Jackablade on 15/3/2006 at 02:31
I know it's latecoming, but I have to give props to Aja too. I know it isn't one sentence, but it's the best noirish thing in this thread.
Scots Taffer on 15/3/2006 at 04:27
Maybe I'm being snide, but I thought it was the speech bubble above the cartoon that he posted (calvin and hobbes?) and not an original sentence? Apologies if that isn't the case, because I would've said his was awesome too if I'd thought that he'd written it.
Somnus on 15/3/2006 at 05:10
Edit: I did a Max Payne reference without reading the thread and then I read the thread and saw how unclever I was. So now I'm doing something original (or not, since the thread demands unoriginality as a prerequisite to posting...).
Edit 2: Since everyone keeps going...
<tt>I watched the storm-grey armored car shrug the bullets off like a disillusioned minotaur, a frowning wall of steel in a blackened concrete gully overcrowded with the sick, the homeless, the stains of the Earth that fester on the backs of a thousand million denizens in this weary labyrinth, this city of nothingness. I spat on asphalt, scuffed it out with my shoe like I'd lit it on fire. If there's a prime shot of what a working man can't stand in this shit-forsaken place, it's a couple of rank amateurs getting in his way. This truck ain't going down with a couple of love-taps from cousin Bill's six-piece pea shooter. It's like gnats at a barbeque, and the whole bat cave just got invited. But things get even worse, much worse, when a man's gonna miss his breakfast for some goddamn tea party.</tt>
Jackablade on 16/3/2006 at 15:46
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
Maybe I'm being snide, but I thought it was the speech bubble above the cartoon that he posted (calvin and hobbes?) and not an original sentence? Apologies if that isn't the case, because I would've said his was awesome too if I'd thought that he'd written it.
I've talked to him since, and he said he thought people might think it was ripped from Calvin and Hobbes, (which I thought for a bit too) but it wasn't apparently.
Aja on 17/3/2006 at 00:11
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
Maybe I'm being snide, but I thought it was the speech bubble above the cartoon that he posted (calvin and hobbes?) and not an original sentence? Apologies if that isn't the case, because I would've said his was awesome too if I'd thought that he'd written it.
I wrote it. And thanks, guys.:)
I should've edited that picture to remove the speech bubble.:sweat:
Drom_Editor on 17/3/2006 at 16:25
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http://homepages.udayton.edu/~fortenbt/tracer_bullet.jpgThat's the quote that Aja's image came from. I would definitely agree that his was the best out of the ones that were more than one sentence.
I was surprised no one else had mentioned Watterson's Tracer Bullet; I always thought they were great.
I keep two Magnums in my desk; one's a gun, and I keep it loaded. The other's a bottle, and it keeps me loaded.Strangeblue on 17/3/2006 at 19:41
The funny thing to me is that most of this is not actually noir. It's parody of noir.
Headphones on 17/3/2006 at 20:05
Aja wins by being the only entry that isn't terrible.
Scots Taffer on 18/3/2006 at 00:34
Yeah, I know... I realised after I posted my own that I'd already run guns blazing down the path of Max Payne into noir parody.
Malygris on 18/3/2006 at 02:10
Noir parody is so much more fun and interesting anyway.
