Imaginos
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I finally ran into some gun slang I had never encountered before.
Most of us are familiar with slang words like Gat, Roscoe, Rod, Heat, Heater, Chopper, etc. Most of them seem to come from the Roaring 20's and pulp detective novels.
In the movie "Sin City", the character Marv (played by Mickey Roarke) is going through his hardware inventory prior to taking down one of the bad guys, and he calls the name "Gladys" when the picture of his 1911 comes on the screen. Most of the dialog in this movie is classic Spillane, and done in the Sam Spade voice-over style. The reference to "Gladys" caught my attention because I had never heard it before in any of the old movies I have watched.
Anyone else had heard of "Gladys" being used in reference to a firearm prior to Sin City?
Most of us are familiar with slang words like Gat, Roscoe, Rod, Heat, Heater, Chopper, etc. Most of them seem to come from the Roaring 20's and pulp detective novels.
In the movie "Sin City", the character Marv (played by Mickey Roarke) is going through his hardware inventory prior to taking down one of the bad guys, and he calls the name "Gladys" when the picture of his 1911 comes on the screen. Most of the dialog in this movie is classic Spillane, and done in the Sam Spade voice-over style. The reference to "Gladys" caught my attention because I had never heard it before in any of the old movies I have watched.
Anyone else had heard of "Gladys" being used in reference to a firearm prior to Sin City?