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Why just the other day, I was wondering if I wanted to get a varmit rifle, a little .22 jobber, perhaps the one the breaks down and can be stored in its own stock, those are pretty cool.
Then I reminded myself that it is still better that all my guns are better off locked in a gun safe in the basement of house where no children live, more than a two hours drive away from me (cooloff distance) or buried at a similar distance in monitored circumstances.
I also realized I don't like shooting animals, but I do like shooting televisions at the dump, so I should have called it a television rifle. I'm still not getting one, but I did say varmint twice about two days ago as part of my ruminations, I didn't say ruminations.
please excuse the question but, well, I am after all a furriner -- is it a Southern usage? I could bet I had heard it recently watching an old movie, maybe a Preston Sturges one.
Yeah, I think of varmint as more western than Southern, but then I'm from Charleston, where varmints nevah, evah entah into the convehsation. I also just noted that I instinctively capitalize the South but not the west; this is also part of being from Charleston, I think. ;-)
I used the word three days ago whilst talking to my mother about the "dang armadillas" that were digging up her yard again. She's liberally sprinkled their holes with cayenne, which seems to keep them away for a month or so.
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