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Legendary Norman Rockwell self-portrait:

Jakks did some LJN-style figures. Didn't capture the charm of the originals at all. I'd imagine the same thing would happen if Mattel tried to tackle the Hasbro-style figures. I used to have this MUSCLE Thing figure that I thought looked like Abraham Lincoln. Creeped me out so I traded him to a friend. A couple of weeks later, same figure comes back to me as part of a lot in a trade with another friend. Figured I had to book the guy out of the territory to get rid of him so I had him lose a loser leaves town match and like any sensible child, threw him out the front door after he lost. Few days later my dad finds it while mowing the lawn and gives it back to me. Guy's got some tenacity so I made him a mid-card manager but he still creeped me out so I was still looking for ways to get rid of him. Dad dug a ditch in the backyard and filled it with water for some reason and MUSCLE Things don't float so I had some matches by the water-filled ditch and Abe ended up getting thrown in and a couple of days later that trench got filled in with dirt. Maybe a year later, my dad plows up the backyard and finds that damn figure again. So I quit trying to get rid of him and made him a referee. No idea where it is now.

Schiavone was a great commentator until he lost the will to live.

Randy - I'll be locking my date in the closet. Lanny - I don't need a date to do something I can do perfectly fine on my own.

Man's man babyface.

Look at the shape The Big Show's in:

The best is when Cole switches to his "GOING TO COMMERCIAL" inflection after a spot, and they don't cut to commercial...... He does it on ppv, right in the kind of situations when it would happen on RAW, all the fucking time.

And if he didn't get hurt, you know that Piledriver would only have been a 2 7/8th's count. Seriously though I hope he's all right. But man, why do people have to do such suicidal things in the indies. Do they think the extra crazy move on their youtube music video is really going to impress someone that much?

No worries. Now that you're married you'll get lots of practice at whacking days.

No really just FSW repeats the same cycle over and over. He picks a fight at me, makes odd and untrue statements then some who knows me eventually seems them here and then makes fun of FSW to the point of his embarrassment and then he stops. After the last time it happened I thought he finally learnt from all his follies. But no. I touched a nerve and again you are the last person to issue a post count diss. Never really white knighted Melty. I just poked holes in goofballs and their goofball opinions. There's plenty to be critical of Dave of, I do it all the time fam. As per usual you are completely off the mark when it comes to me. I'll now heed Phil's warning. Now back to this tremendous dinner talk. When I say cut it out, I mean cut it out, not take a last shot and cut it out. Take the weekend off.

Flair didn't do anything in the WWE in his first run is a preposterous statement. He Set the sandard for a Royal Rumble performance. He won the world title twice, was involved in a Marquee feud both during and after Mania season and was the catalyst for Vince attempting to phase out Hogan. Flair, for having a short run had a HUGE impact on the WWF/E James

This thread is for me and the Natural to spray our nerd juices all over each other without getting it on the rest of you.

Recycled, first heard this when Mitch Williams gave up *that* home run in in the 93 World Series. Ironically, another Philadelphia closer sucking.

WWF announcing great. . .

As someone who goes to at least half a dozen Phillies games a year, and has been going since the dog days of the Vet in the 90s, I can safely say this: if you don't take things personally, you'll have a good time. I've had two incidents in the near decade CBP has been open. One involved an obviously drunken fan throwing a bottle at my head after a Brave homered to extend the lead to like 9-0, and the other involved an obviously drunken fan yelling in my face for...well, no real reason, aside from my team sucking because Cliff Lee homered off of Tommy Hanson (in a game the Braves would end up winning). So, there's that.

To change the tone slightly....Fuck you to anyone who buys one of those "cool story babe now make me a sandwich" shirts. I actually thought it might be a reference to something that I don't know, so I looked it up on the internet. Nope. Just ignorant douche bags wearing a dumb shirt.

I hope they cut back on the 90 minute episodes this season. Last season didn't have enough content to justify the numerous long episodes. Can't wait to see what happens with Clay. He's hands-down the most likable character on the show.

Funny, I actually just found my Marty Jannetty Hasbro toy in my parent's yard. I was helping my dad with some gardening and apparently I must have buried it when I was a kid. I had the Rockers two pack and I destroyed my Shawn Michaels toy when he turned on Marty. To this day I still hate Shawn Michaels.

If they went with Capaldi I'd consider that a ballsy move. At this point I am prone to pretty much love whoever they cast in the role. But it does seem like a total departure of young, squee inducing, merch moving Doctor Who. As far as strange conwinkydinks go? Capaldi was in World War Z and was credited as "W.H.O. Doctor".

I'll have to go back over my ARCHIVES but I'm pretty sure RAW ended once with a match just starting. Like during the entrances Vince was like "We gottta goooo enjoy Silk Stockings!" 14-year-old me sure did enjoy Silk Stockings...

Part of the difference is that this year is overloaded with names. That leads to a lot of parity.

BIG JAPAN PRO WRESTLING- JACK ANTHONY/ SHINYA ISHIKAWA vs MEN'S TEIOH/ SHINOBU- 6/30/2013: Who is this Jack Anthony guy and how long has been making with preposterous Johnny Saint mat stylings? Add my favorite crowbar (Ishiwawa) and you've got the first Men's Teioh match I've like in like 10 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNQDhhcELWs

True, but franchise!

Who decided that a piledriver on the apron was a good idea for the 3rd match of the show? And why is he still employed? Stop it with the fucking apron spots. This is the second injury due to it and there's no real upside besides the audience going "oooh."

Not hard at all, actually. http://www.amazon.com/The-Walking-Dead-Compendium-One/dp/1607060760/ref=sr_1_1_ha?ie=UTF8&qid=1375606594&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Walking+Dead+Compendium Massive (and awesome) tpb of the first 48 issues, cover price of 60 bucks, as of me posting this, amazon is selling it for 27.14 http://www.amazon.com/The-Walking-Dead-Compendium-Two/dp/1607065967/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y Volume 2, collects 49-96, also a 60 dollar cover price, amazon has it for 36.17. That gets you caught up through the first 8 years.

I was originally going to post some fun, wacky connections between the various people involved in the latest 80s B-movie to show up in the EPIX DRIVE-IN rotation...1987's BEACH BALLS...It seemed an easy one. I mean, we don't even have to start the movie and we already have a clever pun that reminds us of that beach balls are both inflatable toys to play with at the ocean, and sweaty testicles to play with at the ocean. Genius, right? Two things we need to note right to start with. This is a Roger Corman production. And this movie does not have a Wiki page. That is amazing. I have never encountered this. There is a Wiki-Wiki for EVERYTHING. The IMDB page is also woefully under-informative. It is directed by Joe Ritter who is sadly not related to John Ritter because there is nothing better than the floundering career of someone famous' brother (I'm looking at you, Jim Hanks). But Joe Ritter is Schlocky royalty, as he wrote the screenplay for the original TOXIC AVENGER and was a regular camera dude on a ton of actual movies. But I had a hard time finding any cool people in this movie. Other than one of the main dudes I think was the guy that Bill Murray was shocking at the beginning of GHOSTBUSTERS when he was hitting on Gwendoline Pierce (Jennifer Runyon). And one of the female leads went on to direct a Skinemax late-night series called LIFE ON TOP which is on every single night. Not much to work with. So forget this stupid movie. Instead let's focus on one minor character...the gross, weird mother of a mute insane hooligan named Mollusk. Mollusk's mother is played by an actress whose IMDB page led me to the following two photos side-by-side: Now, this is more my speed. Intriguing, no? Who is this haunting creature? Her name is Linda Lutz. And she is fantastic. Her IMDB page indicates someone who lived on the margins of Hollywood, occasionally her amazing face getting her a small quirky role in a big project. She played real-life mob maven Victoria Moresco (who infamously ran over 200 brothels in Chicago in the 1910s and 20s and who may have murdered her husband, mob boss Big Jim Colosimo, who was the guy they killed in the pilot episode of BOARDWALK EMPIRE) on an episode of THE YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES. The Real Victoria Moresco and Linda Lutz as Victoria Moresco: And she had small roles in FREINDS and SPACE JAM and a few other Big-time shows/movies. This, however, is mostly sprinkled among the B-movie weirdness in which she usually played some form of screaming lady, or a mean woman that Al Bundy had to sell shoes to. For ROCK & ROLL HIGH SCHOOL fans, she played the evil Mrs. Snotgras in the sequel ROCK & ROLL HIGH SCHOOL FOREVER. But mostly it was small roles in things like the 1994 Dom DeLuise parody THE SILENCE OF THE HAMS...which both 1) somehow exists and 2) somehow stars Billy Zane, Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, John Astin, Rip Taylor, Eddie Deezen, and Mel Brookes. I hope you are realizing the magnitude of THE SILENCE OF THE HAMS because it is freaking me out how great that cast is. For you real deep schlock fans, she was the evil queen in something called STORMQUEST, a 1987 sword and underwear epic about a race of amazons who have enslaved men for breeding purposes... Operatic and Joffrey-esque, no? Although it looks like they filmed it by sneaking onto the set of the video for DON'T COME AROUND HERE NO MORE. So meet and love Linda Lutz, former Guinness Book of World Records record-holder for the longest continuous laugh (8 hours and 34 minutes). That laughing thing is what got her her first role, in the canonic USA-UP-ALLNIGHT masterpiece STEWARDESS SCHOOL. That alone is enough to make her an awesome Hollywood character. But, if that's not enough for you to love her, know that she was the big, weird crazy lady among the creepy tourists in David Lee Roth's video for CALIFORNIA GIRLS. That's some serious history shit right there. Her story takes a rough turn. In 1996 she suffered a stroke apparenlty as a side effect of some cold medication that has since been outlawed???? (This is not the kind of thing that is supposed to happen, no?). After a long recovery, she continues to act despite having no use of her left arm. But in the process has also become an advocate for actors with disabilities. If you're not in love with this woman, check out her attitude about her health issues and tell me she is not awesome: "It was a different world before and after the stroke. But, I knew what I could do. With my daughter's help, I started submitting myself on the computer through L.A. Casting, NOW Casting, and Actors Access. I started auditions again and work on student films. I see students as my future employers as they are willing to cast me in roles that I always played. Now, I'm just a character on wheels!" Bless you, Linda Lutz. A tribute: STORMQUEST: Her big scene is about :55 in. It's worth it. She walks across a "carpet" of men, crushing their balls...something for which the foley artists decided to use "a hammer smashing graham crackers wrapped in tinfoil." It's pretty great: Professor Lee Roth's CALIFORNIA GIRLS (you'll recognize her instantly)

The best part of that clip is the studio audience laughing at Screech.

IT'S NOT ME!!!!!!!!

There's only one worth making

Heckler above the Braves bullpen today: "HEY KIMBREL! YOU'RE GOOD, BUT YOU'RE NOT GREAT! STOP MIMICKING PAPELBON!" Me: "...if he were mimicking Papelbon, wouldn't he have blown the save already?" Dude also tried to make a crack about Kimbrel not being an All-Star and Papelbon being one (whoops), and another about Kimbrel going through the league the second time...welp. He was pretty drunk, though. Man, I'll tell you...Fredi put on a clinic in how to *not* manage a game today.

That DVDVR was like my bible for so long. It was a great guide for stuff I needed to check out when I started trying to watch as much wrestling as I could.

What bothers me most about that is for WWE, it always goes:*Wrestler is knocked/thrown out of the ring.*COLE: Can *wrestler* get back in it? Find out when we come back!EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I remember noticing that early on too. The moment Cole's voice suddenly changed a pitch, we knew it was going to break. However, it actually makes sense there both in a real and kayfabe way. The company knows they need to take an ad break, so when there's a temporary lull in the match, they quickly shoot to break. I feel like WWE taking a break during a match only started happening about 10 years ago, right? I don't remember it during the attitude days, at least during non-main event matches. It's entirely likely that matches were much shorter then though.

YAY! A $100 DLC~!

Isn't Grays Papaya way too famous to be just "a hot dog shop that opened in Manhattan?"

What bothers me most about that is for WWE, it always goes:*Wrestler is knocked/thrown out of the ring.*COLE: Can *wrestler* get back in it? Find out when we come back!EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Was watching Impact this week (Not that I'm singling TNA out, WWE are just as guilty for this) and a thought struck me. How bizarre is it, from a kayfabe standpoint, that on modern professional wrestling, you'll get an entrance, followed by an interview, interrupted by another entrance going into a match and they cut to commercial DURING THE MATCH!? It would be like watching NFL football, watching Tom Brady give stock answers, the two teams taking the field, the punter lines up to kick and they cut to commercials and come back in the middle of the next play. I know it's a by-product of prime-time TV, but it's still really weird when you think about it, isn't it!?

Since most people can tell that some things are worse than other things, no. It's worse because why? Because you're stuck on a word? Fuck the word, throw that out altogether. Have Riley Cooper say "I'll whoop every black motherfucker's ass" instead. Is that worse than if a black dude said "I'll whoop every white motherfucker's ass"? No. They're the same thing. Both racism. Neither one better or worse than the other. Because of historical context and the inequality of power. You're probably also one of those whiny crybabies with a massive sense of entitlement who believes that reverse racism is actually a real thing harming the country rather than bullshit myth that it actually is.

Best thing ever, is that now I'm reading this as a public statement issued by Jason Vorhees.

Cut it out

if you click on a member's username, you go to his/her profile page. Above the profile info, there's a button "Send me a message." Was I was too subtle?

the man in this thread nobody will date

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If he hadn't died in 1995, Gilbert probably would've died in 1996 or 1997.

Still listening to Francesa. Dog was my favorite of the duo with all the batshit insanity and energy that he brought to the show but I don't have satellite radio so Francesa it is. Now.. his show is actually incredible for how unintentionally hilarious it has become. I could not stomach it for the first few months but after that something clicked. People are actively trolling Francesa now, so many prank calls and his condescending tone towards all of the trolls and even innocent callers alike totally brings the juice.

MORE LEE SCOTT THE GREAT MUTA RIC FLAIR KEVIN SULLIVAN One more:

Odessasteps kicking the new thread on the new forum with a hot start. Pretty much have gone off MMA completely but even I didn't feel short changed by the issue and everything that Meltzer normally covers was covered to a sufficient degree. mookies last tally of the break down between MMA and Pro Wrestling in Observer: What's the issue besides your personal ones, odessa?