>>>>>>The fact that he had tats isn't the issue. It's what are those tats saying. Then there are other small tidbits like:
>>>>>>1. he ran with gangsters as a youth (could have gotten tats then)
>>>>>>2. in college he ran with similar crowd
>>>>>>3. he was at a known gangstah hangout
>>>>>>4. he was driveby shot
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You put the syllogism together.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>John
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>>>>>Oh, right! Like you gun-totin' southern good ol' boys know what a 'syllogism' is. ;)
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>>>>Sure we do, we heard it in a country song. She done walked on my heart and stomped that sucker flat. She just sorta walked on my aorta.
>>>>
>>>>You see almost all country songs are composed in a syllogistic sort of way.<g>
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>>>I once came up with what I thought was a good country song title: "I've Got Half a Mind To Stay With You". No lyrics to go with it, unfortunately. It's all yours if you want it <g>.
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>>How can anyone not like country music? It magnifies life! Here are a few of my favorite titles to non-existant songs are:
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>>I met her at the river, but she wouldn't come across.
>>She was just a moonshiners daughter, but I love her still.
>>Maybe yours could go in there.
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>In Robert Altman's latest and last movie, "Prairie Home Companion", two of the funniest characters are a cornpone radio act known as Dusty and Lefty, played by Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly. Harrelson in particular is always trying to see what he can get away with on the air. According to the flustered stage manager of their last show on the air, which is the centerpiece of the movie, in a recent episode he got away with "I'll give you some moonshine if you show me your jugs." Near the end of the movie they riff back and forth with corny lines that had me laughing out loud.
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>All this and Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin too. And Kevin Kline, and Tommy Lee Jones, and Virginia Madsen, and on and on. As with every other Altman movie, great actors and actresses lined up to work with him for peanuts just because he gave them so much freedom and surrounded them with so much talent.
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>RIP.

Do you ever listen to it on the net (or on the radio if you're in range)? It's a truly wonderful experience.