Re: AUTHOR EVENT

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From: Andy Walton
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:00

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In article <8stian$9lu$1@news-int.gatech.edu>, Mike Faff
<climb@angband.org> wrote:

  :Hmmmm....  I'm imagining a few rounds loaded backwards into a clip...  Not 
  :quite sure what would happen upon trying to fire...

I suspect that the firing pin, finding a lump of lead rather than the
primer charge it expected, would respond with a surprised but impotent
"thunk."
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From: atticus@mindspring.com (Andy Walton)
Subject: Re: AUTHOR EVENT
Date: 2000/10/21
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