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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'''s Noisy Cricket, which doesn't look very nasty until it's fired.
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* The American [[Civil War]] brings us Pumpkin-Slingers (rifles with unusually heavy bullets), Donkey-Kickers (rifles that had a ''lot'' of recoil), and wormcastles and tacks (biscuits that are stale to the point of being harder than rocks).
** Nowadays, we call that "[[Discworld|Dwarf Bread]]".
*** Or ''[[The Lord of the Rings|cram]].''
* One of the anti-aircraft guns used on US naval ships was a 1.1 inch quad gun nicknamed "The Chicago Piano." Prior to that, "Chicago Piano" was a nickname for the Thompson Submachine gun.
** Or maybe, since the Tommy-gun is also known as "Chicago typewriter", the nickname was chosen to mean "bigger than a Tommy-gun".
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