“Taking your bra off without removing your shirt” is the modern and slightly more risque version of “Taking your vest off without removing your jacket”. I remember seeing it in the old 1960s Time-Life book on Mathematics as an example of Topology in Action.
Of course, the “vest” version is the way a guy would look at it, back in the male-dominated world of math in the 1960s and earlier. Most male mathematicians probably didn’t wear bras. And if they did, they wouldn’t publicize it by doing a demonstration with one. Hence the vest/jacket.
Woman have undoubtedly been doing the bra/shirt thing a lot longer. If I had to wear a bra all day, I’m sure I would when I got home.
I read that Time-Life book too, and found a copy on eBay that I bought. Our twelve-year old granddaughter likes looking through it, and it probably inspired her to join the school’s math league.
You guys are mixing up things and combining two separate customs. A “gun” is not a rifle. A “gun” is a cannon or large artillery piece. A 21-gun salute involves 21 individual and distinct shots fired from a cannon or cannons. Regardless of how it is done, you will hear 21 booms. This is an honor reserved for the President, reigning monarch and heads of state. While a President’s funeral would involve a 21 gun salute, they are not limited to funerals–they are a “salute”, after all. Additionally, the firing of rifles during a Soldier’s funeral has nothing at all to do with a 21 gun salute. Those are rifles, not gun, after all. What you’re hearing during a Soldier’s funeral is something called a “3 Shot Volley”. The firing party can consist of not more than 8 and no fewer than 5 shooters. Regardless of how many shooters make up the firing party, you will hear only 3 booms. They all fire in unison, three distinct times. The number of people in the firing party has no significance. Having 7 present to shoot 3 times is not a “21 gun salute”, nor is having 8 a “24 gun salute”. It’s a three shot volley performed by a single firing party consisting of 5, 6, ,7 or 8 people total. The 3 shot volley is not a salute. It’s a tradition specific to funerals and goes back to signaling a pause in the fighting to allow both sides to remove dead from the battlefield.
Here’s one I see all the freakin’ time, and I just saw it in the trailer for the new scary doll movie “Megan”. Someone picks up a nail gun and uses as a weapon, shooting nails from a distance at the person they are fighting or defending themselves against.
Thing is though, you can’t do that-- nail guns have a sliding safety guard that you need to retract by pushing the nail gun against the thing you’re nailing, or else it won’t fire a nail. I’m sure there’s a way to override the safety, but in TV / movies someone is just picking up a nail gun as an improvised weapon while running through a construction site and using it without time to modify it at all.
Mrs. solost is no stranger to rolling up her sleeves and using a nail gun on a construction project, so this drives her crazy as well.
Interesting, although, it’s been awhile since I used a nail gun, but I don’t remember the guard being that easy to pull back with one hand while pulling the trigger with the other hand. Seems like it defeats the purpose. Maybe the guy in the video modified his nail guns to more easily do that…?
In Lethal Weapon 2 Murtaugh uses a nail gun against two baddies sent to kill him, but he presses the gun against their bodies when he pulls the trigger.
Too bad the nails they show sticking out of the guy aren’t nail gun nails.
Reviews of the film were not appreciative of the new approach. Most critics gave the director credit for trying an experimental technique but felt that it was a “gimmick”, and that the experiment had been a failure.
Supposedly, when filming Psycho, Hitchcock got pushback from the studio over the bathroom scene. Not because of the violent stabbing attack, or the blood circling the drain, but because it was the first film to show a flushing toilet.
At least that was more realistic than the nail gun scene in The Color of Night where not only is someone shot at a distance (nailing their hand to the wall) but with pinpoint accuracy. I’m no handyman, but even I know nail guns don’t have rifled barrels.
Similarly, in even the most realistic war movies, if there’s somebody with a flamethrower if they get shot just once they explode into a ball of flame.
IIRC even with multiple direct hits the tank won’t ignite since a bullet doesn’t cause a strong enough spark to ignite the liquid. You’d have to go out of your way to fire an incendiary bullet to get that kind of reaction which also isn’t that common a round.