Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Damn kids


A little background on this one. It wasn't really meant to be funny, or a dig at wirecutter's advanced years (he's a LOT older than me). It's a commentary on his anachronistic qualities. I've always felt he belonged in a much earlier time. Colonial America, Old West, at the very latest pre-1900. He has qualities of a True Man that fit in a much earlier, simpler time. 

But God placed him in America, mid-century, and primed to defend The Constitution. 
Possibly for a second time. 

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17 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 20, 2015 at 6:47 AM

    Poking the bear again, I see.

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  2. UnclezipMay 20, 2015 at 8:22 AM

    Smokepoles teach you better marksmanship. And enhance that much vaunted "gnarly old guy" look for which you yearn.

    Yeah - I'm guilty

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  3. North TexanMay 20, 2015 at 9:06 AM

    These are halarious!!!

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  4. millerizedMay 20, 2015 at 11:42 AM

    Lost part of a beard to a smokepole once. Left hand shooting and flintlocks don't always go together.

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  5. AnonymousMay 20, 2015 at 3:02 PM

    i like this one

    livin to ride

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  6. Hawken CougarMay 20, 2015 at 5:10 PM

    Thanks, that explains the Grizzly Adams / backwoods trapper hair thing. Now can you explain the wirecutter screen name?

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  7. AnonymousMay 20, 2015 at 7:37 PM

    (from an earlier time) "He'll do to ride the river with!"...
    Un hombre y media!

    vaquero viejo

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  8. wirecutterMay 20, 2015 at 8:31 PM

    Hawken Cougar - I collect antique barbed wire. I've been accused of fence cutting for a desirable strand.
    Actually, when I finally got online and connected with other wire collectors I needed a fancy screen name. I've been Wirecutter ever since. Even my mother's called me that a time or two.

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  9. wirecutterMay 20, 2015 at 8:31 PM

    Angel, I was raised better than to comment on a woman's age - especially a middle aged one.

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  10. wirecutterMay 20, 2015 at 8:33 PM

    BRB - I gotta google anachronistic.

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  11. wirecutterMay 20, 2015 at 8:34 PM

    Can somebody decipher this for me please?

    An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, "against" and χρόνος khronos, "time"), is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of person(s), events, objects, or customs from different periods of time.

    I mean really, what. the. fuck.

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  12. hiswiserangelMay 20, 2015 at 8:44 PM

    You're an 18th century soul in the 21st century world. AN-ACHRON-FUCKING-ISM.

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  13. hiswiserangelMay 20, 2015 at 8:45 PM

    And no matter what, I'll still be younger than you.

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  14. rickn8orMay 20, 2015 at 10:47 PM

    Anachronisms happens to the best of writers. Fer instance Will Shakespeare had a reference to "a striking clock" in "Julius Caesar."

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  15. Ian RestilMay 21, 2015 at 4:18 PM

    I'm astounded. I thought his 'milk' smokepole was a matchlock, or at latest, a wheelock.

    Of course, it's not completely improbably that those ~3.3 million year old tools recently found in Kenya aren't his.

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  16. wirecutterMay 21, 2015 at 6:05 PM

    Fuck you, Ian.

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  17. AnonymousMay 22, 2015 at 8:27 PM

    Kenny, take it as the compliment that I am sure Angel meant it to be.

    Hbbill Somewhere behind enemy lines,
    Peoples Republik of Kommiefornia

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Play nice. None of you are too old for a spanking.