Talk:Son of a gun

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This looks more like a definition of a slang term than an encyclopedia entry, so I think this belongs in Wiktionary. LudwigVan 06:52, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I would suggest moving this to the Wiktionary (how does one do this?) or deleting this. Madman 21:17, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

wow this article is complete bullshit, awesome

[edit] Alternate possible origination

An alternative explanation, first heard in Hong Kong from British friends, was that the term derived from pre-modern warships - where sailors had their hammocks strung among the broadside cannons. Children who were the product of these sailors [whether conceived on board in the sailor's living quarters - 'at the guns' - or on land] were bastards and never knew their fathers. Thus it was an expletive commenting on the person's birth and only tangentially on the nature of the person's mother [rather than 'son of a bitch/dog'.]

Then of course you have the old story of a bullet flying through a testicle and into a woman's uterus, impregnating her. Perhaps this is younger?

Anyway we never hear about 'daughters of a gun'.Can anyone explain this?

Son of a gun rhymes. Daughter of a gun doesn't. M0ffx 20:58, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

One unconfirmed fable says the meaning of son of a gun comes from American Civil War times, when a bullet passed through a soldier's scrotum, passing through him into a woman nearby, and lodged into the woman's ovaries, depositing the sperm, thus impregnating her and bestowing on her unborn child the phrase of "son of a gun". This is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Where the hell did this 'fable' come from? --81.79.131.141 21:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)