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Why buy Old Jeb if not

cclesuecclesue Posts: 420
edited July 2021 in The Commons

[Why buy Old Jeb if not] for the hole in his head.

Post edited by Richard Haseltine on

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  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    I bought him because he reminded me of Charles Bukowski... and I always can use a Dirty Old Man for my renders.

  • ZaiZai Posts: 289

    Because I needed him like I needed a ....(you asked for it!)

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,401

    I have not bought him. But... he looks very like the ground down older man approaching retirement. The sort whose dreams were small when they were young, and they have lived to see their dreams shrink & wither away entirely so they no longer have anything to hold on to. Take a look in the poorer areas of most towns, the deprived corners you normally instinctively avoid, you will see hundreds of him joylessly and hopelessly plodding through life.

    Regards,

    Richard.

     

  • FrinkkyFrinkky Posts: 388

    cclesue said:

    [Why buy Old Jeb if not] for the hole in his head.

    Hmm, you could stick a length of dowel in the hole to hang your car wagon keys on. Genius!  

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    richardandtracy said:

    I have not bought him. But... he looks very like the ground down older man approaching retirement. The sort whose dreams were small when they were young, and they have lived to see their dreams shrink & wither away entirely so they no longer have anything to hold on to. Take a look in the poorer areas of most towns, the deprived corners you normally instinctively avoid, you will see hundreds of him joylessly and hopelessly plodding through life.

    Regards,

    Richard.

     

    And sometimes they end up in a post office and start writing short stories, poems and whatnots... devil

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,401

    I do hope that comment had no autobiographical content.

    Regards,

    Richard.

     

  • xyer0xyer0 Posts: 6,389

    I thought he looked like Richard Boone.

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  • PixelSploitingPixelSploiting Posts: 898

    A hole in your head, you say?

    Put him in postman clothes in the Mojave desert environment product. On a roaring rampage of revenge in the post-Atomic Nevada.

  • maikdeckermaikdecker Posts: 3,037

    richardandtracy said:

    I do hope that comment had no autobiographical content.

    Regards,

    Richard.

    Well, it was kinda autobiographical for Henry Chinaski, the alter ego of Charles Bukowski, as told in the book "Post Office", which I read (here in germany) in the mid-70s as a teenager... His describtions helped keeping me off the booze and horse racing bets among other things. devil

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    I like him better than the "Dime a dozen" athletes, he has character.

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