From: none@none.com99   
      
   On 12/27/2025 11:15 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > Fantasy Role Play.   
   >   
   > As kids some of us probably played cops & robbers, cowboys & Indians,   
   > soldier, and other things like that.  If you were a bully or the odd kid   
   > you might have played smear the queer.  Not necessarily willingly.   
   >   
   > My favorite was to play the part of Captain Kirk from Star Trek, but   
   > nobody ever wanted to be the Klingons.  In any game I always wanted to   
   > be one of the good guys.   
   >   
   > My wife, son, and sometimes my daughter used to like to go to   
   > renaissance fairs where the line of genre and period is blurred, but   
   > ranges from medieval to late colonial, but people get to dress up and   
   > play act for a day or a weekend.   
   >   
   > Some do civil ware reenactments.  Others may get a little more serious   
   > with tournaments of nightly arms jousting and sword fighting.   
   >   
   > Of course there are many other forms of role play.  Some the innocent   
   > cosplay of dressing up as your favorite modern hero at Comic Con. Others   
   > more serious or bizarre.   
   >   
   > As an adult I never really got into it.  There is to much real life to   
   > live.  Some of it real adventure, like figuring out how to get both   
   > thumbs out when caught in a number two double long spring.  But at this   
   > moment I am thinking about it instead of grabbing a chainsaw and   
   > wandering out front to start breaking down some mesquite branches who   
   > threatened the house, but I vanquished before they achieved their   
   > nefarious goal of breaking the roof tile.   
   >   
   > If I was to want to "role play" today I can see myself as either the   
   > rogue android in West World or the zombie bounty hunter in Fallout.   
   >   
   > Okay, that's enough.  I most now dispose of the corpses of those   
   > vanquished branches laying in the yard and prepare the best parts for   
   > cremation under a brace of ribeyes.   
      
   I was thinking, while butchering my enemies int he front yard and had   
   two thoughts.   
      
   I bet some of ya'all played revenuers and moonshiners.   
      
   I wonder how many of the kids who played the robber in cops and robbers   
   grew up to live the role in real life.  I recall reading in the 80s that   
   bank robbery was one of the most successful forms of crime at the time.   
      
      
      
      
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   Bob La Londe   
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