Talk:Rex Applegate
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Should Rex Applegate be put in the "Knife makers" category?Isaac Crumm 03:48, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
- I'm not sure Applegate ever made any knives; I think, as a combat export, his role was primarily in the general design, with a bladesmith finalizing the design and building it. scot 17:17, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Sailors are not "Shanghai"-ed from Shanghai. They are Shanghai-ed onto merchant vessels for the long trip to shanghai from ports on the US Pacific Coast. It is an American term not a Chinese one.
- OK, I looked up the etymology and you are correct, it did come from the practice of kidnapping sailors to go to Shanghai. I always figured that the stereotypical sailor's desire for booze, bucks, and babes would have them flocking to Shanghai... I'll put in a few notes from Shanghai's history (opium trade, rebellion, and gansters) to justify that it was a nasty place to be a cop. scot 14:32, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
