New F-word Proverb

[Baker, John]

        What is the distinction being made between the "fight" and "go
for your gun" options?


John Baker


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2003 rec.gambing.poker
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.gambling.poker/msg/b9568fd7203c9748
(Apr. 1): Fight, Fuck, or go for your gun.

  2006 Rick Newman & Don Shepperd _Bury Us Upside Down_ (N.Y.: Random
House/Presidio Press) 13 [ref. to 1960s]: This was the "fuck, fight, or
go for your gun" Air Force.

  2006 _Washington Monthly_
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_06/009030.php
(June 18):
  Just like that old saying "fuck, fight, or go for your gun", i move as
fast as possible to the third option.

  JL

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