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Re: Making Pikes
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lugnet.off-topic.pun
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Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:12:01 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Mike Rayhawk writes:
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> > Eventually the value of foot-soldiers got a big boost when the
> > arquebus was deemed unworthy of samurai; Nobunaga used them to great • advantage
> > and became the first warlord to unify Japan.
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> I seem to recall hearing of one diminutive warlord who greatly favored the
> use of a short-barrelled arquebus for controlling unruly crowds and was
> thereafter referred to as the Sawed-Off Shogun.
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> Dave!
OOoooooOOoooo, hurl, puke, vomit.
Just for that, I'll ruin the joke: it was called a blunderbus (if you want the
shot-gun effect. A musketoon if you mean a short-barreled solid ball shooter.
Nyahh. :-)
Bruce
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| (...) I seem to recall hearing of one diminutive warlord who greatly favored the use of a short-barrelled arquebus for controlling unruly crowds and was thereafter referred to as the Sawed-Off Shogun. Dave! (26 years ago, 31-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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