The Metal Maniac

I get the impression this was an attempt at making a really, REALLY bizarre fetish porn.

I'm trying to find this McGregor fellow's photo on imdb.com right now. Ah, there he is. Yeah, not a bad look. But modern-day London or modern-day New York, it still totally changes the premise of the movie, by making it modern-day. All the interesting style of the original movie, in the slang, the design, the "techno" Beethoven tunes, the artwork; all that stuff is going to be replaced with regular old, modern-day somewhere. WHY?

BOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, this is so far from being a good idea that it ain't even funny. First off...modern day New York? Bye-bye EVERYTHING that makes the movie so distinct. The slang, the style...flush. Secondly, should this project go through, I'll wager any money that they'll just go for explicitness, and not the simply disturbing feeling that you can get from the original. Thirdly, everyone and their dog knows that remakes are rarely better then the original, especially when the original is one hellava great movie. All this film will do, should it be released, is make a whole generation of kids forget about the original classic.

That's not a first. They've re-used a few jokes, the only one of which I can currently remember is "Marge, I'm not gonna lie to you..." *walks away*

"Hello Morbo. How's the family?" "Belligerent and numerous."

Yeah, same thing.

I have that album on my PC somewhere, I think...maybe I'll listen to it sometime.

Rock damn-near took a head bump off of a gore, so I'd say he's up there.

Oh, ok, that's a cool feature...someone else must have run it, so I didn't know what happened. Thanks.

So, I was checking out Clickwrestle.com, and in their Cruiserweight Desire 7 video, there's this move that I don't even think I fully understand yet. If you are able to view said video, it happens at about 3:10 in the video. It's a tag move, and I don't know who any of the people are (Maybe SATs? Too hard to tell; goes too quick), but as best I can tell, the move is thus: The two guys on one team stand facing each other. The guy from the other team has one of his legs wrapped around each of their heads, so he's dangling between them. They then kinda twist, which whips him up and over, then flat on his face. Sorry if that's not a great description, but I've only just seen the move, and only from one angle. Any ideas, anyone? One more question - later on in the video, (the 4:10 mark) someone does AJ Styles' backflip springboard - inverted DDT move thing (No idea what he calls that). The video says RF in the corner, but I'd almost swear it was Brock Lesnar. Any help on who that is?

That's the thing - it was in character, because Heenan didn't know. His character just always hated Hogan. It's still the funniest thing ever, if only for Skee-von-Ai's response.

I generally wear steel-toed work shoes that I buy at work for a discount price, because I work there. I have sneakers, but I perfer the steel toes - you tend to walk around with a lot more confidence when you're wearing steel toes.

Nothing will ever top Heenan proving he's the smartest man in wrestling history... "BUT WHO'S SIDE IS HE ON????"

He stole that gimmick from Evil Eddie Watts, who also had it stolen by a number of other people, for the record. I only point this out because I'm so used to seeing Watts do it, that when I read that Rude did it, I did a double-take for a second. Bobby Rude is a damned fine worker, but he's no X-Division wrestler. I've seen him use a top-rope splash as a finish I think...that's it.

Dace, doesn't Sasuke only use that as a "never-hit" spot, like Bubba's senton or Ric Flair's ANYTHING off the ropes? I thought I'd heard that...

I do believe it was me...and since Marney didn't correct me when I referenced the comment, I'll assume I was right. A further question...is PPP the best estimate of a countries wealth that one can get, then? Or do they actually have the numbers so that they can say "The United States has exactly (X) dollars"? I can't fathom counting all that money, though I suppose there'd have to be records of it being created and circulated (what with banks and mints and such). Further, if we could give an exact dollar amount for nations, would that be useless? I suppose it'd be a neat statistic, in a trivial sort of way, but if PPP is essentially a measurement of money's actual value, then doesn't that mean that the dollars don't really matter, just the value? Sorry, but now I'm just curious.

That does seem correct BX - The CIA Factbook tells the same story, though the numbers I'm getting are $48,900 for Luxembourg, and $36,300 for the US. However, the same said Factbook also informs me that the US has a purchasing power parity of $10.45 trillion, which I'm assuming roughly means that the US has almost 11 trillion dollars which they could spend; this number is so much higher then the numbers for anyone else, it's not even funny. Luxembourg has a paltry $21.94 billion in comparison. I didn't realize the sums being dealt with were that large, to be honest; I thought it was potentially possible that some small nation out in the Middle East could have been the richest, what with oil and all...but I thought very, very wrong. So what have we learned? If you're gonna make dumb comments, make ones so dumb that even Marney can't find the words to describe exactly how dumb they were. Oh, and having just read Marney's latest post after posting this, I decided to edit in this question: What exactly is the difference between GDP and GNP? I know I should have probably picked this up in a class somewhere, but off the top of my head, I really can't think of it.

I'm astonished that no one has pointed out to Mole yet that mook is a derogatory term. My nicknames are Docktor (Or Docktorb) and Kizarny. One came from a guy who didn't actually know my real name, so he always called me doctor in that idiot voice of his (this guy just sounded dumb, I swear), which sounded like Dock-Tor. The B is for bargain. The other came from my tendency to speak in Carney really fast to confuse people. That's fun.

He's kinda like The Shadow or The Phantom. When you're making comparisons like that, it doesn't bode well for the movie.

Little off topic, but...Is America really THE richest country on earth? I always thought some Middle-Eastern oil-rich nation would hold that distinction...though for some reason Japan comes to mind as well.

Pretty much any Spike Dudley vs Mike Awesome matches in ECW. JESUS GOD, Mike Awesome was such a fucking dick. I'm unsure of my favourite moment between the two, but it was either: 1. Mike Awesome whips Spike Dudley into the turnbuckles. Dudley takes it chest-first, then takes two steps back. Mike Awesome is right behind him, and he LITERALLY throws Spike across the ring. Like, he gives him a release German that ended with Spike Dudley being UNDER the turnbuckles on the opposite side of the ring...like, cross-corner, not just straight with the ropes. Just beautiful. 2. Mike gives Spike Dudley a sick, sick, SICK. Powerbomb. Then he hauls Spike up, and does it AGAIN. Then he hauls Spike up AGAIN (And like, Spike Dudley is dead weight at this point; Awesome just grabs his shirt/overalls and MAKES him get on his feet) and gives him a THIRD SICK powerbomb. 1....2....kickout! Mike gives this look which says "Spike, you stupid motherfucker...", then proceeds to give him an even SICKER running Awesomebomb to a slanted table in the corner; the way the table breaks, if I recall correctly, essentially makes it so that Dudley took a Kobashi-style turnbuckle powerbomb, only with a table in the way, and done by MIKE FUCKING AWESOME. Such a great ending sequence. 3. Mike Awesome is standing in the corner. Dudley charges, but Awesome catches him, and lifts him up onto his shoulder for an Awesomebomb. But then, Mike Awesome, Mike "I'm 6'6" and almost 300 pounds" Awesome climbs up the turnbuckle, backwards, while carrying Spike Dudley on his shoulder. He then Awesomebombs him off the top, through a table. Jesus, I miss Mike Awesome, back when he was ECW champion and the greatest bully in the wrestling world.

I don't believe there's ever been a case of cancer linked soley to pot use. I could be wrong, but I'm sure I've seen that in various places.

The Baby-Sitter Bandit.

Um, what? First off, lets assume that the potency level of pot has increased. You know what that means? People will smoke *less* pot, because they'll get high quicker. Second... How many emergency cases involve pot to begin with?