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Warrl wrote:And I will assuage the pun jar by offering it the Washington State Ferry facilities at Kingston and Clinton (both of which also happen to be towns in Minnesota) - a pair of docks.

Years ago I ordered quite a few LPs through Greenworld (an excellent importer of European and Japanese vinyl releases).

Their retail distribution arm was called Paradox Music Mailorder. Paradox had a nicely-drawn pencil-sketch logo which I can no longer locate, but which was something along the following lines.

Warrl wrote:And I will assuage the pun jar by offering it the Washington State Ferry facilities at Kingston and Clinton (both of which also happen to be towns in Minnesota) - a pair of docks.

And I will add two US ten-cent pieces.

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:And I will add two US ten-cent pieces.

That's certainly demonstrating a new way or two of thinking about the situation!

(tosses two six-sided dice into the pun jar)

Monica's letting me use the Library portal to go to Island U-296...


POIT!

jwhouk wrote:Monica's letting me use the Library portal to go to Island U-296...


POIT!

She gave you and your wife a pair of tickets? Pack your bags, you leave tonight!

All these para puns are leaving me para-pooped.

Dave wrote:

Warrl wrote:And I will assuage the pun jar by offering it the Washington State Ferry facilities at Kingston and Clinton (both of which also happen to be towns in Minnesota) - a pair of docks.

Years ago I ordered quite a few LPs through Greenworld (an excellent importer of European and Japanese vinyl releases).

Their retail distribution arm was called Paradox Music Mailorder. Paradox had a nicely-drawn pencil-sketch logo which I can no longer locate, but which was something along the following lines.

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Reminds me of a magazine cover illustration...



Unfortunately the thumbnail is too small to see well, and the "enlarged" image I think is a scan done on a really bad scanner so incredibly blurry, but the artist did a GREAT job on it. Perhaps a bit too good a job - I could imagine the writers complaining that there was nothing left for them to say.

jwhouk wrote:All these para puns are leaving me para-pooped.

And if there's a competition among Club Alexander to see who has the best aim with their ranged weapons, it's a para-shoot.

One hippopotami cannot get on a bus -
That's because one hippopotami is two hippopotamus...

Warrl wrote: . . .

jwhouk wrote:All these para puns are leaving me para-pooped.

And if there's a competition among Club Alexander to see who has the best aim with their ranged weapons, it's a para-shoot.

Using two Maxi-14s . . .

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:

Warrl wrote: . . .

jwhouk wrote:All these para puns are leaving me para-pooped.

And if there's a competition among Club Alexander to see who has the best aim with their ranged weapons, it's a para-shoot.

Using two Maxi-14s . . .

--FreeFlier

I wonder if John could handle a .50 BMG Maxi-14...

GlytchMeister wrote:
I wonder if John could handle a .50 BMG Maxi-14...

If he can handle the .500 Smith, a re-stocked Maxi-14 is not going to be an issue. Have him check in next week, and we'll get the measurements to get a stock CNC routed for him.

Just Old Al wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:I wonder if John could handle a .50 BMG Maxi-14...

If he can handle the .500 Smith, a re-stocked Maxi-14 is not going to be an issue. Have him check in next week, and we'll get the measurements to get a stock CNC routed for him.

I would think the biggest problem would be carrying the thing . . . it won't be light!

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:

Just Old Al wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:I wonder if John could handle a .50 BMG Maxi-14...

If he can handle the .500 Smith, a re-stocked Maxi-14 is not going to be an issue. Have him check in next week, and we'll get the measurements to get a stock CNC routed for him.

I would think the biggest problem would be carrying the thing . . . it won't be light!

--FreeFlier

John is 7 feet tall and muscled like a farmer: thin, wiry muscles with a very high power-to-weight ratio... And about as much body fat as a professional cyclist.

Just for grins, I did some calculations as to the mass of a Maxi-14- near as I can tell, they would tip the scales at about 32 to 37 pounds... not an easy thing to carry a distance, but not undoable... and you want that much weight on the bitch

Sgt. Howard wrote:Just for grins, I did some calculations as to the mass of a Maxi-14- near as I can tell, they would tip the scales at about 32 to 37 pounds... not an easy thing to carry a distance, but not undoable... and you want that much weight on the bitch

So about the same weight as a Barrett.

--FreeFlier

FreeFlier wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:Just for grins, I did some calculations as to the mass of a Maxi-14- near as I can tell, they would tip the scales at about 32 to 37 pounds... not an easy thing to carry a distance, but not undoable... and you want that much weight on the bitch

So about the same weight as a Barrett.

--FreeFlier

The average adult horse weighs about 1100 pounds. A few breeds of draft horse frequently triple that. Belgian/Brabant, two names for the same breed, are regarded as having the largest average size, but the largest individual size on record was a 3360-pound Shire, and Percherons are also up there.

A Thompson submachine gun weighs about 10 pounds.

So you're talking about probably five to ten (but possibly fifteen) times as much weight of gunner versus three to four times as much weight of gun. Sounds quite reasonable to me.

Sgt. Howard wrote:Just for grins, I did some calculations as to the mass of a Maxi-14- near as I can tell, they would tip the scales at about 32 to 37 pounds... not an easy thing to carry a distance, but not undoable... and you want that much weight on the bitch

And this is why sporterizing a bolt-action military weapon like an SMLE or a Mosin-Nagant is just a bad idea...you want the weight for stability per a gunsmith friend of mine...

Just Old Al wrote:

Sgt. Howard wrote:Just for grins, I did some calculations as to the mass of a Maxi-14- near as I can tell, they would tip the scales at about 32 to 37 pounds... not an easy thing to carry a distance, but not undoable... and you want that much weight on the bitch

And this is why sporterizing a bolt-action military weapon like an SMLE or a Mosin-Nagant is just a bad idea...you want the weight for stability per a gunsmith friend of mine...

The SMLE uses a cartridge lighter than a .308 Winchester (aka 7.62x51 NATO) and the Mosin-Nagant is in 7.62x54R, which is a little lighter than a .30-06 . . . neither will present significant problems due to lightness. I know, I own sporterized versions of both, along with a sporterized 1903 Springfield . . . recoil was not an issue.

Of course, a .416 Rigby was fun . . . That was not the most painful rifle I ever fired, either, but I don't remember what the painful one was. Wasn't the 7mm Mag . . .

--FreeFlier

I'd say the most painful (and most powerful) rifle I'd ever fired would be my .308 Win, when I didn't have the stock positioned properly. If you saw the picture I put in the Photo Album thread, you'd get what I mean.

Damn, that's still funny...

FreeFlier wrote:That was not the most painful rifle I ever fired, either, but I don't remember what the painful one was. Wasn't the 7mm Mag . . .

--FreeFlier

I can tell you the most painful weapon I fired: XM79A2, an M79 with sights modified from a LAW. Really nice for dropping a grenade into the window of a moving truck. Also good for hitting a suspension bogie on a moving tank with a HEAT round. Just don't try to do both in one day, your shoulder will need some recovery time after getting pounded by the recoil of a 40mm grenade shell.