[Johnny Brown]

This is the kind of shit I signed up for.

[SA Chris]

Isn't there a gosling gun too?

[BenF]

Isn't there a gosling gun too?

Yeah, it's a small hand gun that can be hidden in a handbag etc.

[webbo]

Isn't there a gosling gun too?

wasn't that used in the 60s for firing pegs in to peak grit.

[Scouse D]

On a historical note, the goose cannon was introduced in the early 20th century, replacing the outdated technology of the Cat-a-pult. The Cat-a-pult (often written as catapult, by those too lazy to put the effort in, usually fast-talking cockney types), was an effective weapon, especially when used in conjunction with a Ram.
Animal rights activists put paid to the use of these weapons by staging mass protests in 1910 and 1912.

[Johnny Brown]

Cat-a-pult itself obviously being a contraction of 'Cat-and-Pullet', the vowels believed to have been lost near the wirral in the 1870s.

[BenF]

Cat-a-pult of course being a derivative of cat-a-pelt; the original term for a feline skin firing device.

[Somebody's Fool]

I see you use the word 'lost'.  Is this to defend the sticky-fingered local who actually made off with the vowels.  Are you a descendant of his?  I believe he used the proceeds from the vowels to reform himself by setting up a monastery in Knutsford in 1892.

[Johnny Brown]

That's the fella. Nowadays he is best remembered for his kindly act in arranging an M-C consonant transfer for Congleton. Despite the original name being almost forgotten its raison-d'etre is still writ large on the faces of the locals.

[SA Chris]

a monastery in Knutsford in 1892.

As an aside, a compay i worked for had a customer in Knutsford. The address was on the accounts system as Kuntsford, I'm not sure if it was done deliberately, but no-one ever picked up on it, and it never got corrected.

[Somebody's Fool]

a monastery in Knutsford in 1892.

As an aside, a compay i worked for had a customer in Knutsford. The address was on the accounts system as Kuntsford, I'm not sure if it was done deliberately, but no-one ever picked up on it, and it never got corrected.

I think your accounts system was probably pre-1892.

Well, well, well...
It seems Mongleton wasn't the only place getting it's name changed.  The delightful Hamlet of Kuntsford also went under a transformation.  Spawned Brown, attracted Barlow, you couldn't make it up.

[Johnny Brown]

When I first registered at the foundry in 1994 the stoned hippy behind the desk too thought it hilarious to enter said spelling 'mistake' into the computer. Far out.

[jwi]

This is all very interesting. But, as much as it pains me, I must most unfortunately bring this back to topic for a second. They have put up a short piece I wrote about Ogawayama on ukclimbing.com.

[andy popp]

One hardly need add that the goose cannon was a clear advance on the blunderbuzzard, with which it was barely possible to hit even a sitting duck.

[BenF]

Good article jwi, thanks for posting that link.

And nice one Andy for getting back off topic.  I was going to give you a wad point for doing so, but then I realised that I was being even more stupid than usual.   

[andy popp]

I felt it was of vital importance that JWI's blatant, nay shameless, attempt to hijack this thread be resisted at all cost. Thrice huzzah to all involved in the genuis that unfolded on Mon/Tues, which I somehow missed until this morning.

[BenF]

Yeah, I too was disappointed to see the thread returning to it's original theme; quite unheard of on these boards.

I've always considered it a point of honour to send a thread sideways right from the start... despite Fiend's cruel smiting of me due to my services to the art of tangents.  But I'm not bitter.

[r-man]

Nice article about Japan here. Not much about Ogawayama, but an interesting glimpse of Japanese climbing culture.

http://climbing.com/current/japan235/index.html

[SA Chris]

Stoppit! Or i'll blitz you with my new swan gun.

[r-man]

But could you kill two stones with one bird?

[Jim]

how about a boar god?
what film did I just watch?
too easy.
what about a double barrel, barrel gun, confused?
try being me.
fish fodder.


hahahahahaha
 

[Somebody's Fool]

What the fuck are you on about?

[Nigel]

what about a double barrel, barrel gun, confused?

Think its fair to say he's got a barrel in.

[BenF]

Fuckin' hell it's a barrel of laughs on here at the moment.  We're all having so much pun.


Sorry.

[SA Chris]

Aye, making jokes on this thread is like shooting fish in a .........

Never mind.