—Oh sure, high spirits, a jol that went a bit over the top.

Luok, leyke mad bulls they bang about, / Wi' shouts their thropples rivan, / Wheyle whup for smack the rabble rout, / Are yen owr tother drivan; …]

The nascent fandom of SuperWhoLock (a fandom of Supernatural, Doctor Who, and the BBC’s Sherlock) exemplifies this playfulness: fans mix and match texts to create unique fan texts outside what canon offers.

In the Old West—anyway in the old westerns—morality and mechanics went gun-in-hand.