benos Posted June 2, 2003 Share Posted June 2, 2003 This month's excellent trivia is from Duane Thomas, who, incidentally, said he could provide a few more of these if ya'all like this routine. For this month's Win a Book contest, identify the person responsible for each of the following ten quotes. The quote may be from a gun magazine article or a book; it may something the writer "said" or a quote from an interview. All I need is the name, you don't have to provide the source. The winner will be the first person to correctly identify all 10 "quotees." After each person posts their guesses I'll tell you how many correct answers you got, but I won't tell you which were right, which wrong. That would make it just too easy. Let the games begin! WHO SAID? 1. "I am sure most readers are familiar with the names Will and Ariel Durant as the authors of the mammoth 11-volume The Story of Civilization. Little known to many, however, is the existence of a slender 'additional volume' entitled, as best I can remember, The Lessons of History. The major premise of this conclusive text is simply that we don't learn a blessed thing from history." 2. "Contrary to what you hear from anti-gunners influenced by Freud, guns and sex don't have a lot in common. There are, however, two crossover points. Whichever he's involved with, a man likes to achieve maximum performance, and he likes to have a little excitement involved." 3. "....for whatever reason, the Colt cult seems to attract a disproportionate share of blowhards and bullyboy types. Thus, if I see a man packing a custoomized Colt auto cocked and locked, I realize that I may be in the presense of a very knowledgeable and fine pistol shot. On the other hand, there is also an excellent chance that our hero is a hot-air artist who is not very competent with his over-accessorized toy or any other handgun, for that matter!" 4. "You can hide, and you can act like it doesn't matter to you, but the truth of the matter is we all keep score. During the match, I do not keep track of the scores. I just perform my own business and shoot as well as I can. But when the match is over, how many people don't want to know where they finished?" 5. "Far too many modern day trainers have turned a blind eye to the Modern Isosceles. In my opinion, they really don't understand how it works so they either choose to ignore it or knock it as a 'gamey' technique. It was listening to this kind of talk that held up my progress as a shooter." 6. "Is there anything real about IPSC competition?....No, the sport isn't real and does not represent reality. That part of the answer is very simple....While there are those, Jeff Cooper especially, who went to great pains to breed some practical reality into the competition, in its purest sense they have failed. With very few exceptions, I have neither seen nor shot in a single stage of a match that I could survive if the targets were dangerous." 7. "A major area for most people is target acquisition. This is something that Rob Leatham beat us on for years." 8. "The .41 Action Express is the Rodney Dangerfield of the cartridge world. It don't get no respect!" 9. "With iron sights we try to stay focused on the front sight as the gun recoils, and of course the front of the gun is the part that jumps highest. If the front sight is lost as the muzzle jumps up, then the eye has to pick it up and refocus before the next shot can be fired. With the dot sight mounted further back on the gun, the amount it moves during recoil is much less. The dot hardly seems to move at all, it just sits there as you track from target to target." 10. "I've known it forever, and Jesse Ventura figured it out pretty quick. The vast majority of America's free press doesn't report the news, they make it up. Anyone who dismisses the claims of a conspiracy is either a paid employee of the media or a deaf, dumb, and blind fool. Especially dumb." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 What, two days without even a single reply? It can't be that hard. Let's change the rules. Whoever gets the most correct answers by the end of the month, not necessarily all 10, wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted June 4, 2003 Author Share Posted June 4, 2003 There ye go. Folks are probably doing there homework... be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detlef Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 hey, if Duane gets to post *those*, then what about a physics problem from me next mo.??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 No Sh*t! I've got a couple humdingers involving Special Relativity that will probably be accessible to more people than Duane's trivia. Everybody start brushing up on your hyperbolic functions now.... Geez.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Ok, 10 was Ted Nugent (God, Guns & R'n'R) 5 was Ron Avery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 Jimminey, I sure am glad that I won in April, those are HARD. I think I know 4 of them, but will have to wait and see at the end of the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I've got a couple humdingers involving Special Relativity that will probably be accessible to more people than Duane's trivia. That's why it's called "trivia." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I think I know 4 of them, but will have to wait and see at the end of the month. Why not post them, and find out if you're right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detlef Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 2: Jeff Cooper 8: BE 9: Matt Burkett (wild guess off...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I won in April, you remember, the limerick contest. Now I know why you didn't enter the limerick event, you were too busy researching these quotes. I just want to see who gets the most correct without lending a hand unintentionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I'm not sure, but I'd say that quote 7 is from our host, so: 7 was Brian Enos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I won in April, you remember, the limerick contest. Now I know why you didn't enter the limerick event, you were too busy researching these quotes.I just want to see who gets the most correct without lending a hand unintentionally. You might as well take a crack at it. I'm PMing people regarding the correctness - or lack thereof - of their responses, specifically because I don't want previous correct guesses to allow someone to build on other people's work. So even if you get all four guesses correct, only you will know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bird Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 ok here goes: 2. jeff cooper 4. rob leatham 5. ron avery 6. bill wilson 7. brian enos 8. jeff cooper 9. matt burkett 10 ted nugent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianH Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 ....I'm still stewing over "The Chapman Incident".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 \\\\\\\\\\\\ ///////////// The ten quotes are hardcore, I see! (But no one said it'd be easy...) Just like No. 4 I'll just sit and keep score... Duane Thomas, you dog! Set us free!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 When reading these quotes we all shout Duane Thomas, there's really no doubt The research is rough To find them is tough You're a cad, a bounder, a lout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Boit Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 2/ Jeff Cooper 3/ Jeff Cooper 6/ Bill Wilson or Ken Hackathorn 9/ Matt Burkett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 When reading these quotes we all shoutDuane Thomas, there's really no doubt The research is rough To find them is tough You're a cad, a bounder, a lout. It's so good to have your positive qualities recognized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 ....I'm still stewing over "The Chapman Incident".... Pray elucidate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 The Chapman Incident As we were trying to determine the answer to the trivia question concerning Ray when he won the World Shoot in '75, some of the forum members called Ray at home to get the answer to various parts of the question. Myself included. His Ex, Beverly took umbrage to the manner in which some of the calls were conducted and posted a cryptic response; the short version was not to call him again, PERIOD!! There was so much turmoil about the whole thing and based on the answers Beverly gave in her post (which were not the same answers as the person who posed the question) the whole thing was thrown out and there was no winner that month. Probably not as interesting as the Squirrel Incident with The Burner, but there you have it, in all its gory detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Whining Mode On: Benos, these are Tooooooo Haaaaaaaard, let's not do it again next month, Pretty Please. Duane, don't even offer to generate anymore of these brain killers, I may not live long enough to figure out the first 10. Whine Mode Off: Duane give us some hints, the month is nearly over. Be a sport, come on... I'm sure all these quotes are memorable to the guys who made them and to the people who heard them first hand, but it isn't like someone said, " give me IPSC or give me death". We need some help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 Jeez, hints. You guys are just too easy. Okay. Most of these quotes come from gun magazines published in the 1989 to 1992 time period. None of them are from Jeff Cooper or Matt Burkett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Run n Gun Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 TL, It’s all for naught anyway (except for self-satisfaction) you and I have won this year and the rules say “you can only win ONCE in a calendar year”. Personally, I’m hoping they get these hard ones out of the way by January so I can play again. The narcissist in me doesn’t like things quite so challenging… it’s so HARD to look good! Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Thomas Posted June 26, 2003 Share Posted June 26, 2003 Okay, more hints: Two of these are from World IPSC Champions. One is from a non-World Champion who's won the Nationals. One is from a former Chief of Police with 30-plus years law enforcement experience. One is from a man who has a doctorate. One is from a book. One, though not from a book, is from a guy who wrote a book. One is from a guy who raised a great cat. One is from an A-class IPSC shooter (at least he was A-class when this was written, I don't know what he's done since). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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