They Wear Spurs, Don’t They?

One of the students in the Sunday school class I teach is an aspiring cowboy.  With rare exception he comes to Bible study dressed as a cowboy.  Corbin believes Roy Rogers is the finest movie cowboy he’s ever seen.  I feel the same way.   A few weeks ago Corbin and I had a serious discussion about whether or not Roy Rogers knew karate.  I agreed that Roy Rogers was good with his fists, but that I’d never seen the King of the Cowboys deliver a side kick to the throat of a bad guy.  Corbin was appalled.  He insisted that not only was Rogers capable of performing a roundhouse to the temple, but did so in most every movie he ever made.  I argued the point noting that the issue of the spurs strapped to Rogers’ boots would have seriously wounded anyone he battled.  Roy Rogers might have been a little rough with outlaws, but he never cut them.  Corbin said he did because the spurs were really Ninja fighting stars.  So, I looked it up.  A cowhand did not buckle on a pair of spurs until he’d filed the sharp rowels to make them blunt. Sharp rowels made a horse nervous and Roy Rogers could never have reached the bad guy’s hideout on a nervous Trigger.  Spurs were used to signal quick action to a horse, not for cruel gigging or cutting the throat of an outlaw.  I can’t wait to talk to Corbin further about this matter.  At five-years-old he thinks he knows everything.