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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (172036)	10/6/2005 7:26:11 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 281500

<<I myself have seen the quick draw, reverse-finger-spin trick employed by a wild-eyed gun enthusiast with an erection. Of course if it backfires you have to throw away your wallet and use the standard "mugger got me "story. I'm surprised you fell for it.>> The judge and jury fell for it too. The shooter got 20 years.

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (172036)	10/6/2005 7:50:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Such unfortunate incidents are probably due to the fact that males take years longer to mature than females. g. Ed> Depending on your definition of "mature", there's an argument that males never mature. Of course, biologically, their wisdom teeth pop through a few years after female wisdom teeth, but having spent so many years being young, as much as 50% longer than women in many instances [age 16 instead of age 11], it's not surprising that many males have a Peter Pan complex. Giving such old children The Bomb to control, is not necessarily a good idea. Males are acclimatized to imaginative childhood as much as 50% longer than females, and on average about 25% [3 years longer than the 12 for females]. If one checks the Darwin awards, there are swarms more males trying such tricks as you described. Women ruling politics, as in New Zealand, is not necessarily a bad thing. Given that males ran the 20th century and that involved genocide and carnage on a colossal scale, and that plans are afoot for even greater achievement of mass death [nuclear Armageddon is still planned and Islamic Jihad is just getting warmed up], I'd be quite relaxed about women ruling the world. It is unlikely to be worse. Women seem less given to murderous macho displays of aggression and dominance. Sexist, I know. Whateverist too. Even though women aren't that good at maths and physics, they are useful for being barefoot, pregant, in the kitchen, the bedroom, looking after children, and in parliament and the palace [Buckingham]. Mqurice