Friday, January 13, 2012

IT'S ALL IN THE GAME, YO: Vets and newbies, Barksdales and Natural Police, Greeks and Docks: It's time to engage in that timeless pastime, Wire Character or Real Person or Non-Wire Fictitious Character or Product or Thing?. Newbies: no commentary here, but if you consider names to be spoilers, don't play. The Internet is cheating.

  1. Sherman McCoy

  2. Shamrock McGinty

  3. Pepper Schwartz

  4. D'Brickashaw Ferguson

  5. Fat Face Rick

  6. Disco Duck

  7. Proposition Joe

  8. Stinky Pete

  9. Ant-Man

  10. Cockroach

  11. Spider

  12. Frog

  13. Bug

  14. Donut

  15. Cheese

  16. Churro

  17. Big Tuna

  18. Fruit

  19. Sunny D

  20. Puddin'

  21. Boner

  22. Squeak

  23. Mike Boogie

  24. Snot Boogie

  25. Boogie Shoes Whitaker

  26. Billy White Shoes Johnson

  27. Mr. Schue

  28. Wee Man

  29. Little Man

  30. Little Kevin

  31. Li'l Abner

  32. Big Roy

  33. Big Boi

  34. Big Country

  35. Hungry Man

  36. Nikos Kazantzakis

  37. Toula Portakalos

  38. White Mike

  39. Black Francis

  40. Johnny Quest

  41. Johnny Fifty

  42. Johnny Weeks

  43. Johnny Ola

  44. Johnny Sack

  45. Lassie

  46. Ziggy

  47. Woodstock

  48. Horse-Face

  49. Two-Face

  50. Old-Face Andre

7 comments:

  1. We're supposed to play this for real, right? I'm playing...

    (It says a lot about me as a person that I'm way more comfortable with fictional characters than real people. A bunch where I had no idea.)



    Wire: 2, 7, 11, 13, 15, 18, 24, 30, 36, 38, 46, 48, 50

    Non-Wire Fiction: 1, 6, 8, 9, 20 (Clown Prince of Crime nicknames count, right?), 31, 37, 40, 45, 47, 49

    Real: 4, 26, 28, 33, 34,

    Product or Thing: 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19

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  2. isaac_spaceman2:17 PM

    I was counting on my fingers, and I lost count, so you either got 29 or 34 or 39 or some other number right.  Maybe at lunch I'll post the answer sheet. 

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  3. spacewoman3:09 PM

    I started to play, but I'm so bad at it that it's actually embarrassing.  I think I ended up with about 50% uncategorized.

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  4. 36 is absolutely a real person (he wrote "Last Temptation of Christ").

    23 is a tough one, since it's a "character" created by a person who played on Big Brother.  (Sort of like "The Miz.")

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  5. isaac_spaceman4:47 PM

    I absolutely should have put the Miz on this list.  Also, Jay Landsman. 

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  6. Benner10:48 AM

    would Fuzzy Dunlop be a wire character or a thing?

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  7. isaac_spaceman1:03 PM

    See, I can't tell you, because I don't like to put my CIs in that kind of position. 

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