Notable ML quotes

"One morning I shot an elephant with my flintlock. How he got my flintlock I'll never know." ~Groucho Marx

"Better a flintlock with a flaw than an inline without."
~Confucius

"Load like a butterfly, sting like a maximum charged muzzleloader with a pointy brass butt plate."
~Muhammad Ali

"All you need is maxi-lube."
~John Lennon

"Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a traditional muzzleloader shooter he was at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Lock," he said, "sometime when the traditionalist are up against it and the inlines are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and load just one roundball for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll find real black powder then, Lock," he said, "but I'll know I'll get it and I'll be happy."
~Knute Lockne

" A Flint in the cock...
Is worth two in the ground."
(Unknown)

"Think not, of what your Country can do for you.
Think of what you can do for your Muzzleloader."
(Kennedy)

"Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a roundball outta my pouch."
~Bullwinkle

"Gee Charlie Brown, do they still make wooden muzzleloader stocks?"
~Linus Van Pelt

Eeyore the old grey donkey stood by the side of the stream, and looked at the inline muzzleloader. "Pathetic he said, that's what it is."
~Narrator and Eeyore

"That's all I can loads and I can't loads no more!"
~Popeye The Sailor Man

"I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a roundball today."
~Wimpy (J. Wellington Wimpy)

"LOAD THE WOUNDBALL, LOAD THE WOUNDBALL!!"
~Elmer Fudd (What's Opera Doc?)

While not normally thought of as a traditionalist movie, didn't the Chevy Chase character in Caddyshack admonish Danny to "Be the ball!"

"Speak softly and carry a big longrifle."
-Teddy Roosevelt

"Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared 'em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue. That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the roundball."
-Foghorn Leghorn

"Don'cha, I say, don'cha wanna look at your cards first, son? Boy's as sharp as a roundball."
-Foghorn Leghorn

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of inliners.
-from The Great Gatsby

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a flintlock.
-Hans Christian Anderson

Life without love is like a flintlock without powder or flint.
-Kahlil Gibran

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an inline, full of pellets and sabot,
Signifying nothing.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other rifles.
-John Lennon

"I can no longer sit back and allow plastic sabot infiltration, plastic sabot indoctrination, plastic sabot subversion and the international plastic sabot conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious moose juice fluids."
~General Jack D. Ripper (Dr. Strangelove)

"Put ze sabot back!"
~Inga (Young Frankenstein)

Copper Capper Caper
Webb: "This is the City. Los Angeles, California. Some people rob for pleasure. Some rob because it's there. You never know. My name's Friday, I'm a cop. I was working the day watch out of Robbery when I got a call from the Muzzleloader Supply Company. There'd been a robbery."
Musketman: "There's been a robbery."
Webb: "Yes sir, what was it?"
Musketman: "My cappers!"
Webb: "Your cappers?"
Musketman: "Yeah, you know, those things you use to hold #11 percussion caps?"
Webb: "The straight line cappers?"
Musketman: "That's right, we call them cappers in the business."
Webb: "A capper caper."
Musketman: "What's that?"
Webb: "Nothing sir. Now, can I have the facts? What kind of cappers were stolen on this caper?"
Musketman: "They were copper cappers."
Webb: "And where were they kept?"
Musketman: "In the closet."
Webb: "Uh huh. You have any ideas who might have taken the copper cappers from the closet?"
Musketman: "Well, just one. I fired a man. He swore he'd get even."
Webb: "What was his name?"
Musketman: "Claude Mathis"
Webb: "You think he'd..."
Musketman: "That that's right. I think Claude Mathis copped my copper cappers. Kept in a closet."
Webb: "You know where this Claude Mathis is from?"
Musketman: "Yuh. Cardiff-by-the-Sea"
Webb: "That figures. That figures."
Musketman: "What makes it worse, they were clean."
Webb: "Clean copper cappers."
Musketman: "That's right."
Webb: "Why do you think Cardiff-by-the-Sea's Claude Mathis would cop your clean copper cappers kept in your closet?"
Musketman: "Only one reason."
Webb: "What's that?"
Musketman: "He's a kleptomaniac."
Webb: "Who first discovered the clean copper cappers were copped?"
Musketman: "My former moderator friend, Cookie."
Webb: "That figures. Now let me see if I got the facts straight here. Former moderator Cookie discovered your clean copper cappers kept in a closet were copped by Claude Mathis the kleptomaniac from Cardiff-by-the-Sea. Now, is that about it?"
Musketman: "One other thing."
Webb: "What's that?"
Musketman: "If I ever catch kleptomaniac Claude Mathis from Cardiff-by-the-Sea who copped my clean copper cappers kept in the closet..."
Webb: "Yes?"
Musketman: "I'll clobber him!"

:wink: Could we have a show of hands for all that missed our MusketMan while he was away..?........ ..................... ..................................... .............. .......................................... ................. ............................. ............................. ............... .................... .................. ........... ..........WOW! See that MM!!! you was missed Big Time! Thanks fer all the laughs...... :rotf: :blah: :blah: :blah:

forget not:
stiffer-n a ramrod
and
cocked, locked, and ready to rock

New Viagra and Colonial Patriot motto: "Never go off half cocked"! :shocked2: :redface: :shocked2: :blah:

You guys are all nuts!
TR

Abbott: Well Costello, I'm going to the rendezvous with you. You know General John Jacob Astor, the Missouri Fur Company's owner, he gave me a job as a fur trapper and one of their company's managers.

Costello: Look Abbott, if you're a fur trapper manager, you must know all the buyers for our company.

Abbott: I certainly do.

Costello: Well you know I've never met the guys. So you'll have to tell me their names, and then I'll know who's buying my furs.

Abbott: Oh, I'll tell you their names, but you know it seems to me they give these fur trappers now-a-days very peculiar names.

Costello: You mean funny names?

Abbott: Strange names, pet names... like Iron Belly...

Costello: His brother Pot.

Abbott: Pot Belly...

Costello: And their French cousin.

Abbott: French?

Costello: Jaune. (yellow)

Abbott: Jaune Belly. Well, let's see, we have on the supply wagons, Hugh on the first, Watt's on the second, Isaac Don Nough is on the third...

Costello: That's what I want to find out.

Abbott: I say Hugh on the first wagon, Watts on the second wagon, Isaac Don Nough's on the third wagon.

Costello: Are you the fur manager?

Abbott: Yes.

Costello: You gonna be a trapper too?

Abbott: Yes.

Costello: And you don't know the fellows' names?

Abbott: Well I should.

Costello: Well then who's on the first supply wagon?

Abbott: Yes.

Costello: I mean the fellow's name.

Abbott: Hugh.

Costello: The guy on the first supply wagon.

Abbott: Hugh.

Costello: The first supply wagon driver.

Abbott: Hugh.

Costello: The guy driving...

Abbott: Hugh is on the first supply wagon!

Costello: I'm asking you who's on the first supply wagon.

Abbott: That's the man's name.

Costello: That's whos name?

Abbott: Yes.

Costello: Well go ahead and tell me.

Abbott: That's it.

Costello: That's who?

Abbott: Yes.

PAUSE

Costello: Look, you gotta first supply wagon driver?

Abbott: Certainly.

Costello: Who's driving the first supply wagon?

Abbott: That's right.

Costello: When you pay off the first supply wagon driver at the end of the rendezvous, who gets the money?

Abbott: Every dollar of it.

Costello: All I'm trying to find out is the fellow's name driving the first supply wagon.

Abbott: Hugh.

Costello: The guy that gets...

Abbott: That's it.

Costello: Who gets the money...

Abbott: He does, every dollar. Sometimes his partner comes down and collects it.

Costello: Who's partner?

Abbott: Yes.

PAUSE

Abbott: What's wrong with that?

Costello: Look, all I wanna know is when you sign up the first supply wagon driver, how does he sign his name?

Abbott: Hugh.

Costello: The guy.

Abbott: Hugh.

Costello: How does he sign...

Abbott: That's how he signs it.

Costello: Who?

Abbott: Yes.

PAUSE

Costello: All I'm trying to find out is what's the guy's name that drives the first supply wagon.

Abbott: No. Watts is on the second supply wagon.

Costello: I'm not asking you who's on the second wagon.

Abbott: Hugh's on the first supply wagon.

Costello: One wagon at a time!

Abbott: Well, don't change the drivers around.

Costello: I'm not changing nobody!

Abbott: Take it easy, Belly.

Costello: I'm only asking you, who's the guy driving the first supply wagon?

Abbott: That's right.

Costello: Ok.

Abbott: All right.

PAUSE

Costello: What's the guy's name driving the first supply wagon?

Abbott: No. Watts is driving the second wagon.

Costello: I'm not asking you who's driving the second supply wagon.

Abbott: Hugh's on the first supply waggon.

Costello: I don't know.

Abbott: He's on the third supply wagon, we're not talking about him.

Costello: Now how did I get on the third supply wagon?

Abbott: Why you mentioned his name.

Costello: If I mentioned the third supply wagon driver's name, who did I say is driving the third supply wagon?

Abbott: No. Hugh's driving the first supply wagon.

Costello: What's on the first supply wagon?

Abbott: Watts on the second supply wagon.

Costello: I don't know.

Abbott: He's on the third supply wagon.

Costello: There I go, back on the third wagon supply again!

PAUSE

Costello: Would you just stay on the third supply wagon and don't go off it.

Abbott: All right, what do you want to know?

Costello: Now who's driving the third supply wagon?

Abbott: Why do you insist on putting Hugh on third supply wagon?

Costello: What am I putting on the third supply wagon?

Abbott: No. Watts is on second supply wagon.

Costello: You don't want who on the second supply wagon?

Abbott: Hugh is on the first supply wagon.

Costello: I don't know.

Abbott & Costello Together: Third supply wagon!

"To roundball, or not to roundball...That is the question"
William Shakespere

"Wabbit Season! No, Duck Season! No, Wabbit Season!"
"I don't care who wins...I'll Woundball the winner"
Elmer Fudd

:surrender: :grin:

MM! you sure is devoted! (an that's the nicest way i could put it!) :shocked2: :rotf: :rotf: :thumbsup:

Wow.
from JFK to Bullwinkle.
who knew our country had such a rich backlog of ML quotifications ? :shocked2:

"Houston, we've got a dryball."
- Apollo 13

"I did not exchange patch lube recipes with that woman."
- President Bill Clinton

I have it from a good source that the Iraqi reporter did not actually throw his shoes at Pres. Bush, it was really his possibles bag and his RB pouch.

MeteorMan said:

"I did not exchange patch lube recipes with that woman."
- President Bill Clinton

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And they say "I" am funny, you sir, split my sides. :rotf:

lOONIE tUNES

I got it! I got it this time!
First the powder, then the wad, then the ball..
Yosemite Sam

"A woman drove me to plink, and I didn't even have the decency to thank her" - W.C. Fields

"Anyone who hates children and inlines can't be all bad" - W.C. Fields

"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts muzzleloaders" - W.C. Fields

"Reminds me of my muzzleloading safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water" - W.C. Fields

"I powder with my brother ball."
I say it every time I load.
Merry Christmas.

Old Sarge,

Been there.....Said that. :redface:

Jay

Musketman,
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

Jay

My hat's off to Musket Man... :hatsoff: :rotf:

I have not yet begun to dryball! - John Paul Jones

For those about to rock-lock, we salute you - AC/DC