Scott Miller Wrote:I love DWW, although it's more of a top 10 rather than best to me. My is a toss up between The Thing and Jaws. Today the coin says The Thing.
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Scott Miller Wrote:I love DWW, although it's more of a top 10 rather than best to me. My is a toss up between The Thing and Jaws. Today the coin says The Thing.
Dadburnit, =see= it!
Brian Wrote:Did I complain? No, I didn't. Got a problem?
Ohhh...are we gonna start a fight on the internet? Please Please Please
I made my comment because you were stating the obvious. Did it really need to be said that an old thread was brought back? Who cares!
And honestly, my comment of "what of it" was made in jest. You really need to stop thinking that I'm trying to attack you whenever I respond to something you say, Brian.
I'm just sayin'.
Major K
"He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a Prince." George Graham Vest
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us." - Maurice Maeterlinck
The Shawshank Redemption. Absolutely love it!
"Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side"
"Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side"
3T's&aG' Wrote:The Shawshank Redemption. Absolutely love it!Yeah, that was a great movie, but that part of the narration always makes me laugh. "Red" says that Andy crawled through 500 yards of sewer pipe . . . a half mile.
"Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side"
Well a half mile is 880 yards, so if it was actually 500 yards then it was less than 200 feet more than a QUARTER mile.
Sorry 'bout that, I find all kinds of silly dialogue in otherwise great movies. A good example of that would be in CAPTAIN BLOOD, when the Errol Flynn character praisingly calls one of his men, a "son of a Yorkshire steer."
Well, a Steer is a castrated bull. So the likelihood of a steer having a "son" is . . . well. . . .
Quigley Down Under:
"How long from the time the bullet struck 'til you heard the sound of the shot?"
"Too, three seconds maybe."
The 540-grain bullet from a Sharps Rifle had a muzzle velocity of around 1400 feet per second. On a hot day, the speed of sound is around 1,150 feet per second, and the bullet slows down while the sound does not.
He would hear the sound slightly BEFORE the bullet struck.
In the film MINORITY REPORT, someone presents the Burgess character with a Smith & Wesson First Model pistol (a five-shot .22.)
Burgess says thet this sort of thing was done for some Union Generals at the end of the Civil War, and that the five gold-plated bullets each stood for one year of the War.
Let's see . . . April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865.
Hmmm. That sounds like FOUR years to me.
(Although the last battle -- the Battle of Palmito Ranch -- ended on May 13,1865.)
Ken V.
Ken Valentin Wrote:Let's see . . . April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865.
Hmmm. That sounds like FOUR years to me.
I look at numbers differently...sorry...but the 5 bullets is correct.
1861 to 1865 is 4 years ....but...5 years are represented here.
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cobalt79 Wrote:I look at numbers differently...sorry...but the 5 bullets is correct.I see your point. Especially as it was a seven shot revolver.
1861 to 1865 is 4 years ....but...5 years are represented here.
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I didn't think of it in that way.
And as an aside, the S&W First Model (Model 1, introduced in 1857) was the first revolver to use a cartridge -- equivalent to todays .22 Short. (The first actual revolver was a Colt's which was patented in 1836.)
What Smith & Wesson did was to make a deep percussion cap, swage it down so that it had a rim, and insert a small (.22 caliber) lead ball. The "cartridge" didn't even have any gun powder in it.
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