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Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
“Coup d’etat”
Supposedly, XI avoided a coup by hours before purging the military leadership.
“Coup d’état (often shortened to coup) is a French term that literally translates to “stroke of state” or “blow to the state” (from coup meaning “strike” or “blow,” and d’état meaning “of state”).
It refers to the sudden, illegal, and usually violent seizure of a government’s power by a small group of people—most often elements within the military, security forces, or political elites—aiming to overthrow the existing leadership or government.”
Shoot-Don’t Shoot
Back in the Stoneage, when I strapped on a gun and pinned on a badge. We routinely had to go through ‘Shoot-Don’t Shoot’ scenarios.
This was accomplished, in those days, using a real revolver. A large white sheet of white paper, and a sound controlled projector.
The revolver was loaded with shells that had only a ‘large pistol primer’, with no powder. They then took a 1/2” thick block of Paraffin wax, and pressed the open end of the shells into it.
Therefore when fired, a .38 cal 1/2” chunk of wax would be the projectile.
A large 10”x10” sheet of paper on a giant pad was mounted on a wall of a room. It served as a movie screen for the sound controlled projector.
Several different scenarios would be projected onto the screen. The projector would play them. When and if the revolver was fired, the video would freeze at that instance. Further, the wax projectiles would punch a hole or mark the paper where they struck it.
The only iffy scenario I had involved the following;
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