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Gunsel

Wilmer_cook.jpg

Sam Spade(sizing up Wilmer Cook, Gutmans hired gun and "associate":Young Wild West...
Wilmer Cook: Keep on riding me and they're gonna be picking iron out of your liver.
Sam Spade: The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter, eh?

From Dashiell Hammetts' The Maltese Falcon.
( it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture on drudge, I dont know why...)

The face of another victim of "Bush Derangement Syndrome". And how many of the progressive left, who's patiotism we dare not challenge applaud this man as a brave "hero of the little man for attempting to speak truth to power", when all he is a poor deluded fool whos simply lost his mind?

Posted @ December 04, 2005 03:22 PM | Current Affairs

Comments

These days I just call them assholes.

Posted by: Leslie Bates at December 4, 2005 05:39 PM

Dashiell Hammett's publisher objected to some of the slang in his previous book, and censored it out. Hammet responded by pulling up the obscure term gunsel, which in fact referred only to being an "associate" and not to carrying a gun.

Posted by: triticale at December 7, 2005 04:50 AM