another curious thing

[johnwillyums]

Imagine you are a cowboy in the wild west.
You are in a three way shoot out with two of your compatriots over the hand of a fair lady.
You're not a very good shot. You only hit what you're aiming at 10% of the time.
Your buddy Jake is better, he'll make the shot 60% of the time.
Elwood is the best, he'll hit his target 90% of the time.
You've all only got one bullet each.
You're only advantage is that you're a faster draw than the other two, who are about even.
What's your best course of action?

 

[Maguscreed]

To realize that no woman that would apparently just jump on any of the three of you at the drop of a hat is worth dying or killing your friend over and walk away.

 

[johnwillyums]

I agree, but that's a contemporary answer based on a contemporary moral viewpoint. You have to imagine you're an ignorant cowboy 200 years ago. Your moral code would encompass such notions as "to the winner the spoils".
Similarly the young ladies outlook in those frontier days would have been less progressive than today and would necessarily been pragmatic. She might have seen herself as a chattel to be fought over. It might have seemed a better prospect than working in the bar/brothel and so on.

 

[Britton30]

I'd go hide and let Jake and Elwood shot each other.

 

[A Guy]

Britton is on the right track. Elwood should get Jake, then you shoot Elwood. Unless of course they aren't smart enough to realize who the strongest original threat is

A Guy

 

[profdlp]

I agree, but that's a contemporary answer based on a contemporary moral viewpoint...

In that vein, shoot the lady and make friends with Jake & Elwood.

 

[DocBrown]

You get John Wayne as your stand-in double, cause He's the man that shot Liberty Valence

 

[boohbah]

shoot yourself in the foot and whilst you are jumping around in agony this will make you a difficult target ,giving the others no choice but to shoot each other.
and you hop off in the sunset with the lady

 

[A Guy]

shoot yourself in the foot and whilst you are jumping around in agony this will make you a difficult target ,giving the others no choice but to shoot each other.
and you hop off in the sunset with the lady

That's perfect...John is always shooting himself in the foot! :roflmao:

A Guy

 

[johnwillyums]

Actually, Britton30, Bill and Julian are on the right track.
Your best bet would be to draw your gun and discharge your only bullet into the ground. This would make you no threat to the others.
Hopefully they will both shoot each other but it might be that Elwood kills Jake.
If that happens, be prepared to rush forward and club Elwood mercilessly to the ground with your heavy revolver. You should be able to do this before the smoke has cleared.
Then grab the girl and run off to a life of happiness, build your own shack, grow cows etc.

Profdlp's idea has merit- "make friends with Jake & Elwood. "- but I think he's thinking about a much more contemporary and progressive kind of western than I am

 

[jfar]

Imagine you are a cowboy in the wild west.
You are in a three way shoot out with two of your compatriots over the hand of a fair lady.
You're not a very good shot. You only hit what you're aiming at 10% of the time.
Your buddy Jake is better, he'll make the shot 60% of the time.
Elwood is the best, he'll hit his target 90% of the time.
You've all only got one bullet each.
You're only advantage is that you're a faster draw than the other two, who are about even.
What's your best course of action?

Can I phone a friend?

 

[A Guy]

Imagine you are a cowboy in the wild west.
You are in a three way shoot out with two of your compatriots over the hand of a fair lady.
You're not a very good shot. You only hit what you're aiming at 10% of the time.
Your buddy Jake is better, he'll make the shot 60% of the time.
Elwood is the best, he'll hit his target 90% of the time.
You've all only got one bullet each.
You're only advantage is that you're a faster draw than the other two, who are about even.
What's your best course of action?

Can I phone a friend?

You can shoot a friend!

A Guy

 

[Maguscreed]

You know I actually share names with an ancestor of mine that killed a man because he didn't like the way he was dividing up the fish they caught. (he was hung)
even with that tid bit, this just seems ridiculous to me.

 

[jfar]

Imagine you are a cowboy in the wild west.
You are in a three way shoot out with two of your compatriots over the hand of a fair lady.
You're not a very good shot. You only hit what you're aiming at 10% of the time.
Your buddy Jake is better, he'll make the shot 60% of the time.
Elwood is the best, he'll hit his target 90% of the time.
You've all only got one bullet each.
You're only advantage is that you're a faster draw than the other two, who are about even.
What's your best course of action?

Can I phone a friend?

You can shoot a friend!

A Guy

I have none left.

 

[Hopalong X]

Imagine you are a cowboy in the wild west.
You are in a three way shoot out with two of your compatriots over the hand of a fair lady.
You're not a very good shot. You only hit what you're aiming at 10% of the time.
Your buddy Jake is better, he'll make the shot 60% of the time.
Elwood is the best, he'll hit his target 90% of the time.
You've all only got one bullet each.
You're only advantage is that you're a faster draw than the other two, who are about even.
What's your best course of action?

Hopalong never misses.

He never kills anyone either.

 

[smarteyeball]

You could always tell your buddies she's not that fair a lady and has the clap as well as consumption.

They may lose interest...

 

[johnwillyums]

You could put the gun under your chin and threaten to kill yourself unless they let you get the girl this time.
If Jake and Elwood were any kind of decent men they would suddenly realise that you had long been typecast as the sidekick who never got the girl. They'd suddenly become aware that you had real issues and might well blow your own head off.
They would then quietly withdraw. Both feeling a little ashamed that they had been too self absorbed to notice how unhappy you had become lately.

 

[jfar]

You could put the gun under your chin and threaten to kill yourself unless they let you get the girl this time.
If Jake and Elwood were any kind of decent men they would suddenly realise that you had long been typecast as the sidekick who never got the girl. They'd suddenly become aware that you had real issues and might well blow your own head off.
They would then quietly withdraw. Both feeling a little ashamed that they had been too self absorbed to notice how unhappy you had become lately.

Can I ask the audience instead?