In my distant past I was a "yute", as they say in Brooklyn. In the early 50's there was an arcade game that involved shooting at moving animals with lenses in their bodies with a rifle with a light in the barrel. So when you "shot" the light flashed and if you aimed accurately at the lens in the animal you "got" it and it did something. I remember the bear specifically but don't really know why. Anyway, when you hit the bear, it reared up, roared and turned around and went in the other direction. You scored a point. If you keep hitting the bear it kept roaring and turning and you kept scoring.
For years I have been using the analogy "like a bear in a shooting gallery" when someone turns abruptly and moves on. I have had to explain this to numerous people who probably then and now think I an nuts. Well, nuts to you of little faith. Watch the video and you will see what I mean. Where the hell the stuff on YouTube comes from I do not know (of course I know really, just look at the link, what I mean is I am amazed that anyone has all this stuff).
Now, that may not be the most exciting video you have ever watched, but by golly I grew up with games like that and they are still better than all that video crap. So there.
In addition to roaring and turning around, it appears that the bear's eyes and mouth light up with a rich, red, demonic glow. I suspect that the bear is possessed by Evil, and/or is some form of undead creature of darkness, and that you, as the shooter, are the crusading hunter who will save us all from the forces of the netherworld.
ReplyDeleteWhich is *just like* the video crap all the kids are playing. Except modern zombie bears take a moment to curse your mother before they roar and turn around, so you have a *good reason* to shoot them again.