Comments on: a friend by any other name…

By: Rod Nabarowsky

Rod Nabarowsky — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:39:20 +0000

I don’t get it

By: Layne

Layne — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:27:52 +0000

I love this. Thanks.

By: CamiKaos

CamiKaos — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:21:33 +0000

just seriously? not #withaspoon?

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:28:06 +0000

Cami and Kelly: You guys are the best. #seriously.

Jenn – thanks for that perspective. I guess there are friends and then there are friends, right?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:21:35 +0000

Also: I have exactly that same exception. I endure westerns if necessary for marital harmony. I look forward to watching one: Tombstone.

One moment that sticks with me: In the rain the declaration HELL’S COMING WITH ME! Every time it’s just…wow.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:18:13 +0000

I think I know at least one of those situations. Thank you for warming my heart a little. It’s easy to lose faith in people, so thanks for helping bring balance to the Force. (: (bump)

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:03:32 +0000

This is a great post. You know, it’s funny now that I think about what you said… I’m someone who has lots of “friends”, and yes, I call them all friends. But there are only a few people that I would let see all of the inside of me. I can count them on one hand.
All of my “friends” are special to me, they bring something to my life, and hopefully I add something to thiers. But like you, I treasure those few that I have a deep, intimate connection with. That I can count on and that I would walk through any fire or storm to be there for them. They are scared of sharing silence with me, and don’t always have to talk to explain that they understand.
To some, it might be confusing… to me, it’s just my life. And it’s a good one at that, my friend.

By: CamiKaos

CamiKaos — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:35:58 +0000

damn you… your slugs made me wretch and this one makes me all misty eyed. I will refrain from friend commentary, but that scene, my favorite in the whole movie, and that movie I love. And then when Doc is in the hospital… well, yeah. Friends, real friends are hard to come by.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:21:21 +0000

And yeah. I frakin LOVE that movie.

My favorite scene, containing the line I quote the most (“In vino veritas”):

Johnny Ringo: [Ringo steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday.
Doc Holliday: That’s the rumor.
Johnny Ringo: You retired too?
Doc Holliday: Not me. I’m in my prime.
Johnny Ringo: Yeah, you look it.
Doc Holliday: And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him?
Kate: You don’t even know him.
Doc Holliday: Yes, but there’s just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don’t know, reminds me of… me. No. I’m sure of it, I hate him.
Wyatt Earp: [to Ringo] He’s drunk.
Doc Holliday: In vino veritas.
["In wine is truth" meaning: "When I'm drinking, I speak my mind"]
Johnny Ringo: Age quod agis.
["Do what you do" meaning: "Do what you do best"]
Doc Holliday: Credat Judaeus apella, non ego.
["The Jew Apella may believe it, not I" meaning: "I don't believe drinking is what I do best."]
Johnny Ringo: [pats his gun] Eventus stultorum magister.
["Events are the teachers of fools" meaning: "Fools have to learn by experience"]
Doc Holliday: [gives a Cheshire cat smile] In pace requiescat.
["Rest in peace" meaning: "It's your funeral!"]
Tombstone Marshal Fred White: Come on boys. We don’t want any trouble in here. Not in any language.
Doc Holliday: Evidently Mr. Ringo’s an educated man. Now I really hate him.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:18:38 +0000

Yes! I sometimes envy those people who have lots of friends, but then I wonder how you can possibly have a meaningful friendship with that many people. Makes me think that people with tons and tons of friends either a. have very superficial relationships with them or 5. must have different levels of friends, and just calls them all ‘friends’, which would be confusing, no?

I call all those other people “acquaintances”. Is it just semantics, then? Curious.

By: mediaChick

mediaChick — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:10:16 +0000

I often think about why this is such a hard concept for some people to understand. Friendship — like marriage and other heady commitments — are not universally bountiful. Well not for some of us, anyway. Some of us guard our hearts and save them for those who are worthy of spending heart ache on when they need it.

You never know who your true friends are until the shit hits the fan.

Also: GREAT MOVIE!!