To: Every Single News Reporter In Minnesota (and pretty much everywhere else)
From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant
Re: Spade Is Dead
Dear every single news reporter in Minnesota,
It’s come to my attention for the 20th year in a row that some of you are falling back on the crutch that Kate Renner did in her story on the U of M kids fighting for their human right of self-defense:
U of M freshman William Preachuk believes things could have ended differently if he’d been able to pack heat
Please be advised: Not a single actual person outside the news media has used the phrase “packing heat”, at least non-ironically, in close to 70 years.
That is all.
Whenever I pack heat I always make sure to jam a clip into my pistol first.
No, into your gat.
I wonder if she needed to be told that the term wasn’t a sexual euphemism? Particularly a politically incorrect one?
Speaking of gats, rods, and being strapped, todays piece-related hearings at the capitol were quite informative. Hopefully GOCRA will provide an understandable synopsis shortly.
Ever been in a crowd when a feller pulled out his roscoe? Makes folks nervous.
vNo, into your gat.
Well, “gats”, being by definition revolvers, don’t have “clips”…
…and yes, I know about moon clips, but one doesn’t “jam” a moon clip into anything.
Chicks always dig it when I haul out my smoke wagon.
The phrase is no more out of date than the practice it describes.
It refers to a status of anticipatory violence; it seems very apt, and so long as everyone seems to understand the meaning, it is far from dead.
But it should be an obsolete phrase, AND an obsolete practice.
Let me know if all those reporters, statewide or nationally, heed your admonition. I’m expecting not. Perhaps whistling into the wind would be more gratifying.
“Pack heat” is alive and well in the gay community.
I know this from several inadvertent texts from my gay father-in-law, who keeps sending texts to the wrong number.
I bet he typed that on his battered Underwood.
Anthony Weiner emails pictures of his “Danger Stick” to hapless females.
I use the present tense because I’m sure that he still does it. Ironically, Mr. Weiner would like to see laws passed so that no one else may “pack heat”.
I deliberately misused clip and pistol (revolver).
Kudos to DG, though, for keeping her comment to less than 10 lines. First amendment or no first amendment, any of her comments longer than 10 lines are clearly “assault comments” and need to be banned. It’s for the children.
“So, friend, you mean to use the threat of violence to prevent me from speaking out on the issues of the day? I have a weapon far more powerful than your Taurus Judge 3 inch barrel 45/410. I have a BATTERED UNDERWOOD!
Take that! And that! This one’s for your brother!”
NW: “her comments longer than 10 lines are clearly “assault comments” and need to be banned.”
Wouldn’t DG comments longer than 10 lines qualify as that hyper dangerous “microaggression” we’ve all been hearing about lately that is the scourge of our children?
RE: “packing heat” – this is what happens when your style book hasn’t been updated since Mickey Spillane was cranking out the #1 best sellers.
” Taurus Judge 3 inch barrel 45/410.”
Cover of this month’s American Rifleman features a SIG Sauer .45 ACP P227 – I want one of those.
Cesaire, your SIG Sauer .45 ACP P227 will do you no good against a BATTERED UNDERWOOD!
Think papercuts. Lots and lots of papercuts.
Swift: You seem perfectly harmless. Treat yourself to another gun!
http://static.flickr.com/23/33908462_f72484ce82_o.jpg
“The pen is mightier than the sword” can only have been said by someone who never had to bet his life on it”.
PM while your BATTERED UNDERWOOD is truly a sleek dark collapsing beauty she is no match for the clean lines and ease of use of a Royal Deluxe. Go ahead admire her stance, stroke her, feel the luxury, swoon before her maroon with Chromium trim. With this you will write your memoirs.
Why, thank you *Dik*. Fact of the matter is, I just purchased a brand spanking new Springfield Armory M14. Walnut stock, Parkerized finish, it’s a thing of beauty that makes a handsome display along side of my M1 Garand and 1911 Colt.
Now, if I can only find a nice Rockola Carbine I’ll have a Freedom collection that will freeze the rotten heart out of every America hating leftist in the country.
Wish me luck!
Odd that you’d bring up Underwood, PM, as they too were pressed into the manufacture of M1 carbines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_carbine#Production
Their work is highly regarded, but not quite as desirable as the Rock-Ola.
It refers to a status of anticipatory violence; it seems very apt, and so long as everyone seems to understand the meaning, it is far from dead.
But it should be an obsolete phrase, AND an obsolete practice.
Police officers as well? I mean, if all guns went away, there would be no violence, correct? All criminals would stop being criminals! Of course they would, because it’s really the GUN that makes people commit crime, right? What evil lurks in the hearts of men? Why, none, but for the evil influence of THE GUN.
Right DG?
The hard, bitter reality is that the police — whom the Liberals somehow believe to be perfectly capable of carrying and using firepower forbidden to ordinary citizens — are more likely to have mental health issues than the rest of the population, and are, by liberal design, protected by strong unions and civil service rules. It is often very difficult to get rid of ‘bad cop’, and the cops that aren’t bad ain’t that great, either.
It is a typical liberal paradox. Public institutions that are small-d democratic don’t follow liberal ideas about how they should behave, and public institutions that are controlled by liberals don’t enjoy popular support.