remmers
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On Heroes and Heroism
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Dec 24 20:56 UTC 2003 |
It's not often that I disagree with Ted, but this time I
just couldn't accept his viewpoint. "You know," he was
saying to me, "we don't have heroes anymore. What
happened to them? Especially the ones in white hats.
You know, like Gene Autry. We don't have white-hatted
heroes like Gene Autry anymore and our society is the
worse for it."
"I'm afraid you're full of beans, Tedley old boy," I
replied. "Gene Autry was a fake. I mean, think about
it. Nothing gets a hat dirtier faster than that heroic
action type stuff. On a white hat that really shows.
And Autry's hat was always clean as a whistle. Anybody
wearing a *clean* white hat couldn't be much of a hero."
Well, Ted started bawling uncontrollably the way he
always does when I show him what an idiot he is. Which
is why I tend not to disagree with him very often.
Can't stand emotional scenes. Anyway, while Ted was
sitting there crying his eyes out, his point about hats
got me to thinking about some things. Like, how those
old superhero comics always ducked the issue of proper
costume care. I mean, how often did Superman have to
wash his cape? Did he do it himself? At least Batman
had his butler Alfred to take care of things like that,
but who did Superman have? Lois Lane? I don't think
so! Maybe he went to the laundromat.
Eventually Ted got over his crying jag and life went
on, like it always does. At least until next Tuesday,
when space aliens are going to invade and cart us all
off to work as slaves on their mining planets. Guess
I better do my laundry this weekend.
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jaklumen
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response 1 of 2:
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Dec 27 10:13 UTC 2003 |
You know, in those old movies, those cowboy's hats never fell off,
even when they got their asses kicked. You'da thunk those boys had
them stapled to their heads or something.
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