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Re: Trying to understand
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:13:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
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> > 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...
> > :-)
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> > Bruce
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> That IS rather an amusing tableaux! Thanks.
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> 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.
Hey,...isn't that from the Bible? :0) Sorry...couldn't help it.
Bill
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> ++Lar
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| (...) Indeed. I was thinking of you when I used the aphorism. :-) Please quote me where I said the bible wasn't an interesting piece of literature, worthy of being read by all who would style themselves well read... :-) Where we differ is that I (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) faces. (...) the (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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