Hawken... a pet peeve

[Billnpatti]

Very small screw + tightly stuck + a CHINESE :cursing: screw driver with a brittle tip = broken screwdriver tip. :cursing: :cursing: :cursing: Broken screwdriver tip suddenly comes out of screw head resulting in a scratch to the gun :cursing: :cursing: :cursing: :cursing: And that, as they say, is the way it happened rolling west. :hatsoff:

 

[Billnpatti]

Yes, we do change. after a long time of referring to it as *&^%!!, I now have gone back to simply calling it my 16 oz. hammer. The times, they do seem to change. I've never had a chance to forgive the screwdriver because right after it broke, it suddenly left by air and has been unheard from since. I hear that his fellow screwdrivers are living at the city dump. I've never bothered to go visit them. In their not too greatly missed absence, I have given a new home to a set of AMERICAN made gun screwdrivers. I'm happy. :v They're happy :v . It is a match made in Heaven. I've never gotten around to naming each one of the tips yet, I want to get to know them better first. :haha: :haha:

I don't know where I got into the habit of naming inantimate objects. Perhaps it was from my step dad. For some reason, unknown to me, he often referred to inantimate object with the name of a female sheep as in when something would roll off his workbench and he would bend over to retrieve it and say something like "Come here, ewe." I don't know why. :idunno:

 

[gard72977]

There was a guy on here the other day that misspelled H&A. He called it a A&H underhammer. I read that and it did not bother me :v

 

[Billnpatti]

Yeah, some of them are just funny.

BTW, I just noticed that I misspelled inanimate. Perfection is so damned elusive. Dummy me, I put a t in it. I guess I'll have to say after the forum and dust the black board erasers. On second thought :hmm: I suppose I will have to dust computer screen erasers.

 

[bpd303]

You have a computer screen eraser? Must be better than the white out I use.

 

[AZbpBurner]

I recently bought a long-handled trimmer, and was just out back using it.

I don't normally name garden tools, but I do think I'll name this trimmer Cindy.

But I'm only naming it to be irksome to those folks who take exception to naming stuff.

... Cindy Lopper ...

 

[mooman76]

People been butchering my name pretty much all my life, on purpose or on accident. Now people ask me why I don't correct someone when someone else gets my name wrong and I just say I got used to it long ago so it's not worth the trouble. Also through a little ancestry check my family name has changed in spelling over the years and the last spelling because my ancestors who got here couldn't read and write so the town recorder spelled it they way they thought it should be.

It's just a name.

 

[Alden]

LOL My dad used to tell me and everyone else the same thing about our family name. It turned out it was just a joke, only, he failed to let me in on it until I was in my mid 20's.

Something like "our family name was 'Smith' but when we got here someone Americanized it to 'Smithson'."

What a... Nevermind!

 

[tenngun]

Had a polish friend who had one of those east european names that had no vowles and a lot of c's and z's... said it was prononced smith

 

[nkbj]

My mattock is named Lester...

 

[Bobby James]

You mean that Hawken is somebody's name? I thought it was called a Hawken rifle because it was bought after it was Hawkin a pawn shop.

I am new at this, I have lots to learn.

I just named my rifle Goldie..... I need to name it something different because it wont come to me using that name.

 

[tenngun]

I once read our word gun may have come from germans calling thier early cannon gunhilda.. dont know how true it is.

 

[cynthialee]

I gender my rifles male because they are dirty, smelly and dangerous.
:grin:

 

[BrownBear]

I've run across inline shooters refer to their rifles as "Hawkens." :rotf:

Great fun to ask them about the history of their guns. Talk about deer in headlights. :grin:

I think it's important to shoot with the inline folks, and have made a lot of converts in the process. You don't have to do or say anything special- they convert themselves to traditional guns in pretty short order if you are friendly, polite and give them half a chance.

But it sure helps to have a subtle sense of humor! :rotf:

 

[necchi]

:rotf: :haha:

 

[Wes/Tex]

I gender my rifles male because they are dirty, smelly and dangerous.
:grin:

Amen, sister! :rotf:

 

[jamesthomas]

I am not dirty! Just took my weekly shower last night!!. :blah: .

 

[Alden]

And I take a shower every week too, whether I need it or not, so I KNOW she's not referring to me.

But it explains alot Cynthia Lee.

:wink:

 

[greggholmes]

"early seafarers spoke of their vessels in the womanly gender for the close reliance they had on their vessels for life and provisions"

 

[BrownBear]

A wise old linguist settled my mind on the whole deal, tracing it back to the Germanic origins of the English language.

The Germans assign gender to stuff willynilly. Der, die, and das are respectively the male, female and neuter gender expressions of "the." If I recall correctly, a pencil is male (der), while a fountain pen is female (die). I defy anyone to get sexist or gender pejorative with those.

The linguist summed it up with this: "Der, die, das, scheiss."

Same applies to all the gender falderoll we hear today.