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It is just me, or does anyone else that missed a day go combing through the board to find a locked thread every time Rippa posts in the News section?

Don't worry - I have been picking up the slack for you

I've never been to a bulk of the more famous local chain burger places, but was quite underwhelmed when I finally went to a Five Guys that opened nearby. People kept going on about their fries and I'm a total fry junkie. They were nothing special, imo. Anyways, North Carolina (and maybe a few surrounding mid Atlantic states) have Cook Out. Insanely cheap and they tend to be open 24 hours. Nothing better than getting a bunch of cajun fries, big, sloppy burger and one of 30+ varieties of milkshake at 2 in the morning after you've been out shenanigans-ing. yes, a corn dog is a side item

Famous crew last words: "watch this."

In a perfect world, Vince would sign the Hardys and let them do whatever the hell they wanted.

I eat in a hospital cafeteria for lunch every day. (I just want to be a part of the discussion.)

Minoru with one of the most vicious kicks ever. You have been warned.

Everybody knows the right way to extradition is to jump into Ft Zancudo in an ambulance with 5 guys on the roof. That's how the professionals do it.

Why go the smart route when the I'm-probably-gonna-die-but-y'all-should-watch-this-shit route is ripe for the picking? I like to think of it as "creatively moronic."

That KO shot by Love needs to be a gif. Great main event again and I look forward to see how this feud plays out. Also Hardys vs Psicosis & Super Crazy next week should be very fun as well.

Y'all are fucking stupid

Now if we're going to talk lasting images from Elimination Chamber, I wholeheartedly nominate HHH and his creepy Santa grin. Fans and non-fans alike watching this with me still talk about this with me because it was so damn goofy. A still image would suffice, but this works better (it's in the screencap anyway)

KO is just helping Hogan with taking his "vitamins", brother!

I just played this, three kids - age 4, 6 and 8 - charged me, screaming, "ARE YOU WATCHING JOHN CENA??!?!"

I loved HBK's brown gear...but maybe I'm just biased.

A country that gave the world Benny Hill. has no room to speak of subtly. Spoken as someone who loves Benny Hill.

All this food talk needs to come full circle with this-

I would hope you've had the Grand Mac. I'd put it second behind "yoga pants" as mankind's greatest invention.

I forgot about this. If that doesn't sum us up, nothing does. That reminds me...somewhere way back in this thread are pics of us bus surfing down Vesuvius. We're basically a bunch of Johnny Knoxvilles. Speaking of, next time you talk to Melraz, ask him about building a ramp beside the creek at his childhood home, lighting it on fire, and trying to jump it with bicycles. I'm going out on a limb and guessing none of you are in shock to learn this.

Ryder was mine before he was yours, Wooooooo!!!!

New Beginning 2/11: Watched the three singles title bouts. Loved Shibata/Ospreay. Shibata does his thing without making Ospreay look like a geek, and the Aerial Assassin is able to give as good as he gets at a couple points, while generally working all his spots in in a manner befitting a heavyweight bout. Also Ospreay busts out this dope ass Tony Jaa-esque sequence on the outside at the beginning that is SO good. Hiromu/Dragon Lee is the INSANE spotfest you expect it to be, with the degree to which you will love it or hate it predicated on how much you get down with that sort of thing. It is a wrestling match in only the loosest sense, composed of equal parts absurd counters, crazy bumps to the outside, and cringe-inducing neck-and-headdrops. I personally chose to embrace the sheer ridiculousness of this thing and dug it, but YMwill-almost-certainlyV. Naito/Elgin was another awesome bout between two guys who have incredible chemistry together. Just an amazing match that keeps building and building while playing off each's familiarity with the other at this point. With what I'm guessing is the "new normal" of King's-Road-length mains in 2017, it's hard for me to keep the totality of all these things together in my head, but I can't see how this thing doesn't get the full boat, and it's gonna be right up there with the last two big event closers come MOTY time. Unreal start to the year for NJPW.

I'm not sure how I should feel about this - both of your examples of stupidity are things I did. I still hope some of the dots we've attacked are on a message board somewhere bitching about us.

Babyface Hitler amuses me for some reason. It would be like when Slaughter wanted his country back. He'd probably still get cheered over Reigns.

After the next round of Future Endeavors, Hitler will bring in his enforcer, Jack Swastika.

Again - if you wanted a reminder the reason the WWE signed HoHo Lun That being said I want Gao Lei merch like yesterday

I consider everything a success if one of the dots later says "and then the sumbitches ... " Successful or not, gotta leave an impression. It's kinda comforting to know that if something stupid's going on in a room, we're probably behind it - "Who the fuck is driving a dump truck through the middle of town? Oh, it's Robert, never mind." "Who just blew someone way the fuck up with that 18-wheeler? Why am I asking?" By the way, was wrong about the KITT car's climbing ability. Climbs fine. It was raining the first time I tried to drive it, and that may have had something to do with it. That parachute is neato. Someone's gonna figure out how to really operate that thing, and is gonna wreak havoc with it. The only thing is that obviously, if you fire one of the missiles at something close to you, you're gonna take plenty of damage in the explosion.

Melbourne City Wrestling seems to have a bit of buzz around it, they don't have much in the way of full matches on youtube though I think they sell shows through vimeo now. Snakepit Adelaide was good but again, I think they've stopped putting up free stuff too. Riot City Wrestling is decent and have loads of stuff on youtube, and there's a bunch of little promotions dotted around too, seems like a healthy scene. Danger Paul needs to wrestle more though. Anyway, I really just came in here to let everyone know that in India, there's a wrestler named Hitler.

Just add more Foghorn Leghorn references. Works for us.

Speaking as a professional writer, yeah, copyrights are a serious thing. I'm not gonna look down on anyone that was sharing materials in the previous thread, but I hope no one here bears a grudge against OSJ for speaking out.

Clearly you had never watched the Transformers cartoon movie then

Burgerville only happens to be endorsed by Northwest wrestling legend Playboy Buddy Rose. The only meal to keep you at a slim, trim, 201 pounds!

See, I can understand doing this for Gary Hart's book, which isn't available for a reasonable price, but JTG's books? 3 bucks on kindle. C'mon.

I like the reasoning for the Davey turn. The injured partner grows jealous as he watches his partner go on to greater singles success. In Eddie's defense, what was he supposed to do? Stop wrestling while his partner was out? The angle is so simple, yet so effective. I see the blowoff being a cage match where they really bring the hate.

That Lashley/Edwards main event was wonderfully intense. As much as I loved the Iron Man match I enjoyed this one more. Lashley's a bona fide star and should be paid tons of money. Edwards did great as the plucky babyface that almost got the win. And they did a great start with his feud with Davey. Having his (hot) wife watch while he gets pummeled and choked out is a great start for a good ol' blood feud.

Bob Hoskins is straight up amazing in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT. Way more depth of emotion than the dozens of actors who have been acting with green screens that have come since. The way he delivers his monologue about a toon killing his brother, you'd think he was in a fucking Francis Ford Coppola movie. One of the good ones, I mean.

Who knew Sami Zayn's father was Jim Neidhart (Sorry if this has been posted before. I'm not up on my DVDR like I used to be)

That is a shame. I enjoyed his short run in WWE if only for being called Chavo Classic.

"I have to return some jean shorts."

Only went there once and it was an experience... The food was great (I mean anytime I can have fried chicken gizzards and chow mein, I'm a happy guy.) I was in Hotlanta for a World Horror Convention and this should probably surprise no one, but a lot of pros in the biz are big wrestling fans (horror fiction = literature of the extreme / pro wrestling = theatre of the extreme). Anyway, a bunch of us decided we had to visit Abdullah's. Took three cabs and about a forty minute drive to get there. We were disappointed that the great man was not on hand, but the hostess, a lovely Asian woman who turned out to be Mrs. Abdullah, was a delight to talk with and when we mentioned that there would be a huge party the next day (hosted by TOR Books), and that we'd love to invite Abdullah as a special guest, she assured us that he's show up. The evening went well until it was time to return to the hotel, there was a time factor involved as Alan Clark, the Artist Guest of Honor had a midnight presentation scheduled, but what the hell it was only 10PM, plenty of time, right? Not so fast... Apparently Abby's place is not in the best part of town and we were told by the cab company that brought us there that they didn't send drivers out that way after dark. So basically, we were stuck. Miles from our hotel, and no way to get back... Mrs. Abdullah to the rescue! The restaurant was closing, so after we explained our plight she had us all pile in to the Abby Van and after dropping off the cook and dishwasher, took us all the way to the hotel. The Great Man called the next day to inquire about the party and asked if he could bring a couple of friends (Teddy Long and a newer wrestler named Cactus Jack), we said we'd be delighted to host all three and waited for them to show up at the hotel. Sadly, they never did... So I didn't get to meet the Butcher, Teddy Long or Mick Foley, but I did have one hell of an interesting experience...

Interesting story behind the Y2J/Rey match. So Y2J and Rey worked out that finish with Jericho pulling off Rey's mask but Steamboat who was their agent, didn't think they could pull it off and nixed it initially. Jericho, being the headstrong guy he was, thought they had a great idea (which it was) and went straight to Vince. He felt bad going over Steamboat's head and thought he might get heat but did it anyway. Vince sided with Steamboat but said that if Jericho and Rey could pull it off a bunch of times in a row before the show while he and Steamboat watched, he'd allow it. Jericho and Rey did it perfectly like 10 times in a row so Vince gave them the go-head.