MaNiC mOnDaY #3

The theme for this week is Spike. I have to admit I had quite a time thinking of something to post about this week. Being the Warcraft nerd that I am, the first thing that popped into my head is the Mithril Shield Spike, which is something that blacksmiths can make and add to a character's shield. Shield Spikes actually can be made from several different metals, but what they are used for is to deal damage to an enemy when blocking with a shield.

I was thinking though, that's a pretty shoddy post, can't I come up with anything better? Then it occurred to me that Spike is also a name, and several things came to mind. I had a fish named Spike for a while when I was younger. He was a big sort of goldfish, and actually the bigger of the 2 I had at the time. The other fish I named Bubba. They looked like hardcore fish, so I gave them hardcore names.

This is another Spike. I was a bit younger when I encountered this one. Most girls like Barbie dolls, right? Well, not me. I had a couple, but I never played with them. My thing was My Little Ponies, and I had quite a few! Spike came with the castle playset, which was one of my favorite things to play with. It had 2 floors, came with a special pony, who had golden horseshoes you could put on her feet, and a princess hat. Spike was the castle dragon, and the castle had a little basket for him to ride in so that he could go up or downstairs in the castle. Some pretty fond memories there. I think my parents still have all of these toys in their basement somewhere too.

This is the last Spike that I could think of to share with you all this week. He's a vampire from the show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", and is played by James Marsters. He's a British vampire, and was one of my favorite characters on the show. I didn't really watch the show all that much, but if I was flipping channels and I saw an episode, I'd usually watch it. Spike was usually good for a few laughs, I don't remember him as being much of a serious sort of vampire. I found by looking at Wikipedia that his nickname is Spike "of a habit of torturing people with railroad spikes". Nice, huh?

Do you know of any good Spikes? Why not try a Manic Monday of your own? :)