Rochambeau game

[Wilson Gray]

On Oct 19, 2004, at 8:37 AM, James Smith wrote:

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> Sorry, your final comments indicate to me that you
> missed the whole point of the joke.  The landowner
> didn't want the bird.

In other words, the hunter got played. He was stupid enough to let the
landowner kick his nuts up into his abdominal cavity on a humbug.

-Wilson Gray

>   Try substituting lawyer for
> duckhunter.
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> --- Douglas Bigham <TlhovwI at AOL.COM> wrote:
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>> "A duck hunter shot a duck, but it landed in another
>> guy's yard. So, the
>> hunter climbs the fence to get the duck, and the
>> land owner said that the way they
>> settle disputes in his country was to take turns
>> kicking each other in the
>> nuts, and whoever was the last one standing got to
>> keep the bird. [Buddy plays
>> the landowner going out to roshambo for the bird. He
>> winds up for the kick] The
>> guy kicks the hunter square in the nuts, and the
>> hunter goes down. [Buddy now
>> plays the hunter, writhing in pain. He does this for
>> two minutes, and then
>> gets up] The hunter finally got up and was preparing
>> to kick the landowner, but
>> the landowner said abruptly, "No that's ok..you can
>> keep it."
>>
>> The story makes clear that the last one standing got
>> to keep the bird. Since
>> the hunter went down, the landowner got to keep the
>> bird, but the hunter's
>> reaction was so pathetic that the landowner decided
>> the bird wasn't worth the
>> pathos. This is Cartman's decision as well,
>> especially since Pip didn't even try
>> to get up.
>>
>> -doug
>> -dsb
>> Douglas S. Bigham
>> Department of Linguistics
>> University of Texas - Austin
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