Laurent Gbagbo, Côte d'Ivoire's pious strongman, was in Rome when, at 3am on September 19th, mutinous troops took to the streets of three Ivorian cities. Loyal soldiers swapped bullets and shells with the mutineers.
An organized pie-fight after the repertory screening of Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone makes perfect sense in context, as the 1976 film, which cast kid actors like Scott Baio and Jodie Foster as 1920s gangsters, swapped bullets for pie cream for the shootouts.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 30 (Reuters) — Somali reconciliation talks, seen as the best hope for peace in the war-racked nation, ended Thursday with the interim president urging insurgents and militias to swap the bullet for the ballot box.
But the Utah State forester wanted sportsmen only to swap their steel bullets for lead ones, which don't emit sparks when they strike rock.
If one of your guns runs out of bullets, swap it.
I was hoping for an Allen switcheroo, of the kind he perfected in "Bullets Over Broadway": Melody and Boris would slowly swap philosophical positions, with him flipping sunny-side up and her fading into a grouch.
But we're working right now to create bullets or capsules that can be swapped out with the existing Evoke model.
But that's now in the past". Now aged 28, Steban explains: "I've swapped my gun for a guitar". His comrades meanwhile gave up their weapons for tools and their bullets for nails.
Plus, the suit's upgradeable, so you can tweak the flight thrusters for power or agility, swap in different sorts of weapons, and choose between balanced armor, or armor of different strengths against explosions or bullets.
