King Kamala

I was surprised to learn tonight during a phone conversation with a good friend that I still find anti Barney humor hilarious. I haven't thought of the purple bastard in years but the inner eight year old tells me that the idea of inflicting pain on him is still chuckle worthy.

Damn it, this isn't on Netflix yet. They're weird with WWE DVDs. Sometimes, they're on there right away and sometimes it takes a few years (The AWA one just got added). I'd love to see this but I'm a broke ass college student.

Yo Maz- you want to take the late EHME's spot in The King Kamala Krew? We need one oppressed minority to replace another, yo! Yes, the white boy from Utah. I'm a total minority. I was going to be the Owen Hart. My caucasian grandfather was technically born in Mexico, so the cholos in high school left me alone. Close enough? You're Mormon though, right? Close enough. Replacing an ethnic minority with a religious minority, ya dig?

I don't know if I've pointed it out or not but if I were in charge of the board I'd ban anyone who ever annoyed me here at one point or another. This would eliminate basically everybody except maybe Venkman. I think we should ban bob_barron just so we would guaranteed to have no one complain about bannings.

Is there any excuse for Marvin not to get banned if he wins Worst Poster two years in a row?

Looks like someone still has sand in their vagina over only getting three votes in the first round of the poster tournament this year!

I like the sounds of that. I'll gladly chip in $5 to help your efforts, sir.

Yo Maz- you want to take the late EHME's spot in The King Kamala Krew? We need one oppressed minority to replace another, yo!

I know, I drank about a quarter of the bottle before I stopped out of embarrassment.

Well hopefully, I'll get an invite to join the super secret board for jerks by then...

My low point thus far in my short drinking career has been drinking mouth wash out of laziness/boredom.

Not to mention the fact that I need to recruit a new member to the KKK now that EHME is gone!

Oh well---I guess the world will never get to see me drunkenly lay the verbal smackdown on EHME! Also- welcome back Czech!

Heh- I've quit drinking for the time being but if he's still around in three months, he better watch out!

I give it three hours till he's back...

I wish it was still acceptable to use the Picard facepalm picture right now.

Hey---I'm unemployed and bored as hell on weekdays as well but that's no excuse for playing internet tough guy.

Now I don't know if my memory's off and I'm too lazy to search for the thread but Agent, didn't you promise to ban EHME if he reneged on his promise to tone down the stupid "fite me u faggot" schtick? You know as bad as said schtick, I can't help but feel like he's kind of like the black guy on The Real World. Just driven to snap by all of the crazy white people around him. That might just be my white guilt talking though...

This was back when Brody was funny, too. I don't think Brody has gotten any more or less funny since then. My tolerance for his posting style just wildly fluctuates- sometimes from day to day. A week ago- I thought he was terrible, six months ago, I thought he was a genius...now I'm just kind of apathetic.

Well, it's forty five minutes but I'm going to start this one anyways since The Demolition thread died down. I figure this as good of a candidate as anyone given the discussion about him in the Fall From WrestleMania grace thread. Name: Bam Bam Bigelow Also known as: Crusher Yurkof Height: 6'3'' Weight: 370 pounds Debut: 1985 Retired: 2006 Accomplishments: ECW World Heavyweight Champion, ECW World Television Champion, Two Time WCW World Tag Team Champion (With Kanyon and Diamond Dallas Page), WCW Hardcore Champion, AWA Southern Heavyweight Chamion, IWGP Tag Team Champion (With Vader), Wrestling Observer Rookie of The Year (1986), WCCW Television Champion Career Summary: Bigelow was trained at the legendary Monster Factory in New Jersey, becoming the celebrated wrestling school's first star pupil. He made his debut in the Memphis territory where he quickly became a huge success winning the promotion's top title in July of '86. From there, he moved onto World Class Championship Wrestling where he was Russian heel, Crusher Yurkof. Like many territorial stars of the mid '80s, he would soon be snapped up by The WWF. Bigelow would debut in a major angle where the heel managers of the WWF tried to court him (as they had two years earlier with "Macho Man" Randy Savage). Like Savage, Bigelow would spurn all of his suitors offers and announced that his manager would be Oliver Humperdink, a kindly old Leprechaun like babyface. Bigelow's remarkable agility (especially for a man of his size) wowed WWF fans and soon he would be pushed as a running buddy of top dog, Hulk Hogan. Bigelow would be a part of Hogan's team at the first Survivor Series and would even outlast his Hogan in the match and pin superheavyweight, superheels King Kong Bundy and One Man Gang before finally falling to Andre The Giant. Unfortunately, his success would be short-lived as a blown knee derailed his first WWF stint. He would re-emerge in the rival Jim Crockett Promotions in late '88 but again after initial success, his career was once again set back by injuries. He would reemerge in Japan where he would become a superstar, forming a successful tag team with a fellow agile big man, Vader. He would get another shot at the big time in the States, when he signed back with the WWF in October '92. He was no longer a fun loving, cart wheeling babyface but a snarling heel. After some initial success, feuding with Bret "The Hitman" Hart (who he was defeated by in the finals of the first PPV King of The Ring), he was stuck mostly in comedy feuds with the likes of Doink The Clown and Bastion Booger. In early '95, Bigelow would embark in the most high-profile feud of his career with NFL Hall of Famer, Lawrence Taylor. The two would square off in the main event at WrestleMania XI with Bigelow being dispatched by the great linebacker in what is considered by many to be the Flair-Steamboat of celebrity matches. Despite carrying Taylor to a shockingly watchable match, it would be the beginning of the end of Bigelow's career. Shortly after, he turned babyface once again and problems with The Clique would lead to his departure in late '95. However, once again Bigelow made a comeback...this time in the controversial Extreme Championship Wrestling. There he would gain perhaps the most success of his career, defeating Shane Douglas to win the promotion's world title in October '97 and defeating Taz to win the perhaps more vaunted (got to love ECW logic) World Television title against Taz in March '98. By the end of that year, Bigelow would get another shot at the big time with WCW. Once again, he made a big inital splash, feuding with World Champion, Goldberg before being shifted to the company's new hardcore division (IE the mid-card). There he would join forces with fellow Jerseyites Diamond Dallas Page and Chris Kanyon to form the aptly titled Jersey Triad, which would go on to great success in the WCW Tag Team Division. Bigelow stuck with WCW until its sad demise in March '01. After his Time Warner contract expired in June '02, he returned to wrestling via the independent scene. Bigelow would have a tumultous and short life after wrestling. He had a deblitating addiction to drugs and alcohol and nearly died in a motorcycle accident in October '05. On the morning of January 19th, 2007, he was found dead at the age of 45 in his home outside of Tampa. Autopsy results later found toxic levels of cocaine and benzos in his system. Some points of discussion 1. Do you think success came too soon in Bigelow's career? Or was he not pushed enough? 2. In the long run, do you think his feud with Lawrence Taylor helped or hindered (or did nothing at all to) his career? 3. Was Bigelow underutilized in his runs in WWF and WCW? Which of his stints was your favorite? 4. Where does he rank amongst the great superheavyweights of all time? 5. Favorite matches, moments, etc.

Well, if Hogan was trying to sabotage him, he did a really poor job. bam bam was crazy over. His knees sabotaged his run in the WWF. He needed double knee surgery and it stopped all his momentum. Why do Hogan, Nash, and HBK have to be the reason for EVERYONE's career malfunction? It's a cliche at this point. I'll agree with you there, Mos_Def. Bam Bam was arguably the #3 babyface behind Hogan and Savage in late '87/early '88 and on his way up when he blew out his knees. While it's easy to blame the Clique on the derailment of his second WWF run, I'd blame it just as much on piss poor booking post WrestleMania XI. It was a terrible terrible move to turn him face. I know many of you will probably disagree with me but they had a tremendous opportunity to turn him into a monster heel to contend for the World title. The loss to LT could have upset him so much that it unleashed a relentless, vicious mean streak in him. Dude's just a natural heel and he didn't have the mobility he had in '88 to wow the fans. Just a boneheaded move on Vince's part.

Water under the bridge, Brody. I was half joking anyways. I got no beef. Cheech, I'd highly advise checking out the Sunflower/Surf's Up two for one package if you haven't already. The former album is their best album behind Pet Sounds and probably their best group effort. The latter is quite spotty but has three or four tracks that I'd consider among the band's best. It's also one of those paranoid, somewhat nihlistic, drug fueled albums that you seem to dig. They're quite a bit different from the sounds.

Point taken. I'm surprised though that we've witnessed Byron The Bulb sort of, kind of defend goldengreek. One of TSM's intellectual elite backin' up perhaps the board's biggest dope.

So, in the hip hop community, speaking out against homophobia=gay?

I promised Cheech, I would revive this thread as a favor to him bumping my Demolition thread in General Wrestling so here it is. Doubt there's much interest in solo Paul McCartney but here we go... Paul McCartney- McCartney In the Fall of '69 with The Beatles falling apart, McCartney headed to his home with his new family to his home in London and brought along with him his instruments and a four track recorder. He began to record songs, improvising them as he went along and overdubbing himself in the process. The album was targeted to be released mere weeks before what would be The Beatles' final studio album Let It Be A week before the release of his solo debut, McCartney announced his departure from The Beatles and it was far from amicable. Naturally, this propelled the record to the top of the charts on both sides of The Atlantic. Initially, the record received mixed reviews from critics. Detractors derided the album for being too slight, especially in the wake of McCartney's more ambitious recent work but it has grown to be one of McCartney's better regarded solo albums. Side One "The Lovely Linda" "That Would Be Something" "Valentine Day" "Every Night" "Hot As Sun/Glasses" "Junk" "Man We Was Lonely" I think what strikes most listeners about this album is its simplicity. I don't think you could get any more different from Plastic-Ono Band than this album. I can see why critics were somewhat letdown by this album's minimalist, intimate feel after the second side of Abbey Road. This, however, is at the point where McCartney's whimsy was more cute than cloying. Every track on this side is relatively short so even the less memorable tracks don't really overstay their welcome. "Junk" (a rerecorded White Album reject) and "Every Night" are high up there in the list of great solo McCartney songs. Side Two "Oo You" "Momma Miss America" "Teddy Boy" "Singalong Junk" "Maybe I'm Amazed" "Kreen-Akore" Generally speaking, the instrumentals are kind of the low point on the album. Not actively bad or anything just kind of forgettable. "Momma Miss America" is an exception. "Teddy Boy" (another White Album reject) is a nice, little ramshackle slice of life song. Certainly better than some songs that made that particular album. "Maybe I'm Amazed" is the only hit on the album and the only one that really displays the typical bombastic McCartney sound. "Kreen-Akore" kind of ends the album on a flat note. Another generally forgettable instrumental with a weird Hawaiian feel to it. Other notes I may be the only one but I'd say McCartney's first two albums are in the same league as Lennon's much more talked about first two solo albums. Also unlike a lot of people, I'm also a fan of this album's "sequel" McCartney II. Got to dig that synthesizer. Although it's nothing I can listen to more than once a month or so.