Why buy Old Jeb if not

cclesue

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

maikdecker

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

Zai

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

richardandtracy

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.

 

Frinkky

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!  

maikdecker

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... 

richardandtracy

I do hope that comment had no autobiographical content.

Regards,

Richard.

 

xyer0

I thought he looked like Richard Boone.

PixelSploiting

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.

maikdecker

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.

PerttiA

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