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So, it turns out i might be running out of money a little sooner than i had planned. I just want to state that my last post in this thread was all in good fun. Just some harmless teasing like the Miami Dolphins partake in. Just good ol' fashion ribbin'. LOL actually means 'lots of love.' I would very much like to join the TNA creative staff. To show what my awareness and potential passion for TNA can bring to your organization, I present: THE HOBO ARMY INITIATIVE! Step 1) Branding When TNA Wrestling opened its doors over a decade ago, one of the things that helped it stand out amongst the wrestling landscape was the no limits, high flying X-Division. In 2013, I believe it's safe to say that the X-Division has clearly lost some of its luster of the past. Now is the perfect time for a rebranding in order to freshen things up. What could possibly be more no limits than an X-Division wrestler? How about one that is not bound by a home or job to hold them down. Restricted only by what they can carry in their bindles, hobos are clearly the most no limits athletes of them all! Storyline fire all X-Division wrestlers. They return repackaged as hobos: Slumdog Dutt, Maple Leaf Meth, Depressed Manik, Pig Pen Sabin, etc. And even though Sabin is now a hobo, his girlfriend Velvet Sky will stay loyal to him as the first Hobo Army recruit. She will have male fans everywhere clamoring to join the Hobo Army while happily declaring themselves hobosexuals! Step 2) Viral Marketing Even though there has never been any proof of viral marketing translating into dollars, it is still all the rage but nothing beats old fashioned boots on the ground. I say combine the two. Recruit volunteers from local homeless shelters in the area where TNA events are to be held. Pay them a small sum. Also, make a tax deductible donation to the local shelters. We'll be putting America to work and helping the local community. Outfit local "Hobo Army" soldiers in sandwich boards and place them in high traffic areas where TNA events are to be held. In areas with high amounts of lunchtime traffic such as outdoor cafes, outfit the Hobo Army with flat screen sandwich boards that play clips from TNA's YouTube channel. They can also double as mobile wi-fi stations for the patrons. It's TBA Hobovision. These no limit soldiers of the Hobo Army will have fans saying, 'Ughh, nahnahnahnah' when they see them and their presence will be go viral in no time and this time it won't just be the meningitis. Step 3) Upselling Now that eyes are on the Hobo Division, time to sell the people some stuff they don't need. Got a warehouse full of damaged or defective merchandise? Someone on the design team not know how to spell 'RVD' correctly? Sounds like a salesman's hell but now it can be transformed into a salesman's hobodise as all that defective merchandise can be repurposed as offical Hobo Army merchandise for sale direct to the loyal members of the Hobo Division's Hobo Army! Step 4) Profit Pockets gonna be fat like Kelly Clarkson! I look forward to meeting with you and further discussing the Hobo Army Initiative as well as my other ideas such as the integration and utilization of my theory of Stud Stablization into TNA Wrestling. LOL (Lots Of Love), Ben PS Can't wait to ride the Dixie Train.

"Hey Dracula, you fat bastard, get on this scale!"

2015: "Geoff eaten by rabid Wally West fan, Dan Didio is still missing. Brian Fowler at large. Has been known to howl "Wheeeeedoooon!" in the night."

He lost the Jericho 4 times.

Stone Cold with a MAN's beard.

"I AM CORNHOLIO! I need TP for my bunghole!"

As Tor Johnson for a Tim Burton tribute performance.

As long as it gets to fuck Stacy Keibler

I'm pretty sure gsp and Rory will fight each other. I'm also pretty sure gsp will make Johnny Hendricks look like an amateur for 25 minutes.

Long post alert... Eddie Guerrero was a tremendous all-rounder, one of the best ever for versatility. Eddie could do it all. My favourite match of the Eddie Guerrero/Dean Malenko feud from ECW is also my favourite ever ECW match and that’s the 2 out of 3 falls match they had (9/26/95). I always preferred that match to the Hostile City Showdown 1995 match. Another of my favourite Eddie Guerrero matches is his ECW World Television Championship winning match against 2 Cold Scorpio in Guerrero’s ECW debut. Eddie Guerrero’s WCW Cruiserweight Championship versus Rey Mysterio’s mask at WCW Halloween Havoc 1997 is one of my favourite cruiserweight matches, hell it might be my favourite. Years later and it’s still amazing to watch, to see how crisp everything is hit. There are two spots in it which are unreal, the moonsault DDT and Mysterio’s somersault plancha into a head scissor takedown. I wonder why Dave Meltzer stopped giving it the full *****. I gave it the full five. Eddie Guerrero’s WWE Championship win over Brock Lesnar at No Way Out 2004 was one of the last decade’s best matches for the story it told and the emotion it caused. In the match Brock Lesnar dominated the early outset before Eddie Guerrero came back to Lesnar’s shock and I remember how tenacious it made Eddie look not by quitting in the match but summing up Eddie Guerrero’s second WWE spell up overcoming the odds, the height disadvantage etc. The post match celebration is one of my favorite in wrestling history with Eddie jumping into the crowd and greeting his mother. Eddie Guerrero also had a brilliant match with John Bradshaw Layfield at Judgment Day 2004. People remember it rightly for the tremendous blood loss Eddie suffered (it’s the worst I’ve ever seen) but the match was more than that, it was a hate filled match with Guerrero looking to get revenge for his mother in the storyline who had a heart attack because of JBL threatening her. Eddie Guerrero’s gimmick proved constantly entertaining with the “lie, cheat and steal” motto. I loved how Eddie Guerrero blatantly cheated usually by making a sound with a chair or tossing the object to his opponent and the ref would see Eddie Guerrero feigning like he was the one who got hit. Just terrific. One of my favourite Eddie Guerrero skits was with Ric Flair at the 2005 Royal Rumble when Eddie Guerrero drew a bad number and swapped that number for Ric Flair’s good number. This led later on the night to Flair with Evolution and Teddy Long telling Guerrero to give Flair his number back which he did…and the wallet he swiped without Flair knowing. On the mike Eddie Guerrero gave one of the creepiest promos I've seen, the week after he turned heel on Rey Mysterio in 2005. The promo had Eddie Guerrero sitting down on a chair with an overhead spotlight on him talking to Rey Mysterio’s mask. The promo ended with Eddie Guerrero telling Rey not to come back: “don’t make me hurt their papa”. Superb intense promo. A legend.

Antonio Cesaro tribute which I think y'all will like:

My daughter loves soccer and we spend the warmer afternoons at the park. I run her through dribbling drills until her legs fall off and then she gets to practice shooting with me as the target.... er... goalkeeper.. I would trade "line drive shots into my dome with a soccer ball" for "gutter ball with bumpers" any day of the week.

Liked the Bills one so much, I made it my new avatar. . .

I'm only posting it because my fiancee thought this would look good on me

Speaking of St. Louis

Ryan Miller better keep an eye on his wife.

The last episode made a big deal about Kenny's movie script for his life story. They could do a movie about the making of a Kenny Powers biopic.

GTA Online story from reddit/4chan:

"Kansas City, home of the Bob Geigel. I respack you are intelligent Indian Tribe football team. But remember, Gene Mean. Denver is olv cuntry, like the Dan Gable. Peyton Manning, not that jabroni brother Elaw, he is the real shampwun."

Took my son bowling yesterday. He's never done it before. It takes a special kind of child to throw the ball in the gutter with the bumpers on. Also my wife has decided child #2 will be a home birth. IT'S GONNA GET CRAZY IN JAE'S HOUSE

I maintain TNA TV should be written like a season of The West Wing. At the end of my first season I'd have someone try to assassinate Dixie Carter. This leads to AJ Styles having a trauma related psychosis where he can't wrestle whenever he hears music in season 2! James

I am now completely hooked on "Batman: Brave and the Bold". I caught a few episodes back when it was on the air, and I kinda liked it, but I'm such a BTAS dork that I really didn't give it a chance. I've been watching it on Netflix with my three year old nephew, at first because I was tired of Team Oomizoomi and I wanted to watch some Batman with him. He'd seen some BTAS with me, and likes the character. So I figured, "What the hell?" I am now so loving this. I'm a Silver Age freak and I love all of these characters. I totally geeked out for The Challengers Of The Unknown, and the little intro they did for them made me want to see a Challengers show done like this yesterday. The use of the more modern characters like Guy Gardner or the new Blue Beetle is great, and I absolutely adore the animation style and character designs. There's so much love for DC history and it's so much god damn fun. He's hooked, I'm hooked, I'm just waiting for season three to hit Netflix.

What a bunch of nerds.

Brian is the only person on the board who's gentlemanly enough to censor himself after the fact. Natural, of course, is enough of a gentleman to not have to censor himself at all.

If you didn't worry, you wouldn't be a dad

Maxwell David came into the world Tuesday night. He's our first. 8 lbs 14 ounces and 20 1/2 inches long. Healthy baby, mom had a tough delivery (baby decided he wanted his left arm to come out with his head) but she's recovering nicely. My emotions over the last few days, after being fairly calm all during the pregnancy, went on quite the ride. Probably had something to do with me and his Mom being awake from 10 PM Monday until 1:30 AM this morning. Things have calmed and mellowed. The breastfeeding is going lots better, which is taking lots of the stress off. We're getting used to his ways and him to ours. Long journey ahead but we're lucky to have a great support system (4 excited grandparents and 2 thrilled aunties) in place. I'll be checking in here to get some much needed advice from those of you who have gone through all this stuff.

BEN DIAMOND ON AMERICAN HORROR STORY YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

Where's everybody going? Is there ice cream in catering? You never saw RoH Konnan, have you? Konnan never went faster than slow. Even when he had a jet pack he was slow. Fastest he ever moved was when he had a guy pushing him around in a wheelchair.

Oh shit, Death Grips. If you'd told me one of the five acts I of all people would be excited about in this decade would be a hardcore experimental hip hop band, I'd have had you put in the asylum. But oh shit, Death Grips.

A little bit. My shoulder still feels funny, but not as bad as last weekend. Thanks for asking!

R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero who passed away on this day in 2005.

Since he can't seem to hit it with a gun, I'm curious to see what type of woodpecker "That dam pecker" is. I'm guessing Golden-fronted woodpecker since it's texas.

2013 Franchise looks like Jimmy King. Tonight we rejoice! We rejoice with the King in his motorcastle!

The "Why certain guys never got a run in TNA/WWE" thread had me looking up a couple of WWE dark matches from the late 90's and early 00's, and I came across Cena vs. Benjamin. Crazy how goofy Cena looked, and how much better Benjamin was than him.

So, Mark Henry is the Death Star and Alderaan was inducted into the Hall of Pain. Henry pretending to retire to sucker John Cena in is like the Death Star looking incomplete but being fully operational to sucker in the Rebel fleet.

Anyone want to rethink the concept of DVDVR-run TNA?

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Oh, that's pretty sweet. It will be pretty hard to live up to all of the hype he has gotten this year. Indeed the marathon of live college basketball has begun. On right now is Wichita State at home vs. Western Kentucky. It started at midnight Wichita game but there isn't an empty seat in the house. What likely will be the highlight of what I am able to see from the marathon: two gray-haired elderly ladies passing a can of Rockstar Absolute Zero between each other and one of them examining the can like, "What in the hell AM I drinking?" For posterity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Wjzg-iH4w Speaking from experience, the elderly women at Shocker Missouri Valley games do not screw around. There was a bluehair in a wheelchair that sat near us for a couple of seasons that yelled some of the foulest things I've heard at a sporting event. FTFY. Those schools are incredibly passionate for basketball and the alumni never lose it... one of my favorite basketball memories came when we beat DePaul in 1993 for the first time in 40 years and one older dude behind me and the radio booth literally passed out. Awe-inspiring.

I think you should settle down

"People who like things are retarded! Fuck them!"

Hard mode circle 4 or 5 kicked my ass. in the end traded that one in because it wasn't all that fun anymore. Still - got me into reading the divine comedy, so theres that. Still powering through BL2 - thanks to Brisco for joining me the past couple of tuesday evenings (afternoons, brisco's time, obv...)

The fact it is a Photoshop creation does not change the fact that I want one for Christmas. Geneticists, get to work. Bring us horsesharks.

"I'll give you central 'eatin'."