Ace309

Pfft. Only in your Eurocentric linear time.

I'm the most anal-retentive coffee drinker ever. 16-ounce mug, seven sugar cubes, up to a specific point on the mug and then topped off the rest of the way with milk. I also get beer-snobby at restaurants and have been known to order a separate pint to go with each course (and then a cider for dessert). I also put barbeque sauce on Kraft dinner.

I have no problem with kids in public, because, believe it or not, I was one once. I didn't just pop out a grumpy 22-year-old. I can't stand babies, or any kids, in the classroom, though. First of all, there's the offensive undertone of "Look what I made!" I don't give a shit what you made, not when I'm paying however much a credit to listen to a middle-aged man with frazzled hair and flood-victim clothes spit formulae and theories at me. Second, no matter how cute it is, it's going to be a distraction, whether it's just a lot of "how cute" or it starts crying or craps during class. Third, and this is a special one for older kids, I don't care how cute your 6-year-old thinks it is to participate in the class discussion. If he raises his hand again, I'm going to drop him on his head.

Thanks for letting us know, King

Ric Flair's Royal Rumble win was an elaborate ruse on the part of the company to cover for the fact that Buddy Landell actually won the WWF World Title in a shoot at a house show the night before. In a complicated retcon involving a massive Jungian hallucination on the part of the fans, Flair's Rumble win was spliced together from previous months' tapes, and he was handed the title during a small backstage ceremony. (Flair's drunken staggering was later used, as a rib, in the Rumble 'footage.' Heenan played it off like he was selling his fatigue, when in fact he was just smashed and nearly naked.)

Hardcore is necessarily pin-anywhere.

As some of you know, I'm planning to be elected to the presidency in November of 2020, the first year I'll be allowed to run according to the American Constitution. As a reward for anyone in the SWF, you'll all be getting cushy government jobs. OAOASTers will receive low-level civil service jobs, by which I mean they'll be janitors. President: Tom Flesher Vice President: Spoken for. I'm going to need a legit candidate to back me up. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit: Justice. Clean that motherfucker up. President, National NORM-L Chapter: Kibagami Fitness Czar: Mak Francis. Expect tennis to become our national sport. Secretary of Agriculture: Insane Luchador, being from the Corn and Hog Captial of the World. I expect you to work closely with Kibagami. Stupid Canuck: Zed. Request your government job here.

The announce table is, in canon, at ringside, because people occasionally write spots using it there. This is persuasive based on the philosophy of the Suicide King, who said, "The ladders are exactly as tall/the cage is exactly as high/the ring is exactly as wide as it needs to be for your spot to work." Sounds good to me.

It's almost like we'd be mismatched. An odd couple, of sorts. I think we should call it, "The President and the Australian Who Won't Shut Up."

I was this close to cutting it out of the show entirely, actually. I wish I could remember why I didn't. Homophobe. EDIT - although it's in no one's interest to ask or tell about WC.

Clarifying.

You're also fat.

I was just browsing the archives looking for an old promo of mine and I found Ashes 2 Ashes 2002. This was a match I was really, really proud of at the time, and I think it's held up to time quite well. As some backstory, Thoth had been muddling around as a tweener for a while following the epic Clan-Carnival-Magnificent Seven storyline that finished with War Games at Ground Zero 2002. He had recently turned heel, becoming Orochi, the Lightbringer, to give him a new motivation. With that came a new resilience in the ring and a new take on wrestling - he was more violent, less cerebral than the Thoth we had come to know. Tom had won the ICTV from Perfect Bo at Genesis, when he took over the Magnificent Seven. The storyline between Tom and Thoth went back quite a ways, from Tom's transformation to Durandal in the JL after losing the World Title to Ash Ketchum. Tom had snapped and become a dark character which I had no idea what to do with. In character, after Tom returned to his Superior One character, he began to resent Thoth for making him a dark, gothic character (as a way for explaining the dryness stemming from my inability to write the character well). This was built up with, among other things, Mak Francis going tweener at Dissention 2002 and finally tapping out for the first time but refusing to respect Flesher, shaking Thoth's hand at the end of the match instead. Flesher began going to the Durandal roots, using Durandal's trademark icepick and black mist in a tag match against Thoth before the pay-per-view. Thoth became Orochi and was named as Flesher's opponent for Ashes 2 Ashes, the ICTV Title on the line. Tom Flesher vs. Orochi, Grudge Match, ICTV Title on the line.

Yeah, I never had that, just the first legit loss in six months that made me question whether I could still do it.

Damn straight. It's not a difficult move to do, and the grip is very forgiving. And then when the guy's down, standing SSP. Bam!

Sorry, J. You'll be my official White House Press Stooge, recapping the interviews and press conferences in the light most favorable to me.

Janitor.

YOU WERE DANTE CRANE

Jameson's nice... it's got a nice smooth apricot undertone to it that I really enoy. Bushmill's is a bit sour for my taste, but hey, I'm not telling you not to drink it. It's all about sipping something you like.

Anyone like them some scotch? What's your bottle? I keep one of Johnnie Walker Red around for mixing, but I've been drinking The Dalmore's Cigar Malt lately, sans cigar. It's incredibly smooth and has nice little hints of sweetness to it - highly recommended. Of course, only a troglodyte mixes a decent single-malt, and I prefer it neat.

Flesher's stuff was mostly focused on Ejiro, actually. We were trying to build Ejiro as a contender, and so I was actually quite excited when WC suggested the match because it was going to allow me to take a clean, high-profile loss to Ejiro - shock the kids, and all - without losing the belt. And I loved Stryke's match.

Just quick thoughts on the matches I marked: ~ Griffon's match was a fun little romp. Quite cinematic, and blew off the Koran challenge nicely. I look forward to Arch moving on to other things. ~ Please read Ejiro's match. HE NAMES HIS SPONSOR! ... and also creates an interesting character dynamic. ~ Toxxic's match was probably not his best, because he was out of his element trying to write mat wrestling. I wasn't a fan of the fragile Toxxic character kicking out of a Million Dollar plex midway through the match and then immediately rope-breaking the Bittersweet cattle mutilation, and then doing the rope break again later - I know Toxxic's made strides, but I think that might have been a bit much. The backmounted 3/4 nelson as a finish also made me scratch my head a bit - I would have been more inclined to use a sidemounted 3/4 with the near leg straddled, yanked down into a cradle pin (which is a fairly tight amateur style move) if you wanted to run with that finish. It held together well psychologically, though, aside from those points, and was as always very well-written.

As I said in PM, Mak, your finish helped you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

yes cuz a DDT on concrete wouldn't hurt at all. idiot You show me a kid who knows how to properly do a DDT and I'll change my mind. It's not as easy as it looks to get the facelock applied, it's easy to escape while the kid's trying to get it going, and there's an even chance the kid doing the move will take the whole thing on his back even if he does manage to get a tight facelock and not let the other guy escape by countering out with an escort hold or shake it off by lifting the kid off the ground and making him panic. If he takes it on his back or goes to his back and the facelock slips off, he's basically done for against a guy who has the sense to pin a forearm across his neck and block his windpipe. Someone who gets in a solid grovit position and then tries to go for a DDT is so inexperienced that I don't trust them to properly execute the move on any level. Getting someone in a grovit and wasting it is the hallmark of someone who doesn't know what he's doing. There are just so many other things to do from that position that are less risky and more effective.

Not that I'm extremely well-versed or anything, but.... It's probably easiest to just start at a bar, so you don't end up dropping a bunch of money on a bottle you'll never finish. First of all, for god's sake, unless you're planning on mixing it, stay away from Dewar's, Cutty Sark or pretty much anything of that ilk. They're okay for mixing, but your best bet is to start with something that has a slightly better flavor for it. Personally, I like Johnnie Walker Red Label - it's got a decent smokey/reasonably bright flavor for drinking straight, and stands up reasonably well to soda water or amaretto. Yes, I've occasionally splashed amaretto into cheap scotch. Fuck you, it's tasty. The reason I say to buy something with a nicer flavor is because you want to be able to taste it straight - neat (no ice), with ice, with a splash of water (which opens up the flavors a little bit), whatever. Just take a sip. If you don't like it, you don't like it, but at least think a little about ways you could describe the flavor. It's a markedly different taste from bourbon (which is sweeter), Canadian or Irish whiskey. Just don't mix it with coke, for god's sake.