Just watched an episode of Penny Dreadful. It is set in Victorian England. A guy buys an “experimental” pistol that will .”stop an elephant”. It is a broom handle Mauser of course. I tell the wife that it wouldn’t stop an elephant but Churchill capped several natives with one and credited it with saving his life. (We just saw the new Churchill movie, very good). I went on to relate that he had hurt his shoulder playing polo and couldn’t use his Sabre, so in the last cavalry charge of the British army at Khartoum, he used a broom handle instead. The expedition was in retaliation for the maadi’s cutting off general Chinese Gordon’s head. She said “you’re making that up!”
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My wife has no appreciation
- Df, 2018-01-16, 18:20
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figured you would be watching The Ghost & the Darkness
- Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 19:29
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Wait, doesn't one of the hunters die in that movie? (nm)
- Huey, 2018-01-16, 19:44
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the professional hunter, who ironically was named Remington (nm)
- Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 22:13
- Picture of the two. They are on display at the museum of - Blake, 2018-01-17, 06:41
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a whole lot of people died. It is also a true story
- Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 20:38
- tsavo lions - BigD, 2018-01-16, 21:56
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Sex?
- Alcorn, 2018-01-16, 21:02
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I read that somewhere but looking at the full mounts
- Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 21:42
- maneless - BigD, 2018-01-16, 22:49
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I wouldn't lift their tails to see but they sure look like
- Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 22:04
- Lion gender - PotatoJudge, 2018-01-16, 22:23
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I read that somewhere but looking at the full mounts
- Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 21:42
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Yep, I'm not a movie or TV watcher. But, that...
- Huey, 2018-01-16, 20:59
- Daren and you both may see a lion or two in a couple - Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 22:11
- Got in just a while ago... - WB, 2018-01-16, 21:39
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the professional hunter, who ironically was named Remington (nm)
- Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 22:13
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Wait, doesn't one of the hunters die in that movie? (nm)
- Huey, 2018-01-16, 19:44
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figured you would be watching The Ghost & the Darkness
- Gary Reeder, 2018-01-16, 19:29