Word: points
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comitan doesn't attract tourists. The flocks of Europeans (there are conspicuously few American sightseers in Chiapas) visit the colonial city of San Cristobal or the ruins at Palenque. They usually just use Comitan as a stop-off point to obtain a Guatemalan visa or to take a colectivo to the Lagunas de Montebello, 52 km away. Thus, my being here has become known throughout town. People are curious as to what brought me to Comitan and want to know about life in the United States and try out the few English words they have learned...
Warburton said the new parody is coming along smoothly--he boasted the Lampoon "could write a 1,000-page book at this point if we needed to"--but did admit that the project had created some tensions among the 'Poonsters sequestered for the summer in the organization's Bow Street castle...
...Point one: I was disturbed at the possibility that the fine line of person-on-person damage would be left behind by the rioting fans, opting instead for person-to-person damage. Not to mention the fact that, as the only legitimate CD store at Woodstock, it would only take one jackass to head our way. Part of me wanted to overturn our tables and defend our gear and merchandise. The other part of me to go to hell and get my things...
...Point the second: All it takes is one jerk. I said that before. But on this level, I'm much more worried. Thousands of angry people vs. scared riot cops. Oh, and no security. I'll get to that soon enough. What frightened me was the chance that some riot cop would panic and cave in some poor schmuck's head or discharge a weapon at the wrong person and I'd get hurt in the ensuing panic...
Looking back, now, it's easy to point fingers: We should have known something would go wrong when half of the security forces quit after the first day on the job. We should have known that a $12 pizza wouldn't go over too well. We should have known that the fans that misunderstood hip-hop and metal artists were likely to misunderstand the point of Woodstock. And we should have known better and left Woodstock alone...