Re: "That should do it" best line of the night.

<thelostguy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>> The trigger "clicking" on an autopistol with the slide obviously locked
> back
>> always bothers the hell out of me.
>
> It's just the average signal to the TV viewer that a weapon has run out
of
> ammo, regardless of the science or mechanics behind it. It's like how
> whenever a car runs out of gas on TV it always makes the same "clunka 
> clunka
> clunk" noise (didn't one of the Star Trek movies use that same effect
when
> Scotty sabotaged the engines on the Excelsior?).
>
> What's really humorous is those shows where the hero is holding full
auto
> rifle, like an M!6, and it makes a "click click click click click" noise

> when
> it runs out of ammo, as if some kind of motor is running inside the
thing
> frantically trying to fire an empty magazine.
>
> and then of course there's the "thwoop" noise that every single silenced
> firearm always make regardless of caliber.
>
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I've always liked the squealing tire wheels on a dirt road ...

Bob