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Do you know people in real life who have cartoon equivalents?

Asked by Trillian (21148points) September 8th, 2010

I was thinking about Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Elmer has the gun, but Bugs is way smarter. Elmer does one thing; he hunts. Bugs has diversified for the modern job market. Elmer is really focused, Bugs skips from one thing to the next, never takes things seriously and still manages to come out on top.
I knew an old man named Floyd when I was a kid, a friend of my Uncle Bob, who was himself a country man, not well educated but plenty of savvy. Floyd was like a mountain man. He had a house but no plumbing, shot and ate his own food, probably had a still. His nemesis was the town sheriff. Floyd would be sitting around in his house of an evening and say “You know, I think it’s time to call the sheriff.” He’d lean out his back door, aim his shotgun into the air and fire off a couple shots. Then he’d go sit back down and do whatver he had been doing. The sheriff would show up and watch his house, waiting to see him with poached game. He would stay for hours before giving up and going home. Floyd would give him time to get home and setted in and he’d “call” him again. The sheriff never did catch Floyd poaching, and Floyed never stopped “calling” him. They make me think of Bugs and Elmer.
Do you know peole like this? I wonder if Bugs and Elmer represent real people for the person who thought them up…. I want to hear about your ‘toon doppelgangers, if you have any.

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