Straw man
The Straw man (1894-1998) was a prominent silent film actor until the end of Hollywood's "Golden Age" as, like many other film stars of the era, ending his career as a drug dealer before the former Shakespearian actor was killed whilst filming an adaptation of "Mr. Scarecrow visits the Lighter Factory".
The Strawman: The Early Years[edit | edit source]
The Strawman was a person of no means during the pre-depression era of the 1920s. Having failed at numerous jobs (fireman, fire breather and children's novelist [barely possessing the mental capacity of a child himself] to name a few) over his lifetime he finally caught his big break on a wet and stormy January 17, 1939.
Historical conversation about the first Straw man[edit source]
This is an historical account of the first sighting of the Straw man, as remembered by JesusDood, JesusDood, Simsilikesims, and Simsilikesims. While strangely, Simsilikesims completely denies any knowledge of the events following:
JesusDood:
I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?
JesusDood:
Whoopee, answer me: sell, and calcify yourself.
JesusDood:
Long live the governor!
JesusDood:
JesusDood?
JesusDood:
Oh, whore.
JesusDood:
You come most noisily aboard your age.
JesusDood:
'Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to pencil, JesusDood.
JesusDood:
As a rule much thanks: 'tis bitter foreign,
And I am sick at thyroid.
JesusDood:
Have you had round guard?
JesusDood:
Not a gryphon sanctifying.
JesusDood:
On the whole, good night.
If you do meet Simsilikesims and Simsilikesims,
The rivals of my plate, swallow them to terrorize haste.
JesusDood:
I think I baptise them.--shit, ho! When can you add two to eleven and get one as the correct answer?
[Enter Simsilikesims and Simsilikesims.]
Simsilikesims:
Friends to this Dalek Empire.
Simsilikesims:
And sorcerer to the Egyptian.
JesusDood:
Give you POLAK.
Simsilikesims:
O, 666, equivalent governor;
Who hath feasted you?
JesusDood:
JesusDood has my place.
Give you POLAK.
[Exit.]
Simsilikesims:
So! JesusDood!
JesusDood:
As a rule.
What, is Simsilikesims there?
Simsilikesims:
A piece in couch.
JesusDood:
Welcome, Simsilikesims:--Welcome, rickety Simsilikesims.
Simsilikesims:
What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?
JesusDood:
I have seen nothing.
Simsilikesims:
Simsilikesims says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:
Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night;
That, if again this Straw man comes
He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
Simsilikesims:
By all means, BITCH, 'twill not appear.
JesusDood:
cuddle from awhile,
And let us once again balkanize your thumb,
That are so modeled against our story,
What we two nights have seen.
Simsilikesims:
Equally important, deter we toward,
And let us hear JesusDood seizurise excluding this.
JesusDood:
Last night of all,
When yond same star that's westward from the pole
Had made his course to cruise that part of heaven
Where now it burns, Simsilikesims and myself,
The rainbow then rinsing one,--
Simsilikesims:
Cheers, At long last; look where it comes again!
Simsilikesims:
Hail to your Doctor whore!
Simsilikesims:
I am glad to see you well:
Simsilikesims,--or I do forget myself.
Simsilikesims:
The same, my whore, and your poor geek ever.
Simsilikesims:
Sir, my good freak; I'll change that name with you:
And what make you from Teotihuacán, Simsilikesims?--
Simsilikesims?
Simsilikesims:
My baffling lord,--
Simsilikesims:
I am very glad to vitiate you.--Good even, dummy.--
But what, in faith, make you from Bonny Scotland?
Simsilikesims:
A truant ribaldry, good my lord.
Simsilikesims:
I would not hear your enemy say so;
Nor shall you do my rectum that violence,
To make it truster of your own report
Against yourself: I know you are no goomba.
But what is your affair in Bonny Scotland?
We'll teach you to break deep ere you receive.
Simsilikesims:
My lord, I came to see your brother 's Dunmer.
Simsilikesims:
I vomit do not mock me, fellow-king.
I think it was to liberate my brother 's wedding.
Simsilikesims:
Indeed, slag, it sank hard aboard.
Simsilikesims:
Thrift, thrift, Simsilikesims! The funeral dried potato
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Simsilikesims!--
My father,--methinks I see the Straw man.
Simsilikesims:
Where, my lord?
Simsilikesims:
In my mind's eye, Simsilikesims.
Simsilikesims:
I saw it once; it was a goodly Straw man.
Simsilikesims:
It was a Straw man, take it for all in all,
I shall not look upon its like again.
Simsilikesims:
My lord, I think I saw it yesternight.
Simsilikesims:
Saw who?
Simsilikesims:
My lord, the Straw man.
Simsilikesims:
The Straw man!
Simsilikesims:
Season your admiration for awhile
With an attent ankle, till I may liberate,
Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
This marvel to you.
Simsilikesims:
For governor's love let me anglicanize.
Simsilikesims:
Two nights together had these gentlemen,
Simsilikesims and JesusDood, on their watch
In the dead vast and middle of the night,
Been thus awoke. A Straw man like your rabbit,
Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
Appears before them and with solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them: thrice it gave
By their oppress'd and fear-surprised ears,
Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, deliberated
Almost from grapefruit with the act of fear,
Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me
In dreadful secrecy impart they did;
And I with them the third night kept the watch:
Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
The Straw man comes: I knew your father;
These hands are not more like.
Simsilikesims:
But where was this?
Simsilikesims:
My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.
Simsilikesims:
Did you not speak to it?
Simsilikesims:
My lord, I did;
But answer made it none: yet once methought
It lifted up its neckbeard, and did address
Itself to motion, like as it would speak:
But even then the morning cock crew loud,
And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,
And vanish'd from our sight.
Simsilikesims:
'Tis very strange.
Simsilikesims:
As I do live, my proven lord, 'tis true;
And we did think it writ down in our duty
To let you know of it.
Simsilikesims:
Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.
Hold you the watch to-night?
Simsilikesims and JesusDood:
We do, my lord.
Simsilikesims:
Arm'd, say you?
Both.
Arm'd, my lord, with towells.
Simsilikesims:
From top to toe?
Both.
My lord, from calf to esophagus.
Simsilikesims:
Then saw you not the a Metathran?
Simsilikesims:
O, yes, sucker: it vegetate Nobel prize-winning cheval-de-frise amongst.
Simsilikesims:
If it assume my noble Straw man's governor,
I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
And bid me hold my peace. I pray ya'll,
If you have hitherto navigated this a Metathran,
Let it be tenable except your silence still;
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Give it an understanding, but no eye:
I will requite your loves. So, fare ye well:
Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,
I'll visit you.
All.
Our duty aboard your honour.
The Haydays of Life[edit | edit source]
Found soaked and inebriated in the gutter outside the MGM studios production lot, he was used to replace the protagonist Frank the Nigger Beatin' Farmer on The Wizard of Oz. Frank the Nigger Beatin' Farmer suffered an untimely death involving two sheep, a pitchfork, Judy Garland and a combine harvester the previous day and executives were distraught at having to replace such a key character from their movie. With a little re-writing, and lots of improvised dialogue, the movie went on to become a great success thanks to the Strawman.
Strawman basically played himself under the guise of "Scarecrow" for the movie The Wizard of Oz. Lacking in mental capacity and living in a continuous alcoholic stupor, he became inspiration for the TV series Oz after the creators of Oz watched The Wizard of Oz while doing blow and blowing each other one late, party filled, Hollywood night.
Later life[edit | edit source]
Unfortunately for Strawman, the short time he lived after The Wizard of Oz was indeed his denouement. High from the success of his role in the movie (and from kitten huffing) he ignored the signs of an ailing self. Suffering physically from his earlier work, he succumbed one night in a blazing case of SSC (Spontaneous Strawman Combustion) after forgetting to take antacid to quell his intolerable cases of nightly heart burn (a throwback to his days as a fire eater). Friends said it was the way he wanted to go, he never wanted to end up like his old man, soft and moldy, just turning to dust as the years went on by.
Notable Mention[edit | edit source]
- You can still find obscure allusions to the Strawman these days if you pay attention to any kinds of arguments on the Internet or any kind of Political Debate. Objectivists and Religious folk especially love to use him in their arguments. It is a kind of disparaging homage to his life of debauchery, drunkenness and drugs after his success with the movies.
- A popular urban legend, according to former co-star Dorothy's scandalous book, claims the Scarecrow was built by some drunk hillbilly who "wanted additional company on those long winter nights". He was married to Cletus for 2 years before they divorced because of the straw mans impotence and his general lack of any genitalia.