Originally Posted By Yookeroo "That's pretty close to what Mike is saying. Combine the first 2 lines and it's there." Not really close at all.
Originally Posted By berol If you weed through Mike's flip-flops and vague posts, you can figure out that what he eventually means to say is that they may have gotten the idea to do B-H and made it fitting for a Disneyland New Orleans Square ride by changing it to a generic duel in N.O. Dabob2 had that as a conversation instead of 1 person's thought or a group thought.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 To be clear, I posited that is the only possible even vaguely and barely plausible way it would've made even a drop of sense. So there's that.
Originally Posted By llanatoye Thanks smd4 "Seriously...sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes a duel is just a duel." This thread is hysterically funny though, thanks for tonights entertainment.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>"Most Americans probably think of Hamilton-Burr when they think of dueling," Do they? I bet most Americans don't.<< I'll take that even further: most, especially younger Americans, have probably never even heard of them. That was probably different a generation or two ago.
Originally Posted By fkurucz Given that the Mansion is set in a hypothetical south (from its architecture) I would surmise that the two duelers are simply two generic southern gents.
Originally Posted By berol to wrap this up, "Is there an Aaron Burr - Alexander Hamilton duel statue set up inside the HM, or their busts in there somewhere?" a unanimous no for statues/busts; a unanimous non-yes for portraits I'd never noticed the portraits. My attention is always pointed downward in the room.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Here's a good piece on the duelists: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2011/01/duelists.html">http://longforgottenhauntedman...sts.html</a> I'd forgotten they both have facial hair. Neither Hamilton nor Burr did.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "I'll take that even further: most, especially younger Americans, have probably never even heard of them. That was probably different a generation or two ago." It probably wasn't.
Originally Posted By phruby I'd say more like five or six generations ago unless you love the History channel.
