Well, let's go for trilogy responding to Starbuck - the ... (wait for
it) ... boy named after coffee ... coffeeboy.

starbuck wrote:

I probably could beat the living crap out of a punk like you, freak!

Ser Starbuck,

Let's see ... I get away with stuff that's beyond the dreams of others.
 And I'm as arrogant as all f*ck because I haven't lost in any armed or
unarmed combat in my adult life, especially given that the statement is
true and not because combat for me is the null set.  Now that I think
about it, having the crap beat out of me would probably knock me down a
peg and make a lot of people happy.

Yep, add it all up, and I'm probably due for a real ass-whipping.

Let's negotiate.

If you win, you get some intense inner personal satisfaction - and
possibly some bragging rights - and you get to tell everyone here how
you are so tough, you have actually - and *finally* - proved to all
that you are just as tuff as you say you are.  So, for you, winning is
a real gain.

Now, in all fairness, if I were you, I'd reconsider that position, keep
it to just flaming away like the luser you are, and continue to live in
the fantasy that goes that you can probably beat me up as opposed to
possibly beat me up.  I'm ok with that - I understand guys like you
*completely* - and you do not want to look up from a hospital bed or
wheelchair and explain to your friends that your life changed because
you learned a life lesson the *hard* way.

On the other hand, if I win, I continue unchanged in my personal
arrogance.  So, I put out the effort and, for me, nothing changes.

So, if I lose then I really lose, but if I win, I get nothing.

Not good enough.  What's your counter-offer?

Pearl aka Vinny