Attention Clip Nazis!

[mp510]

I know you guys just love it when a poster here calls a magazine a clip. You make it clear how non-interchangeable the terms must be. Before I showed you that Marlin calls them clip-magazines. Then I found this gem that I bought for a Remington model 581 .22LR bolt action rifle---

You'll notice they call it a clip. If that term is good enough for the oldest name in American firearms, some you folks should lighten up on folks who choose the same.

 

[BHP FAN]

Have you noticed how they're labeling 'DUCT' tape as 'DUCK' tape now? It's still not an accurate term.

 

[MikePGS]

It should read "Extra Magazine".

 

[BHP FAN]

Bingo.

 

[jnyork]

Magazine!! Magazine!! Magazine!! :banghead:

 

[BHP FAN]

A 'clip' is used to LOAD your magazine.Someone show them a picture so they know what they're talking about....

 

[Clipper]

The packaging is small, so they can either use the proper term, and use much smaller, harder-to-see print, or use the wrong term (which just encourages the ignorant to parrot it), which allows larger (read 'more likely to grab the target customer's attention') print. It's not correct, but it is business...

 

[Mello]

When you have enough misuse of a word, the meaning changes to include the misuse. An example of a word that is often misused is decimate.

The original definition of decimate meant to reduce by exactly one tenth. Many people misuse it to mean devastate. Since English is living language it is subject to change. If you look up decimate:

1: to select by lot and kill every tenth man of
2: to exact a tax of 10 percent from <poor as a decimated Cavalier — John Dryden>
3 a: to reduce drastically especially in number <cholera decimated the population>
b: to cause great destruction or harm to <firebombs decimated the city> <an industry decimated by recession>

http://www.merriam-webster.com

 

[Babarsac]

Strange I always thought it was duck tape...quack.

 

[boogity8k]

nothing like reading a good magizine.

 

[Officers'Wife]

I will send a strongly worded letter to Remington Corp demanding an immediate recall of the mislabeled product.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

The Duck brand is the only one that can be called "duck tape."

"ut there's them as likes lotsa ca'tridges in the clip." - Col. Charles Askins

 

[texas bulldog]

i didn't realize that pointing out the correct firearm terminology put one on an equal level with nazis. seems like we're cheapening the tenets of national socialism.

 

[davera]

As the sainted R. Lee Ermey said "the clip loads the magazine and the magazine loads the gun!"

 

[MikePGS]

i didn't realize that pointing out the correct firearm terminology put one on an equal level with nazis. seems like we're cheapening the tenets of national socialism.

:Chuckles: that is definitely one of my pet peeves (people saying someone is a nazi when they aren't) but I just try as hard as I can not to bring it up

 

[sturmgewehr667]

that just proves that remington has no idea what they are talking about



GARANDS TAKE CLIPS, YEA, I SAID GARANDS!!!!

 

[scottgun]

I blame it on the liberal use of words.

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

You have to admit, there are plenty of people (by no means confined to this forum) who interject themselves into a thread purely for the purpose of saying "It's a magazine, not a clip!!!"

 

[Oro]

:Chuckles: that is definitely one of my pet peeves (people saying someone is a nazi when they aren't) but I just try as hard as I can not to bring it up

Yeah, there's even a name for it. It's called "Godwin's Rule" or "Godwin's Law."

Which states that any internet discussion, given enough time, will eventually mention Nazis. The corollary is that the first person to invoke Nazis automatically loses the debate because of the sheer failure of their discourse skills.

By that respected internet standard, it seems in this case the OP managed to lose his argument in his original post. Very impressive.

 

[Mikee Loxxer]

You have to realize that Remington likely knows that the correct term is magazine. They are simply marketing to the public which they are aware consistently use incorrect terminology. I can imagine someone in their marketing deparment being fearful of a customer seeing an item label "magazine" on a shelf and turning away while thinking to himself "but I am looking for a clip."

Words really do have meanings. Words being misused consistently is akin to a sharp tool being made dull.

 

[sturmgewehr667]

what does this have to do with nazism???

this annoys me as much as the phrase "grammar nazi"

 

[Fleetwood_Captain]

When I first read this I thought you were talking about the other "Clip Nazis.'"

The guys that were selling used AR mags at the gun shows for $8, then triple their prices after the 08' election. Of course there have always been people think their used magazines are worth more than what new ones cost.

Then again, maybe their "designer" magazines.

I guess if Abercrombie can sell jeans with holes in them for a premium, scuffed up magazines should too.

 

[Tom488]

Had Hannibal used the correct terminology, BA never would have passed out in the middle of a firefight.

 

[rcmodel]

Just because Remington. Marlin, Cabala's and others are hiring young industrial art grads fresh out of collage to design thier packaging, who don't know the first thing about proper firearms terminology, doesn't make it right.

rc

 

[Matt-J2]

I thought it was going to be some other sort of clip, what with it being capitalized and all, like a proper noun.


I do have an army of paperclips poised to wage war and commit genocide against all blue Post-it Notes. Does that make me a Clip Nazi?