[Greg Anos]

Post 7

dingus - American slang for an item or a gadget.


Post 8

shark's stomach/no whale - Sharks are agressive in the waters off Austrailia. VR was suggesting the narrator should be shark food. The narrator responded with the Jonah and the Whale story. pointing out that Jonah was swallowed whole and later escaped.

vamanos - A Tex Mex word for leaving in a hurry - Tex Mex is a a border corruption of Spanish.

Mount up, Buell - Line from the movie The Hallelujah Trail. Burt Lancaster was ordering his Seargent to start the action.

since as we had waived those Diplomatic papers, nobody could touch the bags but us - To allow diplomatic security, items under diplomatic pouch can't be touched by anybody but that nation's diplomats.

joined the dreamtime - Aboriginal Austrailians refer the time before their oral history as The Dreamtime.


Post 9

Arlo Guthrie's "Coming Into Los Angeles" - American folk singer/songwriter, son of an even more famous folk singer/songwriter (Woodie Guthrie). The opening lines to the song were "Coming into Los Angeles, Bringing in a couple of Keys. (kilos) Don't touch my bags, If you please, Mr. Customs man."

live and in color - A early american broadcasting boast for sporting transmission in the early 1960's.

Enola Emmel - Mirror writing of Lemme Alone. First used by Patricia Savage in the Doc Savage Adventure "The Motion Menace".


Post 10

to go inspect the trees - slang for walking the dog.

shindig - American slang for party.

.50 cal Browning Machine Gun round sniper rifle - An invention of the late 1970's/early 1980's. The largest legal caliber without a special permit in America, was the .50 caliber. While it was legal, it had such power and recoil that no sporting use was made of it. Somebody got the idea in the late seventy that it could be used as a heavy, long ranged sniper rifle. They all weighed over 15 kilos and took two people to transport, but have been used militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan. With careful adjustment for wind and air density, they can be accurate up to 3.5 Kilometers.


Post 11

Let's get this show on the road - Classic american phrase for starting an endevor.

giddy-up - Western phrase used when getting a horse to move with a rider on it.


Post 12

klicks - American military slang for kilometers.

Valhalla - The Norse gods heaven, where the spirits of brave, fallen fighters went to drink, fight, and wench, until the end of the Universe.

It's a good day to die. - Line from the movie "Little Big Man".

MG42 - Standard German air-cooled light machingun in WW II. Used an 8MM Mauser round, with a very high rate of fire. Weights 12 kilos, and is still the best middle caliber light machinegun ever made. The rate for fire is so fast that the individual shots cannot be heard separately, the firing sounds like ripping a piece of linoleum. Very distinctive.


Post 13

hogleg - Western slang for a gun. The bend of the handle of a 19th century revolver was reminiscent of the bend in a hog's back leg.


Post 14

6 ways from Sunday - Texas slang for precaution on top of precaution.

you hold all the Aces - Poker phrase stating that the holder has all the advantage.

burr under your saddle - Western phrase for "what's bothering you". A burr under a saddle will cause a placid horse to misbehave, for no obvious reason, until you take the saddle off and see the burr sticking into the horse's back.

pards - Western for partners.

smooth ape - Phrase for describing humans, used by Robert A. Heinlein in some of his works.

pennying the door - A door fits into a door frame. If you jamb cents, or other slim coins in a stack between the door and the frame, you can form a tension fit that hold the door in place. if you are on the other side of the door, it just won't open. You have to hit the door hard enough to knock the coins out to get it to open. On the other side, they can be popped out easily

three rules of dirty fighting - They are 1. Do it first, 2. Do it fast. and 3. Do it dirty.

cojones - spanish for eggs, used in Tex Mex as slang for testicles.

Fort Apache - Famous John Wayne movie about an undermanned outpost being attacked by a massively superior force of Indians.


Post 15

to sprout legs - Western phrase that implies theft. When something disappeared that should not have, the whole phrase used was, "It didn't just spout legs and walk off."

IS THERE A DIPLOMAT IN THE HOUSE? - Parody of "Is there a doctor in the house."

Come in if you're friendly. - When approaching an unknown campfire, it was safer for your health in the old West to announce your presence before approaching. The standard phrases were, "Hallo, the fire. Can I come in?" The standard response would be "Come in if you're friendly. Coffee in the pot." (If there was any, as a sign of hospitality.)

Adios, compadre - Spanish - "Goodbye, old friend."

hoorah - Slang for excitement or trouble.


Post 16

cop a plea - Plead guilty to a lesser charge in order to save oneself of a more serious charge that may or may not be proven in court.


Epilog

you'll take over the show - Return to doing your normal duties that the other person had been filling in for.