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RosieAnnie
Posts : 839 Join date : 2012-04-22 Age : 105 Location : The Comfy Chair
| Subject: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:42 pm | |
| I've heard the term "hog leg" for a pistol, but have you ever heard a small gun called a pea shooter? Or a pea popper? _________________ "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."
"The failure in doing something is stopping too soon."
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BeeJay Admin
Posts : 581 Join date : 2012-04-21 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:48 pm | |
| pea shooter-yes. I've read the term in 19th century books. Never heard of or seen pea popper. Since there really were pea shooters for children, the term was mocking or derisive. _________________ I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn | |
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Ghislaine Emrys Moderator
Posts : 669 Join date : 2012-04-22 Age : 39 Location : Arizona
| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:58 pm | |
| I've heard pea shooter, and took it to mean a very small gun. Didn't know the origin that BJ stated--that's cool!
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:14 pm | |
| I've heard of pea shooter both in the sense of a small handgun or as the device I had myself as a child. Can't say I've ever heard of a pea popper. |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Mon Apr 15, 2013 5:26 am | |
| I've heard quite a few slang words for guns, but I've never heard of a pea popper. |
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BeeJay Admin
Posts : 581 Join date : 2012-04-21 Location : California
| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Mon Apr 15, 2013 8:59 am | |
| - Ghislaine Emrys wrote:
I've heard pea shooter, and took it to mean a very small gun. Didn't know the origin that BJ stated--that's cool! But I bet you have seen them in old movies. Simply a narrow tube that a child, usually a boy, blows a pea or other small round object out of. I think WC Fields was a target in some of his pictures. Groucho Marx uses one in Horse Feathers while he is teaching anatomy - he and Chico and Harpo have a pea shooting battle. _________________ I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn | |
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Penski Moderator
Posts : 1804 Join date : 2012-04-22 Age : 62 Location : Northern California
| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:17 am | |
| Huh... I learn something new every day on this site.
I thought a pea shooter was like a straw that you blew a pea out of to hit someone or something. _________________ h "Do you ever get the feeling that nothing right is ever going to happen to us again?" - Kid Curry
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| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:25 am | |
| - BeeJay wrote:
- Ghislaine Emrys wrote:
I've heard pea shooter, and took it to mean a very small gun. Didn't know the origin that BJ stated--that's cool! But I bet you have seen them in old movies. Simply a narrow tube that a child, usually a boy, blows a pea or other small round object out of. I think WC Fields was a target in some of his pictures. Groucho Marx uses one in Horse Feathers while he is teaching anatomy - he and Chico and Harpo have a pea shooting battle. Love the pea shooter battle in Horse Feathers! Perhaps a boy was the shooter in movies, but rest assured peashooters were equal opportunity items when I was a kid. Had my share of them and held my own in "battles" with the boys. |
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| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Mon Apr 15, 2013 11:07 am | |
| - Remuda wrote:
- BeeJay wrote:
- Ghislaine Emrys wrote:
I've heard pea shooter, and took it to mean a very small gun. Didn't know the origin that BJ stated--that's cool! But I bet you have seen them in old movies. Simply a narrow tube that a child, usually a boy, blows a pea or other small round object out of. I think WC Fields was a target in some of his pictures. Groucho Marx uses one in Horse Feathers while he is teaching anatomy - he and Chico and Harpo have a pea shooting battle. Love the pea shooter battle in Horse Feathers!
Perhaps a boy was the shooter in movies, but rest assured peashooters were equal opportunity items when I was a kid. Had my share of them and held my own in "battles" with the boys. I remember kids trying that when I was a kid. They used corn rather than peas tho. |
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| Subject: Re: Pea shooter? Pea popper? Mon Apr 15, 2013 1:24 pm | |
| - radiogaga80 wrote:
- Remuda wrote:
- BeeJay wrote:
- Ghislaine Emrys wrote:
I've heard pea shooter, and took it to mean a very small gun. Didn't know the origin that BJ stated--that's cool! But I bet you have seen them in old movies. Simply a narrow tube that a child, usually a boy, blows a pea or other small round object out of. I think WC Fields was a target in some of his pictures. Groucho Marx uses one in Horse Feathers while he is teaching anatomy - he and Chico and Harpo have a pea shooting battle. Love the pea shooter battle in Horse Feathers!
Perhaps a boy was the shooter in movies, but rest assured peashooters were equal opportunity items when I was a kid. Had my share of them and held my own in "battles" with the boys. I remember kids trying that when I was a kid. They used corn rather than peas tho.
I remember soggy bits of paper being formed into balls and fired. Nasty boys! |
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