You must rent the uncut version immediately! That's a film that gets all the best stuff chopped out for TV, more so than Young Frankenstein.

You're right, I should. I mean, I had no idea Mungo was straight!

Considering that the only women with speaking roles in Blazing Saddles were Lily Von Schtupp, the governor's secretary, and the schoolteacher, Marion(?) Johnson ("It just goes to prove that you are the leading asshole in this state"), I'm surprised that there wasn't more hoyay in the film.

It's probably horrendously redundant to say I'm both more weapons-oriented and whip-sensitive than Nutty. But I forget these things, and shouldn't be surprised when more normal folk than I think of cows with whips before people. They're pretty much only a punishment in my eyes.

Huh. Preliminary googling seems to indicate that you don't whip animals -- well not livestock, anyway. Whips seemed to be used in those scenarios to startle them with the noise.

So it's mainly folk that get hit with them, it seems.

"A wed wose, how womantic!"

"God damn it, Mr. Lamarr sir, you use your tongue purtier than a twenny dollar whore!"

"They said you was hung!"
"And they was right!"

"It's twue, it's twue!"

It's probably horrendously redundant to say I'm both more weapons-oriented and whip-sensitive than Nutty.

Well, I tend to go by design and etymology, before I go through the cultural associations. A bullwhip was used on cattle (and probably on European serfs)(not smurfs) long before it was used in the American slave context; and its name says "bull" not "person", so I think the cowpoke context first.

Also, yeah. I don't call a thing a weapon unless it has no other use, or it is being used as such right then and there. Despite having used a shoe as a hammer, I don't automatically think "hammer" when I say "shoe".

A rake is a tool, and you could probably club someone to death with it, but that's not the first thing that leaps to my mind. (Not the plastic kind of rake, but the old wooden kind.)

Rake vs. human scenarios seem to crop up best in golfing humour.

"So, then I stood on the rake and those were the best balls I hit all day", etc.

I'm both more weapons-oriented and whip-sensitive than Nutty. But I forget these things, and shouldn't be surprised when more normal folk than I think of cows with whips before people. They're pretty much only a punishment in my eyes.

I don't think of a whip as a weapon, per se, in that context. It's an implement of torture/discipline, but I wouldn't think of a cat o' nine tails as a particularly effective weapon against someone able to defend themselves. Once inside the optimum range of a bullwhip, I wouldn't think of it as much use except as a strangling device or a floppy club.

Not about whips, I don't think, but...

What are some dance movies from the 80s? I got Flashdance, Footloose, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Breakin' & Breakin' 2, Electric Boogaloo. What else is there?

I tend to go by design and etymology, before I go through the cultural associations

But we do agree a knife is a weapon, right? Even though it probably wasn't designed to slice people, and that the huge majority of its usage today isn't as a weapon.

I don't call a thing a weapon unless it has no other use

This explains the question about krav and the magazine, I realise. They're all weapons to me, even if I haven't worked out how. Some things, like whips, came along with a significant history of having been used as such, so I don't even have to engage my imagination.

Once inside the optimum range of a bullwhip, I wouldn't think of it as much use except as a strangling device or a floppy club.

Much like a bazooka becomes a club at close range -- every weapon has their distance.

I'm not saying I'd pick it as a good weapon for a fight, but there are arts that do teach it.