And after I'd walked past her like a dozen times without commenting on or even noticing the shirt, she finally stopped me and pointed it out.
And I didn't get the reference.
To her, of course, it clearly and obviously referred to her favorite rifle:
And to me it only looked like the sound I make when I'm shooting at a metallic target on a bad day.
It's bad to be a dork. It's worse to be a dork who can't shoot.
I don't get it either....
ReplyDeleteBut then, that's often the case with things like this. :)
Eight shots and en bloc ejects - yep, I'm a Garand shooter too . . .
ReplyDeleteNever seen the shirt but thats good stuff.
I'll admit it. I didn't get it either. At first. But when I hit "favorite rifle", and before the pic loaded, I immediately said, "D'oh!".
ReplyDeleteNot a Garand shooter (basically due to lack of funds), but a lot of friends are. It just took me a second.
Kind of like the other shirts you wouldn't recognize unless you are in the know. I've see various images including Mosin sights, an M-16/AR-14 bolt face, etc.
ReplyDeleteI recognized it. I was the first kid on my block to have M1 thumb.
ReplyDeleteI need to get Evelyn one that says "BLAM" about thirty times and then instead of "PING" it needs to say "hurry up and reload it for me".
I don't care how often I see it, chicks with battle rifles is still hot.
Buck.
I've fired a few of those rifles... too big for me to enjoy them. I love my M1 .30 carbine, however. No "ping" involved unless I'm shooting steel.
ReplyDeleteI still have no clue what the joke is. :)
Oh well.
ML, the original Garand, unlike the M14 and M1 Carbine that employ similar design but with a detachable box magazine, uses an actual "clip" to hold together 8 rounds of 30/06. On firing the last round in the clip, the clip itself ejects out of the top of the rifle with a pretty smart zing! sound*, and the bolt holds open to accept the next en-bloc clip. (The references to "M1 thumb" reflect what happens when you use your thumb to lock the fresh 8rd clip into place in the well: the bolt lets go. Owch.)
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* If the shirt had said "ZING" instead of "PING", I'd have probably got the reference before seeing the picture. I don't have an M1 myself--I went the M14 route from the beginning--but I've been on the line with enough of them for the sound to have worked its way into my vocabulary. :-)
:) Ok Kevin, glad to have that mystery cleared up! LOL I have an SKS that is loaded with a clip, but it is removed as soon as all of the rounds are loaded, so that would never have occurred to me as the cause of the "ping." I did shoot one of those Garands once, but don't remember the clip thing.
ReplyDeleteFingers in working parts of guns can be a problem with almost any of them, of course. I pinched myself good once clearing a jam from a 9mm. Learned a better way to do that!!! :) And, eventually sold the gun because it liked to jam.