A Perfectly Cromulent Blog

"Why do they call you 'Meat'?"

A youth almost entirely (mis)spent watching bad movies does strange things to a person, as The Wife and I discovered last night. We were dozing through the local news, specifically the story about how a grand jury declined to indict a Metro cop in a fatal shooting outside the Medical Center. Metro chief Thomas Lambert spoke in support of the officer in question, one R.L. Harrington. That, in and of itself, isn't surprising. No, the interesting part of the story - to me anyway - was Lambert's resemblance to a certain 80s teen comedy villain.

This is Chief Lambert:

This is Wallacetown, FL entrepeneur "Porky" Wallace:

Not pictured: Ms. Beulah Balbricker

I guess the destruction of his riverboat casino at the hands of Pee Wee and Tommy and the gang finally convinced him to turn over a new leaf.