The Sci Fi Catholic Yak Module
Feb 19 is the 15 yr. anniversary of the release of "Army of Darkness"! Great ways to celebrate include:
1. Taking some Deadites down to the boom-stick range.
2. Watching the movie with a big pile of Chinese take-out.
3. Nominating this blog for Best New Catholic blog.
Who's with me?
Okay, I'm a doofus. Not a New Catholic blog, but still plenty o' opportunity there. Must get more sleep.....
Evil Dead rule!! And Bruce Campbell will always be a hunk in my eyes..
I've already had my allotment of Chinese take-out for the month...but I'll take you up on watching the movie..it will probably be this Sat after my brain has been totally fried from a Calculus exam.. 
However..if all goes well and I have found favor with the birthday fairie I'll be getting a NEW boom-stick for my birthday.. Some Deadites would be perfect to break it in... I am favoring a Glock 9mm..perfect ladies' companion
Sara--Yes, I got my .30-.30 Winchester for my 30th birthday, and it was way better than a cake. The only sad thing about 15 yrs. of "Army of Darkness" is that when I think about the details of that weekend, I hafta go say some Rosaries....
Ah Xena.. 15 years ago... that's all Previous Life stuff I'm not into continuous mortifications for Previous Life stuff. Sex, drugs, rock and roll....what can I say?? One particular nice thing about being female--you know EXACTLY how many babies you've had
You know what though...my AK-47 does need to be sighted in..your .30-.30 probably does too..and I'm thinking of a particular snotty little dragon that it would be GREAT fun to watch tap-dance through a firing range
Shoot s dragon?!?!? Never!! I'm strictly a traditionalist on this point. Office equipment is quiite another story.....
Shooting dragons is okay, as you will learn from Frank Peretti's The Oath. However, be warned that the bullets will not harm the dragon--the force of the impact will dissipate along the dragon's scales, creating a cool ripple effect. The bullets will, however, tick the dragon off.
Tradition is the living faith of the dead; i.e., if Beowulf and Sigismund could do it with a spear, I can do it with a spear! (Cue Rocky I music, crane shoot, chain-mail clad barbarian rushes up long flight of steps toting massive spear and collapses gasping on top; red-cross marked medics intervene.)
Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living; i.e., if the IBM isn't good for what it's supposed to be good for, then it's worth being riddled a bit to fix those sights (Cue Tremors music, fixed shot, slo-mo of major caliber bullet winding downrange, cut to mainframe perched on target stand, spray-painted with exorcistic logos, which explodes tremendously as bullet hits it).
Now now..I NEVER said any thing about SHOOTING him....more along the lines of a friendly little game of "dodge the bullet."...kind of like what the squirrels do on our firing range I personally think the squirrels DO get together with their buddies and say "I double-dog DARE you to run across there. A twelve-pack of acorns if you make it" And about 99 percent of them do..which may say alot about our marksmen. Or that they're really not INTENTIONALLY trying to hit the squirrel, just kicking up a little dirt.
If there's a dragon on the shooting range, how can one NOT shoot him, even if one is trying to miss? I mean, even if you can't hit the broad side of the barn ("I got one with a bent barrel!"), you can still hit the broad side of a dragon; it's rather broader than the barn, after all. (No offense, Snuffles.)
Excuse me, I weigh a modest, svelte six tons. You do the math and decide if you think I'm the size of a barn.
As for shooting dragons, I confess it is not strictly against Tradition, as long as you are doing it with an exploding crossbow bolt and are aiming for the mouth. According to Reign of Fire, that's even more effective than a tactical nuke. Nothing beats an exploding crossbow bolt, unless it's a wizard who blows up when you smash his crystal; that's also an effective weapon against dragons.
Six TONS!!??! Pardon me...from the photo of you perched coyly on Deej's shoulder I thought you were one of those cute little pocket dragons that probably weigh in at a mere six ounces. Photoshop can do marvelous things can't it?? So you're more along the lines of the dragon in Shrek?? (Although female dragons favoring donkeys is an entirely diffferent thread--I think that speaks VOLUMES about MALE dragons Yeah--I'd have to be MAJORLY hung over to miss--and probably shouldn't be handling firearms anyway... Nothing to fear..I'm terrible with any kind of archery equipment.
As I said, Snuffles, no offense. Flex 'em if ya got 'em. Those of us who strain to have in our handgrip the strength of a mere two or three ordinary men can only envy the providence that graces such massive physique with such wit - and such fatal breath.
As for despatching dragons, my preferred method is learned from Polymetes himself: sneak a barrel of homemade gunpowder into a deer's hide and trick the dragon into engulfing it, and then duck behind something really solid, like, for example, the castle in the next duchy.
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