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I'm having my first thanksgiving at my house this year. I'm planning on doing mashed potatos, greenbean caserole, crescent rolls, deviled eggs...thse usual. Except I'm smoking the bird...and instead of stuffing it, (blocks the smoke from the cavity and messes up the cook time causing the...

West Tennessee is pretty close. It's all pretty much swampland around Memphis (Nutbush is about an hour away). Somewhat related, but the other day I was watching some show on one of the History Channels about Moonshiners...probably up around Western North Carolina, and when ever some of them...

But were they very different cultural influences? I'm betting there's a connection somewhere. That's why I was wondering if there was a heavy French influence in early New Jersey.

Yeah. What's even more interesting is that Ryan Kwanten is Australian. :eek:

NPR had a hollywood dialogue coach on some time ago talking about how your "classic" British accent (if there is such a thing) is almost identical to the old antebellum Southern accent. the only difference was that the Southern accent was more tonal. That might be a reason why so many Southern...

It's not a matter of opinion. It's a matter of mechanics. A double action revolver will fire as fast as you pull the trigger, no matter how fast you pull the trigger. An auto-loader, on the other hand, is out of battery and (I should hope) has the disconnector engaged between the time it...

Not necessarily. There are plenty of gun myths with long legs. "If you shoot someone with .12 g buck/.50 BMG, they'll shoot ten feet straight up." "An AK-47 will never jam" "An auto-loader shoots faster than a revolver". I actually heard a cop say the last in court. :wtf: Well, I've shot...

Again, I've heard people say that for years, but I've never seen any evidence that any of that is the reason for it. Hague Convention. I do believe the results. I just don't believe it's by design. Maybe with handguns, but I'll guarantee you if you do that experiment with a military...

Full Metal Jacket rounds were developed so that the bullet can be fired at higher velocities without dorking up the barrel. The fact that they do less damage, for the most part, than soft or hollow point bullets is secondary. I've heard the whole "fmj's are designed to wound thus taking three...

Well, if you want to get technical about it it's bullets, not guns, that were designed to kill. A gun never killed anyone that wasn't beaten to death by it. I guess when people go down the existential route when arguing against gun ownership, it comes across as a bit silly to me. "Assault...

I used to hear gunfire a lot when I lived in Memphis. I did "witness" one that happened about two buildings down when I lived in an apartment complex. I heard about five shots, looked out my front window and saw a guy running into his car. He peeled off across curbs and squeeled out of the...

I'm partial to The Book of Armaments. "And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."

But what does the intent of the design of a thing have to do with the deadliness of that thing? Let me put it another way. Which is more deadly? Automobiles, which were not designed to kill, but have killed a shit-ton more people in the U.S. than firearms have? Or firearms, which...

So is, "Guns were DESIGNED to kill" in the context of the comparative deadliness of things.

Having recently been relegated to a gentleman of liesure by my former employer, I decided to dedicate some time to scientific pursuits. So I took my girl dog Gabby, cut her head off, and sewed it onto the body of another animal. Before picture...head is attached to the factory eskimo spitz...

Well, I'll at least keep the ones that don't get shreded by the pop-up mines. :shifty:

You laugh, but give a geezer a fighting cane, and train him how to use it, and the neighborhood kids WILL by-God stay the hell off his lawn.

I rescued an abused dog as well. The first couple of years were interesting. He was apparently abused by a male, and so he was extremely intimidated by me. More than once, he got scared, and attacked me bad enough to draw blood and/or cause a major owie. He hasn't done that for about three...

http://www.canemasters.com/ :techman: They're made with harder wood, and larger crooks...all the better to grab a fool by the neck and throw him out a window. The guy who started the company also developed a fighting style with canes. "Cane-Fu". They even have a wilderness survival...

Absolutely.