Admittedly, not many people in the Old West are remembered for their superior intellect but Billy did look like an exceptional simpleton. In fact, scientists are now unanimously decided that Billy is the illegitimate offspring of the Wizaard of Oz scarecrow and Goofy.
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In the words of Frank Pembleton: Crime makes you stupid.
Because of the double http at the start.
Corrected link. It’s just a Google image search with a picture of Billy selected.
I’m sorry, link or no link, for a very famous criminal he still looks a bit dumb. How did he evade capture so long ?
For a time, he hid behind a botched URL.
Yes and whilst I am amused and embarrassed at the same time it doesn’t detract from the fact that all these cowboys made it into the annals of history yet they were all a bit dopey and none of them lived past 35.
Most people did most of their life’s work before age 35 since until very recently that was about average life expectancy.
Looks can be deceiving. You cannot judge a person’s intelligence or aptitude by their appearance.
I am well aware of this. I have been an English Professor for 18 years but I still think (and I am 70% joking now) that even the most dim wittest person can put on a clever face when need be. I’ve been totally pissed at the best of parties and managed to compose myself for the photographs. And since photographs were incredibly expensive and not commonplace in the 1800s, you’d think that one could at least try to look a bit savvy. The only person I’ve ever seen looking that stupid in a photo was the best man at my wedding and he was half cut and very nervous.
Care to make it interesting?
How’s Lady Marmalade doing? Itchy gitchi yaya dada…
Of course…I challenge you to a duel.
So are you saying that Pat Garrett did not, in fact, kill Billy the Kid, who subsequently escaped to Oz and took up a career scaring crows?
Tintypes like that picture of Billy the Kid cost about a nickel in the 1880s, and could be had at just about any street corner in a good sized town. They were cheap and common.
Well, that’s why I’m not a history teacher…and thank you for clearing that up. I stand corrected. But I’m still adamant that he looks a bit like that cousin at a wedding that stands in the corner and everyone tries to avoid.
30% of children died before the age of 5. People who lived past 5 would make it into their 60s and 70s most often. The high infant mortality rate brought down the average.
I have a good photo of my wife standing next to Billy the Kid’s gravestone in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. After the present one was put there in the 1940s, it was stolen and recovered no less than three times, so they finally put a steel cage around it.
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