Octopus
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5 minutes ago, Sparkleface said:
I think the only Applebee's near me is in the airport unless I go to all the way out to Chesterfield.
Eating good in the terminal doesn't have the same ring to it.
Yeah, no one wants to drive to Chesterfield.
The beauty of airport dining is you can dress in a suit and act like a big shot out-of-towner. Make up a name, choose an accent, then mid-penne pasta and short tap beer order just fake answer your phone and yell “I need the Johnson Report STAT!…Send the LinkedIn to the Google and I need that Yesterday!” Then go back to being a sweet out-of-towner. Then say to the waitress, “you know, it’s been a long day. Make it a Tall.” And hand her a crisp Five dollar bill.
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Just now, Sparkleface said:
By the looks of it, an Applebee's bartender.
I cannot confirm nor deny that I am sponsored by Applebees. What I can confirm is Applebees’ delicious Bourbon street Steaks and ruff and rowdy Cowboy Burgers are a great meal for watching the game, or just stop on in for our margaritas and mozzarella sticks to catch up with the friends of the neighborhood. Maybe grab an order of boneless wings if you’re feeling like having a good night. God bless.
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1 hour ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
I feel like a worrisome Triple H trying to run NXT without Vince getting mad.
Derpin through questions is my Gargano.
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Imagine being sinister enough to choose Danielson and giving him a steak diet.
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1 minute ago, Casey said:
At this point I’m kind of worried that Punk won’t be on the Forbidden Door card but I might have to come to expect that if the Elite are featured at any given PPV. There goes my dream match versus Tanahashi, I guess.
As I was reading I was gonna respond to this with hopefully we get Tanahashi vs Punk. Fingers crossed!
I bet that with PPV’s they can be in the same building. But idk anything anymore. Having Collision based PPV’s will be dumb. Idk. IDK.
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Hey @LF2, sorry about your dad passing. Even with time that is very hard. I’m glad you have good wrestling memories with him.
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The Eddie reference makes me smile because it reminds me of his first (I believe) WCW match against Terry Funk. It was to progress a Funk program (piledriving Flair on a table) but he was very giving to a young Eddie. Clearly put over Funk as strong but still a wild old coot that is still the legendary Terry Funk.
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Hangman’s go-go-go continual combo offense reminds me of Kurt at times. Which is where I thought you were going with the Angle-dislike.
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I personally like ratings and ranking lists and other fun, but I don’t look at them as definitive truths. Be it with individuals like Meltzer, Wade, @The Natural, @Matt D and websites accumulating broad votes or giving reviews and lists like Cagematch, Voices of Wrestling, Segunda Caida, various podcasts, etc. I just take what is being said as a look into the individual or specific collective group as a view into their own taste and potentially deeper ideologies towards art and wrestling.
My dude Matt not liking Kurt should be unsurprising based on past opinions and thoughts on arguably comparable wrestlers. And that it is different than my opinion is a BEAUTIFUL thing. Love you, Matt. Maybe elsewhere where it won’t get lost in a NXT PPV thread, but I’d love a long write up on wrestling theory and how it applies to Kurt Angle.I’m pro-Kurt, myself.
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Hey 赤い竜, I appreciate all the updates and posts you do in the Japanese section (especially NOAH). It’s information I’d likely miss, so it’s cool having a spot for this stuff. Being less knowledgeable, I tend to post less over here, but I do enjoy keeping somewhat up to date on things.
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2 minutes ago, Sparkleface said:
No fights? But it's pro wrestling! There are supposed to be fights!
I guess they could run some best-of packages for a few weeks.
Oh wait. Not those fights. Carry on.
As much as it will hurt @Gordlow, everything must be interview segments and promo packages with minimal contact. We must not risk this event. If battle is required for a feud, board games or edgy madlib competitions.
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12 minutes ago, For Great Justice said:
Well now Forbidden Door 2023 quickly looks like the Forbidden Door 2022 show we thought we were getting (and that show ruled anyway)
4 minutes ago, EVA said:NJPW is a super conservative company. They move slow. And you could tell they were hesitant to commit too much to this little experiment with AEW last year.
With two matches announced this year, it seems like they’ve decided it’s a worthwhile endeavor and an important event.
DON’T JINX THIS! I’m terrified for this buildup and hoping there are no fights or injuries.
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I’m hoping we get another Okada v Kiyomiya hate-filled NOAH style beating.
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13 hours ago, Matt D said:
Shibata was like an octopus all over Moriarty to start.
Your best post yet! I’m touched and honored.
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3 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
don't wanna get into it.
Have no fear, this isn’t Ask Curt Anything, so no need to
That said, if you ever do shoot me a PM.
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1 hour ago, Matt D said:
No time today. I'm only through the first match, and I had to watch it with the five year old who has never seen any wrestling. But it was lucha and energetic and I could establish pretty quickly that there was the champion, the good guy, and the bad guy, and she popped for all of Vikingo's stuff and the Komander rope walk and was glad that the champion won since she has firm feelings about being champion. Let's not do that again anytime soon though.
I'll get to the rest later.
I would love to get more thoughts on wrestling from your 5 year old. Maybe she can join in on the All Japan matches.
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40 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
So, guessing it ended up on the outside of you either from a spill, vomitus, or right out the bumhole.
You DID say "ask Octopus anything"...
SpoilerNot until the morning, luckily. Technically both ends, but happy to say not at the same time. Woke up sweaty and timed it well. Minimal mess. Embarrassing, but my wife was very cool about it.
I just needed a nice long regret life shower and to get a banana in me so I could take ibruprophen. Once I did that, I got a very short half-nap on the couch with lil Octopus climbing on me. Did the trick.I felt bad because I was still groggy and lil Octopus was so visibly excited to play with me. So I gave him a big hug and he went to his toys. I wish I wasn’t an idiot so I could have wrestled with him right then and there.
I don’t over do it too much. Maybe once a year when things line up and the issue usually stems from not eating enough like a dummy.
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The floor is open for questionS
2 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:Don't worry. I will call 911.
The oversized, yet unnaturally soft tortilla, piping hot green chili burrito is very likely the hero in this fable.
Think of it like taking smaller doses of poison to ween themselves off of poison. Like medically smaller amounts of cocaine, or lowering the amount of daily cigarettes, or making tiny cuts across your body and lowering yourself into a bath tub of Tide Detergent instead of the usual handful of Tide Pods, you know the usual drugs.
Normally this wrapped Green Chili Gas Station Menace coming through your neighborhood you would want to call the police on them, but not last night.2 hours ago, Matt D said:How much Jim Breaks have you seen?
This reminds me, the other day I went looking for your and Stacey’s show and couldn’t get it to work. But just now typing it I remembered there was a link issue originally and got it. Very likely a driving relisten this week!
Very little Jim Breaks. He is very likely a Me Guy based on what I’ve read. I’m hoping to dive into more after I fulfill my current NOAH kicking fix.
I love using the PWO GOAT discussions as a resource. When I’m mentally juggling less I’ll post a few reviews over there and slip into wrestler evaluation theory.
What are Jim Breaks matches you think I’d like?
2 hours ago, The Natural said:Who is the best superhero of all time? It's Batman, naturally (no pun intended).
I hope you're okay, David xxx.
thanks dawg.
I think if the question is greatest oriented, then I think Batman is the answer. Phenomenal story both in origin and arcs, a badass design, arguably the best cast of villains, and is fun in multiple forms of media.
Now if we’re going favorites, then I can ramble on memory and taste. Breaking a favorite down into nostalgia and taste:
I feel I got my love of music and films from my oldest brother showing my the ropes. I got my love of Super Heroes from my middle brother. Yes, I’m the baby. Brother Giraffe and I would always watch the X-Men Animated Series. We loved it! He was big into Storm and ArchAngel. I loved the array of different colorful characters and all the well detailed villains (honestly, villain-wise it’s a coin flip between Batman and X-Men villains, with Spider-Man as a close third). I loved the odd characters like Blob and Toad. Nightcrawler was very cool as well.
We also played the games on the Sega Genesis. X-Men 2 - Clone Wars was very fun. Wolverine, Beast, Nightcrawler. There was another game that I have fond memories of and replayed on an emulator a few years ago, Captain America and The Avengers! You could play as Cap, Vision, Hawkeye, or Ironman and play with multiple people. I was usually Hawkeye and Brother Giraffe would be Vision.
The Spider-Man cartoon is worth mentioning! Great collection of bad guys. Mysterio had an insane look. Doc Oc is of course a very interesting fella. Which reminds me, we also had both a Spider-Man game and a Venom game.
When we were little my grandpa would take us to Shinders and we’d run to the quarter comic section. Once I got old enough to drive I would go there and dig through the many bins and racks. I would buy them cheap and out of order and then slowly overtime accumulate what was missing from the story. Being able to piece the missing parts and re read them was half the fun. I was always more a Marvel guy, with the acknowledgment that DC had the cooler or bigger names guys (Batman, Superman, Wonder Women) but Marvel had the gripping stories. Well, as I was now digging through I really fell in love with several DC guys.
My favorite for a good chunk of my teenage to early twenties life, GREEN ARROW! I know, I know, he started off as a Batman rip off. The Arrow Cave. But the writing of Mike Grell and before that with O’Neal was absolutely fantastic. I loved the idea of this bowman in stories that were stripped away from the super powers and was taking on killers and corruption. The Longbow Hunter was wonderful. I loved the 70’s stuff with Green Arrow and Green Lantern. You would have them fighting crime but also having arguments on the concepts of justice and the level of social responsibilities vs right and wrong. A little kid was on the railroad track and almost dies before they save him. Green Latern looks at it like a days work and Green Arrow is enraged that the kid didn’t have a safer place to play. Similar vibe in the Justice League when he’d argue with Hawk Man.
I also loved The Question. Philosophical diatribe against the Riddler is a great concept. He became a little more silly in newer stuff but that is still fun with the conspiracy theories.
Now with the movies, I dip in and out but I’m a big defender of the MCU as a concept and I feel the movies can be very excellent. Often with a social message that becomes an underlying theme of certain movies. I have a few in my top 200
Currently, I need to pick a new favorite. Maybe it is still Green Arrow but I haven’t put the same level of critical thought and inward debate on taste that I have with Films and Wrestling.
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Soup was a terrible idea.
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I am home. Ate a gas station burrito on the way home . I am fine
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Made a gas station friend. Guck yeah. He said I’m good people and we gotta battle for the good people. Getting a burrito here. I like this guy. We friends
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So I managed to scare people. Walked to Taco Bell, (I know some of the people that work there so it was a shot) I saw the side door open for delivery and walked to it to see if I can take an order. A delivery guy was nervously saying I had to be in a car. I ask if I should drive (as a joke) and he doesn’t know what to say. I apologize, and leave. Didn’t mean to cause trouble. If the right person saw me it would work but I feel bad ruining someone’s flow/ day. I’m at the gas station nearby and will get food
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picture of me walking home
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Walking home. Guck, haven’t been this stumble in at least 3 or so years
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Just now, Curt McGirt said:
In all seriousness, can't even get into the topic of "shitty friends" tonight. Maybe down the road but I've been in some serious pain over some real motherfuckers. It's... ugly.
Yo, saw your shitty week post. Hit me up on the DM if you want to vent. You’re a good dude
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Ask Octopus Anything
in LAND OF CONFUSION
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The goal of the French out-of-tower at the airport Applebees is to casually ask about the various foods in condescending ways and order wines you know they won’t have. Nachos and a Merlot can never be a bad combination.