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Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot
cremeglace writes "Have you ever noticed that the first cowboy to draw his gun in a Hollywood Western is invariably the one to get shot? Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr did, once arranging mock duels to test the validity of this cinematic curiosity. Researchers have now confirmed that people indeed move faster if they are reacting, rather than acting first."
This must be why people can think up a comeback before I'm finished with the original joke.
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You really shot yourself in the foot with that non-first post, didn't you?
Did the submitter or editors read the story? At the end they plainly state that even though the second "shooter" reacted faster, they could not make up the difference in time.
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
The mythbusters need to test this!
"Hans' hot first"
AKA "How I Learned To Enjoy Wookiee Lovin'"
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The guy who draws first is the agressor, we can't let the agressor win.
That's the same reason that the guy on the roof of the saloon, aiming to shoot the someone in the back, always gets shot just as he's taking aim, and falls impressively to the street. Snipers and back-shooters are bad guys.
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
So Han Solo Did shoot 2nd! heh :D
Just my opinion though...my apologies if that is way more stupid than it was in my head.
No worries. The only thing you might need to apologize for is the use of the cringe-inducing pseudo-word "prolly" in an otherwise coherent, grammatically-correct, and typo-free post.
"Hans' hot first"
AKA "How I Learned To Enjoy Wookiee Lovin'"
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Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
that's not a Troll, that was clever.
Didn't you see what the parent did to the grand parent? Grand parent drew first, then parent responded with a more precise comment.
I think grand parent is dead now, Jim, killed by the AC.
You can't handle the truth.
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Actually, no, not if you've read the history of the old west. There were a LOT of black cowboys, perhaps as many as white ones, although you wouldn't know it from western movies. A cowboy himself was looked down on, it was a vocation you took if it was the only work you could get. And back then, damned near everyone was discriminated against. A laughable but realistic line from Blazing Saddles: "OK, we'll take the niggers and the chinks, but NOT THE IRISH!"
They would have been far more predjudiced against the black man's wife, who was native American. Nobody was hated more than them, the Chinese came in a distant second, followed by the Irish immigrants.
Now, had it taken place in the deep south rather than the northwest, you would be correct. In, say, Alabama a black man would indeed have been a "nigger". But in the plains, not so much.
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Apparently Jack Bauer was not factored into the equation. In less than 8 days (seasons) he has killed almost 100 people.