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cowboys

n. (plural of cowboy English)

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Cowboys (TV series)

Cowboys was a British television sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s.

The show was created by Peter Learmouth who would go on to create Granada television sitcom Surgical Spirit and starred Lancastrian character-actor Roy Kinnear as Joe Jones, whose "small building firm hardly seems to do anything right at all". Co-starring David Kelly (Previously best known for playing one armed dishwasher Albert Riddle in Robin's Nest and inept builder Mr. O'Reilly in the second episode of Fawlty Towers) as 'Wobbly' Ron, Colin Welland as Geyser and James Wardroper as Eric with Debbie Linden and Janine Duvitski. Series 1 ran for six episodes, while series 2 consisted of seven.

The show had nothing to do with the Wild West, its title referring instead to the British colloquial use of " cowboy" to describe a workman of doubtful professionalism e.g. a "cowboy builder".

Cowboys (2013 film)

Cowboys is a 2013 Croatian comedy film directed by Tomislav Mršić. It was selected as the Croatian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

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Could it be that the idea of making love to one of the famous and now reunited DNA Cowboys drove her crazy?

The DNA Cowboys wanted no repeats of Santa Freska and no more psychos like Vlad Baptiste or, at the other extreme, lunatics like Jet Ace.

With great reluctance the DNA Cowboys passed their guns through a security slit in the plasteel.

Collectively they have been called the DNA Cowboys, and inflated stories still circulate about their alleged exploits.

The DNA Cowboys reclaimed their weapons and then headed out for the interior of the city.

As the DNA Cowboys walked through the mirror dome of the foyer, all three were reminded of just how good things could be in the big cities.

DNA Cowboys and Renatta glumly turned and walked back toward Krystaleit and its war.

A few looked up as Renatta and the DNA Cowboys approached, but nobody challenged their right to be there.

Renatta had transferred her after-hours affections from the DNA Cowboys altogether, first to Goshon Mass Goh after he had narrowly beaten Reave at the wandweking and then to, of all people, Clay Blaisdell.

Renatta and the DNA Cowboys raced up the steps, followed by the handful of survivors from the fire post, running for the shelter of the central registry building as beams and bullets smashed into the stonework under their feet.

The DNA Cowboys were forced to mingle with the bestial mob, doing their best to look like raiders themselves, using the cover of the smoke and moving down streets where dark figures indulged themselves in nameless brutalities against a background of garish flames.

The DNA Cowboys were left in no doubt that they had once again crawled into the frying pan.

Clay Blaisdell was still out, and the four of them, the DNA Cowboys and Renatta, were thrown together yet again.

The DNA Cowboys, Clay Blaisdell, and Renatta stood in the observation gallery.

DNA Cowboys, Renatta, and Blaisdell changed their clothes they also had to face the question of what they were going to do with their weapons.