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9 ordinary things you (probably) didn’t know had fascinating names
Big Think ^
| JULY 25, 2024
| Scotty Hendricks and Kevin Dickinson
Posted on 07/25/2024 12:13:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Back in the day, professional duck hunters used massive black powder shotguns that were made to be fired from a rest in the bottom of their boat (punt) so they were called "punt guns." The largest had a bore of 2 inches, was 14 feet long, weighed 300 lb and fired a pound of birdshot on top of black powder.
They were said to be able to kill 50 birds in a single shot. Worse, the hunters would go out in teams of 10 or 12, arrange their punts in a semicircle with the decoys in the middle and firing in concert they could wipe out an entire flock of ducks. So punt guns were made illegal for waterfowl hunting in the early 1900s.
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
No I know that, but all the history of the word and stuff.
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posted on
07/25/2024 4:05:14 PM PDT
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Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: nesnah
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07/25/2024 4:33:47 PM PDT
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jocon307
(DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
To: Red Badger
Oh, these are good. I like new words! One or two of these may be my new Twitter handle. Thanks!
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07/26/2024 9:22:13 AM PDT
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moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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