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When we visited L.B.'s grave, I remember one of my co-leaders saying she used to jog in that graveyard. I wouldn't -- it definitely looks like a place to get mugged. Which is sad, it's really, really beautiful. I'll bet Chuck would really like it if he's never been there.

That King's Inn fight sounds funny, except of course that people got hurt. I feel very badly for the bouncer who was pistol-whipped. I hope he wasn't seriously injured. But I like the creativity of lighting the fire.

It apparently occurred to some sleazebags not too long ago that elderly widows often visit secluded cemeteries alone where they are easy marks.

My mother has already been cautioned by a number of friends (including some that work in the funeral business) who know of stories like this one, and on her last visit to my Dad's grave she ended up leaving in a hurry when she found a suspicious man was watching her. I have a seriously short fuse over stories about people preying on the weak, bereaved, or helpless among us. I hope I never witness anything like this, because I'm afraid of what I would do to the assailant.

Chuck S., vigilante to the bereaved. Springing out from behind a gravestone near you.

Y'know, it might make a good story. Who can get behind the kind of sleazy scumbag that preys on the bereaved? Unless it's cute little Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon, pre-thank-god-the-police-saved-me-from-my-cokehead-self days.

When I was a kid, our neighbor's wife died, and while he was at the funeral, his house was robbed.

There is a special place in hell for people like that.

We spent a fair bit of time in cemeteries while geocaching and, come to think of it, I did see a lot of people lurking in cars.

Of course, I carry a broadsword. But that's mostly for zombies, not robbers.

HAH!

Speaking of broadswords...

As you may know, I read a Scottish paper online and subscribe to their daily news feed. Imagine my dismay when this story arrived in my inbox this past Sunday:

There cannot be only one...

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/There-cannot-be-only-one.4139913.jp

Christopher Lambert was a major star? Before "The Highlander"?

That's a stretch. He was in "Greystoke" which was a big film, but I never got the impression that the film rocketed him to stardom. Hmm.

I guess when they say the later films used obscure people, they REALLY mean obscure.

Major shmajor--he was hot in that movie and that's all that matters!

I agree - I was on the lookout for him after Greystoke! I liked him better in the loincloth, though.

I remember a lot of grumpy Scottish people griping about the use of a non-Scottish actor, especially a nasty Frenchman, as Connor McLeod. For YEARS afterward. They probably still gripe about it now, in between spotting trains.

I always liked the TV series better than the movie (there was only ONE movie, in my book), maybe because there was more history, more geography, and some cool guest stars and villains. If you really REALLY love a story, two hours is not enough.

But I fear the whole thing may already have run its course, and restarting from the beginning won't necessary solve that problem.

The estrogen brigade hath spoken.

Re the Estrogen Brigade, I'll have to poll The Queens when next we meet for dinner and see if they, too, swooned for Connor MacLeod of the clan MacLeod and I'll report back.

I think his voice is much too effeminate. Cool character, icky actor. The new movie is supposed to have backstory and depth. That makes sense. I think the original was great because it introduced you to the idea, and that was enough. But since we all get it now, they need to do more in the new movie. I hope it's cool.

Thank, Patti, for offering to be that conduit. :)

Oh, I dread a remake. "Highlander II" is the only move I've ever walked out of.

I'm with you, Patti - I really don't have much of a taste for remakes. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but originality is the sincerest form of ... well ... originality.