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Aw come on, that example involves people who are all retired or dead. Nobody in charge then is in charge now. Like who? Name some folks the CIA whacked.

Healing injuries is the main one. Added muscle mass also. A guy like Funaki might be about 140 pounds naturally, for all we know. Why does everyone assume that CM Punk is drug free just because he says so? How come he gets a pass on the "wrestlers all always lie" syndrome? You know who's got a huge fuckin' party at his house tonight? Carlito. He's the only major heel on Raw who wasn't named in any of this. He's, like, slurping applesauce off the naked breasts of thousand-dollar hookers right now. And then sneaking up behind them and giving them the Backcracker. JUST BECAUSE HE CAN.

::scans post:: Oh, buncha sports posts, Milky, Wimbledon, calling bitches ugly, nevermind I got it.

Actual conversation overheard by me back in college: Chick: "So, you having a good time with all your 'frat' buddies?" Dude: "It's called a frat-er-ni-ty. Do you call your country a cunt?"

As well. Why? Get over the "steroids automatically means hyooge muscles" mindset. It's completely false. Everyone from Sandman to Tammy Sytch have roided up at some point or another. Also, who says these suspensions were over da juice? Issues with pain medication and mood-altering drugs are present too.

Oh I think it's quite possible that all humans might be killed off someday. I imagine some kind of scenario like The Stand where some fool engineers a virus so effective that it kills off the entire population. Or we could go the tradtional "nuke each other til our ashes glow" method. That is entirely possible.

Especially since he's been saying "OMG IM NOT GHEY" in denial despite being caught hard at it. Do we need more blatant liars in government?

I've said since day one that the bullshit "They have WMDS RIGHT NOW" and "Saddam Al Quaeda" justifications were indeed that, bullshit. I think this war needed to be fought. I think the manner in which it has been fought is clumsy and inefficient to say the least. Speaking of bullshit. I can't believe you'd say that seriously, Eric. Yeah, the civil war sucks, but that's not our fault. All we did was remove the tyrannical murderous genocidal iron-fisted government. And yeah, a tyrannical murderous genocidal iron-fisted type of government tends to be pretty good at squashing opposition, so the war couldn't have happened during Saddam's reign. But you're seriously saying that Saddam was better for the Iraqi people than not?

Whedon's original script was simplified to the point of stupidity. The monster as he wrote it was sort of like a last boss from Resident Evil, this huge fucking alien that kept evolving into different shapes. And the fight didn't end in the ship, they got all the way down to Earth and the whole last battle would've taken like half an hour total. But of course the studio decided they didn't want nunna that. Also removed were a huge battle sequence on a moving industrial elevator, a really creepy Velociraptor-type scene inside the ship's massive hydroponic garden, a great bit where a really smooth character who never made it into the movie sacrifices himself and blows up a huge chunk of the spaceship, and various other cool shit that never saw the light of day. Like I said, there have been a whole bunch of AvP comics, almost all of which have been better than the movie.

Dude, don't encourage them, that one already has precedence.

Aw c'mon, we all know that Heyman's stream-of-conciousness segments that involve a dozen different people always last at least half an hour. Although God knows I'd still rather have Heyman in charge of the writing than Russo. Hell, since they're all so different and hate each other, put Russo, Heyman, and Cornette in a three-man booking committee with full creative control over the shows, and require a 2-1 majority vote for any particular angle to actually be done.

Okay. I don't agree with the "pull out now" sentiment in general, but you stated your argument very well and I can respect that.

And how does killing trees and animals hurt the Earth? Seriously. It sure as hell hurts those individual flora and fauna, and may have secondary effect hurting the various other lifeforms that depend upon them for sustinence or whatever. But eventually the "ripple effect" fades out. After all, look at the various meteor craters all over this planet. We've been hit by rocks with such force that it makes our biggest atomics look like goddamn firecrackers. After those impacts, such massive amounts of crap were hurled into the sky that they caused instant ice ages. And yet, life is still here, and flourishing. The world keeps on turnin'.

A lot of older books tend to be like that, with long passages talking about how some little piece of the world works. Which makes sense in an era before electronic media. Les Miserables sure as hell comes to mind, with its great sequences shoved in between gargantuan piles of paper just talking about this kind of factory or that sort of church or this particular historical battle or that group of college kids' hours-long argument or DAMMIT HUGO SHUT UP.

1. Not long. It was a Russo idea iirc, which makes sense because it's a completely illogical swerve which makes no sense. 2. Since they couldn't convince the office to bring Scott Hall back, and since Nash loves hanging around on the apron waiting for a hot tag instead of actually working, he and old friend DDP formed a tag team. Since Nash's most famous team was called the Outsiders, they turned it around and called it the Insiders. 3. Yes. Seriously.

So, you seem to be saying that there's no possible way to win and we should've never invaded in the first place, correct?

I wouldn't put much credence to this, it sounded like some really coked-up guy who was rambling about his own little delusions.

As long as it happens on their show. If you bump yourself half to death for them for ten years, get released, and then your spine snaps on your first indy shot, they sure as hell aren't paying for it. I'm sure a guy like, say, Billy Gunn has all kinds of nagging longterm injuries that came directly from working for Vince all those years.

Yeah. Also, Dallas was infected with an alien inside him, which is why he begged Ripley to kill him. That point was clearly made in the original script, but somehow it got lost in transition to the screen.

Technically you could count The Old Man and the Sea as a short story, I guess. I wish the Official Grammar People would institute a page count for the differences between story/novella/book. I loved that one so much that I ripped it off years later in an English project where we were required to write a historical story, and basically made mine The Old Knight and the Crusades. (It was also part of a larger story I never ended up finishing which had a plot which was damn near identical to Saving Private Ryan... which came out two years later.) Oh, and I've never been able to get anyone to explain how this made sense, so please take a crack at it: the Historical Story thing was our big research project of the year. Ya know, the kind of dumbass research project where you're required to fill out a stack of "reference cards" and make about a hundred different drafts and outlines. Well, the English teacher in question also made us do the most retarded, illogical thing I've ever heard of. We were supposed to take quotes from non-fiction sources and put them in our fictional stories. Let me repeat that: we were supposed to take quotes from history books and put them in our original fiction narratives about dead historical people. She never explained how the fuck that was supposed to work, or what it the point was. I think she was just such an idiot she assumed that all research projects needed to have quotes in them, no matter that this was supposed to be creative writing. This meant that my Crusades story had several passages in it that went like this:

Now I'm imaging the conversation between Death and the dude in the tree, but with Jericho and Delirious acting it out.

Looks like you're one o' them self-hatin' Jews. If it's a provable fact, then prove it. With math.

WWE provides no health insurance whatsoever. And since the workers are both 1.independent contractors and 2.professional fuckin' wrestlers, they have to pay pretty much the highest premiums in the world. One of my best friends is a former indy worker who had to retire because of a detached retina and related eye problems. For him it just happened from the grind of getting the shit beaten out of him on a nightly basis. It doesn't take some huge move or sick bump or botched spot to get hurt. That stuff happens all by itself sometimes.

Hell, that's not fair. Taking such a talented young man like that with so much potential, and sticking him with an absolutely worthless stiff who brings nothing to the table. Hoyt deserves better! ...okay, I overstate somewhat, but what is the fucking big deal about Rave? I've seen his matches in person starting five years ago, and he was an overrated little tool with a bad attitude then and I've seen little to change my mind about him now. Hell, he's worked for the company before, back in Nashville, he was so unmemorable that probably none of you recall it.