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To: Hot Tabasco

“Dueling with pistols among two consenting adults”

Why limit it to pistols?

There is a story that Abraham Lincoln, when challenged by a very short man, chose axes in six feet of water.


8 posted on 04/10/2017 12:57:23 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

It was cavalry swords, and since Lincoln was much taller with a much longer reach his adversary ran off.


13 posted on 04/10/2017 1:01:23 PM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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