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Originally posted by 45-70 Govt.:
That would be:

"The initial of one's surname plus one's 'last four'".

Thank you for pointing out my error in failing to use an apostrophe in "one's." I was taught that pronouns never take apostrophes, but my beloved 1925 Unabridged disagrees. I sit corrected.

BTW, you might want to check out your placement of the period in your quotation above. You did seem to get it right with

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In linguistics we call this "ellipsis."

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
Unique means one of a kind, without like or equal.

True, but in many applications, 2400 is superior.

Also, what kind of sense does it make to name a CANISTER powder "Unique?"

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Originally posted by Recono:

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Originally posted by 416LJT:
people saying jury rigged when it is jerry rigged. Like , I jerry rigged an oar socket on my boat by c-clamping a piece of pipe to the gunwhale. Jury rigging is when you try to influence a verdict in a court of law.

Nope. Jury-rigged is correct. Check an old dictionary.

actually I found this. I don't have an old dictionary.

Urban Dictionary: jerry-rig
Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions. Define your world ... I jerry-rigged it with a piece of wire and gaffers tape so it would stay in ...www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jerry-rig&defid=871970 - 24k - Cached

Your internet-based "urban dictionary" is probably correct. I believe that that expression arose during one of the Wars to End All Wars, substituting "jerry," a nickname for Germans, for the original "jury." Nevertheless, my 1925 Merriam-Webster Unabridged includes the nautical term "jury-rigged," meaning "rigged for temporary service."

I don't have a problem with the somewhat dated "jerry-rigged;" I merely wanted to point out that "jury-rigged" was NOT incorrect.

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Originally posted by Recono:

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Originally posted by 45-70 Govt.:
That would be:

"The initial of one's surname plus one's 'last four'".

Thank you for pointing out my error in failing to use an apostrophe in "one's." I was taught that pronouns never take apostrophes, but my beloved 1925 Unabridged disagrees. I sit corrected.

BTW, you might want to check out your placement of the period in your quotation above. You did seem to get it right with

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In linguistics we call this "ellipsis."

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Typo -- I have new glasses and can't seem to see with them. Second pair, second Rx, from the VA.

Let's think "outside the box".

Always as a preface to a "totally clueless" idea.

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Originally posted by Recono:

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
Unique means one of a kind, without like or equal.

True, but in many applications, 2400 is superior.

Also, what kind of sense does it make to name a CANISTER powder "Unique?"

Still, "Unique" does beat "Very Unique" as the name for anything, including gunpowder.

Speaking of gunpowder, how the hell can the maker refer to 2400 as "smokeless?"

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
Speaking of gunpowder, how the hell can the maker refer to 2400 as "smokeless?"

Bullseye!

Another one that bugs is when people pronuounce Leupold as Lee-O-pold when referencing Leupold scopes.
It's correctly pronounced Lew-pold. I've seen a talking bubba on a couple of the hunting shows pronounce it wrong... you'd think they'd know the name of one of their sponsors.

Hear this one ALL the time: "I could care less."

For some reason it makes all the hairs on the back of my neck jump to rigid attention as my internal loudspeaker blasts, "MORON!!!!!"

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Originally posted by Recono:

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
Speaking of gunpowder, how the hell can the maker refer to 2400 as "smokeless?"

Bullseye!

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Originally posted by brianbo:
Another one that bugs is when people pronuounce Leupold as Lee-O-pold when referencing Leupold scopes.
It's correctly pronounced Lew-pold. I've even seen a the talking bubba on a couple of the hunting shows have pronounce it wrong... you'ld think they'd know the name of one of their sponsors.

I hate it when people use Saworski scopes and binoculars.

I'm with ya, Lee.

I always say, "Svaroffski," but I must confess that in response I generally get a "Whut?"

Still, as long as I can afford one, I couldn't care less.

I am a volunteer ambulance driver for our local volunteer dept.

When on a call I have to call on the radio, "Ambulance 1 en route, Ambulance 1 on scene, Ambulance 1 at the hospital,.." etc,...

I changed "ambulance," to "amabalance,".....nothing.

I changed "ambalance," to "bambalance," and finally I get commentary from my fellow volunteers.

I cannot fathom why so many hunters insist on having a pair of binoculars. One is sufficient for me.

"Where are you at?" (Observed in another AR forum, sad to say.)

I once knew a guy named Tony who really knew how to piss me off.

We worked together. Every time some jerk or situation would get my goat, I had a tendency to complain about it, and I would say to Tony:

"That [fill in the blank] really pisses me off!"

Tony would just lean back, give me a sort of jaundiced but philosophical look, and say, deadpan and flat out:

"Better'n bein' pissed on."

When you see a sales person on TV refer to the Pontiac Grand Prix as the (phonetically spelled) Grand Pree instead of the correct pronunciation of (phonetically spelled) Grawn Pree. Even my friends look at me funny when I say Grawn Pree. I say why not go ahead and pronounce it Grand Pricks.

Impact.
Talking Heads and weather announcers use it all wrong.
"The Surge is having an 'Impact' over there in Iraq.

How about "Hunt of a Lifetime" or "Hunt of my Dreams"? (Insert fish, buck, or woman.) Are these not the two most overused expressions in sportswritng and outdoor shows? Do your dreams end when you shoot a record book animal or have a great hunt? Makes me want to scream...or am I just being sensative?

Jeff

"Without us you have dreams, with us you have memories"

"Hot water heater". It's a water heater.

Any form of RAP!!!!!! I will not call it music.

Nuculer power. Nuculer weapons. Nuculer threat.

All referring to an atom's nuculus I suppose.

Copidosoma, you're just making me wistful, thinking about Ike.

Recono, do you want to reconsider ironical?

Close proximity.

The news media always says... Hi Powered rifles".

Muzzle "breaks." And I know "wear" they can put 'em, too!!!

Service

You can join the service, and a bull can service a cow, but a waiter or clerk SERVES the slient/customer.

I would disagree, Brice. We felt like were pretty thoroughly "serviced" by United Airlines going over to Zim

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Originally posted by Brice:
Recono, do you want to reconsider ironical?

Yes. "Attempting to be cute" would perhaps have been a better choice."

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Originally posted by Rub Line:
"Hot water heater". It's a water heater.

A water heater is something capable of heating water. A hot water heater is a device capable of heaating and maintaining water to a legal definition of hot, 160 mdegree F, for sanitation purposes. Ignorance will get you nowhere. Gianni

LRH cannot be disputed. There are exceptions to every rule. In August they left my rifles at Dulles, didn't send them to SAA.

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Originally posted by calgarychef1:
Refering to antelope as "goats" they are not goats. I suppose calling them "speed goats" is better in my eyes-at least we now what the hell it is you're talking about.

Well... actually they are goats.... kinda...

They aren't real antelope, like most of the African species from Dikdik to Eland and Giraffe, which ARE antelope.

and they certainly aren't deer....


But anyway the one that drives me up the wall is people thinking that their engine needs "Back pressure" or it won't run right...
(obviously learning their automotive engineering from Vin Diesel Movies)

Well, there's also seeing someone in cabela's(an employee) saying: "those aren't bullets, those are tips"

It takes all my mental resolve to resist the temptation to slap their head clean off...

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1. Confusing "Republican" with "Conservative", they used to be interchangeable, but not for the last 6 years!

2. "A whole nother story", funnily enough all too often used by people who confuse Republicans with conservatives!!

oh wait!!!

Confusing "global Warming", a natural event that isn't sufficiently understood, With a man-made phonomena

and further confusing "Man-Made global warming" as "science" when it is infact a belief system, not science.

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How about;
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True Fact
Me, Bill and Mike

Ads for workout machines that promise "ripped" muscles. Wow, that must be painful!! Maybe rippled, not ripped.

How about:

"anywayS"
"for realS"

When people pronounce supposedly like suppos(ably)
When people pronouce especially like (ex)specially

This one really gets me: Confusing "tolerances" with "CLEARANCES;" as in, "Ma Bubba Gunsmith tightened up th' tolerances own ma sheetkicker, naow I kin shoot th' ah out of a grinner clear from here ta th' still..."

John Browning designed the M1911 with adequate clearances between parts that it would function in mud, but the loose relationship of the parts resulted in lackluster accuracy. Even though the manufacturing tolerances were held very closely to the blueprint dimensions.

Modren (sic) manufacturers redesign the parts with less clearance for better accuracy, but maybe to similar tolerances as the original.