Fictional character most likely to join the Lounge?

[jobycom]

Poll question: Fictional character most likely to join the Lounge?

[Forkboy]

1. The Cheshire Cat would love this place.

:)

[jobycom]

2. In what respect, Charlie?

[Forkboy]

3. Read my sig.

:)

[Ptah]

4. Other: Topogigio

[siligut]

6. I think I will have to go with Topogigio too.

Good choice.:thumbsup:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. ~

[rug]

7. Maynard G. Krebs.

[peacefreak]

8. Randle Patrick McMurphy.

Maybe Chief Broom. But he'd just be a lurker.

[TZ]

9. I think we already have a few Don Juan wannabe's here...

:rofl:

[Lyric]

10. Santa and Jesus

But they'll get tombstoned fast.

x(

[jobycom]

19. I'm not sure mythical and fictional is the same, plus at least one of those is also historical.

And I doubt either would much like the Lounge. :)

[Sebastian Doyle]

65. Sadly, Jesus already was

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=130621

And it doesn't appear He came back three days later, this time :evilfrown:

I don't see why they crucified Him again though. Don't see any violations of the rules here....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x106088

[graywarrior]

11. Hurley

[raccoon]

12. The Time Traveller (H.G. Wells', that is.) nt

[woo me with science]

13. The Cowardly Lion....

"Put 'em up, put 'em up!!! Which one of you first?!! I can fight you both together if you want!!! I can fight you with one paw tied behind my back!!!! I can fight you standing on one foot!!!! I can fight you with my eyes closed!!!! Oh, pull an axe on me, eh?! Sneaking up on me, eh?! Why, I'll... Ruff!!!!!

[woo me with science]

14. Oops! Thought you said GD. :) nt

[jobycom]

20. Perfect! Works for the Lounge, too!

:rofl:

[Deep13]

15. Hester Pryne nt

[jobycom]

28. Hmm.

Hester Pryne kept her secret and suffered in private to protect her lover... Can you imagine a Lounger keeping a secret like that? :rofl:

[Deep13]

31. Yeah, I would have blabbed.

I meant more as someone who knew about the hypocrisy of religious sexual rules and gender roles. Later in the book she became everyones trusted confidant because everyone knew she would not judge them. A second scandal occurred when it seemed like Hester was not indocrinating her daughter.

[jobycom]

32. I kind of figured that's what you meant. Good call.

:)

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

16. I think

Bluto Blutarski would like it here :)
Well, shit! I seem to have forgotten how to post images.........

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. Mark Twain

[jeff30997]

53. Mark Twain ?

I know that his name his fictitious and that he was

quite a character but the guy really existed miss T. :)

[Akoto]

18. Leeloo Dallas. She has a multipass, after all.

Geek points to whoever gets it. ;)

[redqueen]

24. I have that movie on VHS.

Of course, I have no VCR to play it in... but still. Love it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

26. "Here - let me do the negotiation"

:rofl:

Great movie.

[MilesColtrane]

21. Ishmael

...for the narwhals.

[jobycom]

30. I started to do something with that once.

Started to write a post with a Lounge Ishmael chasing Internet narwals. But the first couple of lines didn't work, and with all the normal perserverance and dedication of a Lounge lifer, I quickly dumped the project for a cheaper laugh.

[Midlodemocrat]

22. Dean Winchester. Tosses around the word douchebag like it's candy.

[sarge43]

23. The Wife of Bath

She loved the snark and the men.

[DS1]

25. Acid Burn

[jobycom]

27. Yeah, it do burn. nt

[bif]

29. Eddie Haskell

[EastTennesseeDem]

33. Funny you should mention Ignatius

I just wrote an essay on his disdain for liberalism and conservatism.

[jobycom]

34. He's been popping up in my life lately.

I ran across a tidbit that John Kennedy Toole killed himself in Biloxi, near where I grew up, so in trying to find the exact location I wound up discovering that he grew up near my parents in New Orleans, so I began questioning them to see if they might have known him, and then looking for places and areas in the book they would remember, so lately I've been listening to the audiobook of the novel and wondering how I had missed so much ages ago when I first read (part of) it.

I did find the site of his death, which is next to a soccer field I used to watch my niece play on. So far my parents haven't remembered anyone named Ken Toole, though. They had never heard of the book before.

And of course, being an underemployed genius with a master's degree in medieval history who spends too much time alone thinking of grand theories, I have also been trying to convince myself I really don't have much else in common with him. :rofl:

[EastTennesseeDem]

36. Where did he grow up, exactly?

My dad grew up on Joseph Street, not at all far from (and equidistant between) St. Charles Ave. and St. Vincent Cemetery.

It remains his favorite book, definitely at least somewhat due to the New Orleans-ness of it.

[jobycom]

38. Webster and St. Charles area. You two were neighbors.

He went to Tulane, taught at Dominican for a while.

My mother grew up on Magazine around Napoleon somewhere (forget the address, it's a small convenience store now, used to be a hardware store when she lived there) and my father grew up on Forshey near Carrolton. I grew up in Mississippi, so my New Orleans knowledge is good in some areas, weak in others.

[SoxFan]

35. .

[jobycom]

39. He almost made my cut. Should have, since he's got two mentions already.

[JitterbugPerfume]

37. George W Hayduke

when he is drinking



although he isn't altogether fictional

[Forkboy]

49. DU could use a few Haydukes.

:)

:hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

51. ``

:hi: :loveya: Douglas Peacock AKA George Hayduke was on Democracy now a couple of days ago and now I am in love all over again

[NightWatcher]

I advocate breaking stuff and blowing shit up and people criticize

but I guess they'd allow George huh?

I just reread MWG and now I'm about to crack open Hayduke Lives. There be rumors that they are thinking of damning a river here in state......

[KamaAina]

40. Ignatius was my first thought before I even saw the choices!

In a sense, he already has: an honest-to-goddess New Orleanian once suggested that I would be ideal for the role; meanwhile, Mom never could finish 'Dunces" because Ignatius reminded her too powerfully of her only son!

[myrna minx]

42. What misadventures do you have while purchasing strings for your lute?

:hi:

[KamaAina]

43. Well, this prosimian hulk of a police officer approached me in a rude, uncouth manner...

...and I, uh, may possibly have compared him to the Soviet Communists somewhat less than favorably, at which point Fortuna began another in a seemingly endless series of downward spirals... :-)

Are you still agitating amongst the rabble up in the Bronx? Do you plan to travel to New Orleans at any time in the near future?

edit: more flowery language

[jobycom]

46. I've had that problem myself.

I keep telling myself "Yeah, your a pompous ass with a master's degree in medieval history and a penchant for writting random nonsense alone in your room, but at least you've never sold hot dogs." Then I have to remind myself that I once delivered pizzas...

[Captain Hilts]

41. Only one woman on the list? A TV character? Lame. Lilly Bart. nt

[jobycom]

45. Don't blame me, blame our misogynist western literary culture. And there were two.

I've never read House of Mirth, and wouldn't know Lily Bart from Jenny Garth without Wikipedia.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

44. Charles De Mar

[OmahaBlueDog]

47. Dora Flood from Cannery Row

Wheras Tom Joad strikes me as more of a "GD" type.

Cal Trask, from East of Eden, would be firmly in the GOP/FAUX News camp.

[bigwillq]

48. Holden Caulfied would fit right in.

You know, because of his whining and all.:P ;)

[elshiva]

50. Donna Noble

She's a single, older woman who lives with her mom and grandad. She's talkative and loves gossip. All of the rest of the Doctor's companions are probably too busy for DU.

[JitterbugPerfume]

52. YES on Donna

and Martha Jones too!


but Martha would take NO prisoners!

[elshiva]

60. Martha Jones is a very busy woman, though.

She works for U.N.I.T. now. Not too much time to post.

[JitterbugPerfume]

dupe

how'd that happen?

[JitterbugPerfume]

63. yes that is true

and Jack is probably to busy too

[Enrique]

54. comic book guy

i voted for Ignatius T. Reilly in your poll, same difference. ;-)

[no name no slogan]

59. Worst. Lounger. Ever.

[unsavedtrash]

55. Ford Prefect n/t

[JitterbugPerfume]

56. Zaphod Breeblebox

he could be his own sock puppet!

[Sebastian Doyle]

66. Just as long as the Vogons don't show up

They would either nuke the DU server entirely (to make way for a cyberspace bypass), or fill the Lounge with their horrid poetry. I don't know which would be worse.

[RagAss]

57. Ignatius would be the King of the Lounge !

[Xipe Totec]

58. Perry

[DeepBlueC]

61. Ignatius J. Reilly...but we'd need a fire extinguisher smiley

Come to think of it, we could use one now! :rofl:

[mix]

62. Jack and Babette

Gladney, of course.

[yellowdogintexas]

64. Midnight Louie of course

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Louie


http://www.amazon.com/Catnap-Midnight-Louie-Mystery-Mysteries/dp/0812516826#reader

the first book in the series.