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Crossbow

I bought a crossbow last weekend. I wanted some extra projectiles for it and the sales clerk asked me if I were trying to pick a quarrel.
  

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[nq:1]I bought a crossbow last weekend. [/nq] I hope you bolted for the door... ** DAVE HATUNEN (Email Removed) ** * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

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  • [nq:1]I bought a crossbow last weekend.
  • [/nq] I hope you bolted for the door...
  • ** DAVE HATUNEN (Email Removed) ** * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
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[nq:1]I bought a crossbow last weekend. I wanted some extra projectiles for it and the sales clerk asked me if I were trying to pick a quarrel.[/nq]
I hope you bolted for the door...

** DAVE HATUNEN (Email Removed) ** * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
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[nq:2]I bought a crossbow last weekend. I wanted some extra ... asked me if I were trying to pick a quarrel.[/nq]
[nq:1]I hope you bolted for the door...[/nq]
That's a wry comment a bit of archery?

Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed
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[nq:1]I bought a crossbow last weekend. I wanted some extra projectiles for it and the sales clerk asked me if I were trying to pick a quarrel.[/nq]
A rare shaft of wit

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]I bought a crossbow last weekend. I wanted some extra projectiles for it and the sales clerk asked me if I were trying to pick a quarrel.[/nq]
He was trying to give you the shaft.

Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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In Hatunen (Email Removed) posted on Mon, 05 Apr
2010 14:31:41 -0700 the following:
[nq:2]I bought a crossbow last weekend. I wanted some extra ... asked me if I were trying to pick a quarrel.[/nq]
[nq:1]I hope you bolted for the door...[/nq]
Good one.
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In HVS (Email Removed) posted on Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:35:06 +0100 the following:
[nq:1]On 05 Apr 2010, Hatunen wrote[/nq]
[nq:2]I hope you bolted for the door...[/nq]
[nq:1]That's a wry comment a bit of archery?[/nq]
Crossbows use bolts. I thought the poster was making a funny.

Damaeus

"Marijuana leads to homosexuality ... and therefore to AIDS." White House Drug C
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[nq:2]On 05 Apr 2010, Hatunen wrote That's a wry comment a bit of archery?[/nq]
[nq:1]Crossbows use bolts. I thought the poster was making a funny.[/nq]
And many comments are arch, so that poster was also a funny...

** DAVE HATUNEN (Email Removed) ** * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
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[nq:1]I bought a crossbow last weekend. I wanted some extra projectiles for it and the sales clerk asked me if I were trying to pick a quarrel.[/nq]
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[nq:1]And many comments are arch, so that poster was also a funny...[/nq]
I see posters are aiming for gold.

Peter Duncanson, UK
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[nq:2]And many comments are arch, so that poster was also a funny...[/nq]
[nq:1]I see posters are aiming for gold.[/nq]
But it's all a lotta bull, doncha' think?

Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed
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