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FF – Wear a White Hat

Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week’s photo was contributed by Jennifer Pendergast back in April 2015.

This week I used lots of “tham thars” to add an authentic Wild West feel. I hope I didn’t overdo it 😉

If you want to read a more sensible tale, here’s the story I wrote back in the day.

 

“Quick, Jed, through tham thar railroad cars an’ inta that thar desert!”

Blam!

“They’s gettin’ closer, Herb!”

“Shuddup an’ run, Jed! Darn, I’m right regretting tham thar grits I ‘ad fer breakfast, all this runnin’.”

“Quit bellyachin’, them varmints is a-comin’ closer!”

Blam!

“Why they shootin’ at us, Herb? We ain’t done nothin’ wrong!”

“I tol’ ya, ya shouldn’t’a bought that thar black hat. I bet in years ta come, bad folks’ll be wearing tham thar black hats in them new-fangled movin’ pictures. Yer ahead-a yer time!”

“Yer red shirt ain’t helpin’!”

Blam!

Splat

 

  1. August 5, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    Why didn’t they hide in the mall?

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    • August 6, 2020 at 5:01 am

      If only it had been built already! Maybe the developer is one of the shooters, “cleansing” the area…

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  2. August 5, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    I know I shouldn’t laugh so much at the “splat” but it’s just too funny! 😀

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  3. August 5, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    To complete the effect, each of those shots that missed hit a possum…

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  4. August 5, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    Oy. Which one got splatted?

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  5. August 5, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    A bit like Clark Kent and his glasses disguise, how could no one ever figure out who the bad cowboys were right at the start of those westerns?! Good fun.

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    • August 6, 2020 at 5:04 am

      It’s not hard, people! Until someone makes a poor fashion choice…

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  6. August 5, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    I think I’ll need a translation on this one. First of all, what’s “thar”?

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  7. August 5, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    There mighta been three or four too many them thars… But that didn’t stop me from enjoying this none

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  8. August 6, 2020 at 2:17 am

    Oh…that splat caught me by surprise. 😦

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  9. August 6, 2020 at 8:59 am

    Reblogged this on Musings on Life & Experience and commented:
    Yep. Two articles of clothing you shouldn’t wear if you want to live longer. Too bad boys. 😦 — Suzanne

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  10. August 6, 2020 at 9:08 am

    Glad he lived to tell the tale 🙂

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  11. August 6, 2020 at 11:11 am

    That didn’t end well. 😉

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  12. August 6, 2020 at 11:36 am

    Dear Ali,

    I did enjoy that thar story y’all wrote. However they didn’t drop h’s in the Wild West. 😉 I can see where a red shirt might cause a problem. Fun stuff. Glad you’re still aboard after all these years.

    Shalom y’all,

    Rochelle

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    • August 6, 2020 at 1:12 pm

      Dear Rochelle,
      I had trouble at times not writing in a Cornish “accent”! We drop h’s 🙂
      Black hat and red shirt – what a pair!
      Ali

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  13. August 6, 2020 at 12:54 pm

    Far too many sensible tales this week! This is just what I needed to read.

    Here’s mine!

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  14. August 6, 2020 at 1:34 pm

    This story goes great with my new binge show- The Beverly Hillbillies.

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  15. August 6, 2020 at 6:04 pm

    clothes do make a man. 🙂

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  16. August 6, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    Wow! Things degenerated pretty quickly! Well-done.

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  17. August 6, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    You could title this The Black Hat Prophesy. Well done. Funny….very!

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  18. Lyn
    August 6, 2020 at 11:56 pm

    LOL I knew there had to be a darn “splat” in that there tale. 😀

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  19. August 7, 2020 at 1:01 am

    Red shirt, eh? Well, oy. Splat.

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  20. Mer O'Leary
    August 7, 2020 at 2:05 am

    Them thar movin’ pictures. 😂

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  21. August 7, 2020 at 4:01 am

    Too stupid to live… haha. A strangely satisfying story.

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  22. August 8, 2020 at 9:36 am

    that’s what dam movies are for, stereotypical characters. He should have wore a white hat.

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  23. August 8, 2020 at 1:33 pm

    There’s gold in them thar dialogue 😉

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  24. August 8, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    Dammit, Butch, who are those guys? Just shut up and run, Sundance. 😀

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    • August 9, 2020 at 6:09 am

      Running’s always a good plan 🙂

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  25. August 8, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    Black hats and red shirts, oh my.

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  26. August 9, 2020 at 10:06 am

    Somehow I knew this was going to go splat.

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    • August 10, 2020 at 3:56 pm

      I have become predictable in my old age 🙂

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  27. August 9, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    I knew red shirts were bad on Star Trek. I didn’t know it went all the way back to western.

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  28. August 10, 2020 at 10:05 am

    An entertaining story Ali. I remember tv Westerns, the ‘baddies’ in black hats, ‘goodies’ in white hats, in case you lost the plot and couldn’t remember who was who !

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    • August 10, 2020 at 4:05 pm

      Yes, it was so “black and white” back then, heroes were heroes and baddies were bad through and through!

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  29. August 18, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    Love the sound effects. 😁

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