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double post

Hey, maybe Kurt wasn't driving under the influence, he was just wearing those ridiculous glasses and couldn't see the road.

They're not mutually exclusive though. Throwing himself off a cage also lead to "FOLEY IS MENTALLY UNSTABLE" comments, while preserving the body of a long dead creature could also lead to "FOLEY IS GOD" There are not enough likes in a day, available, for me to use here. Kudos.

Like, in the dog, when no one's watching ... or does this mean something else that I'm not aware of?

Yeah that's Dollar Tree shit there.

Ah, we're alright. I just thought you were being a bit extreme and got sarcastic. Sorry about it; sorry for kinda shitting in the thread y'all.

Yes, exactly. Fuck Chikara for making something entertaining that only really appeals to a subset of individuals. Fuck you, Chikara, for not engaging me to my individual preferences.

Incidentally, I was just thinking, "The G in ARG is 'game,' which implies a goal, something that signifies a 'win.'" So what's the win?

I'm inclined to take some umbrage at the "wrestling fans can't get into ARGs but fans of other media can." I don't really dig ARGs in any form. So, don't overgeneralize to me. And in this particular case, I'm not going to hop a plane to Philly - can't afford it if I wanted to, and don't want to anyway - so I'm not particularly keen to have to wait until some Chikara fan gets on the forum there to post "well that was sumthing," so then I have to start posting questions about "what happened," "then what," "what then," and "I wonder what that's supposed to be a reference to."

I'm thinking creative filter ... like "allergic to money" becomes "gonna get in yo' butt." /stevieray

Well, there's exciting, then there's ... whatever it is that Chikara is doing. It was intriguing when it all started out ... about three months ago. But the more I saw all the secret shenanigans going on, and all those forum fans with their "PM me that address" and secret language kind of stuff, and nods to posts that had been deleted that might have added some clue to what they were talking about, I came to a monumentous decision: If I have to stay attached 24-7 to a message board, several Twitters, at least three separate websites, and research every odd word/name/location in a blog post, compare every show title to the names of songs on some random CD, right-click every image and follow it back to its source, and actually go to fucking Philadelphia from hodunky-podunky low-country SC to get some holy grail DVD that provides just one more clue to the whole thing ... it's less like "exciting" and more like "work," and I already have a "job" that pays me very little for all that I do, I don't need "leisure" to treat me the same way. And that last show, Chikara was treating it like a "jumping on point" for new fans to get involved in their brand of wrestling. If I had JUST found out about them, and this was going on, that would turn me completely off. I wish we were already a year down the road, so I can look back on all of this and be impressed with how it was all set up. THAT's when I might be more excited. Maybe Chikara "ending" just hit me at a time when I didn't want to be fucked around with by something I enjoyed ... [insert personal, kinda sad recollection that I had already spent a long time typing but decided nope, none of you jerkwads deserve to know more about nate gizzle]. So, the quicker we are back to getting regular King of Trioses, the happier I guess I'll be.

No, but I threw out some likes earlier, then in quick succession I used the rest of 'em up.

Wow. 1, 2, 3; boom boom boom ... goodbye, likes for the day!

My daughter asked me the other day if we could go see "Snake Man" (Ophidian) wrestle, for her birthday next year (when she turns 6). I just patted her on the head and told her to finish her Calculus.

To try and answer all Chikara posts: What was the specific revelation that has turned you off? As a relatively casual observer, I have found most of the stuff pretty interesting. I've enjoyed the wrestling and characters, since I really got into it about 2011. I also liked that it was wrestling that I could watch with my daughter, and not worry about "holy shits" and sexual innuendo. But when they shut down as unexpectedly as they did, it was a disappointment ... then came what I refer to as Chikara: The LARPing. I was on the forums and there was all this conspiracy stuff about Condor Security and Titus Conglomerates ... then it appeared you had to visit three or four websites for some background on what was going on with Chikara ... then Icarus was meeting fans at all the places where shows after the June 2nd "last show" were scheduled then cancelled ... Some random posts on the Chikara 101 forum would get edited or deleted, which left gaping holes in commentary from fans, that only a few fans seemed to understand what was being talked about, leaving other casual fans in the dark. Now, it appears as if 1) new videos are surfacing that are suggesting a "reboot" of Chikara "continuity" (sigh), 2) if you went to some website a few weeks back and plugged in your name and contact info, last week some posters on Chikara 101 received phone calls from some kayfabe aspect of Chikara, and 3) there's some big thing going on in Philly that Icarus is gathering, but there's possibly some other wrestlers coming along, and Icarus (in prior meetings with fans at other cancelled venues) may have left DVDs behind that have secret info on how to get deeper into the storyline-that-isn't-a-storyline. Nope, too much; tap-tap-tap-tap.

Real quick note: Just did my monthly check on the progress of whatever Chikara is becoming. Yeah ... glad I got out when I did. On to October!

Could be a lot worse. "Inflatable sheep with gaping accessory" comes to mind ... (wait, maybe I'm thinking of defunct tag team, the Highlanders).

It is; I have it, actually. Sadly, no. I don't think it's on DVD yet.

Speaking of the discontinuance of his show, I also have to say that Chappelle deserves to lose several points of respect for how he handled the potential third season of Chappelle Show. According to numerous news outlets, reputable ones at that (if there is such a thing), CC was saying, "Hey, remember all that money we already gave you? Think you could come back and put together a third season?" Dave: "No." CC: "Well, we'll just cobble together a season three with all the stuff you have in the can already, before your 'trip' to Africa." Dave: "You do that, and I'll never come back and do a third season." CC: "Oh, then you might come back and do season three?" Dave: "No." And so on and so on, until you got that "Chappelle Show: The Lost Sketches" thing with Charlie Murphy & Ashy Larry. I've never seen anything confirming if CC sued his nutsac bare for breach of contract.

To backtrack to the "best Indian wrestler" issue, I wanted to mention this for a while, because I think it's some kind of in-joke (probably a reference to the Paul & Brian's Excellent Adventure shoot): Ramaa: The Saviour http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1279105/ starring Great Khali, Dhalip Singh The Wikipedia page lists the producer as ... Paul London. (IMDB has no such listing, so I call bullshit, obviously.) But what a random name for some wiki-vandal to plug in, unless there's some reason behind it.

My favorite African American wrestler was Akeem.

... DAYS ...

If I was a wrestler, I think I'd incorporate an Irish whip on an opponent, and while he's running to the opposite ropes, I'd slide under the ropes behind me to the floor, let the opponent rebound and hit the ropes near me, then trip them off that second rebound. Since no one really stops themselves from running ropes much ...

I wasn't really quite sure where I fell on the issue, until today's news where he hoped that North Korea would drop a nuclear bomb on Hartford, CT, and that seeing him "melt down" on stage was akin to having the privelege (his emphasis) of having been there to see Sigfried or Roy get attacked by the tiger, all those years ago. Oh, and he got to pull out the phrase "pull a reverse Kramer," saying he should have gone off and called the crowd "crackers;" which is to say, he would have pulled a regular, run of the mill "Kramer." Racism is universal, there's no such thing as "reverse racism"*. *Unless you call it what it is: LOVE!! So yeah, fuck you Dave Chappelle, for clearing up the doubt I had that you got what you asked for. Because you got what you asked for.

You can shut up, Chicken is the key signing that will SAVE WRESTLING!