Seen SOTI:
So… what do YOU think those last 18 words were? (Bonus for the most outrageous / irreverent / scandalous / libelous etc. suggestion.)
Seen SOTI:
So… what do YOU think those last 18 words were? (Bonus for the most outrageous / irreverent / scandalous / libelous etc. suggestion.)
Straight into the important news:
...title track from her next album: ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ “My fans made me leave my boyfriend.” ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪♫ ♪ ♫ ♪
From the Dept. of Education:
From the Red Sea area:
...and when the US Navy and the Royal Navy are both shown up by the Indian Navy...
In Election News:
...him, plus about 60 million others.
In Looneyville News:
...it’s just too bad that they and their vegan boyfriends are usually too tired to do anything about it.
Loonier still:
...atheists like these make me want to bring back the Inquisition and the stake. Especially when the assholes get their jollies from pathetic memes like this one:
(Hint: the ones on the left of the picture don’t fly airliners into skyscrapers.)
From the Women’s Section of Looneyville News:
...of course, had the sexes been reversed, the guy would have got life.
#MenArePigs
...yeah, that Star Wars franchise has made FAR too much money; “equity” demands that their movies start losing it. And what better way to get there than through feminism?
...key phrase: Luck of the Irish.
In Media News:
...let’s hear it from those who think this is a Good Thing:
…all of you, huh?
And in INSIGNIFICA:
Finally, a walk down Mammary Lane:
And a more recent pic:
Still all there, after all these years… [sigh]
Remember, the Comments section in the Roundup is Open Season. Comment away.
…that would be me. Crazy ’bout them redheads.
Apparently, today is Kiss A Ginger Day (don’t ask how or why, I just report what I read SOTI). Ordinarily I’m opposed to made-up holidays (e.g. MLK Day or Secretary’s Day), but I think I could bend the rules for this one.
Sadly, though, I’ll not be able to get into the spirit of the thing, for all sorts of reasons (including being married, and to a non-redhead withal, and not actually knowing any real redheads at the moment). And my innate sense of self-respect (not to mention fear of los federales ) prevents me from just planting a smooch on the cheek of a random redhead I may encounter in the street.
However, I can play a game, that being:
Of the redheads pictured below, which ONE (as pictured) would you like to kiss above all the others?
And to make it interesting, there’s no chaste peck-on-the-cheek bullshit; it would be a long, tongue-‘n-teeth affair which could get you arrested in twenty states. Here they are:
Amy Adams
Ann-Margret
Angela Scanlon
Deborah Kerr
Gina Lollobrigida
Greer Garson
Cassandra Peterson
(a.k.a. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)
Gillian Anderson
Isla Fisher
Jessica Chastain
Sarah Rafferty
Alicia Witt
Kathy Douglas
Maureen O’Hara
Lindsay Lohan
Jill St. John
Karen Gillan
Emma Stone
Maisie Smith
Patsy Palmer
Shirley-Ann Field
Kate Walsh
Poppy Montgomery
Rhonda Fleming
Perhaps the ultimate Ginger:
Tina Louise
And finally:
Just any old ginger will do, thanks
If I’ve omitted your favorite ginger, feel free to tell me all about it in Comments.
Just remember that Christina Hendricks isn’t a real redhead… if that’s important.
Lady Readers may go below decks, so to speak:
Your suggestions in Comments.
A Longtime Loyal Reader (also a good friend who’s broken bread in my house) had occasion to, and I quote, “Replace a light bulb in my #3 gun safe.”
This necessitated emptying the thing of the guns stored therein, which required the assistance of his Son&Heir.
Then (and I quote again): “I realized that I had about four CZ 75s tucked in the back that I’d forgotten about. I bought them during the Obama years when there was all that talk about gun confiscation and mag-size regulation, then forgotten about them since.”
And then came the part which made me choke on my morning gin: “Would you like one?”
Feebly I protested that I’d love one, but being one of the Poor Of The Parish, I couldn’t afford it, no matter the cost. “Never mind all that,” was the airy response, “I need to make space in the safe. What’s the address of your FFL?”
So I picked the 75 up yesterday, and raced off to the range to make its acquaintance. What follows is the range report.
I should point out that when I divested myself of the Browning High Power early last year, I also divested myself of all my remaining 9mm ammo, donating it to Doc Russia because, “Oh hell, I’m never going to need all that again.”
Foolish man, right? Anyway, I picked up two boxes of self-defense hollowpoint 9mm at the Merchant Of Death’s place, because I have decided that I’m only going to shoot what I carry. So on with the show…
The CZ 75 has been made in several configurations, the earliest being the “Pre -B” (story here) and one of these was what was given to me and which I took to the range.
My Kind Benefactor had the temerity to apologize for the wear on the finish — like that has ever been a concern of mine — but even the guys at the Merchant Of Death, hardened gunnies though they are, were oohing and aahing over the thing, playing with it and trying out the trigger.
I’ll talk a little bit more about the gun itself later, but let me set the scene for the workout. I made several decisions before the gun even arrived:
There are a couple of issues with the CZ pre-B 75 guns, but only one of which might be problematic (for me), and that is that their magazines are not compatible with those used in the later CZ 75 B models (and their sub-variants). I discovered that the pre-B mags are like hen’s teeth, but this is not a concern for me because I intend to carry the 75 as a backup piece, its 15-round mag replacing the S&W 637’s 5-round cylinder.
Anyway, so this is the background to the workout below. I only had two boxes (all I could afford at the moment), and I had to hold back 15 rounds for the carry mag, so all I had was 25 rounds to play with. So instead of blasting away (as is my wont), I had to go all South African Army and watch my ammo count carefully. Here’s how it went, at 7 yards (20-odd feet) distance:
The double-action trigger pull on the CZ 75 is okay, a tad stiff — more like a WWII P-38 than (say) a Glock — but it doesn’t really matter because as a self-defense piece, and not being constrained by department policy, I’m going to carry it cocked and locked like my 1911 so I don’t have to think about it: safety off, and away we go.
The single-action pull is lovely: a smooth take-up but no stop before the bang, which for this 1911/BHP user is going to take a little more work. It did catch me unawares a couple of times during the session, to be sure, with a couple of annoying flyers, but no matter because MOAR PRACTICE oh boy.
I had intended to do a side-by-side with the 1911, but by the time I caught myself, I only had four rounds left. Never mind, thinks I, let’s just do four rounds of the 9mm, and four rounds of the 1911 carry ammo:
(This is all I carry and shoot these days in my 1911, because heavier .45 boolets (e.g. 230gr FMJ) do a number on my aged wrists after a few mags thereof, and these soft-shooting Normas are both accurate and deadly — “MHP” stands for “monolithic hollow point”, whatever that means.)
Here’s the 4-round comparison, aimed at the “head” portion of the target:
All were fired in what I call “aimed-rapid”, i.e. bang [beat] bang [beat] etc., and the left-hand hole in the .45 group contains two shots, as it happens, the first two I fired. (Many thousands of practice rounds helps with this kind of thing.)
I noted that I’m shooting the 75 a fraction high after the first shot, something I’ll be watching in future practice sessions. (The first shot in the above target is the bottom-left hole.)
The grouping is… acceptable — for me anyway.
This SIG ammo is about 58c/pull, the Norma about 50c.
The difference between the two guns in felt recoil is almost imperceptible. The 75 is surprisingly hefty and tames whatever recoil the heavier 9mm rounds generate. In terms of size, it almost fits in my 1911’s holsters, but for the larger trigger guard.
Speaking of which, this is one way you can tell the immediate difference between the CZ 75 and the CZ 75 B:
Note too the bobbed hammer of the later B; those two features and the incompatible mags (grrrrr) are the major apparent differences between the two.
As for me: I now carry a 1911 with 24 rounds (three mags) of .45 ACP, and a backup CZ 75 with 15 rounds of Europellet in its single magazine.
That should work.