Posted: 11/24/2002 10:29:40 PM EDT
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[b]MY AR-15[/b] [img]http://www.tc.umn.edu/~armament/img/pics/personal/Mathew.jpg[/img] Machined beauty of forged aluminum Due to the ban, valued [b]NOT[/b] a trifle A sexy desire I cannot overcome I love my sport utility rifle I cannot dislike your light acrid scent Custom honed trigger so light and so smoothe To me, you don't know how much you have meant Caress thee in thanks for the stress you soothe Why is it that to so many you're feared? Most just don't know your bark's worse than your bite Most people can't perceive why you're revered Can fire thirty rounds as fast as I might Liberals will try to take you away. Over my dead body, and only that way! ********** I am handing this in Monday morning in this same format with Photo. We'll see what reaction this provokes in a SEVERELY LIBERAL BIASED University (of Minnesota in Minneapolis). |
| Could you take pics of the professor so we can see his reaction? And let us know what grade you get. I am curious as hell. Because I would do the exact same thing just to annoy the professor. I haven't annoyed a liberal like that in years. They aren't as common around here. At least the anti-gunners aren't. |
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Quoted: Well, if the professor really wants iambic pentameter, then you'd better revise. Argh! Iambic pentameter has been done to death...a classical sonnet is smoother...Besides, I'm cracking up just imagining the look on the Prof.'s face as re realizes what the subject matter is about.. InABad, be ready for someone to offer counselling for your obsession [:)]. Whatever you do, don't let your psychology Prof. see it! [:D] |
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Quoted: Quoted: Well, if the professor really wants iambic pentameter, then you'd better revise. Argh! Iambic pentameter has been done to death...a classical sonnet is smoother...Besides, I'm cracking up just imagining the look on the Prof.'s face as re realizes what the subject matter is about.. InABad, be ready for someone to offer counselling for your obsession [:)]. Whatever you do, don't let your psychology Prof. see it! [:D] I don't disagree that it's been "done to death", hey, even the Bard took some liberties. Don't know how strict the assignment was, and for the sake of this kid, I'd like to see a technically perfect submission. I guess, though, that this poor kid's got more than structure to worry about if he's writing sonnets 'bout rifles and not women. |
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I am handing this in Monday morning in this same format with Photo. We'll see what reaction this provokes in a SEVERELY LIBERAL BIASED University (of Minnesota in Minneapolis). Thata Boy!...Give them hell!...I would be proud to have a son like you!...Now, don't your parents love you? (sending you to a LIBERAL BIASED HELL HOLE) |
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Well, I just got back from class. I'll tell you the responses I got were "Interesting" to say the least. After reading it aloud and handing it to the professor, he saw the photo... His jaw dropped as he said, "Holy shit, that looks like it could kill an elephant! Do you really own one of those things?!" I replied, "Yeah, it's my baby." Then another classmate said, "It looks like a soviet-made AK-47" [rolleyes] to which I replied, "It's a post-ban AR-15 sport utility rifle." Then I heard, "Isn't that an Assault Rifle?" to which I replied, "No, assault rifles were banned in 1994, this doesn't have a flash hider and bayonet lug, so I can't stab people with it. Other than that it's identical to an assault rifle." Then on my way back to my seat several people's chairs mysteriously slid a little further away from my desk. I wonder why? I don't have a grade for it yet though. We'll see next tuesday. Also, I didn't care much about iambic pentameter because I suck as a poet in almost every way. I just decided to go with what first popped in my head and met the 10-syllable requirement with a pseudo-rhyming word at the end. I haven't got a clue as to how I could get it to flow better. So in theory the poem sucks. [:(] Then the professor asked us all what our reasons where for writing about our poem subjects. I said, "My intent was to frighten or piss off any readers on this predominantly liberal campus." And he responded, By the looks of your fellow classmates you've succeeded quite well... Or something to that effect. ***MISSION COMPLETE*** Now I just hope the grade is decent. |
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Quoted: Then the professor asked us all what our reasons where for writing about our poem subjects. I said, "My intent was to frighten or piss off any readers on this predominantly liberal campus." And he responded, By the looks of your fellow classmates you've succeeded quite well... Or something to that effect. LOL. I hope you get a decent grade though, at least the teacher will remember your name from now on. |
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Quoted: Well, I just got back from class. I'll tell you the responses I got were "Interesting" to say the least. |
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Quoted: Helldog40 - I must be lucky or something. There is a professor here who uses the machine shop to make 45-110 barrels for his 1886 Winchester collection. Matter of fact, I used to work a couple of hours a week for him using the equipment to sand rust off the pile of receivers he has stacked in a cabinet down there. Yes, there are flaming liberals here, but this being Michigan's upper peninsula, they are few and far between. Edit to say: Nice Sonnet! & Way to go! [:D] |
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Quoted: iNuhBaDNayburhood: You look a lot better in person than you do in that photo.[:D] Hope the date on saturday night went over better than the reaction you had in class today! Good luck with those grades! (by the way, nice shooting!) Thanks that was taken a month ago the day I got laid off! There's a bit more info on the original thread for the recent MN shoot we had regarding how the date went. Once again, thanks for coming, and also thank you for letting me blast some mags through your Bushy! The date went great, and that was one of the best days of my life. [:D] |
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I kind of feel bad for scaring the sh!t out of everyone in class, but it sure was fun doing it. I guess that even if I get an F on my Sonnet, it was only worth 10 points, and doesn't matter much. I am just happy that I got a chance to "Express Myself" in a CLA class (CLA == College of LIBERAL Arts within Univ of MN). HellDog, Thanks for the beer, but I'm pretty far away from NY. Sorry! [:)] JChewie, You are one REALLY lucky guy to have teachers that are even remotely OPEN to the IDEA of firearm ownership. Good luck in school JChewie & Maverick! |