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AboveAverage484

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  1. I've tried to pimp before but people hate on 'em. They do definitely rock. "Personality Crisis" is kickass. So is "Trash."
  2. It's always satisfying to see a bad ass Mustang or Camaro enter the strip and see all the ricers immediately stop racing and trying to act bad ass.
  3. It's weird having a discussion about Batman without Zasz.
  4. Ozzy's new remastered CD's sound like shit. I don't think he's done it to "Tribute," but his other CD's he replaced the bass and drum parts on the remastered versions which sucks ass.
  5. An ass beating to the Nth degree. And karate is okay, but not Kenpo, try Kyokushin or Seido-Kaikan. That's because ranking is bullshit, and all self-esteem. I know blue belts in Muay Thai that I could beat, and I'm a white belt. Belts are shit.
  6. Pretty much in a one on one fight, with no weapons involved, the black belt in Muay Thai will handle pretty much anybody he comes across. (As long as he doesn't weigh like twice as much as he does or something.)
  7. Somebody tried that Krav Maga shit on this guy I know and he just looked at him and laughed. The guy was supposed to be a master or some dumb shit./
  8. If you get in a street fight, the tried and true method of "kicking your opponent in the nuts, then while they're doubled over go to town on kneeing their face" usually works. If the nutshot doesn't work, run.
  9. Uh, limited on kicks? We do at LEAST 100 kicks a night where I train.
  10. DEFINITELY take Muay Thai or Thai Boxing. Gives you a great workout, and is great for self defense. Also, much easier to use in a street fight than BJJ. For those who don't know, Muay Thai employs punches, kicks, knees, and elbows in training, making it the most versatile stand-up art in the world.
  11. Something else I noticed for you MMA aficionados out there. Randy Orton looks like Dan Henderson in Slapnuts! sig. Just thought you'd like to know.
  12. Anyone interested in Lee Murray/Anderson Silva at Cage Rage 8 in London tomorrow? Go Silva!
  13. Not as fun as it could have been in hindsight. At least I had kick-ass lunch periods both semesters.
  14. Mark Holland 9/7/2004 Pierce, Civil War & Reconstruction Harper’s Weekly and the Buildup to War Harper’s Weekly was one of the most influential journals in 19th century America. Founded initially in 1850 by the four Harper brothers; James, John, Joseph, and Fletcher; the Harper’s Monthly at first focused only on publishing works by authors such as Dickens and Thackeray, until the great success of that venture prompted the brothers to release it weekly, thus the name Harper’s Weekly was adopted. In 1860, with circulation of the magazine reaching 200,000, author Thomas Nast was hired. Nast worked with the Weekly for twenty years, and in that time helped to develop political cartoons, Uncle Sam, and came up with the idea to use donkeys and elephants to represent the Democratic and Republican Party respectively. During the initial buildup to the Civil War, the journal portrayed a surprisingly reasonable stance on slavery and other issues pertaining to the South, surprising because the Weekly was published in New York of all places! The editor of the Weekly reasoned that this was because he did not want to lose the substantial amount of Southern readership that his paper possessed. It is also interesting to note that the Weekly supported Stephen A. Douglas (Democrat) in the 1860 election, and then supported to support Abraham Lincoln (Republican) during wartime. From the above, one could make the assumption that the paper was pro-union after the outbreak of the Civil War, a stance that it could now safely take since it’s Southern readers now belonged (in some eyes) to a separate nation. The Weekly in 1861 For a newspaper from the North, the Weekly gave considerable attention to Southern political leaders in the months leading up to the war. An example of this is in the January 5th, 1861 edition of the journal, which gave biographies of the major political figures in Georgia, the state next on the list of secession. This supports the paper’s somewhat neutral stance before the war, as the biographies were written impartially as opposed to other Northern papers of the time, which tended to portray Southern leaders in a somewhat lesser light. The rest of January focused on Major Robert Anderson and the transfer of the garrison of Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. The first issue in February focused on prominent Mississippi politicians, including Jefferson Davis. The paper made a fairly accurate statement, proclaiming that Davis would “occupy a high position, either in the Southern Confederacy or in the United States.” As noted before, the Weekly continued it’s moderate stance on secession and the sectional strife gripping the nation. In the events leading up to the bombardment of Fort Sumter, the paper still remained surprisingly in the middle. While most Northern papers were condemning the actions of the Southern forces surrounding the Union garrison at Sumter, the Weekly still refused to commit totally to the Northern side. Again, one would assume this would be to keep a hold on their readers in the South until the latest, after which they would publicly support the North, as was stated earlier. Even after the attack on Sumter, the Weekly treated the event as a critical turning point in American history. One has to respect the fact that the Weekly was in a neutral stance up until the actual start of hostilities, a fact that was lacking in the majority of newspapers and journals at this time. The Weekly continued to put out detailed reports of battles, campaigns, and political occurrences throughout the war, and continued to run strong for the rest of the century.
  15. The only Brazilian I haven't seen get pissy at one time or another is Silva. Maybe it's because it's been like five years since he's lost.
  16. Well, at least it's not David Arquette. Wait, that would be better.
  17. You gotta be fuckin' kidding me.
  18. Yeah, but they're good. He also doesn't have the kind of respect that Snoop or Ice Cube had when they played on rock bills (Lollapalooza and Family Values, respectively). Rock fans are a little more accepting when it comes to "real" gangster rap.
  19. I guess the "wrestler way" is getting waxed by someone in less than a minute after refusing to shake their hand and getting exposed for the fraud that they are. Fedor laughs at you, Ogawa.
  20. I think Orton has the RAW title, but who has the Smackdown title?
  21. Okay, it's been about a year since I've watched wrestling and I read the Raw review the other day and damn! I thought things would start going uphill after Benoit and Eddy won the title. Lemme get this straight; Kane is marrying Lita? Divas are saying "cock" and "cum" on TV? There's a fucking RETARD (well, not really) as a world title contender? At least it's better than HHH fuckin' a dead chick.
  22. You must think I was born yesterday
  23. What about the nudie pic?
  24. Warrior is a frikkin' maniac.
  25. If I was a fan I would have done a "Robert DeNiro in Goodfellas" beatdown on him.
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