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August 7

The Wire

I have just finished watching season 4 and am about to start on season 5 however I have a few questions: Omar Liddle and Marlow Stansfield are enemies, but can some one please elaborate on what card game they had? And what happened during this. Ques 2. Marlow has some soldiers, the youngest one who is still in school, has a ring around his neck that he got from the dirty police patrol guy. The policeman stole this from some one, who? and why was Marlow interested in this? Any help on these two would be greatly appreciated. Thank you ~~Zionist —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.58.82 (talk) 06:50, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you might want to go back and watch season 4 again, because all of this is explained there! Anyway, here's how it goes: Omar hit a card game Marlo was playing at, stealing not only all of the money, but also Marlo's ring (whom he'd taken from another guy earlier, but let's not get into that...). Because Omar robbed him, Marlo wants revenge, so he framed Omar for murder. So when Omar gets arrested, the cop steals the ring from him. Of course, he loses is later on, as you mention. So when Marlo finally sees the ring again, he of course recognizes it, since it used to belong to him. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 09:58, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Brilliant! Thank you very much. Cant wait to start season 5. Think I missed an episode in seas 4. Is it just me or ir Omar that hardest, coolest character ever. Any man that makes a living from robbing drug dealers is alright in my book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.58.82 (talk) 10:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Captain Disdain says that "all of this is explained there", but it would be more accurate to say that "all of this is shown there". The Wire has, for television, an unusually large amount of subtext. That is, the dialogue does not always point out everything of significance. In television, the characters usually explain the story to the audience, but on The Wire, no one is going to say "Hey, isn't that Marlo's ring—the one he took from that guy?" So if you miss an episode, you'll miss more later, to be sure! —Kevin Myers 10:03, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Wire is an average procedural, nothing more or less, stuffed with an array of interchangeable and forgettable characters (I couldn't for the life of me remember who was who, and soon began not to care) and clichés galore. You want the the maverick cop who plays by his own rules, speaks his mind, pisses of his stuffed-shirt, officious superiors but gets results? Whose dedication to his job has cost him his marriage and left him with a drink habit (signalled by occasional swigs at a bottle)? Well, one can never get enough of THIS sort of character, obviously, so bring him on, have him played woodenly and be done with it. You get the usual weary battery of petty, lazy, fat and/or balding officials who get in the way, just for contrast, and they all but ask for his badge and his gun and/or give him 48 hours. Pretentious Child 2 (talk) 11:08, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

name of a type of genre of music

Hi, I'm looking for the name of a type of music or any artists associated with it. It's from Africa, I think East Africa, and it involves the artists listening to music on radios and re-mixing the music but using a lot of static and clicks etc. They may also be building their radios out of discarded electronics and this is how it got started. Any ideas? Thanks!

I should clarify that what distinguishes this genre is the fact it's really electronic based and I think the only instrument is the built or modified electronic device and the user's voice. I think it first gained attention a few years ago. I first heard about it in 2006. --Rajah (talk) 14:58, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball in Japan

[1] - what is the Industrial League? Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 23:35, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

http://kasdanfamily.blogspot.com/2008/06/industrial-league-baseball-matsushita.html should help. 83.100.250.79 (talk) 23:54, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) Basically what it sounds like, the major Japanese corporations all have their own baseball teams that compete against teams from other companies. Play is at an amateur level and is seen as a good stepping stone into professional Baseball (see for example Toshiya Sugiuchi#Industrial league career. Interestingly enough the US used to run Industrial leagues too up until the early 1900s. Nanonic (talk) 00:04, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]