Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Happy 100th

Today was the date of adoption of the M1911 pistol by the USArmy.

4 comments:

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

let's see how long it takes...

Ruzhyo said...

Maybe his attempted uprising at Harper's Ferry would have worked if his people had 1911s. Probably not.

Borepatch said...

You need to photoshop him into Charlton Heston parting the Dead Sea. This is too subtle for folks.

Tam said...

I chuckled when I got it, but it took me a second.

As Borepatch pointed out, the big ol' prophet beard of his later days is part and parcel of everyone's mental picture of John Brown.

(Uh, those of us who have mental pictures of John Brown, that is. Kids these days would probably ask if you meant that dead black singer dude...)

WV: "opionati" Dunno what it is, but it looks like it should be a word.