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Message no. 1
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Quote From A Long Time Ago
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 22:24:21 +0100
Remember a moment you wrote for Quinn and Blade in Chicago last year,
when Blade was playing sniper out of a window?

I was watching "The Usual Suspects" at last - finally rented the movie -
and heard the immortal line "...five, six... Oswald was a wussy. Old
MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on that farm he shot some guys..."

Shameless ripoff of a great line. Exactly what I do all the time :)

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
ShadowTK Mailing List Nice Guy Dread Executor
Message no. 2
From: Michael Broadwater <mbroadwa@*******.GLENAYRE.COM>
Subject: Re: Quote From A Long Time Ago
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:24:12 -0500
At 10:24 PM 8/23/97 +0100, Paul J. Adam wrote:
>Remember a moment you wrote for Quinn and Blade in Chicago last year,
>when Blade was playing sniper out of a window?
>
>I was watching "The Usual Suspects" at last - finally rented the movie -
>and heard the immortal line "...five, six... Oswald was a wussy. Old
>MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on that farm he shot some guys..."
>
>Shameless ripoff of a great line. Exactly what I do all the time :)

I wondered if anyone was ever going to mention that :)


Mike Broadwater
"I don't care if you don't like my manners. I don't like them much myself.
They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings."
Message no. 3
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Quote From A Long Time Ago
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 19:54:25 +0100
In message <3.0.32.19970825082411.00a427b0@********>, Michael Broadwater
<mbroadwa@*******.GLENAYRE.COM> writes
>At 10:24 PM 8/23/97 +0100, Paul J. Adam wrote:
>>Shameless ripoff of a great line. Exactly what I do all the time :)
>
>I wondered if anyone was ever going to mention that :)

Only just saw the movie. Great film - exactly how to set up a group of
runners to get killed.

Peace? :)

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
ShadowTK Mailing List Nice Guy Dread Executor
Message no. 4
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Quote From A Long Time Ago
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:44:57 -0400
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Paul J. Adam wrote:

> Remember a moment you wrote for Quinn and Blade in Chicago last year,
> when Blade was playing sniper out of a window?
>
> I was watching "The Usual Suspects" at last - finally rented the movie -
> and heard the immortal line "...five, six... Oswald was a wussy. Old
> MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on that farm he shot some guys..."
>
> Shameless ripoff of a great line. Exactly what I do all the time :)

And heck, you don't even stop at lines .. move right on up
into whole characters! :-) (ie: Toad Tarkington)

-Mark
Message no. 5
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Quote From A Long Time Ago
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:31:15 +0100
In message <199708261239.IAA23345@**********.itribe.net>, "Mark A.
Imbriaco" <mark@******.NET> writes
>On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Paul J. Adam wrote:
>> Shameless ripoff of a great line. Exactly what I do all the time :)
>
> And heck, you don't even stop at lines .. move right on up
> into whole characters! :-) (ie: Toad Tarkington)

Oh, you didn't notice Coppinger (very loosely taken from "In The Line Of
Fire"), or "Sundown" Cunningham and Mark von Drexler (from Richard
Herman, Jr.'s novels)? :)

Generally I mostly just use the name and a general similarity (I can't
make up names on the fly very well), but Toad (who's an NPC in our own
game) somehow stayed close to Coonts' original portrayal.

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
ShadowTK Mailing List Nice Guy Dread Executor

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