Forum Posts -- Forum Clichés We Would Like to Retire!

[nachogrande]

LIVE WITH IT.

It's not like you have much choice in the matter. People are still high fiving and I even see a mullet haircut now and then.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

That photo has become its own annoying cliché. I'm sure it has more mileage than my '05 Ram.

 

[susieqz]

you know, sometimes when you are among friends,
it's fun to play with language.
i often type ''gonna'' or ''shoulda'', because in spoken language,
people often use those instead of ''going to'' or ''should have''.
it's fun to mirror real usage..

 

[daddio202]

I am really surprised nobody has brought up so far "TACK DRIVER" probably up near the top of the clichés describing accuracy. I have never once put up a target with a tack in the middle. lol

 

[Mule Packer]

I'm afraid if we eliminated all of the "gun slang" on this forum, we wouldn't have much to read, or to talk about for that matter.

And we sure as heck can't go blaming each other for the use or misuse of all these terms. We've got people like Skeeter Skelton, Ted Trueblood, and scores of other gun writers for introducing us to this world of firearm cliches. And as for naming firearms, we can thank several notable individuals, from William F. Cody (he named his .50 caliber rifle "Lucretia Borgia and referred to it as a "she") to Nash Buckingham's famous "Bo Whoop."

Yeah, all of this might get tiring after the 5,437th time, but take it from me, it sure beats reading through a stack of graduate students' term papers any day!

 

[bigwheelzip]

Don't overthink it.

 

[Muss Muggins]

I am really surprised nobody has brought up so far "TACK DRIVER" probably up near the top of the clichés describing accuracy. I have never once put up a target with a tack in the middle. lol

I've always wanted to try it, though . . .

 

[Telecaster]

Honest wear?

Is there a dishonest wear?

Yes, there is. You can even pay extra for it. They call it "battle worn" finish.

 

[Telecaster]

"Billboard," for an oversized rollmark, and blaming any undesirable markings or features on lawyers.

I agree with most, most of these are too minor to lose sleep over.

 

[Sevens]

This thread is necessary, I think, as it help to relieve stress. It also shows you plainly that some others think the way that you think, so it's not "just you." Myself... I get extremely tired of over-used bits on gun forums, and some of the most tiring are when someone tosses one in with seemingly NO IDEA that it's been done 1.6 million times before them, it seems like they just learned it yesterday, were only the second ever to have used it, and they earned a prize for inserting it.

Easy example: guy shows up and says, "hey, I got this yesterday, it is ____ and I paid $___ for it" and among the replies simply must be "...well you paid too much and it's a lousy model but I'm in a good mood and I like to help new guys so I will send you $____ and take it off your hands and end the suffering..."

But if I simply must gather up all my gripes and weed them out until I am left with just a single one that just ruins my mood EVERY time I see it, it's this one: "...that is just a solution for a problem that doesn't exist..."

 

[Protocall_Design]

categorizing a firearm as "feminine".....

Don't you all know that revolvers are female and pistols are male?
After all, it's simple anatomy...revolvers have more holes!

 

[Rule3]

"You have revived a Private Message from ===="

"You have received a infarction.

Remember to read the rules."

 

[coltle6920]

Need the quotation marks outside the period. And two spaces after each period, and one after a comma, if you please!

Not all of us majored in the English language.Heck,some of us might even be using "speech to text" when posting here.

Do you still want the period inside the quotation marks ?

 

[ladder13]

"You have revived a Private Message from ===="

"You have received a infarction.

Remember to read the rules."

You get many of those from what I've heard.

 

[Bugkiller99]

Google is your friend.

Given the amount of information that is collected by Google from us as we use the internet, he is a **** nosy *** who is no friend of mine!

 

[Bert Man]

This has been an entertaining thread but maybe it's time to "lock it up like a bank vault."

 

[JohnHL]

"It is what it is."

" 'Nuff said."

Ugh! Makes my flesh crawl.

John

 

[Rule3]

"and I never looked back"

 

[Rule3]

You get many of those from what I've heard.

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I do not know the answer"

 

[Bajadoc]

It cracks me up when people say they "won" an auction. Or they "won" a gun in an auction. You got the gun because you were willing to pay more than anyone else. Nothing wrong with that, but the gun was bought, not won.