RE: Wad shooting

[cwb@platinum.com (Clark Battle)]

>Steve Murrell wrote:
>I hate to take the edge off of this but the term "shoot your wad" or "I 
>shot my wad" originally is referenced to the days when muzzle loaders 
>(guns) used a "wad" of some type of cloth material to retain the charge 
>of gunpowder and shot in their guns.  Since it was a pain to reload, the 
>shooter was generally very careful not to waste his "wad" on a poor shot 
>or something not worth shooting (you get my meaning?).

Aww, thats no fun.  I prefer the more phallic allusion.  

I cant imagine us getting further off topic than this.  
Lets get back to looping...before my wad explodes :)

Clark