# Things I Have Learnt From Westerns...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-westerns/392739>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 18, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-westerns/392739 "2007-02-18T21:28:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-westerns/392739/101 "2007-04-06T23:32:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Martini Enfield]  
There were only two types of gun in the Old West: Colt Peacemaker revolvers and Winchester Lever-Action rifles.  
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Evil henchman Number One in **Joe Kidd** packed a Broomhandle Mauser. For all the good it did him.

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-westerns/392739/102 "2007-04-06T23:40:04Z")

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Watch the piano player in the saloon. He can hear, above the roar of the crowd, when two poker players across the room are exchanging words. He will then close the keyboard lid and skedaddle. That is the cue for someone to throw a glass and miss the person he’s aiming at and break the whiskey bottles behind the bar.

And _that_ is the cue for everyone to get in the act…the Western equivalent of FOOD FIGHT in _Animal House_.  
Upon preview…I’m sorry, I didn’t realize how long this thread was or how old. I just hopped to it from the war movies thread. :o

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2007, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-westerns/392739/103 "2007-04-10T11:24:25Z")

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[QUOTE=betenoir]  
Well, if you were listening to Camptown Ladies for the 20th time that night …  
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De Camptown Ladies? …Nope, don’t know dat one.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-westerns/392739/104 "2007-04-11T03:00:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux]  
The creator of Deadwood has said that they use modern-day profanity on the show because actual 1870s profanity would sound either too mild or just strange to modern audience members.  
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Interesting. Know of any examples?

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-have-learnt-from-westerns/392739/105 "2007-04-11T03:09:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Zeldar]  
Side note: it’s always interesting to see a log cabin out in the middle of this barren plain with no trees in sight, or even better in the middle of some desert. Pre-fab houses must have been all the rage and easily transported on conestoga wagons or horseback. Maybe mail-order houses.  
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[Not far from the truth.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_%28construction%29#Balloon_framing)

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