Origin of "booger hook off the bang switch"?

[The Night Rider]

I think it's the dumbest expression I've ever heard in my life but it gets the point across.


I remember watching To Hell and Back with Audie Murphy a couple of years ago and every scene I saw him with a gun in he had his finger on the trigger.

Reed & Malloy almost always have their fingers on the trigger when they draw.

I definitely noticed it when I'm watching The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp because these guys are walking around with SAAs cocked and their finger on the trigger

There was a television show that was on for one season called Life on Mars. It was about a modern cop who somehow went back in time to the early 1970s in New York.

I remember one episode the opening scene all of the cops that he was working with in the '70s everybody was pointing their gun at something and all of the 70s cops had their fingers on the trigger and he had his indexed along the frame. It was meant to stand out to show that he wasn't from that era.

 

[CapnMac]

Unless action was eminent, even when semi-staged.
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Depending upon which of the three flag raisings on Suribachi that photo is from, there were, in fact, bullets coming "the other way" at the time.
Iwo Jima was a complicated campaign. The Summit of Suribachi was achieved before the entire mountain was secured.
One of my college professors was a Marine who was present for the first Raising--some of his stories were, to choose a word carefully, "interesting."

 

[lysanderxiii]

Depending upon which of the three flag raisings on Suribachi that photo is from, there were, in fact, bullets coming "the other way" at the time.
Iwo Jima was a complicated campaign. The Summit of Suribachi was achieved before the entire mountain was secured.
One of my college professors was a Marine who was present for the first Raising--some of his stories were, to choose a word carefully, "interesting."

Hence the phrase "semi-staged" . . . .

 

[CapnMac]

Hence the phrase "semi-staged" . . . .

The history is all over the place on that. Joe Rosenthal complained at the time (the 3rd raising with the #2 size National Ensign SecNav had sent up) was not staged at all, and he had to "snap" shoot his Pulitzer Prize winning photo with no "safety" shots at all.

The first flag up was a #7 or #6, and there's only a few photos of it flying, and the flag is barely in most of those.
The Second Flag was a #4 or #5 size, and was sent up by the Regimental Commander, all the photos of that one are happenstance (enemy fires were still occurring at the time).
The Third Flag has a bunch of very boring staged photos, but none are the iconic one. The Official Navy photographer got a good series of the second flag, wrapped on its pole being carried down the hill back to Rgmt HQ.

There have been multiple reports of other Raisings, both contemporary and after the fact, and from several sides of the mountain. Typically there are no photos of any of these. And far too many are written off as "soldier's tales."

History is weird.

It's almost never remembered right on the spot, and even if it is, others from other vantage points often remember it in the ways that make it into the history books.

SecNav wanted a staged, set-piece photo of "his" flag on Suribachi--and got those. Not one of which is remembered today.

Much like how "the Four Rules" are almost considered a given, but really only cropped up in relatively recent times.
Such is life.
Look at how quickly the Eddie Eagle Child Safety Rules faded from being common.

 

[W.E.G.]

 

[shafter]

I hate that expression and hear it all the time.