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Monday's Quote of the Day

10:07 UK time, Monday, 17 August 2009

"It kind of reminds me of scenes from that comedy Airplane! when two black guys speak and subtitles appear on the screen" George Pelecanos, a writer of The Wire, on people watching the show with subtitles.

Faced with unfamiliar Baltimore-based street drug vocabulary like slinging, humbles, re-ups, hoppers, Spiderbags, narcos, fiends, and stick-up boys, many viewers of the HBO series, currently being shown on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two, might be forgiven for seeking some assistance as to what is actually being said. But Pelecanos is unimpressed: "We wrote it it so audiences would have to work at it!"

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