Word: grunting
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...Sometimes no amount of grunt is sufficient, bringing powder monkey Cannell (he prefers the term shot firer) to the fore. A Tasmanian miner who decided 20 years ago that the notion of cutting one's hair and beard was "bulls____," Cannell is a key player because early attempts by Archer's helpers at using explosives were a mixture of dangerous and comical. Once or twice, recalls Archer, in the minutes after a failed detonation, he crept toward the explosive "not 100% certain that it wasn't about to go off." Other times, they used too much of a too-powerful...
...even there, I felt the influence of the mafia. You see, each mafia strike is a calculated risk, designed to thrust as much grunt work on others as possible, while simultaneously molding residents into complete dependency. The handyman in my building had realized this latter task flawlessly, rendering tenants incapable of accomplishing anything by themselves. On one occasion I was beckoned upstairs by a distraught woman who needed the help of the electrician. When I informed her that he had left for the day and offered my services, she questioned my ability to successfully perform the task. After an arduous...
...Insert a Tim Allen-inspired grunt here...
...thing in college. I was in Texas, and that was a good job. I could get paid a lot of money to do grunt work with a hard hat and steel-toe boots. It's good to not be doing what everyone thinks you should be doing. Or it worked for me, anyway...
...when he has gone off-brand, with flops like Mann and Machine (a cop partners with a cyborg), D.C. (Washington interns wrestle with politics and love) and Deadline (reporter solves crimes). So Dragnet resembles L&O as much as its forebear: more grisly murder cases, less slow-paced police grunt work and plenty of topical plots...