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New Year Shooting at the Medieval Butts
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: Ian. on December 19, 2009, 07:55:50 pm ---
Cant really respect the opinion of someone who has the screen name 'Horace Ford' in a Warbow section.
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What's in a name, (outcast, ratty,)
Phil Rees:
My point is ....
The shoot is advertised as "Shooting at the Medieval Butts" ... this implies that someone has found existing remains of actual medieval butts and permission has been granted to use them ..... not shooting at bales of hay wrapped in hessian, I can do that any day of the week on my own farm
triton:
Going to poke my oar in. Define "Butts". Butts is plural for Butt which means end, hence clout shooters refer to each round as an "end" "I shot 12 ends yesterday". These days to say "I shot 12 butts yesterday" would sound like you've shot 12 arses, as opposed to 12 diminutive donkeys (asses).
Water butt, A container for collecting water at the END of a drain or soak away.
Cigarette butt. The END of a cigarette, the finish.
It's perfectly good English from the Anglo-Saxon.
Therefore it makes NO difference what the butt is made from.
ratty:
--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on December 19, 2009, 09:35:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ian. on December 19, 2009, 07:55:50 pm ---
Cant really respect the opinion of someone who has the screen name 'Horace Ford' in a Warbow section.
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What's in a name, (outcast, ratty,)
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hey don't drag me into it Marc St Louis !
Marc St Louis:
No offense ratty or outcast, just using both you're usernames as an example.
Nobody knows why we use the names we pick but ourselves so discounting the words of another based on nothing more than their usernames doesn't make sense.
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