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Or if a big honkin' FORUMS CLOSED sign happens to replace the boards on Saturday, which, at this stage, would be funny as hell.

Probably none, it's just that France is about the LAST Western nation I'd ever use as any kind of role model for political issues.

THE SHOCKER~! -ph34r-

Sounds kinda like Low G Man, but I'm probably wrong, that doesn't match exactly what you said.

You read a lot of stupid things in this folder... but that's the stupidest I've seen in a while. I think I went totally over your head with that one. Well, considering that it was primarily composed of hot air, I'd say that's a likely assertation. "Dang, Jehtro, that there city slicker's using that there sat-ire on us!"

The what would you call the nerve gas he used on the Kurds? Dry ice? Yeah, that was a while ago, but it's a solid proven fact that Saddam is one of the few people in the world who has used WMDs on humans.

How many Jews were taken out of Vichy France and murdered during WWII?

Kid & Play sure as hell endorse his haircut.

. . . You're really gonna play this gimmick out til the bitter end, aren't you Hoff?

I've seen 'em too. So? Hey, guess what: DrTom has seen her IN PERSON, so go stalk him instead.

I just took a look, and there's a shitload of "haunted" crap on Ebay in their Weird Stuff section. Haunted paintings, dirt from a haunted graveyard, and even (I shit you not) a haunted fucking copy of Yoshi's Island for SNES. Although this does make me curious as to what might happen if you bought a whole bunch of the more legit-seeming items and stocked a house with them... especially if it were built on the ever-popular Indian Burial Ground.

It was KUNG FU dammit, the sounds NoCal described match that game's sound effects exactly.

Heh, the words "Kerry/Clinton" just gave me an eeeeeeeevil idea: Are former Presidents barred by law from running for Vice President? Just imagine it: BILL FOR VP. (Which might be about the only way Kerry would have a shot in hell at winning this election.)

Aeire, the creator of the online comic strip Queen of Wands, is auctioning off a chance to be a permanent recurring character in her strip here. It ends tomorrow, and it's up to $415 currently. I've seen all kinds of shit auctioned off: bodily organs, some guy's virginity, etc etc. The most frightening thing I've ever seen was a massive, gasoline-powered antique vibrator that looked more like a mining drill than anything else.

There was indeed an arcade version of the NES Kung Fu, went by the same name, was pretty much identical except for better graphics.

Huh? Except for being one of Christopher Daniels's "followers" and getting thrown off a balconey one time, Nate's never even made the PPV. He worked a shitload of jobber matches and got pinned by the Harris brothers more times than I can count, but he hardly got a good deal in TNA.

I'd imagine it's a problem trying to sell U.S. video distributors on "ordinary" puro. At least with FMW, there's a selling point that even the suits can see: these guys are carving each other up, setting each other on fire, and wrestling in EXPLOSIVES. There's nothing in Big Time American Wrestling (i.e., the WWE) like it. And it's got the added advantage of big names like Cactus Jack and Terry Funk (which are worth a lot more to the video marketing types than your average wrestler, after Beyond the Mat made money), plus a bunch of guys who've been on American shows in ECW before. However, imagine your average distribution executive: a guy who's probably never watched wrestling in his life, wouldn't know a wristlock from a wristwatch, and has probably never heard of any wrestlers except for Hulk Hogan or The Rock. Imagine trying to sell him, say, Misawa/Kobashi vs. Kawada/Taue 6/9/95. Sure, it's one of the greatest matches of all time; but to a clueless putz like him, it's just four boring Japanese guys in tights pretending to fight for the better part of an hour. No big name stars, no flashy bullshit, no reason for him to think it might sell any copies at all.

I couldn't give less of a fuck about any religion that makes its believers keep their kids from getting lifesaving medical treatments.

The way the casting was handled, she probably would've been played by Heather Locklear anyway.

There are plenty of people who want to just read and lurk without actually commenting on stuff. Hell, that's one of the most common pieces of advice given to newbies: keep your mouth shut and pay attention for a while, so you won't say anything you shouldn't. If we have the board set up so that you have to be a member to view it, it's terribly unfair to delete all the accounts of people who just want to read the threads.

I've never understood the concept of basing an entire religion on a golden tablet that was supposedly written by an angel, which apparently NOBODY ALIVE HAS EVER SEEN. (The tablet, not the angel.)

Every time I try to log into this chat, it either crashes my AIM or freezes my entire computer. And the link on the main page didn't work for me either, I had to Macguyver my way into the damn thing in the first place. I guess it's because I'm using a Mac... APPLISTS!

It's pretty damn bad. Pee-Wee Herman as a biker-looking vampire henchman is about the only redeeming part of it, plus watching Luke Perry trying to be Xander Version 0.1. For some reason, Joss has blamed Donald Sutherland for wrecking the film, even though all he did was change his own lines. It looks more like a failure of everybody involved than anything else. Hell, it was so bad it's what kept me from watching the TV series for the entire seven years it ran.

What's wrong with cheese, or monkeys? I'd call them "horse-eating surrender poodles" instead.

Joss is a HELL of a screenwriter, which is a skill that he was NOT born with; go back and look at the original Buffy movie sometime to see just how lame he could get before he found his groove. But as for his comics; the only things I've read are a few of the Slayer comics he was involved with, including Fray, and all in all I wasn't terribly impressed. He still knows how to create excellent unpredictable plot twists, and he just happens to write in a style that reads as funny as it sounds, but still... some intangible is just lost when his work is applied to drawings on a page instead of actors in a show. I think his choice of artists is kinda suspect at times, which might have a large part to do with it.