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07-03-2020, 06:26 PM
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Standard/skinny/pencil/rattail
I get up the nerve, and then it fails,
To tell the word-smiths that rant and rail
When they see the term "pencil" applied
To skinny barrels.....They'd think I lied
If I said in the sticks, they's "rattails".
No offense to anyone, Just read the discussion here a while back and hadn't penned a limerick in a spell.
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07-03-2020, 10:12 PM
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I guess we could call them "skinny jeans barrels" instead of "pencil barrels".
That ought to get a few folks' heads a spinnin'. 
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Or we could just use the correct term tapered barrel. I don't know why folks want to make up new and incorrect words when correct words already exist.
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Like Lemon Squeezer????????? . . . don't get me started 
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Or we could just use the correct term tapered barrel. I don't know why folks want to make up new and incorrect words when correct words already exist.
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Wish the Brits and Australians felt that way.
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How about accadacca, arvo, avo, barbie, ace, blimey, bloke, bloody, bugger, chunder, gobsmaked, kerfuffle, knackered, and on and on and on?
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Great topic.
But wait, there's more.
Roving J (Roy's term), floating J, hammerless, pre-model, no-dash (if you say "Model 36," isn't it obvious there's not a dash?), and other things folks knot their knickers over.
Much ado about not much.
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My favorite is the folks that designate some S&W's as a 'CTG model'.  
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Sorry I couldn't figure a way to incorporate "45 LONG Colt" into my little rhyme.
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There once was a man from Nantucket,
( Relax .....hold-on it's NOT that)
...who picked clams from the shore in a bucket.
He said with a grin, when he spied an urchin....
'Twere that a mollusk....
I could shuck it.
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