Plus, I doubt the person making the threat would wait for any actual preparations such as canceling various subscriptions. And I don’t think they’d allow for the necessary witnesses required while I’m writing my will.

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      He wasn’t doing it as a threat. He was doing it because he was a gentleman who happened to be seeking revenge.

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      Inigo Montoya saying it so many times feels like an action movie where some idiot with a gun cocks it over and over every time they really mean it this time.

      Except of course Mandy Patinkin is a fucking treasure.

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        I watched a lot of movies as a kid, but I never noticed until Back to the Future (the 2nd one, I think), with Biff Tannen cocking his revolver excessively on the roof. That movie caused me to start counting.