Subject:
|
Re: Trying to understand
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:12:07 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
345 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> I have this silly picture in my mind of a western showdown at high noon, where
> the two participants square off. Crowds gather. Sweat drips down their • faces.
> Steely eyes glare unblinkingly. Fingers twitch, waiting for the other guy to
> make the first move (why you would want to wait on the other guy is beyond me,
> but let's go with the flow). Suddenly hands flash, slap leather, cut down
> barrels glint, then one guy starts speed-dialing his combination lock while • the
> other rifles through his key ring. The crowd yawns and slowly disperses...
> :-)
>
> Bruce
That IS rather an amusing tableaux! Thanks.
As to why you wait for the other guy, according to all the western lore I
absorbed from all those movies, it's so that you are acting in self defense, he
started it... seems rather a fine/dubious point to me. Swallowing camels and
straining at gnats, as it were.
++Lar
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Trying to understand
|
| (...) to (...) I have this silly picture in my mind of a western showdown at high noon, where the two participants square off. Crowds gather. Sweat drips down their faces. Steely eyes glare unblinkingly. Fingers twitch, waiting for the other guy to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
139 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
