Comments on: High Tea=High Noon

High Tea=High Noon

Stephen Elliott — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:25:42 -0800

Among fine manners and fine china one must pack tasteful heat.

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:33:59 -0800

a quandary between the pleasure of luxury and violence. That's not a decision I believe James Bond ever had to make with his PPK.

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:34:57 -0800

You can still pistol-whip someone with it. But you only get to do it once.

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:56:19 -0800

I can't imagine that these would be functional, but I would have really wanted to put one of these on my wedding registry.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:58:45 -0800

It's a sissy gun.

By: annaramma

annaramma — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:05:52 -0800

As the owner of both a flintlock and a full set of Limoges, this seems like the perfect addition to my collection. And by collection, I mean the barely-controlled crapfest that is my house.

By: winks007

winks007 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:06:23 -0800

Cool, I don't get it...but cool.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:08:24 -0800

I was hoping for it being multiple parts at least. I was kind curious how to rifle a porcelain pistol barrel and I wanted to see the trigger move. As usual, I have sets my sights for the ceramic arts too high.

By: rageagainsttherobots

rageagainsttherobots — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:10:05 -0800

Mitch Leary would be proud.

By: Uppity Pigeon #2

Uppity Pigeon #2 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:16:28 -0800

Flagged as "Containing Assful of Class."

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:16:55 -0800

And thus began the PorcelainPunk age.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:18:01 -0800

Red wine with the fish please!

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:18:55 -0800

Burhanistan - better than the berreta.

By: hortense

hortense — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:22:53 -0800

Bailey Arms Company.

By: ...possums

...possums — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:23:54 -0800

You can have my china when you pry it from my cold dead hand!

By: jkaczor

jkaczor — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:49:05 -0800

All this wonk about fine china pistols on that site, and you totally missed the chocolate guns?

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:02:35 -0800

This is one time you should bring a knife to the gunfight.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:35:40 -0800

No. The guns should be silver with grips to match the flatwear. How gauche.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:55:07 -0800

And thus began the PorcelainPunk age. "It's like my body's developed this massive tea deficiency." It was a Statfordshire voice, and a Staffordshire joke. The maids porcelein arm tinged rhythmically as he dusted the finely stained mahogany desk. It was an original job from China, not one of the cheap knock-offs would could buy at the docks in Holland from a sketchy Puritan saw bones.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:02:53 -0800

I really wish I had more time to think about that, but it could totally be done.

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:18:17 -0800

i was really hoping these were for sale. they wouldn't be that hard to mass-produce

By: mosk

mosk — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:25:24 -0800

This is not the first time porcelain weapons have been featured in the Blue. Pistols? Ho hum. Porcelain grenades and submachine guns are where it's at.

By: orme

orme — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:27:56 -0800

This is the kind of gun my grandma carries. She has a nice cozy holster.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:29:43 -0800

empath - The same trick appears to be a lot harder to pull off with the opening paragraphs of The Difference Engine.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:56:59 -0800

Do they come with the little wire thingies for wall-mounting?

By: msconduct

msconduct — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:17:06 -0800

that's not tasteful heat ... THIS is tasteful heat!

By: Ron Thanagar

Ron Thanagar — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:16:37 -0800

Looks like a bullnose pistol in a china shop.

By: happyroach

happyroach — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:24:37 -0800

I wish I had a couple of these at the tea party I hosted last month. As it was, I ended up diving back into the kitchen as the guests rushed the table for the raspberry petit fours.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:57:31 -0800

I think this is from a novel, so it may be pure bullshit, but I've read about ceramic guns--special ceramic as strong as steel, but won't trip a metal detector.

By: Artw

Artw — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:06:34 -0800

Are you not thinking of "In the Line of Fire", with Clint Eastwood?

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:12:39 -0800

I don't know about guns, but there's been a lot of engineering effort thrown at ceramic internal combustion engines over the years -- they've been just around the corner for as long as I can remember. The idea being that they wouldn't need cooling systems so they'd be more efficient. But the strength and wear properties are never quite right, and lubricating with conventional oils is a problem with the high temperatures involved. Here's an overview of one approach that would use graphite-like carbon depositing produced by streaming the engine's own exhaust over the wear surfaces.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:43:47 -0800

flatwear. How gauche. Do Not Need. I don't want a "feminized" non-shooting gun, thanks. A toy gun that doesn't even go click or bang? It's to "keep nice," huh? Guns... I feminize them when I shoot them. Such is the intensity of my double-x knockerriffic fatal femminess. They turn you gay if you use them after moi. If you're a lady already you grow a third boob. Yeah.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:56:49 -0800

The scent and smoke and sweat of a tea shop are nauseating at three in the afternoon.

By: rhymer

rhymer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:28:35 -0800

Seconding Mosk. It's a neat idea. But it's also an idea that the artist Charles Krafft had first and these are a bit too similar. Perhaps Ms Yvonne Schultz was "inspired by" Mr Krafft's work.

By: zengargoyle

zengargoyle — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:50:55 -0800

My gun is cooler than yours.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:24:30 -0800

If this were to replace Steampunk, the world would be a better place.

By: Saddo

Saddo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:43:54 -0800

The film with the porcelain guns is "Die Hard 2": used as an explanation for how they passed the metal detectors (glocks if I remember right). Not that you could'nt smuggle a real gun onto a plane whilst still having your tweezers and water confiscated.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:01:52 -0800

saddo, you're right, I think it's from Die Hard 2. But is it really bullshit?

By: Nick Verstayne

Nick Verstayne — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:11:47 -0800

Yup, Die Hard 2, in the early scene at the airport - After the firefight, John McClain tells a cop that "That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me" he goes on to explain that a Glock 7 is a porcelain gun, undetectable by airport scanners, and costs more than the cop makes in a month. The hype about Glocks exploded in the US thereafter. There is no ceramic Glock. There is no Glock 7. They do contain polymer in the frame and handgrip, but the barrel, slide and trigger assembly are steel - more than 70% of the pistol if I remember correctly (I own one). They are certainly detectable by conventional scanners. Very many modern handguns are now polymer framed.

By: 1f2frfbf

1f2frfbf — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:46:37 -0800

Ceramic weapons? Psssh, old hat.