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  • They should all be tied to posts and shot with a blunderbus loaded with their own shite.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • I remember a tale regarding the application for firearms of a female officer, pretty. intelligent, correct gender but could not hit a barn door with a blunderbus when it came to shooting.

    Women; Different but Equal (and a little scary) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • Matthew Norman is my other favourite columnist, pointing the blunderbus of black humour and baroque vitriol upon the political rampaging elephants of the day. posted by Rachel at 6:46 PM

    Archive 2006-12-01 Rachel 2006

  • Matthew Norman is my other favourite columnist, pointing the blunderbus of black humour and baroque vitriol upon the political rampaging elephants of the day. posted by Rachel at 6:46 PM

    Matthew Parris: columnist of the year Rachel 2006

  • I read, in Andraesen's text you could rinse with water and store up to about 20 minutes after that then there might be problems. again milk is much better I wonder if a tooth left totally dry with a blunderbus root would dry out too much to the point it wouldn't revascularize where otherwise it might?

    Accidents, Dental Trauma Dr. Dean Brandon 2006

  • The rest of us have a few more months before we must enroll before being penalized, unless Congress acts in the meantime to simplify, defer, or repeal this blunderbus of a "program" with which we are afflicted.

    The Great Medicare Maze 2005

  • I wonder if a tooth left totally dry with a blunderbus root would dry out too much to the point it wouldn't revascularize where otherwise it might?

    When to Call the Dentist, When to Go to the Emergency Room Dr. Dean Brandon 2005

  • Nothing would make me happier than to be afforded the opportunity to hold your blunderbus as you eagerly tamp its load.

    Archive 2004-08-29 2004

  • Nothing would make me happier than to be afforded the opportunity to hold your blunderbus as you eagerly tamp its load.

    08/29/2004 - 09/05/2004 2004

  • In a country church in Holland there is a painting representing the sacrifice of Isaac, in which the painter has depicted Abraham with a blunderbus in his hand, ready to shoot his son.

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

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  • Rated as the worst public transportation in the world.

    October 9, 2008

  • HA HA HA!!! Thanks, whichbe...

    October 9, 2008

  • I was standing on the coroner, waiting for the blunderbus...

    October 9, 2008

  • "a fire-arm with a short, but very large bore, widened at the muzzle." (citation in list description; compare blunderbuss and harquebuss)

    For some reason this popped into my small brain:

    "When what to my wondering eyes should appear

    But a miniature blunderbus, and eight tiny reindeer."

    October 10, 2008

  • That's just weird.

    October 10, 2008

  • That's an awesome rhyme c_b! :-) But I would suggest wandering, rather than wondering.

    July 30, 2009

  • That doesn't seem to make as much sense. "Wondering eyes" are incredulous. "Wandering eyes" are an ophthalmological issue.

    July 30, 2009

  • Indeed. Peripatetic ophthalmology should be a specialty all on its own.

    July 30, 2009