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Run w t Fox, Man you gotta try a tray or two of a dozen Snails, all done up with Garlic butter n lovely crunchy bread to sop up the juice,they aren't slimey, n I'm a Limey,  ....mmmmm.... A true Reynardine would scoff em up....they really are goood.. best to you Franc Gunman, you ever hear of the above mentioned "Crotch Street"?? No thanks- not much on garlic or garlic 'n butter- snails and entrails- recalls to mind the Escoffier recipe for woodcock with their guts "on show' on toast-- A nice big fillet of pan fried walleye with a big russet baked potatoe and butter, a Caesar salad without those damn salty anchovies, a big dish of buttered asparagus spears "al dente", hard crusty rolls and a fine chilled Reisling or Leibfraumilch- But if you are a trie Limey- whatinHell is "Bangers and mash?""
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Sausages (Bangers) n mashed taters
I likes my fish too...eat well fox
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There are many aptonyms within the British gun trade, like Fred Fitter the gun fitter and polisher. An aptonyms may be defined as, “a compound word used for people whose names and occupation have a close correspondence, especially by coincidence.” There is a proviso that they must also be or have been real, actual people. Thomas Crapper the Victorian inventor of the flush toilet qualifies but the clearly fictitious Jamaican proctologist, Dr. Pokemon, does not.
With this in mind I decided to have a fantasy gun made with lock, stock and barrel built by the outworkers with the best name for the job. Locks; unquestionably the right man is William Trulock who started into gunmaking in Dublin in 1814 and fathered a series of business which bore his name throughout Victoria’s reign. Truer locks were never created. The stock would be by Ebenezer Hands who Nigel Brown tells us stocked guns for Atkin, Grant & Lang until he was “over 90 in the 1960s” and yes the gun would have a half pistol hand. The barrels would be by Bill Blacker who continues to this day to make barrels for London’s best gunmakers.
So here’s the challenge; who should I have engrave my fantasy firearm?
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Hmmm... "potatoe"... Very 'Dan Quayle' of you Mr. Fox.
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"Bangers" because the sausages explode the casing/skin while cooking.
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