AtD excerpt - "got-damn pinkinroller"

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 6, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Ya Sam wrote:

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>> It's something worthwhile  for all of  us  to play around with  
>> until  November 18.
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> Afraid it won't last that long, if nobody's going to delve into the  
> history of osteopathy, the hermeneutics of the duel in the Western,  
> the origin and nature of cyclones, the socio-political background  
> of 1899 etc., that is. But if it were at least a 10 page excerpt,  
> which is unpardonably wishful thinking, we could have easily  
> dragged that thread till November.

Don't know if the opening is  classic western but it's sort of close.  
Jimmy Drop gets the "drop" on a helpless stranger and then in mock  
gentlemanly fashion turns the occasion into a gun duel of sorts.

Not sure of the derivation of "getting the drop" meaning "getting the  
advantage" but sounds like it might be related to "drop that gun."

Also, turning the tables on an evil assailant is a common western  
motif--executed here in highly unstandard fashion

Forbes Parkhill's "The Kenosha Kid" story opens with a waylaying/ 
stickup situation and the Kid fairly quickly manages to overcome the  
bad guy in the usual way, with fists.




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