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• pistol: [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  C++ makes that harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup...
• Having high aims in life makes it a bit more possible to shoot yourself in the knee, rather than in the foot.
• Too little sex makes you repeat yourself redundantly.
• Fighting the war with a starter pistol / water pistol /
• I'm as bored as a pacifist's pistol.
• It is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.
  -- real standing law in Louisana, United States of America...
• Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? -- Mae We