"He taught him horsemanship, archery and how to wield lasso, rein and stirrup, and what and when and how, the rites of of convivial society, of formal ceremony and the symposium; hawking, falconry and how to hunt with the cheetah; what was justice or the lack of it; what the throne and the crown meant; how to deliver orations and how to go to war and lead an army."
The Shahnameh (courtesy of R.A.W.)
UPDATE: (Jonathan): "Apparently you screw it into a log or something, stick a piece of bait on the hook, and when something pulls on it . . . bang. Twenty two caliber."
I think it has something to do with an attempt by the OSS to capture that Marxist Santa Claus once and for all.
The hook was attached to a plate of Cookies and the gun hidden in an adjoining Christmas tree.
It was discontinued after complaints came in from sleep-deprived fathers who accidentally set the trap off after refueling on cookies during late-night amateur engineering and untrained Japanese translating.
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Interesting. A special-purpose set-gun.
That would keep the neighbors out of the wine cellar.
Spring gun??
I think it has something to do with an attempt by the OSS to capture that Marxist Santa Claus once and for all.
The hook was attached to a plate of Cookies and the gun hidden in an adjoining Christmas tree.
It was discontinued after complaints came in from sleep-deprived fathers who accidentally set the trap off after refueling on cookies during late-night amateur engineering and untrained Japanese translating.
That's got to be a lethal component of a trap for fur animals, based on the legend on the side.
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