What the buck? Exactly.
We get lots of things in the mail. Games, mostly. But games makers and PR companies send us all manner of things. I wasn't exactly surprised to see a massive inflatable buck head in my mail. You know you've been doing this for awhile when getting inflatable buck heads in the mail seems normal.
This is a strange promotion for Super Happy Fun Fun's Big Buck Hunter Pro, an iPhone translation of the popular arcade game. Killing deer made pocket-sized. Good times.
But rather than be that games journo that scoffs at something like this, I thought I'd put it to good use. While others that got this left it in its neatly folded deflated state, I blew lungs full of hot air into the buck head, and then proceeded to mount it on my office wall...after scaring the sh*t out of my dogs, of course.
This buck head is now a permanent fixture of my office. It will forever overlook my workspace, watching on as I play games and then write about them. Watching on as I blog about games news and and releases. Super Happy Fun Fun, know that your promotional dollars have been put to good use here. I think we'll become good friends, this buck and I.
What should I name this mother bucker?
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10:00 PM on 11.16.2009
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Also, did you totally make out with it yet? Because that's probably the first thing I would have done with it. Either that or wear it on my junk, and pretend that I had a buck's head as the tip of my penis...
Just sayin'.
/jerk
I want that though.
We took him in and named him Poncho Agua.
He stands for the right of every man woman and child to be protected from the rain. He wears a Street Fighter IV promotional bandana, and, when it gets really cold, a Scribblenauts roster hat.
Sadly, he struggles everyday with credibility.
I have to wonder now if his appearance was no mere fluke.
Cuz Laurence Bucklehorne the Sixth is already taken.
Name it The Deerhaunter
Or perhaps Buckhead if you wanna get more specific.
Though Buckface would be funnier for when people ask it's name and then suggest you should have named it Buckface. You could just look at them like it's the dumbest idea you've ever heard and they should just leave.
Yours looks like a Bruce to me.
His name is Kieth