I looked it up because Iheard the term used on an Episode of the Rifleman referring to Chuck Connors as a Tinhorn!!
Tim Kessler:
May 21st, 2019 at 4:38 pm
As it turns out, 45 lost a billion dollars and doesn’t have nearly the amount he constantly lies about, like everything else that spews out of his pie-hole. He is the living embodiment of a tin pot tyrant/dictator. The primary problem is not him as much as it is his applauders, henchmen- Lawyers, sycophants and enablers.
Boy, have you pinned the tail right smack dab on the donkey! Or whatever other phrase you want me to use to say you are prezactly correct, that is. Well said!
Rich anderson:
October 21st, 2020 at 2:15 pm
Could a tin horn be a cheap version of the traditional animal horn or leather fashioned horn used to contain gun powder and or the such? Likely fashioned in areas where industrial revolution may have been in progress? The New England states eg, the Eastern US? Which Westerners may have thought to be populated by easy-living “tin horns”.
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Steve:
February 20th, 2014 at 10:47 am
This is great! Thank you for posting this. I quite enjoyed your opening statement about the “Age Of Enlightenment”. I quite agree.
Tenhorn Beast:
May 31st, 2016 at 7:46 pm
Thanks for the tinhorn reply, and the stalk of information in the field of bloviation.
Barry Shaw:
January 30th, 2018 at 10:42 pm
I looked it up because Iheard the term used on an Episode of the Rifleman referring to Chuck Connors as a Tinhorn!!
Tim Kessler:
May 21st, 2019 at 4:38 pm
As it turns out, 45 lost a billion dollars and doesn’t have nearly the amount he constantly lies about, like everything else that spews out of his pie-hole. He is the living embodiment of a tin pot tyrant/dictator. The primary problem is not him as much as it is his applauders, henchmen- Lawyers, sycophants and enablers.
Nytowl223:
May 25th, 2019 at 2:59 am
Boy, have you pinned the tail right smack dab on the donkey! Or whatever other phrase you want me to use to say you are prezactly correct, that is. Well said!
Rich anderson:
October 21st, 2020 at 2:15 pm
Could a tin horn be a cheap version of the traditional animal horn or leather fashioned horn used to contain gun powder and or the such? Likely fashioned in areas where industrial revolution may have been in progress? The New England states eg, the Eastern US? Which Westerners may have thought to be populated by easy-living “tin horns”.