Bullet Thingy...

I know, my wife wisely observes that I have permanently committed way to many brain cells to useless things. For arcane things my brain is like a trap, but when it comes to making a milk-run, it behaves more like a sieve.

Well, it does look like a round bullet-thingy! Beth might be more interested in proper vernacular if it came in coral and was trimmed in hand-crocheted lace instead of that boring gunmetal gray. I know I would....

You don't know Beth that well... she *likes* the guns. She's the one who made me get 'em outta the closet and put 'em on the walls.

She bought the Vickers as a Christmas present *before* we were married. And the Maxim for the next year... which was after we were married.

She'll go to a gun show and point stuff out to me.

She just doesn't want to get all that into the vernacular. And she's not really a lacy doily type, either... though she *is* artsy.

But you are correct - she doesn't like the newer firearms because they are that dull phosphate finish. Give her brass (like Gatling guns!) any day of the week!

See. Shiny brass over gunmetal grey.

Actually, I knew she had to like the guns, or else they wouldn't be so prominately displayed in The Castle. I'm jest funnin' ya.

well, it is a bullet thingie. We have all kinds of different bullet thingies, I just can't keep track of their official names!

Oh, come now, sweetie!

We have clips - which feed magazines.

We have magazines, which feed weapons.

And we have belts, which also feed weapons.

That's all! That 'thingy,' since it feeds a weapon, is a magazine!

You really can do this - I don't expect you to be able to tell at a glance the difference between, say, a M1911A1 and TT33 magazine, but I do expect the Mistress of Castle Argghhh! to tell the difference between a clip, a magazine, and a belt!

Since when is Thingy not a technical term?

Actually - this was an opportunity for me to learn, John. Just that last comment helped me to upgrade my knowledge level to "Knows enough to be dangerous"...

When you learn the difference between a Quarter Horse, a Warmblood and a Fox Trotter, I'll worry about learning about bullet thingies.

Or, when you learn the difference between Water glass, cathedral glass and glue chip glass and Opal glass - we'll talk (-:

Touche, Beth!

Cathedral glass: transparent glass of a single color.

Water Glass: - too easy. The glass that looks like water done via texturing, prolly by floating it on mercury or something like that.

Glue chip glass: Where ya put glue on cathedral glass to achieve some sort of 3d-ey effect or somesuch.

Opal glass: Ya really mean opalescent, right? The generally opaque, swirly stuff with more'n one color?

As for the horses - Quarter Horses are kewl horses for kewl people, the other two are ridden by snobs who wouldn't be caught dead on a Quarter...

Pplllppptttt!

I see you can use Google, sweetie!

Moi? I really *did* know water and opal off the top of my head. The other two did require a little, well, research.

"round bullet-thingy"??? Oh COME ON- anyone can see it's more of a flattish bullet-thingy...

I was thinking it looked kind of like a Altoids case, only bigger, and with mints which leave a different sort of taste in your mouth.

Uhhh, *that* off the cuff entry won? Well, I certainly wasn't expecting THAT...

John, you should have snail mail addresses that I sent you during the last Spirit of America fund drive, but I'll send you my US mail drop by email. Don't want you subjecting the mug to the mercies of the French postal service, especially since they just rescinded the 35 hour a week law here!!!

John: Shame on you! I thought everybody knew that water glass is sodium silicate. (in water solution)

Jack-
Check the poll results. It was a landslide! Off the cuff or not, it's a keeper. And now you'll have a mug to prove it!

"Thingy" is not a proper technical term; in its place, one should use the approved "doohickey" or "whatchamacallit".

Cheers
JMH

What about a "habersack"? Although, from what I understand, that's a real thingie.

That would be 'haversack' - which is a backpack.

Yeah, one of those...thingies.

*puts on dunce cap and marches sullenly to the corner*

Maybe I should dye my hair blonde after all.

Er, "haversack" is a "breadbag". A "valise" is a backpack.

Cheers
JMH