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Do I post pix of the cutaway interior of the bolt from an 1887 Frambois-Chardon .455 caliber needle pistol once carried into battle by a matrilineal descendant of Mitterand's chambermaid?
Noooooooooooooo.
Do I post pix of the surface of the breech-locking mechanism of a Parrot Gun that were taken with an electron scanning microscope?
Noooooooooooooo.
Do I post pix of weird and arcane components from the cockpit of obsolete, one-off, battle-damaged helicopters?
N
Oh. Wait. Ummmmmmm, ignore that one.
But do I give you *color* other than the centuries-old patina of milled steel or Blends-With-Pet-Hairs™ Berber?
Eee-Yeeeessssss!
I figured that, since it's Friday, I'd give you an easy one so you could spend the weekend chortling about how I'm getting as squishy as John...
Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Do I post pix of the cutaway interior of the bolt from an 1887 Frambois-Chardon .455 caliber needle pistol once carried into battle by a matrilineal descendant of Mitterand's chambermaid?
Noooooooooooooo.
Do I post pix of the surface of the breech-locking mechanism of a Parrot Gun that were taken with an electron scanning microscope?
Noooooooooooooo.
Do I post pix of weird and arcane components from the cockpit of obsolete, one-off, battle-damaged helicopters?
N
Oh. Wait. Ummmmmmm, ignore that one.
But do I give you *color* other than the centuries-old patina of milled steel or Blends-With-Pet-Hairs™ Berber?
Eee-Yeeeessssss!
I figured that, since it's Friday, I'd give you an easy one so you could spend the weekend chortling about how I'm getting as squishy as John...
Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Meh. That looks like an old anti-shoplifting gizmo!
Even I'm not that mean. [pulls wing off fly just to watch it fly in circles]
Mark3, mod 7 USN version, of course.
You have apparently forgotten the late 19th Century, when the Tuttle Arms Conglomerate reworked Parrot rifles and installed breech mechanisms to compete with Krupp in a Polish Army contract.
Krupp cheated and incorporated into their new design some kinda equilibrator thingie.
equilibrator (ēkwil´ibrātur).n an instrument or device used in achieving or maintaining a state of equilibrium.
Tuttle Arms was never really able to achieve equilibrium.
As to the object in the photo.. it is obviously a lead seal clamped to the wires as an anti-tamper devise. Whatever is in the faded red package it is sealing .... God only knows.
It was right about the time that matrilineal descendant of Mitterand's chambermaid carried the 1887 Frambois-Chardon .455 caliber needle pistol into battle. I thought you *knew* all that stuff.
I have no idea what that battered-looking gizmo is
Saker, neither did anybody else in your line of work.
There was panic and pandemonium amongst 'em until I told them *what* it was, *who* used it, and *why* they used it.
He's still stuck on *your* Whatziss...
Noooo.
Air-dropped sensor of some sort?
Nup.
- met radiosonde parachute?
Nuh-uh.
Either curtains for Bill's digs or a wounded kite for a radio relay transponder thingy.
It may be curtains for me, period, when I tell you what it is.
Then, again, maybe not.
That said.... on this Whathehellisit ... I got nuttin, only the thought that it is something that someone stuck in some remote and sandy place might have spotted in the back of some dusty supply storage thingie left over from years back looked at for days and finially figgured out what it was and decided to torture the rest of humanity with?
Run on sentence? Of course, kinda like a run on Whatziss
You're gonna have *fun* with pic numbah two.
Oooooooh, yes, you *are*...
Damn. here's an idea, I'll take a picture of the Hindenburg, in a funhouse mirror, on fire, with herbert Morrison's overlarge backside mostly obliterating it and say 'There! What's that!"
The fun of a whatsis is in taking a perfectly sharp, clear, in focus picture of an object that absolutely everyone has seen, and framing it in such a way that nobody knows what it is and feels like an idiot when it's revealed. I don't feel adequately like an idiot when I'm asked to identify, based on the cylinder alone, a type of revolver that only seven people in the known universe have even seen. I want to see a picture of a 1911 Sear Disconnect, but only the thin edge, sillouetted against a cloudy sky so it looks like a piece of an aircraft, and guess and guess at it's purpose or function, until it is revealed that it is not in fact the leading edge of an X wing fighter, but a steel bit just over an inch long.
Then and only then, will I feel adequately like the idiot I know myself to be.
let's make a little effort, folks. it's no big deal to stump people with stuff that stumps the experts.
If I tossed out a Webley cylinder they would have gotten that one fairly quickly, but where's the fun in that?
Be careful what you wish for, boyo.
And I think this one was a good collective effort, as well as a useful example of groupthink in action.
And there are what, 5-6 more people in the world who are now more expert on an not-insignificant weapon in the continuum of German pistols.
So there.
Now, as applies to Bill here, you're spot-on.
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Well, all six of us that have heard of them.
BTW I have a Forehand and Wadsworth on my desk with a cylinder that is a dead ringer for that one.
Not that there aren't F&W pistols that are very similar... but not quite the same.
The blog has been cross-threaded.
All personnel make an immediate comment about anything other than obsolete wheelguns.
Alarm-arm-arm MAGENTA! Alarm-arm-arm MAGENTA!
Ummmmm -- come to think of it, they would be even without your admission.
Case dismissed.
No need to murder innocent electrons with redundancy...
R.F.Y.? Easy...
The socialists, er, Democrats say it all the time. Actions speak louder than words.
R. Republic(ans)?
F. F*ck
Y. You.
Now, how hard was that?