Because of Sesame Streets’s The Count, our generation grew up not fearing vampires and thus the Twilight series happened.
What Mark Wahlberg said wan’t that ridiculous. He usually beats someone up every flight he’s on.
I don’t get the left freaking out over SOPA but not over other regulation. It’s like they only want to pretend to be free online.
Let’s just send Mark Wahlberg to Congress, shut the doors for a few hours, and then everything should be solved.
I’d much rather have annoying gun regulation to follow in Call of Duty than in real life.
“Sorry, you’re going to have to leave your gun. Your concealed carry permit isn’t valid for level 3.”
Romney: “I tried to release my tax returns, but Turbo Tax is too confusing. Timothy Geithner can back me up on this.”
Young Gingrich picture on Drudge looks like Dwight Schrute.
If I were Romney, I don’t know how I’d be able to stop myself from eventually yelling, “SHUT UP, YOU STUPID POOR PEOPLE!!!”
I only once accidentally tried to look something up on Wikipedia yesterday. It was a videogame.
Weird. On Chuck, Col. Casey (Adam Baldwin) said, “I have one mag left.” But close caption was, “I have one clip left.” Made us laugh. Maybe the actor had it right but the script had it wrong.
We watch all shows with close caption because we have a Buttercup. Wish Netflix had more shows with subtitle options.
Buttercup can count to two as long as you supply her the “one”.
“One.”
“TWO!!!”
Knowing stuff about guns can ruin movies. Sure, it looks cool to cock a 1911, but that should never happen in normal usage.
Ever try gently lowering the hammer on a 1911? Takes two hands because of the grip safety. Would never do it with a round in the chamber. But that’s what you would have to have done previously if you’re now cocking a 1911 to threaten someone.
Also remember a book where someone disengaged the safety on a 1911 and then chambered a round. A ridiculous sequence of events. I hope someone was fired for that one.
If Iowa can’t run a simple primary, maybe we should revoke their statehood.
“We don’t know who won ’cause pigs done ate the votes.”
Perry looked so good on paper but looked like such a bad idea in the debates.
Hollyweird does the same thing with pump shotguns. A character will rack the slide, because it sounds so cool and then, a couple of minutes later, will rack it again, but for some reason, the last shell in doesn’t eject. I keep waiting for that guy to rack the slide twice and then discover that he only had one shell in his gun to start with.
Many, many, many……many years ago I was playing Monopoly with my siblings. Towards the end our youngest sister who was about 9 at the time landed on someone elses hotel and faced the inevitable bankruptcy. Instead, she swept all the hotels, motels, tokens, cards, and money from the board to the floor and declared “NOBODY WINS!”
For some reason I remembered that story when I heard that the Iowa Republican State Committee determined that Pawlenty’s lead didn’t really count and the caucus (or was that corpus) was a tie.
@poof
The one that really gets me is when the manly man in danger is holding the shotgun at the ready then just as poop hits the fan he jacks a round into the chamber. WTF?!?!? You were expecting trouble and were walking around with an EMPTY weapon?
ONE bad vampire chick flick…TWO bad vampire chick flicks…
Yeah, I love it when a guy is pointing a shotgun inches from someone’s face threatening to shoot them – then after yelling for a while he racks the slide like it’s an exclamation mark.
Dude, you should have totally kicked him in the nuts while he had an empty chamber.
I watched the premiere of “Alcatraz”. The detective (speaking of racks) was tracking down a shooter by zeroing in on his choice of weapon – the “incredibly rare” Winchester Model 70.
Count Chocula has to share some blame for Twilight, too.
Scary right about the Gingrich picture.
If Alec Baldwin had been on the 9/11 plane he would have been d**king around so much they would have had to stay at the gate while he was pulled off the plane so at least one plane would not have left the ground. Hooray for Hollywood!
You most certainly can “uncock” a 1911 with one hand. Pull the hammer back until it engages the grip safety, engage the trigger, and gently let the hammer forward with the thumb. I wouldn’t recommend doing this with a round in the tube, since the gun will fire if the thumb slips off the hammer.
I can’t wait until I buy an “incredibly rare” Mosin-Nagant or another “incredibly cat-like” German Shepherd.
There’s been a lot of random thinking going on around here lately. Have you been wearing Buttercup’s Random Thinking Cap? Leave it on.
Winchester Model 70’s are rather rare – among guns confiscated at crime scenes. Most live in their gun safe all year, venturing forth for one weekend in the early fall, to be fired once or twice at a target and once at a relative of Bambi, then returned to storage after cleaning.
I think it was an episode of Hill Street Blues, the bad guy has two executions to take care of and is taunting his victims. He racks the slide on his 1911 and blasts the first one. He taunts the second guy a bit more, racks the slide again and then blasts him. What do these people think “automatic” means?
Closed Captioning is an under-appreciated venue of literary criticism.
Regarding Wikipedia, I did a google search yesterday and of course the top hit was a link to Wik. Just for the fun of it, I clicked through and for a second, I thought they must have caved in because the article I needed was right there. Of course that was just to enhance the drama because then the screen goes ominously dark: “What if all your data are ours???//??” I did a refresh, a quick screen grab and my free article of dubious authority was mine, I’m pretty sure I am now a hero of some kind.
I’m just lucky I still have power in this ice storm. What a mess.
There is a lot of Dwight in Newt. They both have a streak of evil genius in them.
Adam Baldwin probably did know the term was “magazine” because he’s one of the most conservative guys in hollyweird, versus the script writer who is probably a total hippy. Speaking of hippy, you used to spell it that way, what happened?
You can decock the hammer on a 1911 with one hand. You pull the hammer back onto the grip safety, disengaging it, while simultaneously pulling the trigger and riding the hammer forward. I would definitely recommend not doing this with a round in the chamber…or even a magazine in the weapon.
This is why the Republican party is doomed. We complain that politicians are slick, lying, pandering douchebags all the time. But here we had an actual choice between someone with a great record or a slick, lying, pandering douchebag with a terrible record. The people in the early primary states went with the candidate with the terrible record because, “he sounded better in the debates”.
Aparently, I’m the only one who thinks that past actions are a better predictor of future behavior than 1 minute sound bites in a debate. So now we have Romney. But hey! If we’re really lucky, we could get the ultime outsider in Newt instead!
I’m beginning to think Republican voters are almost as stupid as democrat voters.
How many westerns have had 100 shot revolvers?
ABC ran a short lived series in the 1980’s about a mercenary turned crime fighter. Confronting a street punk he said “You have a thirty eight specail. I won’t even feel that. I have three hundred fifty seven magnum and it will blow you through that wall.” Man where can I find a 30057 magnum. Is that bigger than a S&W 500 magnum?
On how many crime shows do they lift fingerprints from a fired bullet head?
“What Mark Wahlberg said wan’t that ridiculous.”
No, what’s ridiculous is that anyone would care what Mark Wahlberg said.
During gunplay, I watch the actor’s trigger finger. Very, very few actors get their finger placement correct (the meaty part of the index finger on the trigger as opposed to the crook of the joint). This is true of — you guessed it — action stars such as Wahlberg, and this leads me to believe that they only shoot blanks and only in movies.
As for SOPA, bein’ as how the Justice Department is one of the most political in the whoole world, and would shut you right down, you’ve got to ask yourself one kestion: “Do I feel lucky?” Well do ya, BLOGGER?
Who cares about your electricity? How are those sweet, precious otters coping with the storm?! Priorities, man!
@DamnCat
To be fair…they WERE in San Francisco where legally finding a firearm is harder than finding a straight waiter.
one…TWO. That is all you really need to know for potty training.
I tried to lower the hammer on my 1911 once, it made a Hell of a racket!
Now I just leave it alone.
I’d suggest we give a 1911 to all Democrats and make them play Russian Roulette!!!
You will know that Buttercup is smart when she says ZERO.
Ivan Ivanovich:
You’re right. That is a milestone. I’m not sure how old I was when I was able to name the president.
Oh, you meant the number. Yeah, you’re right there, too.