Owl-Eagle...I often like your posts...But this one is one of the best...and yes, I am stealing this line:
To me this is tantamount to the likelihood of a couple of bullets on a battlefield meeting eachother head on... fired by identical twins.
Priceless.
Thanks for your kind words and use it in good health!
Actually, I know where that came from: When I was about 7, my family took a tour of a civil war battlefield, and on display was a pair of bullets that had been fired into eachother seemingly in mid-air (in retrospect, it probably had something to do with reloading a weapon before firing it, or two rounds colliding in the ground, but hey, I was seven and I don't listen well now, imagine then).
I guess coupled with all the flowery imagery of "Brothers on opposite sides" I heard that day I merged that together, and somewhere along the lines became convinced twins was in there too, just to augment the fabulocity of what I'd seen.
Probably when I was in my early 20's something triggered the memory of those two rounds and I re-examined the unspeakably remote likelihood of that belief being correct.
I held that belief for 15 years I guess.
Owl_Eagle
”You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being”