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For those that know, how did the ankle piece get its nickname "Roscoe"?
« on: Yesterday at 03:44:32 AM »
Got a mental itch here today. Only you can scratch it. I suspect I could "Google it", but that seems ritually unclean when an eye-witness may lurk among us.
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Re: For those that know, how did the ankle piece get its nickname "Roscoe"?
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 05:10:48 AM »
As I remember, which isn't much of a qualifier, it was a book about police and one of the main characters called his backup gun "Roscoe."  The name or tern "Roscoe Rules" fits in their somewhere.  I know that's not much help, but I can Tell you I named my backup gun "Roscoe" after that.  Ask my kids who Roscoe is and they will tell you "It's Dad's little revolver."
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Re: For those that know, how did the ankle piece get its nickname "Roscoe"?
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 05:13:27 AM »
Darn you!  ::)  I had to Google it after my last post!   ;D
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Re: For those that know, how did the ankle piece get its nickname "Roscoe"?
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Re: For those that know, how did the ankle piece get its nickname "Roscoe"?
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 12:42:27 PM »
I called my backup pistol a new york reload.
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Re: For those that know, how did the ankle piece get its nickname "Roscoe"?
« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 05:36:23 PM »
 I recall a popular phrase from my years of living in Texas..   It was applied when somebody speaks too rapidly..or acts a bit to quickly or imprudently for the situation...

  It went.... "Hey now, just wait a New York minute".   :D ;D
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