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Make a loaf of bread, slice while still warm, butter with Kerrygold. Eat. (No. You may not substitute Kerrygold with anything else. Shut up.)

"Hakushi's First Seder" would dethrone Fuji Vice as the greatest WWF skit of all time! James

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remember that time we announced Daniel Makabe v Timothy Thatcher that was so rad

Tying a game's average length to completion into it's worth is such a strange thing to me, because it doesn't factor in whether you want to replay it or not. If a game can be beaten in five hours, but it's fun and I want to replay it multiple times, isn't that worth it to me? Much more so than a thirty hour game that I beat once and never want to touch again? Personal value is definitely subjective, and if you're not the kind of person who replays your games, fair enough, but even if you play it just once, isn't a five hour enjoyable time better than a thirty hour slog?

Sliced bread #1 is just sliced bread.

Legend has it to this day Solo is still leaving Jimmy hanging.

LOOOOOL I totally completed Power Wash Simulator while my actual pressure washer sat unused and my deck sat in desperate need of washing.

The greatest thing since sliced bread #2

Gotta love Maxx Payne thinking "boy I sure bet someone would love to dress like me"

I just have to mention here how much I an enjoying you going thru the 95 WWF stuff because it's mostly what I grew up with and I want to rewatch but your reviews scratch that itch and make me, you know, not have to rewatch it!

Drew/Cody was good as expected. Dug the Bloodline interference and the clear mixed feelings Drew had with it despite taking advantage. The women's battle royal was surprisingly solid and did a good job of putting a returning Raquel over all the way to the win. Glad to see Raquel back. This felt like the first time she was booked right in a long time. The Truth interview was wonderfully dumb as I hoped for. That man is a treasure. The Truth/Miz/DIY vs. Judgement Day tag that came a little later was solid. Truth looked great in that finishing stretch against Priest. Becky's promo was going fine until the typical everyone interrupts part happened. This is one thing they really need to leave behind as it just bloats talking segments and rarely leaves anyone coming across all too well by the end. Skipped around to the brawling. I kind of love and hate nia coming out and so soundly destroying everyone. Doesn't leave the EC participants looking great, but Nia arguably needs stuff like these for the extra heat and cred. Its also speaks to the mistake of everyone but Raquel overlooking her for Rhea or their own glory. Chad/Ivar was pretty solid though the crowd response could have been better. Jey/Gunther was damn good as expected. The early massacre of Jey was great, and they did a fine job of having Jey build up momentum while Gunther still presented as a beast. The Jimmy interference was expected but worked well into the finish. Dug all the matches a good deal and the segments were mostly solid. Pretty solid show, especially for Jey/Gunther.

Caught way more of this than usual. Them using the telestrator now is ridiculous (and it's just because it's McAfee of course). They missed a big opportunity to really WWE it up and slo-mo Solo's spike moving towards the throat, and then just like their usual replays hitting the play button and letting the actual impact speed by so fast you can't catch it. Seth stole a blind guy's shades? Jelly Roll, FUCK OFF. It was pretty cool that they let a team actually support each other without turning on each other through an entire battle royale. Amazing, really. I'd like to know who was the agent for that match. The main was good except for Jey's complete lack of a moveset. I mean, he doesn't need to be Davey Richards out there, but when all you have is 1. Samoan drop 2. Superkick 3. Splash 4. Spear and the rest is just punch-kick, you are really working with... nothing. And you aren't Dusty or Hogan either so lets not compare apples to oranges. Your sucky spear being used five times in a row shouldn't be able to crack GUNTHER, sorry. Oh, and god isn't Truth a national treasure? All the dated references, the staring at the heart-hands and following them like it's a tracking device, this stuff belongs on a comp somewhere.

Bringing a new meaning to “Choppy Chopy his Pee Pee”

Instead of trying to teach him the ways of America, Barry converting Hakushi from Buddhism to Judaism would have been the angle of the year for 1995.

Cube's son seems to be a big wrestling fan, but partial to WWE. I don't follow him on any socials, but I occasionally see his Xweets in my feed that someone else re-xweeted, and he generally seems to be a tribalistic WWE stan. With that said, the clip going around is him criticizing AEW for announcing matches between "unknowns" and not doing UFCesque video packages to let you know who the wrestlers are before the match. I don't really watch UFC anymore, but when I did, they typically only do those packages for their headliners, and not prelim fights. And, although AEW does do packages like that on occasion, they do announce matches sometimes, like say Danielson vs Akayama, without giving the viewer any reason to know what that is a big match, or who Akayama is. Which is a fair criticism, but without seeing the full interview, I'm assuming it is being made in bad faith.

Sunday was Legs, and it was kind of a shitty workout. I mean, it's Leg Day, they all suck, but mine lately have been special sorts of suck. Whatever lingering lung issues I have are still a limiting factor, particularly for that. I managed some hack squats with 4 plates a side, then switched to barbell squats with only 135, and that was frankly enough. There was a recent RP vid about doing this exact thing to try to prioritize quads on barbell squats and, yeah, it does work fairly well. I probably gave my posterior chain short shrift in the process, though my whole setup is intended to be 8-day cycles so that 1 Leg Day is quads and the other is Posterior, so I guess this was the Quad-focused day. Yesterday was Push and wasn't terrible. Did bench 5x5 with 165 for the first 2 sets and 160 for the last 3; slightly less volume than when I did 160 for the whole thing and got more reps at the end, but I'm at least headed in the right direction with it. Flys fucking shredded me (Mr. Stork Arms over here can literally touch the floor with the weights while on a regular bench), then more Smith military, shoulders, and some tricep stuff I saw in a Eugene Teo short that actually felt good on my elbows.

I think it has to do with Kojima.

Well, more like,

I'm kind of thinking that Verne didn't like the name, made a sarcastic comment and since Marty & Shawn were kind of dumb didn't get it.

From "King of Atlanta" - Page 64 - Beach Blast 93 4. Johnny B. Badd vs. Maxx Payne Why did Payne wear a giant T-shirt calling himself a "Fashion Victim"? Didn't he choose his own outfit?

They are trying really, really hard to make Jey Uso, Singles Superstar, a thing. It's just a shame he's proven to be completely average whenever given the opportunity to show something. Some people are just better suited to being in a tag team. Michael Cole's "OK" during Michael Chandler's promo killed me

I suppose if we work in Lance…

I am bad at math. Are there enough match permutations between 3 Von Erichs and 3 Freebirds to pull off "8 Crazy Nights at Reunion Arena"?

Hot damn that was quality tonight. Opening match was fantastic and peak TV wrestling — a perfect length right before the interference came. Drew and Cody are going to bring the house down at a PPV main event sooner than later. Truthline was the funniest I have ever intentionally laughed while watching wrestling. Plenty of times I have laughed at things I was not supposed to laugh at. But this was just absurdity at its great. Not sure what I liked better — the This Is Us reference or the “Pony” shout-out, The 4 on 4 sprint after was fun. They have done such an awesome job with those quick little segments. The New Day one tonight really stood out to me — made those guys look deadly serious and badass in setting up the No DQ match. I missed Gable vs. Ivar but sounds like that tore the house down. That main event was fucking bananas good. Gunther’s the best TV worker in the world right now. As much as I love OC, Gunther just has everything right now. I was wondering when we were going to get to Jey/Jimmy for WM and here we are. I loved the finish of this so much, good fake-outs to make us think Jey still had a shot.

One thing I like about the Bucks new character is the good cop/bad cop thing they’re doing with Nick/Matt (I’m a Matthew who prefers going by Matt, so suck it!). Nick is the “hothead” bad cop who jumps straight to punishment while Matt is the “calmer” good cop that’s still a dick but tries to project being nicer.

You left out the person at a house show taking a picture of the intermission displayed on the tron and passing it off to Dave as a new PPV being announced. That was GOLD I tell ya. Dave may have lost a step or two and his sources are damn near non existent compared to the past but he’s still more reliable then people like Hausman/Bix/Scherer and all the other wannabe TMZ style wrestling “journalists” out there. I personally blame whoever made him clean his office.

I was visiting a friend that had some, and it was stellar. I'm usually a Kerrygold user but I would use the Tillamook in a heartbeat. I love Tillamook's cream cheese too.

Random bit of drama for me watching Chi-Town Rumble today Seeing three consecutive finishes where the referee had to raise an arm to clear up the winner (Rick Steiner pinning himself, Windham/Lugar back suplex, and two pinfalls at the same time in Road Warriors/Varsity Club), and forgetting if the first Flair/Steamboat match also had a back suplex almost a double pin finish. The first one didn't have that finish.. I was thinking of the Clash match which had that finish, a card i'll probably watch sometime in April. The schedule for me watching shows on the Network will likely change once Spring Training starts up and I start spending lots of time with the TV on MLB Network as the Phillies and Tigers play each other yet again in the Grapefruit League.

Hey guys, quick question. I absolutely hate barbell squats. I don't know if it's my build, but doing them really deep (like I guess I'm supposed) to just murders my lower back. As a dude who had a horrific disk injury a few years back, anything that strains that area is a strict no no. So I still do barbell squats, but with less ROM -- maybe 50 - 60 degrees at the knee, trying to stay as straight as possible without bending too much. Is this okay or would I be better served going with the hack squat machine instead? I could do leg press but (not humble bragging, really) I seriously don't feel like putting all those plates on. I feel like I'm not squatting "correctly" if I'm not going lower. Maybe I'm just in my own head. Let me know. Thanks! Also, after some holiday slacking and trying unsuccessfully to figure out outdoor running in the cold before getting the hang of it, I got more disciplined a month ago, dropped 6 pounds, and managed to run 8 miles yesterday, which is great.

Try as I might I can't stop playing that damn powerwash game. Working from home when works gets stressful it's nice to have something chill to do. So count me among those that would rather replay a short game than a thirty hour one. But what might be breaking my grip from Powerwash is Tavern Master. I'm about 3/4 done with the research but I'm pretty damn addicted to it.

Apparently, the first bread company that started selling pre-sliced loaves used the marketing slogan “Sliced Bread! It’s the Best Thing!”. Or greatest thing, whatever. So that led to the saying Best thing since sliced bread, and so it eventuates.

The all-star game needs to go full rock'n'jock. We want 30 feet hoops.

I would like think that Michael Hayes, despite traveling the world over, didn't run into a Jewish person until his 40s and then had a list of questions ready just in case.

The problem is, Vince is the one telling Pettingill (my least favorite announcer of all time) to say that shit through the headphones. I hope somebody is paying you to watch this stuff because watching it for pleasure seems like a seriously dangerous descent into masochism.

I remember Cornette saying for some reason he ended up driving with Mo, and Mo said very little the entire time they were in car. I mean he's fat, Jim. Just bring up Wendy's or any related fast food and there is your common ground right here. I mean you can kill three hours talking about who has the best fries alone.

Maxx Payne is a fun garbage brawler, but you're not getting anything more out of him than you'd get out of post-prime Rocco Rock, IMO. Good guy to have on the roster, though.

"....Like they're from mountains since they're mountain men. Henry is from Arkansas where Bill Clinton is from. He is more like Jethro and the Clampetts." "...so you mean they're not hillbillies?!" "I mean hills aren't really mountains..." I'm literally waiting for the moment Jim snaps and just says, "Fuck it...just ask Vince. He came up with all this shit."

I have been rewatching that timeframe over the last years and the booking is so weird. Business might not have been great, but TV etc. was hot in 93 and in the earlier parts of 94. Around summer, it got completely shit. Not sure if it's a coincidence, but the steroid trial ended in late July 94, ergo Vince suddenly had much more time to focus on TV. And you got the "great" Luger vs. Tatanka feud ("you sold out, I saw you", "no I haven't", "yes, you have" ...), Undertaker vs. Undertaker (the angle started in June or so, and I guess they wanted to go there probably since they did Rumble 94, but still), Team Doink vs. Team Lawler, one unwatchable TV match after the other (I could swear that every Raw match either had Jeff Jarrett stalling for 10 minutes, Lex Luger (who I think mentally checked out after Wrestlemania X) going through the motions or Doink period), etc. Also while Jerry Lawler might be a good promo, I don't need a 10 minute King's Court segment every f'n week. And as you mentioned, it did not get better, Undertaker was stuck in one bad program after another (don't forget him vs. the world's sweatiest man) for the whole year of 95, the Million Dollar Corporation which should have been killed off at the latest after Wrestlemania 11 goes on for the whole year as well, the bring in some decent talent but put them in horrible gimmicks (Chris "Skip" Candido (incl. Sunny who was a main event talent stuck with an undercard gimmick) and Louie "Rad Radford" Spicolli are the first that come to mind; not sure if "Dean" Douglas should count because that was partly a PG version of his ECW gimmick; I guess Waylon Mercy was a neat idea, though I doubt that would have worked even with 89 Danny Spivey) and others are just used badly. WWF on paper did not have a bad roster in 94 or 95, but they used it so bad.

Dominos also got into the Big Pizza Wars with the Dominator, which is an insanely horny name for a pizza.

Orange Cassidy showed up at RevPro (in the UK) this afternoon and defended his title. In a six-way scramble match, obviously.

That Metamucil just kicked in and the toilet is all the way across the room.

Buff Bagwell and Luger had feud where Buff kept getting these "cheap' wins one of which was over the top rope DQ (also the Headbanger lost to The New MX the same way around the same time) should have lead to a natural feud with Don Quixote

YOOOOOOO

Meh, sounds slighty better.

Wasn't Deeb out cause she was hurt or medical reasons? Or are we saying she was lying?