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PimpinAinttEasy — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 07:44 PM)

just a fun exercise. name some writers who would be good men to have on your side in a fight.
i can think of NORMAN MAILER - this badass even tried to arrange a hit on the ayotollah khomeni during the whole rushdie affair. but he did get owned by RIP TORN in a youtube video.
name others.

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Ken Kesey. Champion wrestler in college. Might have made an Olympic squad were it not for injury.
William Burroughs. Not physically, but I've got to think that he'd have all kinds of devious crap to pull.
Hunter S. Thompson. Either from being ripped to the tits and completely fearless because of it, or from packing heat. Or both.
Trump is Putin's bitch.

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that dude Marcinko who wrote about being a US renegade military man

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Ernest K. Gann. His military training, his working class experience as a pilot and sailor and world traveler, and his knowing how to live outside means he could hold ones' back in a scrap.
Anybody want a peanut ?

  • Fezzik, " The Princess Bride " ( 1987 )
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Louis L'Amour since he was an ex-boxer who won most of the matches he was in.

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Hefting packages by the bunch and bags of mailhe might be tougher than you'd think. I personally would not mess with any of the postal workers in my town!!!!!

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Giving the hidings Rourke takes in Barfly I can imagine he'd take a beating quite well. Kinda like that episode of The Simpsons when Homer becomes a boxer.

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dont know about bukowski squelchy, for all his macho posturing he worked in a post office his whole life.

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Bukowski as long as he's got a
full tank a fuuueeel
.

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Have you
seen
China Mieville? I have no idea if he's a fighter, but he sure looks like a man I'd like on my side in a fight. (Great novelist, too. An acquaintance tells me he's sweet and funny in person.)
Of course, my fighting methods are unconventional. I'll research my enemy thoroughly and say things likely to make him or her cry.
SPEED
Don't mistake my silence for weakness. Nobody plans murders out loud.

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Christopher Marlowe - 16th Century James Bond.
Byron - could box a bit.
You're my wife now.

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Hemingway. Maybe Gillian Flynn, because I get the feeling she'd have a taser, pepper spray and maybe some brass knuckles on her, and that she'd fight dirty. The downside is that she'd manipulate the situation to make it all my fault when the cops show up.

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He actually built his own army and staged a coup. When it failed, he committed seppuku in penance.

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some great choices, jerry. didnt MISHIMA sacrifice his life to defend the japanese emperor?

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Mailer was a big girl's blouse. Torn, who is genuinely crazy, would have killed him and called it Tuesday.
I reckon Ambrose Bierce (survived being shot in the head), Cervantes (shot three times in the chest and lost an arm and lived to fight again), Thomas Malory (basically a one-man crime spree) and Yukio Mishima (samurai sword-wielding headcase) would be pretty handy.

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he did get owned by RIP TORN in a youtube video.
Maidstone (1970)
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations" Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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