[B-Chan]

I'm East Dallas born and raised (and I live in Tarrant County now) and in my experience the only people who think Bonnie and Clyde were romantic antiherores are immigrant Yankees and people who think that damned movie is a documentary. Your average north Texan, when they think of Bonnie and Clyde at all, think of the "death car" at the Wax Museum -- in other words, they see them as a couple of no-account loser thugs who got what they deserved.

That's what I think, too.

[annyokie]

You should go to the John Dillenger Museum in Bloomington (I think) Indiana. Similar debunking goes on there.

[MeekOneGOP]

Exactly right. Thanks . . .

[dix]

My bunch is all from Fort Worth. Dad was born if ’03, Mom in ’04, so they were a young married couple with two children (my two older brothers) during this time.

I was born in ’47, and Dad told us stories about Bonnie, and Clyde long before that movie. One story was about an encounter they had with a car full of suspicious people on the back roads driving from Ft. Worth to Oklahoma that they thought might have been The Barrow Gang. The other story was about the time they went to see the death car. I do think that for whatever reason there has always been a certain romantic outlaw flavor to their story, maybe because robberies, and shoot outs were exciting things during those days, but Dad never portrayed them as anything but two bit punks who got what they deserved.

[Iris7]

I am with you all the way. "Catholic and Monarchist." All the way. Bonnie and Clyde a couple of no account thugs who got what they deserved. All the way.

(Although I surely would like to sit at table with Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson and listen to the discussion. Looking forward to doing so after my sinful aspect is removed in Purgatory and I am admitted into His Presence, after I'm Home.)

[VOA]

...in my experience the only people who think Bonnie and Clyde were romantic antiherores
are immigrant Yankees and people who think that damned movie is a documentary.


Goes a long way to explaining why it's folks with Texas twangs who decided to
take down a two-bit punk named Saddam and his boys

I bet most of the representatives at the UN have a thing for Bonny AND/OR Clyde.

When explaining the world to some of my liberal colleagues, I often fall back
on that Texas aphorism:
"He needed kilt."