You do know and understand. THERE IS ONLY ONE GENUINE SINGLE ACTION ARMY REVOLVER, AND YOU KNOW WHO MAKES IT!
Absolutely. No argument here. I'm 100% in agreement. It is as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be.
I remain puzzled as to why many of its fans seem compelled to restate the obvious but I've come to assume it's like a secret handshake or pass phrase. "Only a Colt is a Colt", "Only a Colt has the Pony" and "If it's not a Colt, it's a copy".
When I was researching things-that-looked-like-single-actions- of-1873 I came across hundreds of posts arguing the most sublime minutiae as well as some fairly obvious distinctions in the several alternatives as compared to the REAL THING. In all of these posts, probably actually numbering in the thousands or tens-of-thousands, never once did I see anyone asserting that Colt wasn't Colt. The point, as they say, is uncontested.
So why, in the name of all that is holy, will a thread (on another forum) concerning things-of-the-1873-pattern have (by my actual count) fully 20% of the posts proclaiming: "Only Colt is Colt"?
It is, at once, blazingly obvious and uncontested. It conveys no information. Were it to be proven false it would repeal the most basic laws of our universe - a thing must be itself; a value must be equal to itself. Colt is Colt for the same reason a giraffe is a giraffe: it is incapable of being anything else.
If we were to awaken in a world where, by some agency, Colt wasn't Colt, we couldn't rely on anything - the value
pi might suddenly mutate to be, say,
cornbread. Imagine the chaos if the circumference of the wheels on your pick-up were suddenly their diameter multiplied by
cornbread? Your spleen might become the same size as, and trade places with, your head. Such a universe would be very unpleasant and I submit we would not survive more than a few seconds therein - and they would be a most unpleasant several seconds.
So I innocently proposed that even the rankest amateur would not contest that Colt is Colt and nobody had asserted that Colt wasn't Colt at least since the invention of the internet... so... could we please dispense with pointing out the fact that Colt has succeeded admirably in being itself, or at least limit it to once a thread? Perhaps a different code phrase could be substituted, such as "WWNNSNM" (an acronym for wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more)?
Astonishingly, a dogpile ensued!
Some evidently enjoy stating the grossly obvious and will take offense with anyone suggesting that they had already won that part of the argument and could move on to other matters.
T'is a mystery, Fuff.
