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Skriven 2011-05-25 07:47:08 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: DAMAGE & CONTROL
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 DD> etc. and reclaim them after a tour of the old boat, paying either a set
 DD> fee or leaving a gratuity (which would probably make them more money).

 GJ> I presume she saw sense, and cooperated.

 GJ> What I meant, did she look after your knife for you?

Not hardly. She didn't offer and by then I had lost interest in schlepping
around an old, sanitized, and tourist-ed boat. No matter the historical
provenance. 
 
 DD> Back in the 1980s, just as an experiment I made a .22 calibre "belly
 DD> gun" which fit inside a standard Storm King (Zippo knock-off) lighter.
 DD> It was, in the first model, a single shot piece. The Mark II version
 GJ> I have wondered about that sort of micro gun; what is the recoil like?
 GJ> Or is it fired while holding it back against a solid wall?

 DD> It fired .22 calibre "shorts" so the recoil was not enough to be a
 DD> problem in holding on to the piece. And as it was designed as an
 DD> "emergency measure" was not taken into account. Being basically a
 DD> "belly gun" accuracy was not a consideration either.

 GJ> Interesting.  As the recoil velocity would be:

 GJ> Recoilvel = bulletvel x bulletmass/gunmass  it would be an advantage
 GJ> to make the little gun as heavy as possible.  Would the bullet be
 GJ> capable of penetrating the fat layer on the average USAn belly?

Any belly less dense than a 2 x 4 wall stud. A .22 calibre short will penetrate
2" of pine. And pine is more dense and fibrous than any belly I know of. Even
on a body builder.
 
 DD> had a reloading mechanism and held three rounds - with one up the
 DD> spout. I also drew up plans for one which would fit into a standard
 DD> sized BIC lighter. It was a single shot, use it once and toss it sort
 DD> of thing. Never got around to building that thing, though.
 GJ> It could fit into the steel-capped toe of a safety boot...

 DD> Make you walk funny, though. I think Rosa Kleb's poison tipped knife
 DD> that popped out of her shoe in one of the James Bond flickers would
 DD> probably work better.

 GJ> If you got size 11 safety boots for your size 9 feet, no problem in
 GJ> finding space for the little guns.

When you start with size 11 or 12 feet you wind up with something like a circus
clown's plates.
 
 GJ> I think I had better stop discussing ways of defeating security
 GJ> gestapo, or I might find myself singled out for extra attention the
 GJ> nest time I travel...

Or just disappeared - via a "black helicopter".

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      Title: Indigo Helicopter Cocktail
 Categories: Five, Beverage, Wine, Booze, Fruits
      Yield: 1 shooter

      1 oz Blue Curacao
    1/2 oz Melon liqueur (Midori)
      6 oz Cranberry juice
      2 oz Champagne or sparkling wine

  Pack a tall 15-oz. glass with ice cubes. Slowly pour in the
  ingredients one by one in the order listed. Pause between
  additions to let the liquids separate into distinct layers.

  When stirred, the rainbow blends into a deep indigo
  cocktail.

  Recipe Author: Joseph Miller
 
  From: http://houseandhome.com

  Uncle Dirty Dave's Archives

MMMMM

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