What firearm ignorance have you encountered lately?

[Nanook]

No. I'm not going to ask.

Ha, I guess I could have been a little bit clearer about that. I need to review before I hit the post button.

The new gun arrivals. LOL

 

[barnbwt]

"I think the best explanation of the "whole nine yards" is that certain sailing ships had 3 main sails and each of them used 3 yards of fabric."

I think a mainsail had a lot more than 9ft of fabric . You're thinking of the phrase "3 sheets to the wind" --a hilariously apt metric for drunkenness in terms of how much leaning is going on (putting additional sails against the wind would lean the ship further and further over until it 'keeled-over' --at three sheets, or 'full sail' )

TCB

 

[itsa pain]

"I think the best explanation of the "whole nine yards" is that certain sailing ships had 3 main sails and each of them used 3 yards of fabric."

I think a mainsail had a lot more than 9ft of fabric . You're thinking of the phrase "3 sheets to the wind" --a hilariously apt metric for drunkenness in terms of how much leaning is going on (putting additional sails against the wind would lean the ship further and further over until it 'keeled-over' --at three sheets, or 'full sail' )

TCB

The whole nine yards meant a concrete truck filled to max which was 9 yds now they carry a couple of yds more

 

[Corpral_Agarn]

Heard another one recently:

Dude remarks: "if you want stopping power, you want a .45. One shot with that and they are going down. doesn't really matter where you hit him."

I reply, "If you want stopping power, you want a howitzer. 45's don't really blow up tanks like in Saving Private Ryan."

 

[ldsgeek]

"I think the best explanation of the "whole nine yards" is that certain sailing ships had 3 main sails and each of them used 3 yards of fabric."

I think a mainsail had a lot more than 9ft of fabric . You're thinking of the phrase "3 sheets to the wind" --a hilariously apt metric for drunkenness in terms of how much leaning is going on (putting additional sails against the wind would lean the ship further and further over until it 'keeled-over' --at three sheets, or 'full sail' )

TCB

Except that sheet (counterintuitively) refers to the ropes, not the fabric of the sails. So that would be referring to a sail that was no longer secured properly, kind of like a drunken sailor.

 

[Sam1911]

T'aint Boaters' World around here, folks...