that's a great timewaster. it's a shame ziggy got offed in the first round, but his character did kinda suck.dajafi wrote:Maybe I should put this in the TV thread as well, but
"The Wire" Best Character Tournament
It's kind of sad how excited my two colleagues still in the office and I have gotten over this.
there wasn't a second level to him. he's just a scrawny little screwup who overcompensated for his inability to function as an adult and mooched off his cousin and father.Houshphandzadeh wrote:no he didn't
i don't buy that. he's a user and a moocher and a screwup. that's it.Houshphandzadeh wrote:relationship with father
sad after death of duck
mozartpc27 wrote:Last night, my wife and I were driving home from down town late, around 12:30. We were on 24th Street, between Spruce and Pine: a nice part of town. So, this thing - an animal - starts to cross the road in front of us, quite slowly. It looks like a cat, but not really. It has pointy ears and a snout. I slowed down, and remember saying "What the hell is that?" And when we got a good look at it, it was no $#@!-ing cat. I refused to believe at first what my wife was trying to tell me and what was almost certainly the truth: it was a $#@!-ing rat. I tried to tell myself it was a possum at first. It was too frightening to believe it could have been a rat: it walked slow (every one I've ever seen in the city is usually moving at a good clip), and this thing was, without exaggeration, at least twice the size of any rat I've ever seen in the city before.
When I finally accepted reality- that that thing was a rat - I literally felt emotionally scarred by the experience. I mean, this was the Elephant Man of rats. Far uglier than any rat I've ever seen. It moved slowly, as if it were a hulking giant. It reminded me, in a weird way, of the old Warner Brothers cartoon short of Tweety bird parodying "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," when Tweety gets the formula and turns into this gigantic, deformed, mostrous version of himself. That was what this rat was like. Then, I had a feeling I'd never had before: I actually regretted not running it the $#@! over when I had the chance. This thing simply shouldn't have been. If you told me hell was real and this was the proof, I think I would be inclined to agree.
Foul. Odious. Horrible. All of these things, and more.