by The Big Wiper on Apr 05 2003 12:00 am
Well, ass-phlegm, if you truly don't want him to be a Superhero with a Corn Kernel Gun or Peanut Pistol (see my response on the Home Page), then a few alternatives did occur to me.
1) He's a pretty 'solid' dude right now. But we all know that turds don't have much of a shelf life, so to speak. They start to break down and fall apart anyway. But what helps them along when they plop into the pot ordinarily? W-A-T-E-R. So, T-O-T could encounter a little precipitation right in the middle of his bravado. "Errr...yikes...what's that?" he might say, looking up into the sky as he corners a street punk. Big drops splash down upon him. He experiences a little runoff, if you will.
T-O-T is suddenly half the man he was. A few corn kernels float away, n'er to return. The street punk laughs in his face and gets away as T-O-T seeks shelter from the storm. I leave it to your imagination as to what T-O-T will look like after this assault. Flatter? Shorter? Picasso-like features rearranged? You are the artist, my friend, and a damned talented one!
2) What else can put the fear of God into a turd? Ummmm...a big, furry, tongue-panting, sniffing canine! An enormous wet, black nose suddenly enters the edge of one of the frames. At first, T-O-T thinks he can handle the challenge. More of the dog's snout comes into view. This could get ugly, couldn't it? But, hey, dogs eat shit, don't they?
3) With no offense intended to our good friend, pooperscooper, T-O-T could have a run-in with a gigantic hand manipulating an actual Pooper Scooper attempting to remove him, kernels and all, from the streets of the city.
4) T-O-T could be the victim of a shoe. That is, someone steps in him and squishes him into nothingness. More artistic rearrangment is possible here. We could hear the response of the human whose shoe that belonged to in dialogue 'balloon': "Oh, shit! I stepped in shit!" T-O-T could reply: "You don't know the half of it. Or rather, you do know the half of it. Half of me is on the bottom of your shoe!" This scenario has many obvious tangents: T-O-T Meets A Soleful End; T-O-T Done In By A Heel; Someone Steps In It; etc.
Well, ass phlegm, those are my ideas, for what they're worth. Keep up your brilliant work, buddy. TBW