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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Watching action films is like listening to the old British Colonel and his war stories that get more incredible with each telling:
"So there I was, the only person between 5,000 Colonial soldiers with just-discovered defective rifles; and 25,000 attackers with knives and spears. In seconds, the heathens would have been upon us!"
"What did you do, Colonel?"
"Why, I quickly dismantled my own rifle's scope and used the magnifying lens, backed by my trusty shaving mirror, to reflect sunlight into our opponents' eyes... giving our boys a fighting chance..."
"Why... that's incredible, Colonel!"
"Quite."
You can almost imagine an elderly James Bond retelling his fairly conventional exploits to a young (and humoring) audience, and having them sound like the movie scripts. (Hmm: Might be fodder for the second 007 comedy, at that...)
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Originally Posted by dsvick
 You should be a writer... oh hey you are - good choice ... 
I can see it.... big handlebar mustache, pith helmet, elephant gun resting against the wall... |
or as the standing joke in ROTC used to go... "there I was! the enemy in front of me, the enemy behind me and there I was up to my knees in handgrenade pins and nothing left!" "so what did you do?" "well died of course!!!" (maybe you had to be there)