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Found an online video of show I saw.

It is not the full length, just the highlights but still not for the faint of bandwidth.

http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoaftMYP.html

Best,
Mark

Perhaps it does - or did. In French, baril has been a term for a barrel since the early days when guns were made with "barrels." And barillet is still French for the cylinder of a revolver, the diminutive suggesting that baril may at some time past have been a French term for gun barrel.

Jamie is still trying to find his ball! :-)

JC(AL)

BTW Jim, the name thing does not work in Spanish (cañón vs. barril) nor in German (lauf vs. barrel).

JC(AL)

I read once that the term "son of a gun" derived from the old (probably British) navy, when exceedingly friendly women were at times allowed to live below decks while a warship was in port. Of course, heavy cannon were very much a part of the furniture, and the sailors were at ease on and around them. In this environment, so many youngsters were conceived atop a 24-pounder that the term "son of a gun" came to describe them. As with most slang, the original, highly "colorful" meaning has nearly been lost, and society has adopted the term as a safe replacement for less acceptable phrases. How many times had I said "Well I'll be a son of a gun"! before I'd ever heard that story? TT

I thought it came from the term 'shotgun wedding'.

TT:

Version I heard the little "gunners" were conceived during perfectly respectable conjugal visits in lieu of shore liberty. Don't know how "respectable it got tween decks and afore mast in the RN; probably pretty Falstaffian.

jack

I thought you were a "sonofagun" if your "pappy was a pistol". I had some trouble trying to prove anything using the Babel Fish transation site. However the box my Beretta came in calls it a "canna" or "canne". The word "cannon", in English, likely came from this origin, as well. Cannon being the augmentative(larger) form of canna or canne, which some in those countries used for barrel, as we use it.

I'm about to enjoy a nice cup of tea and a cannoli, an Italian pastry in the shape of a tube and filled with sweet cream.

My grandmothers special holiday dish was cannelloni, tubular pasta filled with cheese and baked.

Both of which stem from the Latin cannula, a diminutive form of the Latin word canna, a family of plants with hollow tubular stem, cane or bamboo.

Finally got to use those 3 years of Latin.

According to a recent show on the discovery channel, (good work james) the Chinese did invent gunpowder but it wasn't for guns. It was invented for firecrackers. So back then they might have called it something different?? How about BAA-SHING!!! Get it? Beishing? ROTFLOL!! Gosh I crack myself up!!