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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style23 hours ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
Blog Archive
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2010
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September
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- A Likely Story
- War On Nouns Leads To...
- Motto
- Pana-Placebocea
- Robert A. Heinlein Bio: Book Report
- Whirled Poly-Ticks
- 20 Questions, Quoting Myself
- World's Oldest Railway
- 20 Questions?
- Words To Live By
- Dune And The Singing Cowboy
- Enunciated At A Bad Driver
- Cruel, Unusual, Gag Order
- Yesterday
- Tommy, Several Years Ago
- Thomas (Cat) X, October 1989 - 22 September 2010
- Recession Is Over!!!
- I Went To See The Tommy Cat
- Interesting Times, Parlous Times
- Cat Update
- Cat Worries
- BlogMeet LiveBlogged
- Adventure Tale: Yes But No
- Avast! Heave To! Splice The Main Brace!
- The Mind Oboggles
- Arrgh! Made Of Fail
- Runnin' Scared
- September BlogMeet
- Ray. Guns.
- Served In Secret, Died In Obscurity
- Yup.
- Hoosier Incumbent?
- Heads, You Lose; Tails, You Still Lose
- Chronoportation For Fun And Profit
- Library Unscience
- September BlogMeet
- Nationalsocialized Medicine: Wishful Economics
- Blog Traffic
- A Writer's Life
- 11 September
- Slinky (Cat) X, January, 1991 -- September, 2010
- Past Eight And No Content?
- Meanwhile, On The Hidden Frontier
- Fortunes Of War?
- Overheard In VFTP Command Central
- Use What For A Which?
- Nanny State Knows Best?
- Book-Burning
- Ogden On Politics
- Window Seat
- An Extra Day Off
- The Dynamite Gun
- Well, That Was Interesting
- All Right, Then
- Updating Ruining The Classics
- September BlogMeet?
- Culture!
- All Four Rules
- Oh, Almost (Editorial Page)
- Not Shooting The Bastards
- Gun School?
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On The Front Lines
What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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9 comments:
Closely related to the nitroglycerin squirt gun...
This just screams out for a "Mythbuster" episode!
Thank you for the interesting morning read. For a few moments, I actually forgot to be cranky about being up so early.
Oh look, a warship stuffed full of dynamite! What could possibly..
Yep.
An over-grown potato gun crossed with high explosives? You're a woman after my own heart.
Jim
Dude says Vesuvius never saw active service, which flies in the face of the Wikipedia entry that says it made at least one coastal bombardment during the Spanish-American War. Who's telling the truth?
Wikipedia.
You can see the tri-barrel dynamite gun in action in The Rough Riders.
A couple of the early U.S. Navy Holland submarines mounted a pneumatic dynamite gun in the bow.
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_Zalinsky.htm
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