50 yards but I can consistently hit a human silhouet target in the dead zone at 150 yards with both the CZ-52 and Beretta and 300 yards with practice.