Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
It survives to this day, as he had given it to his son in 1835 prior to his departing Kentucky for Texas, and now resides in the Alamo Museum collection in San Antonio.
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Boone supposedly called it by this moniker because he could shoot a tick off an animal without harming the animal.
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Biter - what the Orcs called Thorin Oakenshield’s sword
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Biter - what the Orcs called Thorin Oakenshield’s sword
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - four training cannons used by the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Biter - what the Orcs called Thorin Oakenshield’s sword
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - four training cannons used by the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Biter - what the Orcs called Thorin Oakenshield’s sword
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - four training cannons used by the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War
Excalibur - magical sword wielded by King Arthur
Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy - Atomic bombs from the Manhattan Project
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Biter - what the Orcs called Thorin Oakenshield’s sword
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - four training cannons used by the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War
Excalibur - magical sword wielded by King Arthur
Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy - Atomic bombs from the Manhattan Project
Krona - the sword that was broken, then hastily reglued, in Bored of the Rings
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Biter - what the Orcs called Thorin Oakenshield’s sword
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - four training cannons used by the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War
Excalibur - magical sword wielded by King Arthur
Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy - Atomic bombs from the Manhattan Project
Krona - the sword that was broken, then hastily reglued, in Bored of the Rings
Green Destiny - fabled sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Biter - what the Orcs called Thorin Oakenshield’s sword
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - four training cannons used by the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War
Excalibur - magical sword wielded by King Arthur
Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy - Atomic bombs from the Manhattan Project
Krona - the sword that was broken, then hastily reglued, in Bored of the Rings
Green Destiny - fabled sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Manager - the hotelier’s shotgun wielded at the eponymous inn in the film The Blue Iguana
Weapons That Had Their Own Individual, Specific Nickname (not a type-based nickname like P-38 ‘Lightning’ or Germany’s WWII ‘potato masher’ stick grenade)
Old Betsy – Davy Crockett’s .40-caliber flintlock rifle
Joyeuse - Charlemagne’s sword
Lucrezia Borgia - Buffalo Bill Cody’s Springfield .50 caliber rifle.
Curtana (The Sword of Mercy) - Blunt-tipped sword used in British coronations
Old Tick Licker - Daniel Boone’s long rifle
Biter - what the Orcs called Thorin Oakenshield’s sword
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - four training cannons used by the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute in the Civil War
Excalibur - magical sword wielded by King Arthur
Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy - Atomic bombs from the Manhattan Project
Krona - the sword that was broken, then hastily reglued, in Bored of the Rings
Green Destiny - fabled sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Manager - the hotelier’s shotgun wielded at the eponymous inn in the film The Blue Iguana
Needle - Arya Stark’s training sword from Game of Thrones
A caramel & cashew brazil nut ice cream with a chocolate hazelnut fudge swirl & roasted almonds. Retired in 2001.
Just so there’s no confusion, we thought we oughtta warn ya:
Wavy Gravy isn’t dead - He lives in California.
No such luck for Wavy’s flavor. But we’ve been wrong before,
We won’t give up the ghost if you won’t, So what’re you waiting for? (from the ‘tombstone’ in the B&J’s Flavor Graveyard)
And a bit of trivia … When Jerry Garcia passed away, Ben & Jerry’s modified the “Cherry Garcia” flavor by switching to black cherries instead of red ones.