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[The Heretic]

My grandparents gave me a mechanical wrist watch when I turned 13, back when you had to wind the watch every day. I wound it too tight and it wouldn't run, so of course I took it apart. Not a good idea, that watch had a short life.
(PS: I did end up with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering. )

I've watched a few YT vids of a guy who repairs watches - lot's of stuff going on inside them. I would not have the patience or the memory to try to take one completely apart and put it back together correctly.

 

[sobo]

I would not have the patience or the memory to try to take one completely apart and put it back together correctly.

Neither did I...

(as he sweeps up the springs, gears, and broken crystals of yet another watch...)

 

[Flopsweat]

I took many things apart when I was a kid. Got SOME of them back together and running again too.

I've watched a few YT vids of a guy who repairs watches - lot's of stuff going on inside them. I would not have the patience or the memory to try to take one completely apart and put it back together correctly.

Neither did I...

(as he sweeps up the springs, gears, and broken crystals of yet another watch...)

I think I was just too stubborn to give up until it worked again.

 

[The Heretic]

 

[The Heretic]

Too close for missiles…. switching to guns!

 

[The Heretic]

 

[The Heretic]

 

[WEE]

 

[The Heretic]

 

[Flopsweat]

Seems legit.

 

[sobo]

Seems legit.

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I hope they co-issue them. Would save a ton of hassle...

 

[Flopsweat]

I hope they co-issue them. Would save a ton of hassle...

And if you're going to make background checks mandatory for the one...

 

[GrayGoose]

Seems legit.

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A shotgun wedding?

 

[Flopsweat]

A shotgun wedding?

They're taking a shot at it.

 

[Cavedweller]

 

[The Heretic]

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That doesn't sound like a TJ quote. Maybe the first sentence, but not the rest.

 

[Cavedweller]

That doesn't sound like a TJ quote. Maybe the first sentence, but not the rest.

Looks to me like it's a paraphrase of TJ embedded in a quotation of Jeff Cooper.

 

[The Heretic]

Looks to me like it's a paraphrase of TJ embedded in a quotation of Jeff Cooper.

Yes - maybe a paraphrase - if TJ was around today using today's language patterns. But it definitely is not something verbatim that TJ would have said back in the 18th century.

 

[bcp]

Strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms (Spurious Quotation)

www.monticello.org

Bruce

 

[Flopsweat]

Strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms (Spurious Quotation)

www.monticello.org

Bruce

Thanks Bruce! So it's a spurious quotation that probably started around 1989.