<div dir="ltr">Also:<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">From the days of </span><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flintlock" title="flintlock" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">flintlock</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> </span><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firearm" title="firearm" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">firearms</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">, where the main charge was intended to be fired by a small charge of gunpowder in the priming pan. If the resultant fire did not pass through the touch-hole and ignite the main charge, the momentary </span><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coruscation" title="coruscation" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">coruscation</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> produced noise and smoke, but no substantial effect, and was termed a “</span><b style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">flash in the pan</b><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">”. Sometimes called "</span><b style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">fluff in the pan</b><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">", the term refers to any ineffectual, short, spasmodic effort that dies in the attempt, such as an explosion of priming in the lockpan of a gun while the gun itself does not go off.</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flash_in_the_pan">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flash_in_the_pan</a></span></font><br></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">bI'reng</span></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:58 PM, qurgh lungqIj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qurgh@wizage.net" target="_blank">qurgh@wizage.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Steven Boozer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><span class="m_1571333632977267763gmail-">> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, February 17, 2017<br>
><br>
> Klingon word: pan<br>
> Part of speech: verb<br>
> Definition: spark, emit sparks<br>
> Source: Email from ghunchu'wI' to the KLI's email discussion<br>
>         group on 22 August 2011<br>
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PUN: flash in a pan?<br>
<br></span></blockquote><div><br>A "flash pot or pan" is a stage device used to create fire & smoke using flash paper. Often sparkle additive is sprinkled onto the paper before it's ignited to get a shower of sparks. See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDRPf9df7OM" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=kDRPf9df7OM</a> for an example.</div><div><br></div><div>qurgh<br><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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