I suspect I'm revealing my ignorance

[conuly]

I've never read The Three Musketeers and am mostly familiar with them from their many many many pop-culture incarnations. If they're musketeers, though... why are they associated with swashbuckling swordfights? Shouldn't they be associated with, um, muskets?

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[conuly]

My kind of duel.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

No, srsly, it'd be like watching golf.

[conuly]

But with fewer deaths, so that's a plus.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Fewer deaths than golf?!

I'm not sure that that would technically be considered a 'plus' for a style of duelling. In fact, I'm not sure that a style of duelling that resulted in fewer deaths than golf would technically be considered 'duelling'.

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[conuly]

But who cleans up the blood?