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Red Robin Rifle
« on: July 20, 2010, 11:09:55 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQMZ1fYZGpA&feature=PlayList&p=875E201F2B2A4476&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=7

Anyone seen this commercial for Red Robin.  Did you notice what rifle the guard is carrying?  That just doesn't seem right.  I almost think someone ought to take offense, but I'm not sure who is left over there who cares or knows the difference.  I can only assume that no one shooting the commercial knew any better. 
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2010, 11:21:57 PM »
Don't know what kind of rifle that is, but I notice you said "carrying," when the word you need is "holding."  Carrying implies movement.

As long as we're being picky.  :P
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2010, 11:22:08 PM »
Hm.  I can't say that commercial is making me want to eat at Red Robin.
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2010, 11:23:55 PM »
What are you blathering on about? Aren't all those long shooty stick thingies the same?
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2010, 11:24:28 PM »
That didn't do anything for me except make me want to inflict some sort of pain on the doofus.
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2010, 11:32:17 PM »
I noticed it too.

Although, IIRC after WWII some European countries did standardize on the Garand for awhile, and may still use them ceremonially.

And England is not the only nation to have redcoat royal guards and the big bear fur hats. Denmark's royal guard has them too.

http://www.cphconducting2010.com/pages/visitcph.html Scroll down, third picture.
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2010, 11:32:41 PM »
IMO, the top end looks exactly like an M1 Garand with the gas cylinder and that forward stock piece.  British style guards carrying an M1 just didn't seem right to me.


Okay, AJ.  That is good to know.  I've never heard of other guards that weren't supposed to talk.
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2010, 11:49:00 PM »
Red Robin Rifle?

Do you get one free with a burger and a beer? Kinda like a real kids meal?

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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2010, 12:53:10 AM »
"OOOOoooooohhhh! Ooooh! Oh!" *said as hand juts into air with the enthusiasm reserved for people who truly are stupid

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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2010, 08:47:46 AM »
Rifle looks like an M1 Garand, but there's something funny about the muzzle - probably a blank firing adapter of some sort.

As for the fuzzy-hatted redcoat holding a Garand . . . we sent thousands of M1s to the Brits under Lend-Lease, but I think they just put them into storage lest other troops begin to grouse about being stuck with bolt-action Enfields. (Also logistics played a role - all the other Brit riflles & Bren guns were .303, not the Garand's .30/06.)

The Brits eventually released them from storage, and today M1s with British proofs are of interest to collectors.
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2010, 08:53:23 AM »
 ;/

Stupid commercial, stupid guy, and a guy in a stupid hat holding a ceremonial rifle.  At least they weren't afraid to picture him holding a rifle.
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2010, 10:13:56 AM »
I was in London and Edinburgh about six months ago.  I can say that the gate guards at the Palace and at Edinburgh Castle carried the regulation SA-80.  At Edinburgh Castle, which is still an active military post, the guards are from the Royal Regiment of Scotland, and wear kilts. 
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2010, 12:58:32 PM »
Yummmmmmm!

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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2010, 01:42:28 PM »
His uniform looks like a sack of hot garbage.
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2010, 11:46:57 PM »
Wasn't Red Robin the outfit that had a commercial with a gal "firing" a rifle about a year ago --maybe two?

Was a rapid sequence of really quick images, and one of them showed her holding a rifle and mimicing the recoil, then it quickly cut to something else. Lasted ony about a half second, but started some discussion on what kind of rifle it was on THR.us.

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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2010, 07:14:07 AM »
Using a color guard parade "rifle" as a prop in the commercial prolly made the producers life a lot easier.

I wonder if the dood gets ass kicked by the guards off duty buddies further down the block
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Re: Red Robin Rifle
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2010, 02:21:52 PM »
Slight hijack: When I was in the Army, during one period Stateside I was a member of a ceremonial color guard. Our uniforms were 1814 vintage -- very similar to that in the commercial, except for the silly hat. On one occasion we were assigned as a ceremonial welcome contingent to some fancy, full-dress party/ball at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA.

So two of my mates and I were flanking the double doors to the building, and another guy and I were at attention on the sidewalk where the cars rolled up. As cars pulled in, we would open the rear doors (usually ... most arrivals were in limos) and assist the ladies out of the car and onto the sidewalk. Then they'd proceed to the entrance where the other guys were playing doorman.

So I handed a pair of older women out as my partner opened the car door, then we snapped to attention while awaiting the next vehicle. The two gals were chatting animatedly on their way to the door ... and suddenly one of them let of an ear-shattering scream.

"EEEEK! Oh my G-d, he moved. He's REAL! I thought it was a statue!"

Sheesh.
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