Saturday, July 27, 2013

The Rifleman


The stage pulled up in front of the Hotel in North Fork, New Mexico. It was dusty and worn and the driver looked exhausted. He batted some dust off his pants with his hat as he was getting down to open the doors of the coach.
"Northfork folks. We are stopping overnight. The stage company has reserved some rooms for you in the hotel." He handed down an older woman who had been traveling for a few days but turned his back on the next person out of the coach.
Mark McCain and his friends Timmy and Nick were there to greet the coach. They always liked to see who got off the stage. Sometimes the people were interesting. Sometimes the women had big teats. They liked big teats. Especially the pointy ones. They made them feel all strange and warm inside.
Timmy was very artistic. He loved music and would often carve himself a recorder to play weird and boring music on.  He called it classical but most of his friends just called it bad. He never played the hits like Jimmy Crack Corn. It was just unfortunate that he kept falling down the well. Luckily he owned a collie.
Nick was a bad boy. He wanted to grow up to be a Pinkerton so he practiced by peeping in windows. He hadn't got caught yet but you wouldn't want to be in his shoes if Miz Coleman caught him looking in her window.
"Look Mark. Look at that fat bastard" laughed Nick. "He can't even roll out of the coach he is so huge."
A rotund man dressed in flowered shirt with a florid face struggled to get out of the stage. He was about 6 foot 3 and weighed over three hundred pounds easy.  Mark didn't have a cow that big on the ranch.
"Hey kids what is the name of this jerkwater town."
"It's Northfork sir. Northfork New Mexico."
"What's your name kid."
"Mark McCain sir."
"Is there a saloon around here?'
"Yessir. Right across the street."
"Good. There many dance hall girls there."
"There are a few. My dad calls them soiled doves" piped up Nick. "I don't know why cause their underwear is always clean."
"How do you know that kid."
"I just do that's all."
"Well that's good. See I am an underwear salesman and I got some new bras and such to sell. Let's get this show on the road." He pulled an enormous suitcase off the top of the stage and started struggling to the saloon.
"I hope he got some pointy ones Mark" whispered Timmy. "I like the pointy ones."
"Me too. Lets follow along and see what happens."

90 comments:

  1. Hahaha. Love the new character already; breath of fresh air. Gotta watch what happens.

    Oh man, I really was tipsy last night. Apparently I leered at Trooper and penned a love letter to rhhardin.

    If/ when I'm going to drink & comment, I should probably restrict myself to this saloon here.

    Promise not to sexually harass any of you. Much.

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  2. He pulled an enormous suitcase off the top of the stage and started struggling to the saloon.

    Not to pick nits, but wouldn't they have used the word valise back then?

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  3. Oh man, I really was tipsy last night. Apparently I leered at Trooper and penned a love letter to rhhardin.

    I was riffing on that today when I told Mr Hardin that he was a hit with the ladies.

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  4. I was riffing on that today when I told Mr Hardin that he was a hit with the ladies.

    Heh, I caught that.

    rhhardin is one of those commenters that I really appreciate, but rarely respond to. I'm not all that witty, and those one-liners probably work best just standing alone.

    Feel that way about William, too.

    So every once in a while I feel an impulse to communicate my appreciation.

    If I got sloppy drunk, I could really do a number on the lot of you here. Please stop me if I do (nah, don't).

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  5. Cheers, yashu.

    Whatcha drinkin'?

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  6. I see what you're doing. Don't encourage me!

    2 fingers of Woodford Reserve.

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  7. I'm having these. Have one on me. I must bid farewell though. Going to watch myself in reruns of "Justified." Ritmo would call me a narcissist.

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  8. am I the only one who doesn't A. find "betamax" funny and B. think he's particularly clever and C. could get annoyed by it if I dwelled on it a moment longer?

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  9. Lem's post?

    I was more focused on responding the Larry the Loan Shark.

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  10. betamax the serial nonsensical commentator at TOP and now contributor at Lem's.

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  11. "Who was that bra salesman? I never got a chance to thank him."

    "Why, Miss Kitty, that was William Howard Taffeta."

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  12. That Larry loves moles thing is interesting, I suppose.

    *waves and says hi to the mole*



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  13. William Howard Taffeta.

    My compliments, Chip, my compliments.

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  14. Larry is showing how clever he is.

    Or rather how clever he thinks he is.

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  15. Is it crazy to speculate that betamax = Larry? What else could explain EBL's infatuation w/ his shtick?

    Well, besides questionable taste, of course.

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  16. Oh dear. I just reread my last comment, and I want to apologize for the horrid visuals that may result.

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  17. Did that raccoon owe you money?

    Birth of a Meme.

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  18. If homoism is genetic, and the baby rifleman had that gene, wouldn't his Dad be kinda asking for it?

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  19. Among others, Chip, among others.

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  20. I obviously need a break. The newest beta post at Lemmy's reads to me like Anniefannie trying hard to sound like someone else.

    Pop art pop tarts.

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  21. I'm just wondering how Trooper's gonna deal w/ the cognitive dissonance from Larry bashing Big Papi.

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  22. Hey every body hates fat Hispanics.

    That's why you put them on trail when they didn't do anything wrong.

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  23. I wish all my questions were answered that quickly.

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  24. Leisure Suit Larry isn't smart enough to be a mole over here. And he wouldn't be able to restrain himself. He would give himself up in a minute.

    Plus it is not like we are doing anything wrong. They are so paranoid that they think we are bashing them 24/7. Yes we like to bash them but that is only because so many people dislike them so much.

    Look you can go down the list of people who liked them and were great commenters who now loathe them:
    Sippican Cottage, Ruth Ann Adams, Theo Boehm, Trooper York and Palladian to name just a few. I am sure I can add many of you reading this to the list. Their imaginings are much worse than what is actually happening. Which is good as far as I am concerned. I hope the heads explode.

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  25. Q. Whatever happened to fionamcgee?

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  26. Hey every body hates fat Hispanics.

    You mean like CC Sabathia, pin stripe boy?

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  27. Everybody hates ARod, and he isn't even fat.

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  28. Besides nothing that happens to them in the Rifleman series is gonna be as bad as what happens to Spinelli.

    Just sayn'

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  29. A Rod was always a phony and when he dissed Jeter in that Sports Illustrated article years ago he was dead to all true Yankee fans.

    CC is definite a fat Hispanic who is not pulling his weight. I would arrest him myself.

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  30. Lem's bloated but that is just the beer.

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  31. Chip S. said...
    Q. Whatever happened to fionamcgee?

    A. Somebody got to her lucky charms

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  32. Plus it is hard for him to sit down since Leisure Suit Larry is so far up his ass. Just sayn'

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  33. Trooper York said...
    Besides nothing that happens to them in the Rifleman series is gonna be as bad as what happens to Spinelli.

    Just sayn'


    Don't tell me you're gonna cast him as a two-bit spaghetti snapper.

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  34. Sabathia'd have to be a tug the size of the Queen Mary to pull his own weight.

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  35. Didn't you pay attention to the three new characters in the latest installment?

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  36. Hey, what happened to yashu? Is she sleeping off those 2 fingers of Woodford Reserve?

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  37. Trooper York said...
    Didn't you pay attention to the three new characters in the latest installment?

    Don't go all Althouse on us, Troop!

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  38. I didn't know we were supposed to read the damn posts. I thought we just went past them on our way to the comments.

    Rules. Always with the rules.

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  39. chick, I'm a peeper, wouldn't you like to be a peeper too? An homage to your "insipid and banal" puns.

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  40. An homage to your "insipid and banal" puns.

    Titus once called me that once. I never forgot.

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  41. So LSL steals from Titus!! Explains marrying a set of big tits and all the rest being cooch.

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  42. Oh and by the way I agree about Betamax. He is amazingly lame. But I won't ever criticize him. I made that mistake with Bissage and everyone said I was jealous.

    It wasn't that. I just didn't think he was all that funny. Which is fine. Lots of people don't think I am funny and that is fine by me.

    Comedy is hard.

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  43. Sorry Chickie. I didn't have my donut yet. I apologize.

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  44. Adam Sandler. Now that's not funny.

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  45. Trooper York wrote...

    "But I won't ever criticize him. I made that mistake with Bissage..."

    And now he's dead.

    Speaking of which, what did you do to Ricpic?

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  46. He's on vacation. Be back in August.

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  47. "Comedy is hard." Unlike your dick.

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  48. Got that right. But they make a pill for that. You should investigate Spinelli.

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  49. BTW, Chip S. came over to my site and left a link to a great response about libertarianism he wrote on his own blog. You can check it all out from here.

    Chip's response is great, and I think either of us would like to hear from any of you clowns who want to throw in your own cent or two.

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  50. Bissage was wry. But he didn't need a ham.

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  51. I just saw a picture of Lena Dunham naked.

    I don't think even that pill Trooper was gabbling on about would work for me now.

    I just can't seem to unsee it. It's there when I close my eyes, like a monster in the dark.

    Come to think of it, she is a monster in the dark.

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  52. Hey, what happened to yashu? Is she sleeping off those 2 fingers of Woodford Reserve?

    I was. (Didn't do anything to embarrass myself last night, did I?)

    Is it crazy to speculate that betamax = Larry? What else could explain EBL's infatuation w/ his shtick?

    betamax is better in small doses (and a little too enamored of his own schtick), but he's too creative to be Larry. He's also sentimental about the commenting community and a terrible flirt, neither of which would go over well with the Mistress of the House.

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  54. I'll defer to yahsu's analysis of betamax, in part b/c she's usually right and in part b/c I stopped reading betamax's comments a long time ago.

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  55. I'm intimidated by people who are hard to understand. I always assume they are way too smart for me. That's why I like it here. It's like a jacuzzi full of tofu.

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  56. I'd be offended by that, Bags, except I know you're one of the smartest people in whatever room you happen to be in at the time.

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  57. CEO,

    I know there is some hidden meaning in that remark that should piss me off, but I don't understand it, so I'm just gonna say "same to you". That will teach you to toy with me.

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  58. Bags:

    I read the comments on TOP a long time before I ever started posting.

    You're a smart guy. At least the smart that impresses me. Maybe you don't have a PhD, maybe you're not a law professor--but you're pretty damn smart.

    No hidden meaning. Sometimes I'm being totally serious.


    I should probably use a different font or something when I am.

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  59. Jesus fucking Christ why did I click on that?

    That purple outfit...holy shit. That's just wrong.

    Wrong wrong wrong.

    Trooper's boob shot was hotter than her.

    Oh God. What am I saying.

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  60. Thanks CEO. That's very nice of you, but my comments are just Betamax fed into a text scrambler and then randomly arranged with bad punctuation.

    I never could take a gift or a complement well. I remember when I was a little kid and my dad gave me $20. I said "thanks Dad". He stopped me, and sternly said: "I'm your dad. I love you, and and it's my job to take care of you, so you don't thank me for it."

    I think he was completely wrong about that, but ever since then, I always get uncomfortable when someone gives me anything, and I have to consciously remember to thank them, even though it feels like I shouldn't.

    Maybe Dad got scolded for it too when he was a kid, or maybe he was just drunk, and fucking with me. He did love his Boilermakers (Old Grand Dad and Iron City).

    Thanks.

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  61. I enjoy betamax's posts, but I do agree with whoever said small doses. His blog is an example.

    Ran my 3rd Warrior Dash today. Beat last year's time by at least 3 minutes. Made all of the obstacles again, too.

    That was an entire paragraph of brag. I'm sorry.

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  62. Thank you Evi! I have posted pics on Twitter here:

    http://twitter.com/uncommentari

    Too tired to do think linky thingy.

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  63. Was this one in Winston Salem, Darce?

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  64. Darcy, impressive!

    Not everyone can look that good covered in mud either!

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  65. No, this was only an hour away in Mt. Morris.

    And if I came down that way I'd have to say hello to you and to Ruth Anne!

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  66. Looks like an average Saturday night around here - covered with mud, drunk, stumblin' around.

    But seriously, good job.

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  67. Hehehe. Thank you, Sixty.

    I'm off to sleep. I'm a-hurtin' and tarred.

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  68. Pointy breasts? That brings back memories...

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  69. Wow, congrats Darcy. Awesome amazon.

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  70. ndspinelli said...
    chick, I'm a peeper, wouldn't you like to be a peeper too?

    I'd make a better side kick or a saloon piano player who thinks he's seen it all.

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  71. On second thought Troop, I don't think I want to be a person in the Western. I want to remain avian--I want to be the prettiest whore's pet parrot who is a little too observant and talks back.

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  72. Way to go, Darcy! I remember when you started running.

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  73. Ready to try 3 fingers tonight, yashu?

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  75. Good lord, we've corrupted yashu.

    Surprisingly quickly, too.

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  76. I'm blameless; I just got here.

    Plus I never corrupted anyone in my life.



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  77. That's kind of sad, CEO.

    Maybe we could take up a collection?

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