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   From: forge@allspammersshoulddie.youneedageek.com   
      
   On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:56:32 +1100, Highlandish wrote:   
      
   >>> were there any in the evil Kirk episode, George took off his shirt   
   >>> and was a swordsman. the way he looked his opponent up and down   
   >>> looked so gay. I barely remember much else, just that that was the   
   >>> gayest scene in scifi I had ever seen.   
   >>>   
   >> That was just George imitating the classic swashbuckling swordsmen of   
   >> the classic movies (who did the same 'look the other guy up and   
   >> down').   
   >   
   > if youre talking about Errol Flyn movies, Errol was Bi and loved to look   
   > the other male cast up and down.   
      
   That really was the style in the bad old days of yore however; in the 17th   
   Century guys used to get a lot more chicks if they acted like a pansy. See   
   also "The Scarlet Pimpernel" wherein nobody thinks the good guy is the   
   heroic swordsman because he's such a poof.   
      
   Adam Ant made a bazillion dollars riffing on that Romantic Era style.   
      
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