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War Elephant - Photograph of Elephant with Mounted Machine Gun, circa 1914 - 1918
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Posted on 02/15/2013 8:38:17 PM PST by DogByte6RER
The gun is John Moses Brownings M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun, aka ... Potato Digger.
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KEYWORDS: banglist; elephant; elephants; gunsandammo; m1895; machinegun; modernhistory; potatodigger; warelephant; warfare; workingdogs; worldwar1
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To: tony549
I just noticed your post.
I think the fact that Garand was a Canuck might be the reason.
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posted on
02/16/2013 8:54:36 AM PST
by
yarddog
(One shot one miss.)
To: shibumi
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posted on
02/16/2013 10:44:43 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Bigg Red
lol. Bumper cars! I think I been on one once
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posted on
02/16/2013 1:23:31 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: tony549
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posted on
02/16/2013 1:28:30 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Bigg Red
Marines don’t need any stinking elephant saddles!
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posted on
02/17/2013 8:00:02 AM PST
by
opbuzz
(Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
To: DogByte6RER
Let's not forget Hannibal Dobbs
But seriously, I remember seeing T.A. Edison's film "Electrocution of an Elephant". I think it was intended as anti-Westinghouse, to show how dangerous DC current was.
It was a real execution, though, of an "alleged" rogue elephant. Topsy killed three men after a drunk fed her a cigarette. Poor Topsy.
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posted on
02/17/2013 8:18:01 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: P.O.E.
Correction: to show how dangerous AC current was.
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posted on
02/17/2013 8:19:46 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: P.O.E.
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posted on
02/17/2013 8:23:36 AM PST
by
don-o
(Proud Papa of a USMC Reserve Sgt and Officer Candidate in December 2013.)
To: DogByte6RER
Did not see yours before I posted
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posted on
02/17/2013 8:25:24 AM PST
by
don-o
(Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998)
To: don-o
Remind me never to prod an elephant behind the ear when it’s about to eat a watermelon rind.
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posted on
02/17/2013 8:30:34 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: GeronL
"The top floor was empty and we rode bikes all around it...
Yeah, Id be eccentric like that"
unicycles,bicycles,tricycles,mopeds & motorcycles..or all of the above. :-D
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posted on
02/17/2013 8:47:40 AM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
To: opbuzz
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:18:28 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
To: DogByte6RER
War ElephantSounds like something a person in Alabama who can't decide whether to root for Bama or Auburn would say.
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posted on
02/17/2013 12:22:57 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: skinkinthegrass
good question but go-karts and ceiling to floor windows probably wouldn’t mix too well, heh
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posted on
02/17/2013 1:07:14 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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