And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The bazooka was originally a musical instrument devised by a radio comedian in the early 1900s - it was brass, with a belled end, and it telescoped to change its tone, like a trombone. When the Army first rolled out their new projectile weapon, some grunt took one look and said "that goddam thing looks just like a Bob Burns Bazooka", and the name stuck.
ho's with guns
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Not to be too pedantic, but the Carl Gustav is a recoiless rifle... Fun to shoot, a bitch to carry.
ReplyDeleteNorwegians?
Been there, done that.
ReplyDeleteHowever without the chicks.
Didn't get a t-shirt, either.
Hey Martin, where are you at in Germany?
DeleteI lived in Wildflecken and drove krankenwagens back and forth to Wurzburg.
Long time ago.
Just say "bazooka", fun is implied
ReplyDeleteThe bazooka was originally a musical instrument devised by a radio comedian in the early 1900s - it was brass, with a belled end, and it telescoped to change its tone, like a trombone. When the Army first rolled out their new projectile weapon, some grunt took one look and said "that goddam thing looks just like a Bob Burns Bazooka", and the name stuck.
ReplyDeleteCharlie G. Noone who uses one calls it a bazooka. Caaarrrlll, send it!
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