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What Kind Of Person Are You? Are You A Calamity Jane, A Smart Aleck, Or Perhaps Something Else?

What Kind Of Person Are You? Are You A Calamity Jane, A Smart Aleck, Or Perhaps Something Else?

A Smart Aleck is just someone just too clever for their own good. During the 1840s in New York City a conman had his wife posing as a prostitute and between them they would rob their customers, knowing few men would report the crime to the police. However sometimes they were caught and escaped prosecution by bribing the officer involved. But then he tried to be too clever by cutting the police out of the deal, because of their previous police corruption, and not wanting to expose themselves. But he was wrong and found himself in jail.

A Calamity Jane is a young woman who gets herself into all sorts of trouble without meaning too. The original Jane was born in Deadwood South Dakota USA 1852. She dressed like a cowboy, and behaved like a cowboy, and her husband's were surprisingly unlucky as 11 out of 12 died in suspicious circumstances. She famously threatened "calamity" to any man who offended her in the slightest way.

To be blessed with the gift of Blarney means a person able to talk their way into another's affection, or out of trouble with ease. Apparently in1602 the English army besieged Blarney Castle in Southern Ireland, and was ordered to surrender. After many excuses and much prevarication the siege failed, and the. monarch of the time give in to his charm, and famously exclaimed "That's more Blarney talk". The legend is that if a visitor should kiss a particular stone at Blarney Castle, they too will be blessed with the gift of the gab.

A Maverick is an unorthodox individual who is independent minded and often innovative. Samuel Maverick 1803-70 was a cattle rancher in Texas that didn't brand his cattle, which no one else dared to do, and then claimed unbranded cattle has is own, which everyone agreed must be his. He became so well known his name was used to describe a politician who refused to affiliate themselves with a particular cause, and been used for wider applications since.

What kind of person are you?

A. A Smart Aleck.
B. A Calamity Jane.
C. Blessed with the gift of Barney.
D. A Maverick.
E. A Sadomasochist.
F. A Gordon Bennett.
G. Something else.
Select gender and age to cast your vote:
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A Sadomasochist is a word to describe anyone who is partial either to inflicting pain on another person, or having pain inflicted on themselves. The term comes from two authors one French and one Austrian in the 18th and 19th centuries. One wrote about inflicting pain on other people, Sado or sadist, and the Austrian novelist wrote about receiving pain upon himself from women, and he ended his life in an asylum. A German psychiatrist coined the term Masochism to describe his condition.
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Gordon Bennett is a remark to express surprise and respect. He was born in USA 1841 son of the founder of the New York Herald, and eventually inherited his father's newspaper empire, and then went on a spending spree. He enjoyed encouraging the innovative and exiting, and funded Stanley's search for Livingstone in Africa, and an expedition to the Artic. Bennett's newspaper would regularly run the headline 'Gordon Bennett' and his name became known with anything outrageous, and exiting.
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