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Cowboy: ...First you make yer lasso, then you throw it.
City-slicker: Than I throw it?
Cowboy: Well, how-dee! Don't tell me you don't know when to use than and then!
Cowboy : Recognizing the difference between than and then is tougher than a 2 dollar steak,
but it's something that every cowboy's just gotta learn.
Cowboy: Than is used when making comparisons.
Cowboy : Then is used when referring to time or a sequence of events.
City-slicker: This is tough.
Cowboy: Yessiree, but if you keep confusing than and then, then you'll keep looking
like a big galoot.
Cowboy: Well, then. Let's go through this one more time.
City-slicker: So, first I make a lasso... then I throw it... and then what happens?
Cowboy: Other than that, you just have to tame this wild mustang with nothing more than
your bare hands.
City-slicker: Oh...
Cowboy: And I'd be careful - she looks meaner than a bag of rattlesnakes.
Cowboy : ...that's meaner than something real mean.
City-slicker: Lasso, then throw, then tame a wild mustang with nothing more than my bare
hands...
[horse snorts and stamps her hoof]
City-slicker: Whoa! Whooooooooa! ....Ow!
Cowboy: ...And another chucklehead stops confusing than and then.
City-slicker: I'm OK....