Added to list: Add a line to the "3" on my car so it's a Mercedes-Benz BOOD. No, I don't know what a bood is, but I guarantee you that car looks like one.

I only buy farm-raised Bantha, or organic mossfed Tauntaun at a pinch.

Wow. Just wow.

Typo alert in title: Esty/Etsy.

Well, Benjamin would have the cannon vs. howitzer wiggle room on the topic of auto-loading, if there hadn't been bigger autoloaders in the past (like the one in the Mosquito XVIII and the 40mm semi-autoloader in the AC-130. He'd still be wrong, but less wrong. Overall weight of apparatus, the GAU-8 might still win…

They built the P-39 Airacobra pretty much directly around and for its 37mm Oldsmobile cannon, but it didn't really come into its own until we gave it to Ivan.

Here's a render of the standard version of the P108. Other than the P108A, WalterMoore seems correct that the 75mm in the US B-25 Mitchell is the largest in forward fire, tied with a variant of the Henschel 129:

The largest in bore in a forward firing position seems to have been an experimental Italian bomber, a variant of the Piaggio P-108. 102mm.

Holy crap, I was wrong: the Eye Ties made a 102mm. Seemy response to Robert Fuchs.

Yeah, the gun mechanism vs. gun caliber/muzzle energy is ripe for lively debate. Any of the "Big'uns" that are auto-loaders are, of course, in the same league as the GAU-8 in the first category as well.

Yep, I think that's the biggest "Aim the plane" gun ever fitted. In picture is the runner up, the Molins 6-pounder (57mm) mounted to the deHaviland Mosquito XVIII.

While we're on the topic of older acts covered by Rammstein, Kraftwerk is the shizzle. See attached.

Only indirectly. The original was from a novelty act called Dschingis Khan. I *can* make Rammstein references if you want, though.

Still less inane as a buzzword/phrase than "networked with", which is what you say when you got a response to your email that didnt' answer any questions.

I'm not sure if the "Clearly the pilot" joke or the notion of military-style demotion and discipline on a commercial flight is funnier.

As usual, I think we can blame 1979/the 80s.

Moskau, Moskau, Vodka trinkt man klar und kalt

The JX-35 is a utility because it's for tools. The Evoque is a truck because it has 4wd and can haul ass. QED.

"See Vincent Price's cameo"

10 dorkiest, perhaps. 10 silliest, I don't think so.