These can be fun too; one notable example is Brandon Sanderson's "Firstborn," the overlong but otherwise delightful tale of a born loser slouching along in the shadow of his military-genius older brother.
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The movie's most memorable moment — when his girlfriend appears on one of those many monitors in an attempt to talk sense into him — ends up feeling like a simulacrum of how working-class people might talk to each other, garnered from a steady diet of Honeymooners reruns and Born Loser comic strips.
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Art Sansom created The Born Loser after spending 20 years churning out the illustrations on his syndicate's serious strips. He originally titled it The Loser, but under the urging of the syndicate, renamed it The Born Loser. The dailies started May 10, 1965 while the Sundays premiered on June 27. Initially, the strip had no recurring characters but now focuses on the Thornapple family and the few people in their lives.
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Eden was not in telephone contact and did not return to Britain until 14 December.Howard 1987, p. 241. Shadow Chancellor Harold Wilson said that Butler had "the look of a born loser" (20 December).
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He knew Ruby and described him as a "born loser". Author Norman Mailer and others have questioned why Ruby would have left his two beloved dogs in his car if he had planned on killing Oswald at police headquarters.
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Murphy & the Mob from Tyler, Texas sing the highly despondent "Born Loser," which was released on Talisman Records in 1966. The set ends with "You Can't Make Me," by the Montells from Miami, Florida, who had previously recorded as H.M. Subjects (Her Majesty's Subjects).
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The Born Loser is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965. His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist. The strip is distributed by Newspaper Enterprise Association. The Sansoms won the 1987 National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award and the 1990 Newspaper Comic Strip Award.
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Stateline Motel (, also known as Last Chance, Motel of Fear and Last Chance for a Born Loser) is a 1973 Italian crime film directed by Maurizio Lucidi. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Franco Enna."Una storia di gioielli: L'ultima chance con Fabio Testi e la Andress". La Stampa (260).
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Brutus Thornapple's boss in The Born Loser comic strip is Mr. Veeblefester, an obvious derivative. The word has been mentioned in films such as Mad Monster Party? (1966), The Magnificent Major (1978) and Reel Horror (1985); and on television's Boardwalk EmpireBoardwalk Empire episode 17, "Gimcrack & Bunkum" (2011) and Space Ghost Coast to CoastSpace Ghost Coast to Coast episode 62, "Warren" (1998).
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An adolescent boy (Phoring, Bengali for "Grasshopper") grows up in a back-of-beyond township in North Bengal. Surrounded by the lush Dooars countryside, the town barely survives the shutdown of a factory. Maladjusted and a born loser, Phoring fights the voices in his head which he calls God. A new teacher (Doel) arrives in school, and opens up his mind to things unknown.
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Brutus P. "Thorny" Thornapple – As the name of the comic implies, he's a born loser. He simply can't get a break, whether it involves his job, his family, or just plain every day life. He's rather old fashioned, perhaps explaining why the modern times seem to be running him over. His birthday is November 29, 1951, though the May 10, 2011 edition proclaimed it to be his 46th birthday.
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In 1991, Gabriel Grevenstuk from The Source magazine praised DMX in his Unsigned Hype column that highlighted unsigned hip-hop artists. The same year, he recorded his first demos, Unstoppable Force and Three Little Pigs. In 1992, Columbia Records signed DMX to their subsidiary label Ruffhouse, which released his debut single "Born Loser". The single did not receive much airplay, and the label eventually agreed to release DMX from their contract.
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Terry Stafford "Suspicion" Home Page; www.youchanan.net. Other songs written with Owens include "The Biggest Storm of All",Recorded by Buck Owens on [ Roll Your Own] (Capitol, 1969) and Susan Raye on [ The Cheating Game] (Capitol, 1973). "Natural Born Loser",Recorded by Buck Owens on [ Roll Your Own] (Capitol, 1969). "Across This Town and Gone",Recorded by Buck Owens on [ Tall Dark Stranger] (Capitol, 1969), Susan Raye on [ Wheel of Fortune] (Capitol, 1972) and Tony Booth on [ Happy Hour] (Capitol, 1973).
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Al Bundy is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American television series Married... with Children, played by Ed O'Neill. He is a misanthropic, working-class father of two, portrayed as a somewhat tragicomedic figure. Although he is a born loser who constantly laments his lot in life, he nevertheless stands by his family, displaying wit, self- sacrifice and resilience in times of crisis. He and his wife, Peg, were rated the 59th best characters on television by Bravo.
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She also featured in two separate episodes, one in 1991 and one in 1993, of the family sitcom 2point4 Children. Returning to BBC's medical drama Casualty for a second time, Badland featured in 1993's series 8 episode "Born Loser". She also appeared in director Andy Wilson's mini-series The Mushroom Picker and director Carol Wiseman's mini-series Goggle Eyes. Between 1993 and 1995, Badland starred as the nurse in BBC's comedy, Inside Victor Lewis-Smith, which was presented as a look into comic and journalist Lewis-Smith's mind while he was in a coma.
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The liner notes are noticeably opinionated, sometimes engaging in tongue-in-cheek insults directed at other genres of music. The booklet also includes photographs of the bands, and the front cover features a highly satirical cartoon by Mort Todd depicting revivified "rock and roll" zombies who have just emerged from the grave to "burn on a skewer" all adherents of supposedly heretical pop and progressive music which have come to prominence over the years, such as disco. The set begins with the pounding Bo Diddley rhythms and scintillating guitar parts of "Don't Cry to Me," by Jerry & the Others, from Dayton, Ohio. Murphy & the Mob from Tyler, Texas sing the highly despondent "Born Loser," which was released on Talisman Records in 1966.
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