piranesi
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Oh, yeah. He was awesome.
If I could get away with it, I would rig my shirt to pop open like that every time I walked into work.
Was that right when Bossman was all the sudden all "Whoa, holy shit when did he get in shape?" Because that may have helped a lot.
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I never found Tugboat menacing until he became Typhoon, though I'd attribute most of that to his ring-gear and little hat.
It also helped that when he was Tugboat he was one of Hogan's sad lil' buddies. Which makes anyone look stupid. I think only Macho Man ever came close to making it work because he had the ability to pull heat to him even as Hogan was trying to suck it away.
When he was Typhoon he was rollin' with Earthquake, motherfuckers! Earthquake was a giving man who absorbed and redistributed heat willingly and amply.
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As long as they didn't leave flesh-eating larvae inside your ear.
http://gawker.com/fly-lands-on-womans-ear-lays-flesh-eating-maggots-in-812436303
They didn't did they? I'm sure they didn't.
Also, you're welcome everyone.
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If commercial work was something to worry about, then I'd be more worried about Chris Parnell voice showing up all over the place in voice over ads for random insurance companies and hamburger helper, and weird medicines...
except easy work + $$$$$$ = FUCKYEAH PS4's FOR CHRISTMAS, KIDS (and also college!)
Although I'm a little annoyed at Jason Sudekis doing voiceover for Applebee's. He supposed to be ironic and cool.
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So, Becky Sproles, huh?
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I kind of went in reverse. As a kid I was the one who insisted it was fake, and in some way thought it was way easier to do than it actually is...like a bunch of blood capsules and not actually hitting each other. I cheered the heels because I was annoyed at how easily manipulated I thought my classmates were. A real snob.
Like most of what I talked about was all the tricks I thought they were using, and we came up with some bizarre ideas for how they did things. It never occurred to us that they actually just took bumps. We all thought there was some secret and that it was all super easy.
It was only when I came back to it as an adult during the internet era that I realized how "real" it was in terms of athletic display and complicated improvisation.
I do remember I had a high school teacher who always used to say that wrestlers were the greatest athletes because a 300 pound man jumping off the top rope onto someone and not hurting either one of them is incredibly hard, and I was just like "Whatever, it's fake." I just didn't get it.
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The best thing about being fat and out of shape is we will die soon and not have to be around the healthy people.
Right now it's a race between the cities drowning in the oceans and my lungs drowning in White Castle Cheese-Fry cheese.
I have to win.
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Jim Carrey's peak was in THE DEAD POOL.
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Thanks to this thread, I've listened to "How Did This Get Made?" for this first time today. It's cracking me up at work. Especially the Street Fighter episode and the exchange of "What exactly is a 'Street Fighter'? Which one of these characters is the 'Street Fighter'?"But it pisses me off that me and my buddies didn't think of this idea first. It's so fucking simple.
Any and all later, shitty Al Pacino movies they've done are amazing. 88 minutes, Devil's Advocate...
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No she isn't. It's a repost of a repost of a repost of a quote with no context.
That's three sources!
GO GO GO JOURNALIGM!!!!
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They do have a history of destroying Patriots tapes.
Oh no. What about his match with Bret?
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I'll third the recommendation for House to Astonish, which strikes the perfect balance between taking comics seriously but also recognizing they can be a bit silly at times. I also like How Did This Get Made, a comedy podcast about bad movies with Paul Scheer and a few other comedians.
Guys! Guys! This movie is literally, like, next-level bananas.
The best guy.
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Warrior DVD Listing:
1. Warrior-vs-Macho Man
By all rights that match belongs to the Sherri Martel DVD due to the throne entrance.
Although Warrior's outfit was almost as cool as hers.
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Unless they maybe shoot only above the waist and have him ride a segway or something.
This essentially turns him into a muppet.
It will work.
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I'd love to see Warrior make an appearance on WWE TV again after all these years. I know his wrestling days are probably behind him, but I'd love to see him make that entrance again. As it is, my kids are already excited to have him in WWE 2K14, him running out on Raw would be icing on the cake.
He should run in, run around the ring, and run out.
Then every so often during various backstage interviews, he should be seen just streaking across the frame.
And once during one of the shots coming back from break where they show the outside of the arena, he should be running around it.
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I'm from St. Louis and grew up on Wrestling at the Chase, so Brody is without equal and could do no wrong in my eyes, past present and future. And he'll always be King Kong to me, never Bruiser.
King Kong Brody was everything to me as a kid.
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Henry is so awesomely smooth with Kayfabe in that interview. When he's asked at the end about "playing a bad guy" he's able to tell us smarts exactly how to do it without actually "telling us how to do it" out of character. His answer:
"Well ask yourself this...Am I really a bad guy? Or just a guy who doesn't follow other people's standards?"
So he answered the question. Because that is how you do it. Before you go out there and talk you ask yourself..."How is this not my fault?" And you believe the answer you come up with. That's what makes his promos so believable and real without being "insider"-real.
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Shit. I forgot Andre was Bionic Bigfoot. That changes everything.
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- WWE is still hoping that Stone Cold Steve Austin will get medical clearance for a match at Wrestlemania 30. If he is cleared and interested, an idea has been pitched. The idea is that Stone Cold would fight Triple H at the PPV for control of the WWE. Austin would represent Vince McMahon.
So dumb. Why would that character give a damn about the WWE? or who controls it? It makes no sense. He should only show up, like Rock, to put some mouthy mother in their place or, like Brock, to correct some injustice (minus the "I just hated not getting to hurt people").
Or he should show up to put that mouthy mother Rock in his place and to correct the injustice that is Brock.
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WE DID IT!!!!!!!!
I mean, we've been trying since she became The Miz of THE WEST WING.
But to have all that hard work, what with the blogging, and the tweeting...to have it all pay off...
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I think you have to do a little extra work as a viewer to get past Andre's limitations. You have to pretend not to see what you're seeing even more than normal. Like you have to be "he's caught in the ropew again! Man, is he dumb!" rather than "It's 30 seconds in and he won't be able to leave the ropes because he can't lift his own weight."
You also have to let that initial thrill from the staredown/test-of-strength/stalling sequence really sink in and feel epic.
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There was a match on Raw against Terry Funk that Henry had really early in Henry's run -- I think he was still in The Nation -- that was very good from my memory.Henry is one of the ultimate "What If?" guys in wrestling. There's no telling where he'd rank on the all-time list if he wasn't so injury prone.
I'm not sure how much more he would have been allowed to do anyway though. As much as Vince loves his big giants, their purpose has always been to squash midcarders before jobbing to the all-American top babyface to prove his strength.
So, a few short title runs and a few big main events. That's all there was ever going to be in the WW.
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His early stuff was mostly 3-minute Russo specials where still he rarely had enough movez to finish without having used a chinlock, so not really. He was mostly working in the shitty Attitude midcard without good opponents, too.
I'd argue for Andre > Henry. Much more expressive face, a better promo even with his accent (that's the only time that French ever sounded menacing), worked better around larger limitations, covered better for his occasionally flimsy-looking offense (Henry all too often looks like he's afraid he's gonna break his opponent), and for my money a better seller as well. Andre had some of the best timing for psychology and pacing that I've ever seen anyone have, he knew EXAXTLY when to do what he needed to do in order to make the crowd go fuckin' ballistic.
This is crazy-insane. Andre could hardly walk. His selling consisted of laying down against the ropes while whatever menagerie of fools did the actual match. His face mostly expressed exhaustion because he was always exhausted. Everything post, like 88 or so is just kind of heart-breaking to watch. He was a great guy and an amazing spectacle. But Henry is a million worlds better as a worker.
Hansen, and the likes of Gordy for that matter don't count here. Clearly we're looking at guys closer to 400 than 300. Although he slimmed down later on does Ray Traylor count in this discussion? And I will echo the Bam Bam disappointment. Other than RVD, Tazz and Bret are there any really good Bam Bam singles matches? Has there ever been a guy with his size, look and athleticism to disappoint so consistently? Plus Studd was a childhood favourite of mine but I'm shocked to see anyone call him good. Effective yes but good?
Bossman in his 1991 shape would have been so awesome today. Dude worked fast and did some legit surprising thing in every match. Hugely unerrrated. Has anyone's cartoonish costume ever looke more awesome than Bossman with his shirt popped open and that strap around his shoulder?
Yoko still had really good timing at his heaviest. One Man Gang is really underrated and so is Earthquake,
Earthquake was so great. He could do all the squash-a-dude moves that Yoko could do, but he could also run around and set them up and transition into them.
So was Gang/Akeem. Was Akeem the first of Vince's dancing fat dudes?
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I stopped ever trying to watch Syfy Channel Original Pictures a loooooong damn time ago. Have they finally become watchable? Because the few I've caught over the years weren't anything close to cheesy awesomeness, they were mostly just so-bad-it's-not-good-it's-just-fucking-worthless. Lousy pieces of joyless shit which were trying and failing to be real movies, and usually managed to smother the actors I liked into giving sullen check-cashing performances. They were NOTHING like what you're describing here, especially the aforementioned Brooke Hogan moment.
They turned a corner when they became self aware. Since then the actors involved are all seem pretty into the fact that they are starring in the 2010s equivalent of 50s drive-in movies that will be rewatched with amusement for years.
The writers and directors all get that too. That joy you were missing showed up in a big way when they cast Tiffany vs. Debbie Gibson in MEGAPYTHON VS. GATOROID complete with Micky Dolenz getting pretty awesomely eated. From that point on, they seem to be approaching these as the equivalent to, like, THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, which I've watched in its entirety (three times) more than CITIZEN KANE (0.7 times).
They are also embracing the "find the most insane concept and just make it happen as best you can." This seemed to really take off with SHARKTOPUS.
July Wrestling Catch-All
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He also said he just talked to the president about going to Kuwait to personally put an end to the first Gulf War with his naked arms.