Posted by Covenant on 10/17/06 19:44

"l.hammersley" <l.hammersley@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> "Tracy" <sistermoonconstant@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Covenant wrote:
>>> Okay...
>>>
>>> It may be a cowboy movie, or it may be an *American war of independence*
>>> film, or one of those *Alamo* type movies...
>>>
>>> Point is, I ony saw it on TV when I was about 10 (over 30 years ago!)
>>>
>>> But one scene sticks in my head cos it may have been my first exposure
>>> to TV
>>> violence..
>>>
>>> Some guy comes into this room/tent/something...
>>>
>>> And all the rest of the guys in there are playing cards.
>>> And this one guy has done something horrendous (Nope, dunno what!)
>>>
>>> And he gets well stabbed up (But surounded by the pother guys so you see
>>> nothing..)
>>>
>>> BUT while they are stabbing him up they are singing or whistling, "John
>>> Brown's Body"
>>> and the scene ends with a shot of a card table (with a gratuitous ace of
>>> spades showing) and a knife having the blood wiped off onto the
>>> tablecloth...
>>>
>>> Any ideas???
>>>
>> Apparently, 43 films use that tune!
>>
>> Can you go from here?:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic
>>
> Could you give us more information such as the victims blood group or what
> other cards the poker players were holding when they stabbing took
> place?Was the table cloth patterned or was it just one colour (what
> colour?)and what material was it made off?



;' ))))

Told you all it was Impossible !!


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Covenant
A Man With Far Too Many Supressed Memories.... Allegedly !!!

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