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Shoot 'em down like dogs


The character of Major Rufus Cobb rules! His quotes when writing an editorial are just hilarious!

Major Rufus Cobb: "Paragraph: If we are ever to have law and order in the West, the first thing we gotta do is take out all the lawyers and shoot 'em down like dogs."

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I loved how when the Maj. Cobb is giving his editorial on Dentists, he stops to play with Jesse Jr. meanwhile Roy is finishing it on his own, "And shoot'em down like dogs."

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Actually, it's from Shakespeare's Henry VI Part II: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." HVI P2 is not one of the Bard's greatest evenings out, and it's seldom performed these days, but the quote has, for reasons that hardly need explaining, given it a minor immortality.

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seems a bit harsh.



A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

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