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> [The suspects need to know the detective's thought process]
[Or, just posssible, the author needed another 1000 or so words to reach
the minimum words requirement.]
> Didn't they execute him a number of years ago?
How barbaric... (I dunno)
>>> I was thinking that back in the old West, their personal hygiene was
>>> of low quality, so it might be hard to tell if the guy beside you at
>>> the Saloon was loaded and ready for a gun fight.
>> From my extensive research watching old John Wayne movies, I would say
>> that the stranger beside you in the saloon is *always* loaded and
>> ready for a gunfight.
>>
> John Wayne movies had the worst fighting.
They had chairs being broken and people flying out windows and bottles
on heads - what more do you want.
Also sometimes the good guys hit several bad guys with a single shot.
Awesum!!
>
>>>>>>>>>>> An aside - a coworker and I were discussing this in the
>>>>>>>>>>> kitchen one day at work. And the other people there wandered
>>>>>>>>>>> over and asked us what an egress is.
>>>>>>>>>> I hope you didn't just tell them for free.
>>>>>>>>> D'oh!
>>>>>>>> You'll never make billions if you don't think of these things...
>>>>>>> I guess that's why I'm not a billionaire then.
>>>>>> It's the first billion that's the hardest, wher you really have to
>>>>>> put in the effort (or have ancestors who put in the effort). After
>>>>>> that the billions more or less make themselves. Unless the plebs
>>>>>> decides to eat you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems like too much work.
>>>>> I come from a long line of really poor people.
>>>> That's the common mistake people who want to become billionaires
>>>> often make.
>>>>
>>> Why aren't you a billionaire, then?
>> Because I come from a long line of really poor people.
>>
> I heard from a reliable source that that's a common mistake people who
> want to become billionaires make.
It's true. And I regret it to this day...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I feel like I'm setting myself up for a bad pun here.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When have I ever produced a bad pun?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Puns, by definition, are bad.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Only the puny ones. They are hard to swallow.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm going cold turkey.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Chickening out, you mean...
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Careful! I have a fowl temper...
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'll be sure to duck.
>>>>>>>>>>> At least you'll get some egg-cersize.
>>>>>>>>>> This is a yoke, right? If I get any more eggcersise I'll be
>>>>>>>>>> end up a shell of my former self...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I see you poached some yolk-tastic egg puns.
>>>>>>>> Yeah - my humour is really getting air under its wings. Soaring
>>>>>>>> you might say.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Shell-arious! Don't get whisked away...
>>>>>> Not likely - I'm not exactly a featherweight...
>>>>> Dammit! I already used egg-cersise!
>>>>> And I was quilling these puns...
>>>> I'm down to end it here if you wish...
>>> I'm in. As long as it doesn't ruffle any feathers.
>> We can only implore everyone to calm their tits, as the saying goes.
> You always find a way to work boobies into the conversation. And not the
> blue-footed kind.
Very different birds. A tit is much smaller and doesn't have webbed feet.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Also I don't see a possible pun presenting.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Phew!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That would make me stark raven mad!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There's no reason to let your gull rise because of a
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pun.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm starling to get annoyed owl-ready.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't go all emu on me...
>>>>>>>>>>>>> That one flew over my head.
>>>>>>>>>>>> HA! Emus don't even fly. ('Emo's may or may not, but they
>>>>>>>>>>>> aren't happy about it either way.)
>>>>>>>>>>> Those kids quack me up!
>>>>>>>>>> Don't crow about it; I'm sure you hade your phase of being
>>>>>>>>>> edgy and different too...
>>>>>>>>> I got tweetment for it.
>>>>>>>> Must have been a trill for you. Did you get coffee and magpie
>>>>>>>> after?
>>>>>>> Yes! I gobbled it up!
>>>>>> That must have been quite a large bill. I this economy.
>>>>> It was actually cheep.
>>>> Just a few loonies, then?
>>> [OOOO! Excellent knowledge of local currencies]
>>> Yep! It makes cents that I would have some.
>> Attached to a magnet, perhaps... [1]
> I never carry one around.
That will make it harder to find coins in the snow...
> I remember Phil used to go on and on about it. I thought that's how
> vending machines work: they have magnets which draw the coins into the
> appropriate slot so that the machine knows you put in the correct
> amount.
I'm pretty sure the mechanical vending machines uses weight/size to
determine value. Nowadays it's possibly optical scan.
> I'm guessing he would be less thrilled to hear that when I pay for
> parking in the States, I use Canadian currency. I probably can't do that
> anymore since the parking meters have gone digital.
I don't know anything about parking meters, but I'm sure using the wrong
currency is some kind of counterfeiting.