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- From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Subject: Re: Gunslingers
- In-Reply-To: frank@evax2.engr.arizona.edu's message of 13 Dec 92 14:35:58 MST
- Message-ID: <SRCTRAN.92Dec13230757@world.std.com>
- Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
- Organization: The World
- References: <1992Dec13.143600.4111@arizona.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:07:57 GMT
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- Ha!! I love it. Unfortunately I was watching the same movie, and say a
- different story.
-
- First, the general store didn't stock the Winchester Ada. You had to go
- to the taxpayer funded PX at the local fort to find any of the Winchesters.
- It seems no one was selling the Winchesters outside of the PXes.
-
- Second, Chester spits in the bucket about the Winchester only when it
- involves tax dollars. After all, Chester put his own money into selling
- Winchester parts when the gun first came into town, only to loose his
- horse and buggy.
-
- Third, the cavalry standardized on the Winchester just in time for
- General Custer to use it at his last battle with the free market Indians.
- Custer probably had STARS in his eyes going into battle, and RAPIDly lost.
-
- Fourth, I noticed you conveniently left out Mr. Phipps first name, i.e.,
- Mosemann Phipps. He'll say anything to increase his business. And his
- toe counting statistics are probably as inaccurate and unmeaningful as the
- Mosemann statistics are.
-
- Fifth, you also forget to mention that the only way Joe could afford to
- give his son enough money to buy an expensive Winchester is that Joe is
- a government contractor, an issue that Jess Feldman also talks about.
-
- Finally, after the soldier threw Chester into the clock, it cost more tax
- dollars to pay for fixing the clock. Of course no one found out who the
- soldier was, they never stick around long enough to take responsibility
- for the cost of fixing clocks. Last I heard, the soldier (I think he was
- a sergeant named York) got a job at the Supplies, Arms, Indians and Cowboys
- stores that always seem to set up shops outside the forts.
-
- Great flame none the less.
-
- Greg Aharonian
- Source Translation & Optimization
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