From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 12/27/2025 9:53 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:   
   > On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:50:44 -0500, Gerry    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:09:27 -0700, Bob La Londe    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >> As opposed to phone scammers now-a-day!   
   > And all the e-mail scammers - and text message scammers - and now all   
   > the AI BS.   
   >   
      
      It seems to me that a lot of people that get scammed are trying to   
   get something for little or nothing - GREED . Others are falling for   
   lies and threats , and some are just trying to help "people less   
   fortunate" . We don't answer strange phone numbers , don't open strange   
   email attachments , etc .   
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   when they stayed foreign ...   
      
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