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Several of you think that there is a vacancy to be the next Fat Spanish Waiter. There isn't. Stop it now. There is an ignore feature. If you don't start using it - we will show you how we use the permanent ignore feature.

I feel pretty good about it.

I can't imagine why you guys would be wasting your time on stuff like that when Hallmark just bought the rights to (finally) rebroadcast one of the greatest minis-series ever made which hasn't been seen since its historic initial run in 1991: From "The Guide"

Joe had a rib problem. Barbecue most likely.

"Hallo, liebchens..."

Haven't you learned yet that I have a sickness and it is called hoarding?

Update is weird. Both guns are useful, but I don't know when I will ever use them. I'm curious to see if resident sniper Mel can get anything going with that rifle with the scope. Apparently the heavy shotgun is deadlier, but you give up the refire of the automatic shotgun. I doubt I'll use it much, because I like the automatic so much. The big changes are pretty neato, actually: 1. Icons for jets, planes and helicopters on the map like the tank icon. 2. This is great: Let's say Robert is in a room and we all want in there. Instead of waiting for people to leave and hoping we luck into getting in, we can get in line to get into the room and them get a spot when a spot is ready. 3. The thing where double-up on the D-pad turns on the camera is long gone. An idiot could've called it, but I called it. 4. Everyone on GTA Online says the new sports car isn't worth buying. Said it's pretty, but not as fast as the big three in the class and hard to steer. I haven't heard anything about the two new motorcycles yet. We did not need another sports car.That's such a crowded class I think it should be split into two classes for racing purposes.

THE MAN WHO KILLED HULKAMANIA. I'm a huge fan of Yokozuna.

Remember when Nash had the claw on all 7 Von Erichs?

Last October I spilled my guts in this thread about VHS boxes that genuinely fascinated and terrified me during the early Blockbuster days of my youth. I used them all up, so I won't pretend I have more, but I can't get enough horror movie art. So to keep this thread going for a new Halloween season, I'm updating the theme to VHS HORROR BOX ART THAT WAS WAY BETTER THAN THE ACTUAL GODDAMN MOVIE YOU PAID $3.20 TO TAKE HOME Case #1: OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES (1982) /ZOMBIE LAKE (1981) These are two unbelievably bad/boring zombie movies by Jesus Franco, (although he quit ZOMBIE LAKE and it was finished by ubiquitous dull naked vampire movie maker Jean Rollin. They both feature Nazi Zombies eating French teenagers who either 1) go to the dessert to steal Nazi gold (OASIS) or 2) go swimming in a lake while being naked and having floppy French boobs (LAKE). The box art for both is great, especially OASIS: The tagline for this might as well be "If you thought the ass cheeks from the poster for I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE were great...well then get a load of these 40% more-wedgied ones" Note: she is not not dressed for the harsh conditions of exploring the desserts of north Africa. Although the ankle boots are fucking rad. And the zombie is so great too. Because he's not a zombie and he's a basically a skeleton, which is what any realistic 40-year-old zombie would be. Although preserved in sand, and so there is a thin layer of mummified skin and a bit of flesh on his otherwise bony hands. I've thought for awhile that the zombie-industrial complex has caused us to lose sight of the wonderful horror of being chewed on by an actual skeleton, and clawed at by actual skeleton hands. It's extra insulting since they can't even pretend to actually devour you but are only ripping at you with jawbones attached to no digestive system...but let's face it, fleshy zombies are cheap and convincing skeletons near impossible without Ray Harryhausen. WHY IT'S DECEPTIVE!!! Well, let's compare it's two best parts. 1) The ass and 2) the zombie to what we actually get in the movie: 1) Ass: 2) Zombie: Both...uninspired. That is not $3.20 worth of either ass or zombie. Goddamn it, movie, that zombie looks like the lead singer for Fun. after he passed out and the other two dudes put a turd on his face (I'm assuming that's what they do). Unacceptable. But, what of it's thematic prequel ZOMBIE LAKE: Again we are promised realistically dessicated zombies. This time preserved in the cool, green mossy waters of some gross French pond, hence the green tint. That, is an elegant zombie who lurks in the water and overpowers you with his spindly, sinewy arms (note the great gross tendons and stuff in his wrist and his neat clawlike fingers). The only problem is that he's a bit limited. Stay out of his lake and you're fine. But, hell, what naked French teenager can stay out of a smelly, green swamp when there's rock and roll to be listened to and reefer to be smoked and volleyballs to be tossed carelessly around the edge of the water??? 0% that's how many. So he should do just fine. WHY IT'S DECEPTIVE Except that's not what happens. The zombies leave the lake and seek out a little girl who is somehow the grandaughter of one of them and has a pendant that makes him feel love agzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Yeah. Here's what we actually get, zombie-wise: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME, MOVIE!!!!!!???????? HIS FUCKING HAIR IS PARTED!!!! HIS GODDAMN UNIFORM IS BRAND NEW...and, what else...hmmmmm??? Oh yeah...HE"S JUST A GUY WEARING SOME GREEN FACE PAINT AND NOT EVEN ENOUGH TO COVER HIS WHOLE FACE FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCJOYYOUMOVIE. I would proudly hang either of these box covers on my wall as straight up great horror pop-art. But woe to anyone who attempts to watch either one. SPECIAL BONUS: Inexplicably and at the request of no one on earth, ZOMBIE LAKE has been given a special commemorative Blu-Ray release. How could this possibly be justified? Why, DECEPTIVE COVER ART, OF COURSE!!! Holy Crap, what a great fucking picture!!!! That's like the Kraken slowly rising out of Aegean Sea!!! The pain and anger in his face. The hatred and rage in his clenched hand. His Un-life is nothing nothing more than an endless shriek of hunger and the neverending pain of nerves exposed and dying and muscles deteriorating. He just. wants. to. kill. everything that doesn't feel the same pain he feels. He wants all of you to have all the pain with him all the time. How do you not buy this for $25 at Barnes & Noble? Oh, that's right... Because this is that same guy in actual movie form. He looks like he's asking you to drive him to the airport.

Which is why the IC and US titles should be re-established as important! If the World and (US or Tag) Champs are on the A-loop, the IC and (US or Tag) Champs should be built up as strong enough to be the title matches on the B-loop. Sheamus as the US champ is a decent enough idea if he actually defends it, but honestly, this idea just hit me: John Cena - Intercontinental Champion. If he can't be bothered to put *guys* over anymore, at least let him put a fucking strap over. XIX was your first, and you think "getting old blows?" Damn, man..

I'm pissed about the Tigers, so maybe I'm starting this early this year, but... Jesus Christ I hate the fucking Cardinals.

Thanks for the reminder. I forgot about golf being weird. We were either putting 10 yards to the left of the actual ball, or as he said, pissing in the middle of the greens.

Couldn't have been Hogan. He was still recovering from tearing every muscle in his back and chest after slamming a 1500lb Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania III which caused the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

Hell Yeah! I've been hoping they would do something like that. Saves us endless frustration if it works right. Now if they'd just do something about auto-targeting priorities...

Liam Neeson does accents???? He has a special set of skills...and accents aren't one of them.

#wrestlingfanproblems- Going to a grocery store 10 minutes out of your way hoping to find a copy of the PWI 500 only to see it's not there

I dunno, I've been watching the rasslin a longass time and have come to be a pretty good judge of "it". I've called it on Curt Hennig, The Dingo Warrior, and more recently Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose (to be fair, I also thought Lance Hoyt was going to be great, but nobody's perfect). Corbin projects the same sort of vibe as Johnny Valentine. He knows he's better than everyone else, and is going to fuck people up just because he can. When the squash mode is played out and he's in some long matches, we'll see if he can really go, but from what I've observed so far, I think he's going to be just fine in the ring. Promos? When you can convey that much disdain with hardly moving your facial muscles, you don't need to be Jim Cornette to get your points across. As Enzo would say, "You can't teach that!" This is why I love NXT. In the old days guys that were green as grass would usually get punted around the territories to get experience, that's how a saw a very young Curt Henning during his stint in the Northwest. In recent years you had to get all sorts of dvds from various indies and sit through much awfulness to get a glimpse of the exceptional talent. Now, most of the exceptional talent is WWE-bound and we get to check them out in NXT. NXT is pretty much textbook on how to put on a successful weekly program. Right size venue, good production values and just enough out of ring stuff to advance storylines without becoming a soap opera. Also, everyone has something to do, whether chasing a title. revenge, establishing themselves, what have you, no one is just floundering around. Now granted, it's a lot easier to write one hour of tv a week, but you would think some of this attention to detail would transition to WWE.

Man, would you just let me believe there's a chance the Phillies won't suck for the next decade?

Breast Cancer awareness. They have them.

The caption should read "Baron Celebrates 20th Birthday".

Man alive, I'm telling you people, the picks I'm getting are high quality and varied all across the board. You want to get in on this if you are on the fence. This might be the best crop of films picked since we started this game. JT, BLR? Come out and play

Watching the 1987 Toronto Blue Jays lose the last 7 games of the season, 4 of them to the Tigers who they finished 2 games behind, was painful. Especially the final game of the season where the Jays couldnt get a single run and barely got any hits off of Frank Tanana who probably didnt throw one pitch over 85 mph that day

From living in MD but not being a Ravens fan, it feels like the team and their fans embraced the "bad boys" label, staring with Ray and going forward. Playing a physicla/violent style helped foster that I think. Some also may not like them because of Modell/"stealing the Browns" aspect. Said as a teenager who was scarred by the Mayflower moving vans & Bob Irsay

I'm still really baffled/amused at the great amount of people who are absolutely INFURIATED about WWE and Vince and WWE creative ("Fuck this company!") and still tune in every Monday night to complain about it afterwards. I'll be honest, I've been fairly bored with stuff lately, aside from Dean Ambrose, so I've stopped tuning in except to catch his segments. I know I've made this exact same post before, but if you HATE WWE so MUCH, stop watching it. There is so much easy to access wrestling out there, that tuning in every Monday then going on a message board and ranting and raving about "Fuck this company" and "Super Cena" and "Same old bullshit" is like being a big music fan who listens to Top 40 radio and rants all day about "Arianna Grande is terrible! Fuck this radio station!" or a film fan who goes to a new blockbuster every weekend and complains "When is Hollywood going get behind a Tim Blake Nelson drama instead of all these big budget action movies!?!" WWE booking/pushes annoy you? Turn it off. I shouldn't have to tell you this, it's pretty simple. But endless page after page of "GODDAMN WWE! GODDAMN VINCE!" is so tiring.

HISTORY LESSON~! Vlad's notorious nom de guerre is not all that sinister. It notes his father's membership into Ordo Dracul, a chivalric order of knights created by one of the Holy Roman Emperors. It is said that Vlad actually hated the sobriquet because it kept him in his father's shadow. His reign of terror and atrocities are thought of by most scholars as Vlad's way of trying to define his own rule as opposed to the way his father handled things.. Vlad II was a pragmatic if not stern ruler but he was notoriously cautious in his dealings with the Ottoman Turks.. His son, not so much. "Dracula" after much Anglicized bastardization (mostly fueled by Bram Stoker) took on the translation "Son of the Devil," referring to Satan's manifestation as a red dragon in Revelations, the last chapter of the Bible. I wrote a paper on Vlad Tepes for World History class in college. I got an A. I shoulda got an A+.

Matt Holliday wants to make sure.

I can't believe the Dodgers are the more likable team in a series.

So is Bryce Harper.

The Wrestler of the Day threads are awesome, get on that shit ASAP. ..............KABUKI! Victor Quinones and Mr. Gannosuke Giant Baba and Hayabusa

The Tigers have the same business model for relievers as their parent company: Buy one reliever, the second one's free. PITCHER PITCHER

You'd think a Cardinal fan would know better than to reference 1985 and tarps in a short span of time. #NeverForgetVinceColeman P.S. I just realized today that the Cardinals have become the John Cena of baseball. I'm still processing that.

I hate to say this, but I sort of hope that the Vaudevillains don't get called up. The act is a perfect example of what will work in a smaller venue with a hot crowd and be totally lost in the main show. In a matter of weeks they would be feuding with Los Matadores and having problems with bunnies and gators and what have you. Just too smart and too cool for WWE.

MVP as champion would've been horrible. Dude has only looked good in one TNA match, and that was the Low-Ki one. It's hard to believe that Storm wasn't just a World Champion, but felt like he could be a real crossover star...and then we got to see his push unravel bit-by-bit. I guess it's nice when the company outlines such a clear path down the card for historical significance since it makes it much easier to research what went wrong, but goddamn did they ever ruin him.

Of all the flippy dudes, Ibushi is probably my favorite. Buncha hatin haters

well, my explanation goes like this: I am unimpressed with Hathaway's work (admittedly, I have not seen Les Mis). On the other hand, I am impressed with a lot of Mconahayhayhay's work. Thus, Matt > Anne I just have an irrational dislike for Anne Hathaway. Maybe because she was in The Princess Diaries movie(s) or I thought she came off kinda bitchy during that breakup with some guy years ago (right around the time her and Franco hosted the Oscars IIRC). Since I hate musicals, I just know her from Dark Knight Rises and Brokeback Mountain. She was, imo, pretty easily the best part of TDKR. She didn't have enough screen time to fully realize it, but I would, as I've said before, listen to an argument that it was the best performance in the entire Dark Knight trilogy, Ledger included. I wouldn't necessarily make said argument myself, mind you. I thought she was miscast and terrible in that movie.

New update? Dammit, all I wanted to do was take this night off from playing and get some stuff done, but c'mon, new update.

Am I alone in thinking that Corbin has "it"?

I get what Caley is saying and I have started to just fast-forward through a bunch of shit but on the other hand.. most of us are mentally ill when it comes to wrestling. I started watching wrestling when I was like 4 or 5-years old and I've only taken a couple breaks here and there so there's a lot of time invested in this. I don't want to have to stop watching. It's not the same as saying "you know what, fuck this new show on CBS" and turning it off. Creative is a HUGE issue but the part that fucks me up is that they follow up something awesome or interesting with weeks of bullshit. I wish they were more consistent because if the show was just all around terrible like 2000 WCW I would just turn it off and give up on it..

The picture I posted was from the guys 1980 New Japan tour And this makes my heart happy

After watching all of 1995 Nitro, I wouldn't be upset if Mongo did show up in the booth.