Wylycoyte
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The man often seems like the Jack Handy of the firearms world to me, but I must admit I consider what he has to say, even if I wind up rejecting it.
Please, not another article on how great the M1911 is! I guess it was pretty great at the time and I think it deserves to be a legend, but there are plenty of pistols today that are better.
Please, not another article on how great the M1911 is! I guess it is pretty great for many people and I think it deserves to be a legend, but there are plenty of pistols today that are better for me.
Cooper is correct. He has spent more total time on the range than most of us have spent breathing.
But that's not what 'ditto' means at all. If you had actually listened to what Rush and his callers have had to say rather than trust what some disaffected whiner gave you as a defintion, you'd know that.The whole concept of saying that "I unreservedly give my unqualified approval of everything you say, because of your last remark" is abhorrant to me.
Precisely! Most of the "graduates" of today's government indoctrination centers imagine that a good vocabulary is expressed by monosyllabic utterances...half of them vulgar or obscene. Indeed, remove the swear words and a half-dozen phrases [ya know what I mean?] from their vocabularies and most would be rendered mute.I think the problem with ten-dollar words is that too many of today's readers graduated from two-bit schools. Reading is becoming an endangered skill. -- Old Fluff
I think the problem with ten-dollar words is that too many of today's readers graduated from two-bit schools. Reading is becoming an endangered skill.
I respect the man's service to our country and freedom. BUT "the right to speak one's mind" belongs to all in this country in accordance with the freedom of speech, not just salty Grognards. What Cooper did earn (from me as well as from many others apparently) was respect.I would not put things the way he puts them, but I do think he has more than earned the right to speak his mind.
I don't get that at all. I find his writings to be full of lordly proclamations, but not necessarily full of "difficult" words. I would think that anyone who graduated from a university was exposed to more "difficult" vocabulary than that employed by Cooper.quote:
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I think the problem with ten-dollar words is that too many of today's readers graduated from two-bit schools. Reading is becoming an endangered skill.
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...writing affect(ed) that psuedo-Victorian voice ...
I find his writings to be full of lordly proclamations, but not necessarily full of "difficult" words.
Strictly an affectation and pretension of literary prowess.
What Cooper did earn (from me as well as from many others apparently) was respect.