Did you perchance mean blunderbuss?
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“They should all be tied to posts and shot with a blunderbus loaded with their own shite.”
“I remember a tale regarding the application for firearms of a female officer, pretty. intelligent, correct gender but could not hit a barn door with a blunderbus when it came to shooting.”
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“I read, in Andraesen's text you could rinse with water and store up to about 20 minutes after that then there might be problems. again milk is much better I wonder if a tooth left totally dry with a blunderbus root would dry out too much to the point it wouldn't revascularize where otherwise it might?”
“Matthew Norman is my other favourite columnist, pointing the blunderbus of black humour and baroque vitriol upon the political rampaging elephants of the day. posted by Rachel at 6:46 PM”
“The rest of us have a few more months before we must enroll before being penalized, unless Congress acts in the meantime to simplify, defer, or repeal this blunderbus of a "program" with which we are afflicted.”
“I wonder if a tooth left totally dry with a blunderbus root would dry out too much to the point it wouldn't revascularize where otherwise it might?”
“Nothing would make me happier than to be afforded the opportunity to hold your blunderbus as you eagerly tamp its load.”
“In a country church in Holland there is a painting representing the sacrifice of Isaac, in which the painter has depicted Abraham with a blunderbus in his hand, ready to shoot his son.”
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“Ice-cream," hastily interposed Susie, giving the little blunderbus a warning glance.”
“Well, he'd found out, then, how a fellow likes to be soused in the water, as the blundering blunderbus did me, darn him.”
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reesetee Indeed. Peripatetic ophthalmology should be a specialty all on its own. Jul 30, 2009
chained_bear That doesn't seem to make as much sense. "Wondering eyes" are incredulous. "Wandering eyes" are an ophthalmological issue. Jul 30, 2009
PossibleUnderscore That's an awesome rhyme c_b! :-) But I would suggest wandering, rather than wondering. Jul 30, 2009
reesetee That's just weird. Oct 9, 2008
chained_bear "a fire-arm with a short, but very large bore, widened at the muzzle." (citation in list description; compare blunderbuss and harquebuss)
For some reason this popped into my small brain:
"When what to my wondering eyes should appear
But a miniature blunderbus, and eight tiny reindeer." Oct 9, 2008
mollusque I was standing on the coroner, waiting for the blunderbus... Oct 9, 2008
chained_bear HA HA HA!!! Thanks, whichbe... Oct 9, 2008
whichbe Rated as the worst public transportation in the world. Oct 8, 2008