We could start a rumour
that GUN originally stood for Gay Uniformed Nazi, and let nature take its course.
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MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:29,
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Hmmm.....I think you need to seriously rethink
your opinion of right-wing nutjobs.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:34,
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Hmm, you're right, they'd probably be quite proud...
(I couldn't work out how to get a commie implication in to the acronym)
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MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:35,
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Which reminds me....
...I loved your recent outfit, MrOli.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:41,
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Did you indeed?
You should have come over, offered me a drink. I might have kept those adorable little shoes on for you.
Urgh.
You'll keep, Tabby, you'll keep...
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MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:44,
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I did wonder this the other day,
gunpowder was presumably invented before guns, so what does the word "gun" actually mean? Why isn't it called "bangpowder" or something?
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:47,
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That name was already taken
by Rohypnol
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MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:49,
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Looks like it might have originally been imaginatively called "black powder"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder
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MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:51,
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it says known as "black powder" since the late 19th century
apparently the word "gun" originally referred to any projectile-hurling weapon
www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gun
and we got it from the Chinese who had already invented guns as well, which I didn't know.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:58,
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Ah, it's simple then
We tell them guns are Chinese and therefore unpatriotic - job done :-)
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MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:01,
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if guns were chinesed only the chinese would have guns
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:02,
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