So I get this email from PA with this Subject... Marauder is dead. Long live the Marauder! which takes you to the PA page... http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Benjamin_Marauder_Air_Rifle/1774?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Marauder+is+dead.+Long+live+the+Marauder%21&utm_content=02%2F07%2F2014&utm_campaign=Marauder+is+dead.+Long+live+the+Marauder%21 (http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Benjamin_Marauder_Air_Rifle/1774?utm_source=bm23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Marauder+is+dead.+Long+live+the+Marauder%21&utm_content=02%2F07%2F2014&utm_campaign=Marauder+is+dead.+Long+live+the+Marauder%21)
... for the new MRod
Seems strange to call the original, best received PCP rifle ever made... "Dead"? Isn't that a comment on all of the poor "saps" who bought the orig MRod?
I don't get it PA, new and much improved, ya, previous model Dead? Bad choice of words. >:(
Maybe Josh had an off day when that got approved.
Same advertisement/propaganda/spin team that McNamara used when he did the Edsel. :D
Carl
We may be just a few of the CAPOF team old enough to remember that, and the Edsel too. Long live push-button shifters!
Quote from: BDS on February 07, 2014, 08:49:29 PM
We may be just a few of the CAPOF team old enough to remember that, and the Edsel too. Long live push-button shifters!
Why doesn't this forum have a 'Like' button? :-*
Carl
:D ;D ;D
Ya dude.. you guys are like.. livin in the 80's ok?
Now fix my gun for me ;)
"Kids, I don't know what's wrong with these kids today."
From the movie Bye Bye Birdie, a 1963 film, based on the stage musical of 1960. Some of Broadway's most memorable songs come from this satire of Elvis Presley's army induction. Conrad Birdie, the teenage idol, is drafted and agrees to sing a farewell song to a devoted fan on TV. Songs include "Kids," "Put on a Happy Face," "We Love You, Conrad."
Sigh...
Carl
"We Love You, Conrad." Oh yes we do-ooh...
Carl you made me dredge-up some oldies and run e'm thru the scanner.. here goes :-*
And a couple more, including some 220 pound Marine when most of it was chest and legs, not his belly!
Man oh man, Brian, this thread is getting older and older and stranger and stranger and our ages are showing big time.
We now return control of this thread to the "Strange Crosman Ad" and leave the "Strange World of Brian and Carl" far, far behind in the near distant future. :D
Carl
Agree... the gold-diggers must be 80 yrs old by now? :o :( >:( :-*
Quote from: BDS on February 07, 2014, 11:42:07 PM
Agree... the gold-diggers must be 80 yrs old by now? :o :( >:( :-*
LIKE - LIKE - LIKE - LIKE - LIKE - LIKE - LIKE - LIKE - LIKE - LIKE
Carl
Roger dat over and out
There was/is a thread over on the Crosman "Green" with that "Dead" theme to it. Think it was started by Chip at Crosman.
Point being the original Marauder will be history, look at the "new, improved" upgraded Marauder. :-*
Cheers.
I saw that too and thought it was just a play on words. But yes your right the only thing I can see they did was change the wood stock with and adjustable cheek piece and added the mod that has been around for years....the depinger! Heck I never did the depinger thinking it was an issue quite honestly. As far as the stock goes...............well I have a Boyds Blaster thumbhole by Discos R Us which still makes the new version coming rather dismal.
I am sure they will sell plenty. They still should offer that rifle in a well received wood thumbhole personally. That is why I bought the stock for my M-Rod.
It's a reference to the traditional phrase used during the ascension of a new king (the king is dead, long live the king!... Le roi est mort, vive le roi!)... it isn't disrespectful of the old king (he was the father of the new king, after all, and just died), but it proclaims that his son continues to rule, all in one sentence (hence the string of the monarch's reign is never broken).
Hence, re-applied to the M-Rod, it just means the old one was the king, and his son is now the new king... so no disrespect!
Quote from: fasteddy on February 08, 2014, 11:55:11 PM
It's a reference to the traditional phrase used during the ascension of a new king (the king is dead, long live the king!... Le roi est mort, vive le roi!)... it isn't disrespectful of the old king (he was the father of the new king, after all, and just died), but it proclaims that his son continues to rule, all in one sentence (hence the string of the monarch's reign is never broken).
Hence, re-applied to the M-Rod, it just means the old one was the king, and his son is now the new king... so no disrespect!
Exactly fasteddy!!!!! Rock&Roll is dead, Punk is dead, Hip Hop is dead, and so on...that new marauder looks really sweet!
Burrrrrp. Pass me another beer please, while I read this thread again. Bye, bye, birdy. Splat! :o
Quote from: mudduck48 on August 19, 2015, 05:12:57 AM
Burrrrrp. Pass me another beer please, while I read this thread again. Bye, bye, birdy. Splat! :o
;D ;D :D
Quote from: BDS on February 07, 2014, 08:49:29 PM
We may be just a few of the CAPOF team old enough to remember that, and the Edsel too. Long live push-button shifters!
Had a '63' Plymouth Belvedere with a push button trans. Had it out on a moonlit wet hayfield one night. Wind it up in low, crank the wheel, push drive and it's like the tilt-a-whirl. The girls really liked that action.
Now if you could have found the girl button to push. ;) ;)
Dies ist kein normales Gespräch für eine Ente. :)
This is less normal conversation for someone, duck? ???