Just finished watching the series on DVD...

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CAUSAL

Saturday, February 18, 2006 12:02 AM

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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
It happened with "Musashi" by Eiji Yoshikawa...

The same Eiji Yoshikawa that wrote "Taiko"?

Causal=book snob

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GUTTERBALL

Saturday, February 18, 2006 12:20 AM

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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
Gutterball:
Thanks for the offer of cookies, but I think I'm going to be out of shape enough as it is from sitting on my ass all day. Really a sweet offer, though, can't tell you how nice it was to read.

No problem, and I'm glad to hear you came through okay. I was starting to wonder!

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CHRISMOORHEAD

Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:21 AM

That's a damn decent assortment of firepower you got there, God bless your whole family for recognizing your responsability to maintain them.

My Dad's got a smaller collection, AR-15's my preference just because I became so familiare with the M-16 in the service, but he's got a lot more hunting rifles. The only thing I own personally is a .38 Taurus snub nose that he bought me for graduating from Airborne school. I can't hit shit with it, not that a snub nose is particularly accurate, but I think I'm particularly bad with it. Like you, I much prefer a .45, something that lets me know it's there when I'm holding it. That's why I liked that Mark 23 SOCOM, heavy bullets with a high round capacity... 12 standard, with a very wide array of attatchments to suit your situation. Not to mention, I love Heckler and Koch weapons, MP5's the nicest full auto I've ever shot, just wish I could have spent some more time with it. I do beleive they're also the manufacturers of the P2000.

And yeah, Causal, that's the same Yoshikawa. I never read "Taiko", though, I wasn't very attracted to a book named after a type of drum.

"Deep in the battlefield covered in blood
Lies an Airborne Ranger dying in the mud
He fought for his country and he died like a man
Though some people back home just wouldn't understand"

DINKY

Saturday, February 18, 2006 5:46 AM

Oh and we just got the new Sig Equinox, which incase you don't know is selling out of the stores once they get in stock. The clerk we talked to said they don't last 8 hours in the store before they're gone.

Which you can see here: http://www.gunsamerica.com/guns/976645303.htm

Our grip is straight black though, not that ugly looking thing :D. I can't wait to shoot it.

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

FLORALBUNNY

Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:40 AM

Chris, good to hear you're doing well.
Was worrying enough to wonder about starting an "among the missing" thread, but no need now.
I hope they pitched out that slug, or that you decided not to send it to anybody if they let you keep it.

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
-----why's the rum gone? -----

DINKY

Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:05 AM

Not to send it? Sounds like a fantastic idea to me!

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

CHRISMOORHEAD

Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:23 PM

I think the obviouse worry here is that the mailing of any part of a bullet will result in a restraining order. It probably will.

For the record, they did indeed let me keep it... well, the fragments of it, anyways. I'll have pictures of it and the wound soon enough, as is my common practice. I don't have a whole lot to be proud of, physique, intelligence, or otherwise, so scars are kind of my "thing". After that I think I'm going to go through with mailing it, or at least part of it. It'll make a good story. I think there's also some of that 5 year old child left in me, you know, the little boy who shows of his pet frog to a girl to make her squirm. I'm so very socially inept.

"Deep in the battlefield covered in blood
Lies an Airborne Ranger dying in the mud
He fought for his country and he died like a man
Though some people back home just wouldn't understand"

FLORALBUNNY

Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:52 PM

Chris, please. You don't want a restraining order. You don't want to be on a nut list. This kind of gift is considered somewhere in a category including sad and stalker-ish. Believe me, the fine folk on the receiving end will not understand your devotion, true and harmless though it may be. At the very least they'll worry that there are germs on it. ;-)
Even if you just send it to Joss with the suggestion he could use the bits as props in a medical setting, it won't have the souvenir value that it would if you kept it.
Drop Summer a sweet little note to tell her you're not going to send her any body parts or even your old leftover slugs, and I'm sure you'll be memorable -- in a good way. Really!

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----

DINKY

Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:14 PM

Well honestly I don't think she'd have a problem with a JOKE. And I'm sure she's not stupid so I am pretty sure that if he sent ONE letter with ONE torn up bullet in it it wouldn't matter.

Now if he did something like shot himself 5 times, sent 5 letters all saying like "On the 4th time that I shot myself I thought of you when blah blah blah". Now THAT'S weird.

If you don't want to mail the bullet, though I think it's a GREAT and funny idea, mail a photo of the thing with the included story!

But it's all up to you! No one's pushing you to do something that you don't want to do.

*Fruity oaty bars plays in the background and you can quietly hear a whisper 'Mail the bullet..... Mail the bullet.... Mail the bullet....*

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

CHRISMOORHEAD

Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:11 PM

You know what I have to do now, right? The only solution to this problem is to up the ante' and send a letter bomb, because everyone knows that all of life's problems can be solved by explosions. All I need is a car battery, some table sugar and a quick trip to CVS.

I place the blame for this squarely on your shoulders, FloralBunny. I'm sure Dinky will agree with me.

"Deep in the battlefield covered in blood
Lies an Airborne Ranger dying in the mud
He fought for his country and he died like a man
Though some people back home just wouldn't understand"

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