Posts by Bob Boswell

Suprise at spelling snafu sanctions

Awl is ok.

"whatever piss of junk MS have put on their PC, awl is OK."

Daniel, much as I loathe the MS universe and sympathiz(s?)e with your point (!), an Awl is a small pointy tool for making holes in leather and possibly wood. Which is, presumably, why it is let through.

This idiot professor should be shot at dawn every day for a week, just to teach him a learning. ( Arrrrghhhh, NO, Please the pain. Bloody consultants )

And I though my grasp of my native language was a bit flaky, good grief.

Boz

Dogs blast hunter with shotgun

coloured blocks

I like the coloured blocks idea.

My other half has become interested in shooting recently, and wants to do more ( mainly clays) Unfortunately she is left handed, so none of mine are any use, we can get a decent 2nd-hand L/H auto for around £100, but I'm not a big fan, as you might have gathered, shiny blocks might help.

I'm guessing from your spelling that you are in the USA ?

As a side thought. If he was shot at a range of around 3 feet and it didn't just blow his calf/ leg away, what sort of choke did his gun have ? Early experimentation years ago with a cardboard box and 1/4 / improved made a hole like a fist.

http://www.mighty-weeble.net

He's still a pillock !

laird cummings

Agreed, apart from a quibble about rule 2

My version: The weapon is always loaded.

And you are correct about the autos / pumps, a reason for not liking them as you cannot tell from a distance if the gun is 'safe', unlike a gun 'broken' over the arm.

Boz

There is NO rule 6

Nearly a Darwin ?

They'll step on the trigger assembly and, if the gun for whatever reason wasn't on safety, it doesn't take a whole lot to trip a trigger." ®

Hmm, non of this nonsense for the Yanks then:-

A Fathers Advice

If a sportsman true you’d be

Listen carefully to me. . .

Never, never let your gun

Pointed be at anyone.

That it may unloaded be

Matters not the least to me.

When a hedge or fence you cross

Though of time it cause a loss

From your gun the cartridge take

For the greater safety’s sake.

If twixt you and neighbouring gun

Bird shall fly or beast may run

Let this maxim ere be thine

“Follow not across the line.”

Stops and beaters oft unseen

Lurk behind some leafy screen.

Calm and steady always be

“Never shoot where you can’t see.”

You may kill or you may miss

But at all times think this:

“All the pheasants ever bred

Won’t repay for one man dead.”

Mark Beaufoy - 1902

lifted from the BASC site

If you put it down - unload it ---- how hard can it be ?????

Boz

Police tackle crime hotspots with scary warning poster

Does this sound familiar ??

TO BAN GUNS...because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding.

(Jeff Snyder)

Doctor Who signs up thinking man's crumpet

KT

Oh for heavens sake people, give the woman a chance.

Just imagine, you are going down the isle on your wedding day and you are *kidnapped* by some weirdo in a police box. And then the person you thought loved you turns out to be a sidekick for a serious spider thing. How are you supposed to react?

I thought the character adapted well and there are some interesting possibilities available.

DVLA turns censor on grubby number plates

A long time ago...

In the mid 70's or thereabouts , parked in the school car park, an MG with the reg FAL 1C ( this was when MGs were sports cars)

Cat senses impending death

cause and effect

Has anyone thought to see if it the damned cat is the cause of death ?

If the cat is evicted, does the elderly bod survive ?

Perhaps the old dears are sufferering from a reaction to an allergen / pathogen ?.

I know if it had that kind of reputation and sat on my bed it would get a swift kick.