Trivia of the Day - Scuttlebutt

"Scuttlebutt" was actually the ancestor of office "water cooler gossip". On sailing ships, water for the crew was dolled out from a barrel with a hole or tap in it (a "Butt" being a barrel of around 120 gals and a "Scuttle" was a hole). Just as with the water cooler, it was a logical place to exchange gossip with your coworkers. The scuttlebutt pictured is from the USS Constitution which is naturally the oldest commissioned United States Navy Warship. In Fact water fountains are still called scuttlebutts aboard Navy ships to this day. You Can Thank Me Later

Lamborghini LM002

Yes the Italian supercar manufacturer made a 4x4 - with a v12 engine no less.

It was originally built to try to get the contract for what would become the Hummv-Hummer.

Let's see "go-anywhere" capability coupled with 1980's Italian reliability what's not

to like.  Muamar Quaddafi odered 100.

Trivia of the day

The Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver in .455 and .38 Cal

Featured in the movie "Zardoz" as Sean Connery's Revolver and also the gun which killed

Sam Spade's partner Miles Archer in "The Maltese Falcon" (for extra credit the gun in the 

movie is incorrectly  identified by Bogie as an 8 shot .45 cal automatic.  The .455 model in reality

had a six shot cylinder - though the .38 cal does have an 8 shot capacity).  The terms automatic

and revolver are usually mutually exclusive, but Webley is an exception because of it's unique

mechanism.  Essentially, the weapon is cocked by pulling back on the hammer which slides the

entire top half of the revolver - barrel, cylinder and hammer rearward and then releasing it.

When the pistol is fired the recoil force drives the barrel, cylinder, hammer assembly rearward

again.  During the fore and back motion, a stud in the lower section which rides in the grooves in

the cylinder rotates the cylinder to the next round ready to fire again.  Aside from rapid firing

one benefit of the unusual design is improved accuracy versus a normal revolver.  To make

things a bit more odd, the revolver also uses a "break top" reloading scheme (see the last image).

Production ceased in 1918 and fewer than 5k were made.