The Metal Maniac

"Yeah, ants, that's it! I swear, they must've all moved inside when Halifax got hit by the Blizzard from Beyond the moon!" That's just wrong.

I'm half-tempted to go grab a sheet of bounty and a paper towel roll and rig myself up a Sneaky Pete. I have everything you listed...except that my room is in the basement, thus my window is blocked BY FUCKING SNOW.

I do have some in the house...but that's not much good when my parents are in said house too.

You're almost like fruity. Wait, scratch the almost.

I would be too CWM, if it wasn't for that GOD-DAMNED CURFEW~!!!!

*blink...blink....blink...* heh...hehehehe.....hehehehehehe... It's like, the world doesn't understand us and our self-importance... Why is that cat talking?

Dollars and Halifax, respectively. Oh, and Karter... *pitches*

There's an 11 o'clock curfew in my city tonight, so they can plow all the snow. There's like, a $1500 fine, I think. That's my excuse.

I wouldn't call them the most over-rated band ever, if only for the reason that people who don't dig power metal (and even some who do) hate the fuck outta them. I don't think they're the best band ever or anything, they're just some good ol'fashioned cheesy fun.

Isn't that just being hypocritical?

See, Corey's just jealous that he can't understand the awesome might of the KINGS OF METAL~! And yeah, I did see that guy. *hires kneecappers*

Test vs EDDIE~! (I decided that since he's the champ, it's only fair that he gets capitals and the tilde-bang) at WM X7...good God. You have to see the original airing to see it, because they cut it out of their releases, but I swear, Test hung there like a goof for about 5 minutes. When you need the ref, your opponent, and someone else to get you out, there's a problem. It was made all the better by EDDIE~! tripping when he went to help him. Funny shit. We were all convinced that Test was as good as done with the company, until he hit that crazy-ass spinning powerbomb.

My mother's from Cape Breton, though I'm not, and currently reside outside of Halifax. It's a good thing you're from the other side of the island though...otherwise, I bet you 5 bucks my mom could've found a common relative/family friend somewhere between us. Yeah, you all think I'm kidding, but I once noticed that my history teacher had a St. FX ring (For the unaware, It's a university about 2 hours from Cape Breton, like you know where Cape Breton is anyway). I told my mom his name, and the next day, she told me that he was somehow distantly related to me. It's creepy shit man. Damned Capers.

Oh my God, I had almost forgotten all about Austin's whole "I'm not wrestling you, so you can take a forfeit win and go tell your grandkids that one day you beat Steve Austin" bit.

That's interesting Nabius...I didn't think there were many other from NS on this board. Whereabouts roughly, if you don't mind me asking?

On the plus side, this meant that two exams I was going to fail today are post-poned for at least a week, as classes are already cancelled tommorrow, and then we're on Febuary Break. If I open my basement door, it's an odd sight, because the snow is literally about waist high, but it just sits there. No one has left the house at all today, and the prospect of shovelling it tommorrow, when it's supposed to snow AGAIN, is making me cold already. You know it's snowing bad when you can't even see if it's snowing outside because the windows of your home are COVERED in snow. Oh, and Nabius...where do you live? Nova Scotia or PEI?

Don't worry Slayer, I'll back you up on Manowar.

I think that it would probably help to shuffle around the format a bit. Like, perhaps each team, instead of having 4 members, could have 6, and then the team captains could choose the final 4 for the elimination match, based on their performance in the earlier matches. That way, you could have a few underlying storylines to the matches to add a bit more interest. Like, matches are now not only for points, but for the privilege of being in the final, and you could have things where a team captain might not like a given wrestler on his team and leave him out of the final, even though he's the best wrestler they have. I think you could get a good storyline out of that after the tournament. Hell, you could even just have two guys picked as subs, and then, just before the final match, someone is found laid out in the locker room, leaving Heel (X) to take his place. From there of course, you would find out he was the one that did it, and if he ended up losing the match...heat baby, fucking heat. Also, it means that they don't have only 8 guys to work with (I think that was the biggest problem with the first one, and the reason for a number of repeated spots) so guys can each wrestle less matches, and you never really know what the final match will be.

Yeah, but you could argue that, for one, royal rumbles are not one-on-one matches, and must thus be judged on by a different standard. So maybe a ***** Rumble just isn't as good as a **** match, because it's a Royal Rumble, and thus something else entirely. Though I find arguing over a star or two to be silly. I'll admit that I read Keith whenever I need a show recapped, but that's partly due to force of habit, and partly due to the fact that I'm so used to his star ratings that I know how much a given match will entertain me, generally.

But if Benoit wins the title, it makes sense for him to give HBK a shot? It's the exact same scenario.

Man, he must love a lot of arenas...

What'd one tampon say to the other? Nothing; they're both stuck-up cunts. What does a fish say when it runs into a brick wall? Damn. What do you call a fish with no eye? A fsssssh. (This one works much better if you say it outloud) Two goldfish are sitting in a tank. One looks at the other and says "So, do you know how to drive this thing?" And finally...How did the tap dancer break his leg? He fell into the sink.

I don't like actual skateboarding either, but I love the Tony Hawk series. I've got 1-4 on the PS, and THUG. I dunno why I like 'em so much. I think it's partly because I enjoy watching the characters pull off sweet tricks and lines, and partly because it's a fairly simplistic game that takes about 30 seconds to learn how to play, but much more time to get really good at. YNA has a point though...just go rent one of the games and try it out. 2 probably is a good start, because it has the best non-Eddie secret character of all, and there's less stuff in it. What I mean is, each game seems to add a new element or trick. Like, in 2 they put in manuals, in 3 they put in reverts, that kinda thing. So if you start with, say, THUG, you not only have to learn how to do all the basic elements of the game, but then you've got to learn about walking, reverting, manual-ing like a mofo, and all that other jazz. I'd say go rent 2, fuck around with it for a while, and if it seems fun, go rent some more.

I think so... In any event, the phrase "freezing, shark-infested waters" when referring to Alcatraz seems to sound familiar to me, but I'm honestly not sure.

I think the greatest story I ever heard about Alcatraz was that guy who came *this close* to busting out. He got out of the prison, into the freezing, shark-infested waters (or so I've heard) and swam all the way to the mainland of San Fransisco. Once there, he collapsed of exhaustion, and when he woke up, he was surrounded by cops. Gold.