# 1920's Style Death Ray **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/442733 "2008-03-25T22:25:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/442733/61 "2008-03-28T12:31:05Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] although they subsequently found out that it was actually the V-2 ballistic missile. [/QUOTE] Probably that nomative and accusative case stuff I ran afoul off in German 1300 and that Mark Twain wrote of in _The Damned German Language._ Regarding peas: “I am going to buy her. I am going to boil him. I am going to eat it.” ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/442733/62 "2008-03-28T12:55:31Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > I wonder if this device (what was it called again?) was developed in Texas, or perhaps in one of the adjoining Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, or Tamaulipas. Since when did Mexico start sharing a border with Texas. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/442733/63 "2008-03-28T18:29:27Z")
Mexico is always willing to share. Texas isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/442733/64 "2008-03-28T20:27:21Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > Mexico is always willing to share. Texas isn’t. Darn right. I mean we took it away from them in the first place, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/442733/65 "2008-03-28T20:44:29Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Probably that nomative and accusative case stuff I ran afoul off in German 1300 and that Mark Twain wrote of in _The Damned German Language._ Regarding peas: “I am going to buy her. I am going to boil him. I am going to eat it.” [/QUOTE] Meanwhile in French _le vagin_ is the masculine noun for the most definitely female organ. :smack: No, we just picked up some cryptic messages about “a devastating weapon… with which we {Germans} ourselves could not be attacked” and didn’t know what to make of it, and although we put rockets on the list of possibles, they were some way below death rays or engine-stopping rays. There was this highly optimistic scheme involving a giant orbital solar mirror, a truly fearsome plan with only one or two minor drawbacks… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/442733/66 "2008-03-28T20:54:56Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] Meanwhile in French _le vagin_ is the masculine noun for the most definitely female organ. [/QUOTE] …but that’s just on Tuesdays, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/442733.md?page=3)