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Yeah, Peter, those were good times, too.

Beautiful picture, Luc!

Particularly when your avatar carries it around the boards.

This is the only picture I have that isn’t more than 15 years old.

Where do you holster your lightsaber on that?

It’s fix like a bayonet on the end of the rifle but I cropped it off.

In high school, my homecoming dance date's father was cleaning his Civil War gun collection when I came to get her. I tried to compliment him on his collection but he just started at me while he oiled the stock of a muzzle-loader.

Stared, or was he actually coming at you?

LOL My favorite is when they come home with their date, I inquire how was the baseball game ---- Being a single parent I have always been open with the girls ----- The young lad would say we didn't go to a baseball game but the girls would blush and say DAD!!!! knowing that now they would have to explain to their date that I wanted to know what base they made it to. Sometimes I never see the young lad again - go figure

Good thing I'm not one of the young lads. I would have looked you in the eye and said "great, loved the home run." WHile suitably close to the front door of course.

My now-father-in-law pulled a similar stunt the first time I picked up his daughter from his house for a date. The difference was that I won the intimidation battle. He greeted me at the door carrying an old Ithica 12 ga. Not only did I not flintch, I was able to show him features of his shotgun he wasn't aware of - he didn't use the thing - so his little ploy didn't phase me. What he didn't understand was that I had a small arsenal, did all my own reloading and had shot trap and skeet competitively for years.

I picked up a little saying a few years back and now that I am the father of a daughter, I will probable get a chance to use it: "I have a shotgun and a shovel and I know how to use both... She'll be back by 10PM, right?"

Scott