Message no. 1

From:	James Dening james@************.force9.co.uk
Subject:	Street S(c)amurai (was RE: NPC Deckers [was: Construction of items...])
Date:	Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:31:12 +0100

>>Fair enough, though it's my experience that most street sams don't, in
>>fact, call themselves that. It's an appelation given to them, for better

> I refeer to the characters as they refeer to themselves. Many, if
>not the majority, of my characters are MWGs (Man With Gun(s)) and GTMs
>(Gun-Toting Maniac (TM)), but they do not refeer to themselves as "samurai".

>>I don't see a reason to slag them for something they didn't come up with.

I agree completely - 'Sammy' or 'Street Sam' or 'Gillette' is a generic phrase
used to indicate big chromed gun-toting warrior type. I don't see the problem
with that at all - sure, it's not what Samurai originally meant, but hey, that's
the way language works - it evolves and anyway, there is *no* such thing as
a samurai outside Japan, where as someone said, you have to be a warrior
of the noble class, with a liege (!) lord.

So, sure, go ahead, break their balls for it, but it *is* a canon. phrase IIRC....

J.