Attempts to resolve the Quandary:
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It is not my role to adimadvert upon the work of Pretty Boy Floyd, an antihero pursued by the police for his criminal activities, but much beloved by his neighbors for rising above his dogsbody status to that of a saint – Santa Claus – for liberating and contributing hundreds of pounds of groceries to fill their hungry stomachs on Christmas Eve, before making an escape in his employer’s jitney-cum-sleigh.
(by wordgirl)2
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In Slartibartfast Peckinpah’s 1978 film The Dingleberry Bush, a marginalized dogsbody with the unfortunate name Phartemus Flatch takes on the role of the classic antihero, hijacking a jitney with a slingshot and diverting its course from Macchu Picchu to Oslo--a geographically implausible detour, which drew a predictable animadvert from film critic Roger Ebert (though Ebert’s sidekick, Richard Roeper, gave the movie a “thumbs up”).
(by saintdufus)