Finnish Luger

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by stg44fan

Every SA with a Tikka barrel...

At the risk of alienating even more members here, I would request that you refer to it by its correct name: Tikkakoski (or at least its American equivalent/spelling).

We have several actual Finnish members here and they do take offense to the shortening of the name.

I believe (but can't prove) that shortening it causes it to be construed/confused as a crude Finnish curse...

Something like if a American barrel manufacturer named Dickinson were to be referred to as "a Dicked barrel"...

Or if a Luger from a well-known deceased member's collection were to be referred to as "that Shat Luger"...

I hope you get my drift...

Here's another illustration (a true one)...When I was in the Philly Naval Hospital back in '71, the head nurse in the neurosurgery ward was a full lieutenant named Patricia Woods. Very pretty and all business. The corpsmen would call her 'Woodie' behind her back, accompanied with grins & giggles. I never knew what that term meant until the arrival of the Internet (we used another term in WNY).

Now, would you want to be called/ known by a vulgar term??? Or your sister, or wife???

The man had an honorable name: Tikkakoski. Let's honor him by using it.