Jingus

Disassociation, feelings of being omnipotent yet not having the articulation to express what you know, cyclical periods of clarity and delrium, random rapid-fire hallucinations... yep, that's definitely the Dex talking. Let me once again proclaim my love for Tussin. It's one of the few drugs I've ever tried where I actually felt smarter afterwards.

Every book, music, and video store in the region gets its stock from the same warehouse. They can all order you the exact same damn thing. And if in your company you're a manager or executive of any type, you're probably elligible to sign up for a corporate discount.

Has there ever been an observed or recorded incident where the shouted phrase "Do you know who I am?!" was not screamed with much gheyness?

Well, knowing you, I assume you're right. What makes absinthe different from other hard beverages, specifically? And where/how can you buy the shit?

I was terribly disappointed to find out that absinthe was basically just hard liquor with a few random herbs added in. I imagined it to be some bizarre hallucinogen along the lines of LSD, but no, it's apparently just plain ol' alcohol like every other drink in the world.

Anyone who was genuinely entertained by this movie should be barred from all wrestling events for the rest of their lives.

This thread will die under one condition: if Joss Whedon somehow creates a truly satisfying ending to the Buffyverse. And I kinda doubt that's gonna happen.

Jobber proves, once again, that the gap between intelligence and the law is Grand Canyonesque.

I find it downright hysterical that, in an entirely new millenium, Dusty Fucking Rhodes is still booking a major Southern wrestling company. Especiallly since that it's in Florida.

If this thread doesn't make it into Classics, then there is no use for that folder. Can Rhyno wrestle? Seriously. All I've ever seen him do is run-ins. Is there a "Best of Rhyno" tape floating around?

Huh. So it's illegal to sell it in the US and it's prohibited against being imported, but it's not illegal to own or consume it. Weird. Since it's such a rare & quaint drug, I assume that its street price would probably be pretty high, if you could even find anyone who had it. Oh well.

I was thinking of boring shite like Creed's videos, which are nothing but a badly faked stage show. And oh yeah, worst video ever: any Missy Elliott video, especially "Work It". Missy is truly a superhero, and her superpower is the ability to instantly kill any erection.

If you can do something interesting with it, or at least something different like White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army". But most of the time it just signifies that the video's makers couldn't come up with any idea for that video other than just showing the band playing the song.

I use IE, and the Search function never works.

Interesting idea. Is it legal? ::sits down, looks around:: It ain't no Bronze, but it'll do.

I finally finished reading the massive multi-year storyline in the recent Hulk comics, and boy was the ending a letdown. To find out that The Leader was in charge of the secret government agency, and his whole plan was just trying to "mentally wear down" the Hulk, so that he could take control of Hulk and get it to come recharge the batteries in the life-support system that was keeping the Leader's brain alive in its big jar was about as disappointing as finding out who Hush really was.

Any generic video which is just showing the band singing the song. That gets boring within the three seconds that it takes me to realize it's one of Those Videos.

A few points: Stephen's answer is right, but there was another reason: there were a shitload of slaves in the South. Enslaved or not, people are gonna fuck and have kids, and that's exactly what the Southern slaves did, in abundance. When you have a ton of free labor at your disposal, who needs a machine? Furthermore, if they did industrialize, where would all those slaves go and what would they do? Once again Popick's right but there's still more to the story. Slavery was more profitable than paying people for several reasons. Firstly because feeding and maintaining a slave was much cheaper than paying a white guy to do the same amount of work, and secondly because at the end of the day you could always sell your slaves (and their kids) if you wanted to. Also, slavery didn't crowd out poor whites for one simple reason: the vast majority of slaves were owned by lower-middle class people and worked on small family farms. Those Gone With the Wind-style giant plantations were few and far between. The experiences of Chicken George in Roots were much more common as things went. And finally, the answer to the "taxes and tariffs" argument: those taxes and tariffs existed primarily because of slavery. The Northern states were trying to punish the Southern ones into giving up that peculiar institution, for both moral and economic reasons.

There are a million things these days that corrupt the sanctity of marriage. I haven't seen a big push to ban quickie nuptials in Nevada recently, where (as Triple H demonstrated) you can actually get hitched at a drive-thru window. I'd say the "sanctity of marriage" argument is a straw man, but it's got so many holes in it that it's more like just an empty suit of clothes on a stick. EDIT: and yeah, how is it about the money?

Yes and yes. Yes to the first because the WWE can offer more money and better exposure than any other fed in the country, plus is home to some of the best wrestlers in the world as coworkers; yes to the second because, well, I imagine most football players watch the Super Bowl, ya know?

If you've ever seen B-Boy wrestle, they're damn near identical twins. With good reason, since he's wrestled in Japan a lot. Mostly for Big Japan cuz of their connection to CZW, but also for Zero-One if I remember correctly. And Valentina. All in all he's said to be a pretty cool dude in the back, but don't even think the words "Dan Maff" in his presence.

Mario. Substance over style, people. Sonic was obviously Sega's attempt to create their own personal corporate mascot who just happened to star in a run-&-jump platformer... which is pretty much a direct ripoff of what Nintendo did with Mario. Sure, Sega did try their damndest to make the Sonic games as good as they possibly could, and consequently used their best programmers and threw mountains of money into them. But it was still an artificial attempt to cash in on someone else's original idea. Shit like that is why Sega makes games for Nintendo's machines these days.

Short answer: Vince says jump, indy worker asks how high.

I always thought it was Bud Bundy. Taker666's sig: now THAT'S funny.

Hassan will never win the heavyweight title.