Mexican Standoff

n : a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner. a poor man’s mutally -ssured destruction
that dude had a gun pointed to my head but i had a knife in his gut — we were in a mexican standoff.
it refers to a no-win/no-lose situation. it does not require three partic-p-nts; two is enough.
there’s a 19th century story in mexico that ill-strates the mexican standoff very well. two horse carriages going in the opposite direction entered a narrow street and met halfway through. neither could move forward, and each insisted that the other back his horse carriage up. each sent servants for foor and water, and both stayed firm for several days, until the authorities made both of them back up.
a situation that n-body can triumph in, especially one where all people involved have guns
the mexican standoff has become a cliche in movies.
when you take six paces from a girl, spin 180 degrees, and m-st-rb-t- furiously at her face.
i gave kim a furious mexican standoff last night.
this is when you go into a public restroom, into a stall and another person comes in and sits in the stall next to you. neither of you drop a deuce, waiting for the other to drop first. it makes for a sometimes tense situation
d-mn… i was just in the men’s room and got caught in a mexican standoff. i finally got up and left. i’m going to give it another try in a few minutes.
a situation in which multiple (3+) gun weilding people are all pointing their sh-t at each other. they hold out to shoot until someone f-cks it up and everybody dies.
the snitch in reservoir dogs must have been like “man im f-ckin up theres a mother f-ckin mexican standoff going down in this mother f-cker. f-ck.’
a confrontation between several enemy’s risking & willing to inflict damage towards each other in-order to resolve an issue. guns are drawn and ready, neither side wants to partic-p-te in shooting but is willing if the opponent decides to fire their weapon first.
n-z- “hear that?”
n-z- “that was the sound of my walther pistol.”
basterd #1 “that makes two of us.”
basterd #1 “i’ve had a gun pointed at you since you’ve sat.”
n-z- “looks like we have a mexican standoff in our hands.”
basterd #2 “say auf wiedersehen to your n-z- b-lls!”
boom! boom! boom!

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