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To: cinFLA
Some years ago there was an officer by the name of George Patton. He was one of the best pistol shots the world has ever seen. In the 1912 olympics he scored abysmally low in target shooting with apparently wild shots missing the entire target completely and ending up in places undetermined. His shooting was so accurate that a second shot went exactly through the same hole as the first, and hence was never accounted for. A few years later he was in the campaign in Mexico. A Mexican on horseback with a rifle charged Patton. Patton drew one of his famous pistols and blew the Mexican off the horse as if he had been hit by a cannonball.

Somewhere in that true story there might be a lesson for you, but I doubt it.

151 posted on 10/19/2002 9:05:44 PM PDT by RLK
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To: RLK
Somewhere in that true story there might be a lesson for you, but I doubt it.

Yes, the lesson is repeated. When someone can't argue with the facts, he tries to take the attention to another subject. Or, BS is BS no matter how you dress it.

152 posted on 10/20/2002 9:00:37 PM PDT by cinFLA
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