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To: Grut
"Anyone who'd put pearl grips on a .44 Mag shouldn't be allowed around children."

What was the famous quote by General Patton about pearl handled grips on handguns?

50 posted on 12/26/2003 6:36:17 PM PST by ExSoldier (When the going gets tough, the tough go cyclic.)
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To: ExSoldier
What was the famous quote by General Patton about pearl handled grips on handguns?

"Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol."

60 posted on 12/26/2003 7:02:56 PM PST by Grut
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To: ExSoldier
What was the famous quote by General Patton about pearl handled grips on handguns?

"They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol."

62 posted on 12/26/2003 7:07:08 PM PST by Ken H
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To: ExSoldier
What was the famous quote by General Patton about pearl handled grips on handguns?

When a reporter asked General Patton about his "pearl handled" pistol, the General replied that the handgrips were ivory and not pearl. He further commented that "only pimps use pearl handgrips".

93 posted on 12/26/2003 10:05:49 PM PST by reg45
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To: ExSoldier
"What was the famous quote by General Patton about pearl handled grips on handguns? "

I think it was about a pimp in a whore-house.

Nam Vet

99 posted on 12/26/2003 11:14:29 PM PST by Nam Vet (It's a small world. So you gotta use your elbows a lot.)
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To: ExSoldier
"What was the famous quote by General Patton about pearl handled grips on handguns?"

Wasn't it something associating pearl handles and wh*rehouses but those of his were Ivory? something like that?
114 posted on 12/27/2003 5:38:18 PM PST by tj005
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