[geeks] FS: Glock 19

[Brian Dunbar]

On Mar 21, 2004, at 10:03 PM, James wrote:

>>>> Anybody interested in a mint-condition Glock 19?  If so, email me
>>>> offlist.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>
>>> Never been fired and only dropped once????
>>
>> I tried using that joke on my wife once "Look honey, WW II Italian
>> bolt-action rifles, near mint condition.  Never fired and only dropped
>> once" . . . THEN remembered she's first generation Italian-American
>
>
> I learned that line from some Vietnam movie, it was a reference to an 
> ARVN
> rifle and it took a moment for its meaning to sink in - then it was 
> funny as
> hell.
>
> As for Italy in WW-II, my understanding from some men who were the 
> first on
> her shores in that war is that the population wasn't behind the 
> government's
> plans at all. They mostly threw down their weapons and kissed the 
> Americans.
> My Wife's dad was in Italy so early that he saw Musolini's body 
> swinging
> from a rope in the town square.

That's how my wife got here.  Her Momma was a war bride.

~brian