From: Snag_one@msn.com
On 12/28/2025 12:09 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 12/27/2025 9:41 PM, Snag wrote:
>> 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 .
>
> If I send you an email attachment I promise it will be strange.
>
>
Maybe I should have said "attachments in emails from strangers" ...
because while you are indeed strange (bseg> you're not "a stranger" .
--
Snag
I appreciated foreign cultures more
when they stayed foreign ...
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