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Billy The Kid ... still an outlaw

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Bubbler, Dec 31, 2010.

  1. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Richardson is one of the world's biggest media whores and he saw an opportunity to get on the talk shows and took it.
     
  2. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Billy also was associated with this murdering bastard and what he did to the town of Lawrence, Kansas:

    "[William' Quantrill's men burned a quarter of the town's buildings, and killed at least 150 men and BOYS. The Lawrence raid was the most successful and infamous operation of Missouri's Southern guerrillas. The Confederate leadership was appalled by the raid, and withdrew even tacit support from the "bushwackers". Following the raid, in the winter of 1863-64, Quantrill led his men behind Confederate lines into Texas. There, their often lawless presence proved an embarrassment to the Confederate command."
     
  3. Knighthawk

    Knighthawk Member

    No, he wasn't. Billy the Kid was born in 1859. He was three years old when Quantrill sacked Lawrence, and hadn't turned five when Quantrill died.
     
  4. golfnut8924

    golfnut8924 Guest

    I wonder what all the people who are sitting in jail awaiting trial think about this time being spent on a guy who has been dead for how many years?? Just another example of wasteful government spending. We have enough problems with people who are actually alive, how about we focus our attention on them.

    Thumbs up their asses.
     
  5. I believe you're confusing BTK with The James-Younger gang.
     
  6. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Do American government officials not have some more ... er ... IMMEDIATE issues to deal with?
     
  7. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    If someone came to Richardson with this request, there is only one thing to say,

    "Who gives a shit, he's been dead for 100 years."
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Why? Aren't all our lives better now that they've gotten rid of steriods in baseball?
     
  9. ChrisRcc

    ChrisRcc Member

    And wouldn't humanity benefit without the BCS system?
     
  10. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    I opened this thinking Eddie Fogler was mad about Florida hoops recruiting again.
     
  11. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Well, me and Billy The Kid never got along:
    I didn't like the way he cocked his hat and he wore his gun all wrong.
    Well, we had the same girlfriend and he never forgot it.
    She had a cute little Chihuahua till one day he up and shot it.
    He rode the hard country down the New Mexico line.
    He had a silver pocket watch that he never did wind.
    He crippled a piano player for playin' his favorite song.
    Yeah, me and Billy The Kid, we ain't never got along.
    Yeah, me and Billy The Kid never got along:
    I didn't like the way he buckled his belt and he wore his gun all wrong.
    He was bad to the bone, all hopped up on speed.
    I would've left him alone if it wasn't for that senorita:
    He gave her silver and he paid her hotel bill.
    But it was me she loved: she said she always will.
    I'd always go see her whenever Billy was gone
    Yeah, me and Billy The Kid, we never got along.

    Instrumental break

    Yeah, me and Billy The Kid never got along:
    I didn't like the way he buckled his boots an' he wore his gun all wrong.
    One day, I said to Billy: "I got this foolproof scheme.
    "We'll rob Wells Fargo, it's bustin at the seams."
    I admit that I framed him. I don't feel no remorse.
    It was just my way of gettin' even with the man who shot my horse.
    Yeah, Billy reached for his gun but his gun was on wrong.
    Yeah, me and Billy The Kid, we never got along.

    Well, me and Billy The Kid never got along:
    But I did like the way he swayed in the wind while I played him his favorite song.
    Now my baby sings harmony with me, to "La Cucaracha".
    She winds her silver pocket watch and pets her new Chihuahua.
    I moved into the hotel, I got a room with a shower.
    We lay an' listen to that watch tick hour after hour.
    Outside, I hear the wind blowin' oh so strong:
    Me and Billy The Kid, we never got along!

    We never got along.
     
  12. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Whatever happened to that guy? Another one who falls into the "good coach, complete lunatic" category. I must admit, I thoroughly enjoyed dealing with him.
     
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