Jingus

Well, some of our members might indeed be feeling like that chick at about the halfway point of that movie, so it's a fair reference. I know, dude. I know. Fuck a bunch of history being made before my very eyes, I just wanna see that constantly-moving camera panning back and forth over flatly-rendered, poorly-colored group hallucinations of a building. And I'm not even joking. The hologram rules your soul.

I've been watching it, and it's like Stewart and Colbert are so happy about the outcome that they're forgetting to be funny. It's quiet... too quiet. Well, except for KOAB being all like "HAHA, WE NIGGAS RAPED YALL".

The McCain supporters sure have looked much more sedate and less enthusiastic than the Obama crowd. I mean, even before the results started coming in. Of course, the Republicans being in this little room indoors and the Democrats being at this massive outside rally might have something to do with that. I don't know if Austin just got counted super-early or what, but the TX results are surprising me. Would expect the margin to be much bigger than currently projected. I don't know if you mean to, but kidding and picking tend to look kinda the same from you. And paranoid? Who told you I was paranoid?! I know you didn't use your mind-reading machines on me, they can't get through my mighty tinfoil hat!

Anyone else getting sick of CNN's gigantic "PROJECTION~!" sound and graphic they keep doing? ...where are the holograms, grumble grumble

Yeah, because you know anything about what I think. Quit complaining about me all the goddamn time, it's fucking creepy to be e-stalked like that.

In the middle of this vital election night, you're thinking about... me? Aw, how sweet. Now gimme a time machine to go back a few weeks before the deadline to register to vote in this state, and perhaps we can arrange something. Oh hell yeah.

Actually, it's a federal crime to cross state lines in order to have sex with a minor via exploiting the differences in states' AOC laws. Yes, I know it's mean to spoil the joke with obscure facts, I am sorry. I would legitimately love to hear the serious legal argument for why 16 is too old, and why lawmakers in this state feel that 14 is a more appropriate age for hot lovin' relations. Goddamn it, I was about to post that. I concede the hologram joke to you treble. Considering that the first chick they hologrammed already made the Princess Leia reference, we all got scooped.

No, CNN's seriously supposed to have some kind of three-dimensional holographic image stuff during their broadcast on election night. Making it look like someone's standing in the studio when they're miles away, that kinda stuff. Who knows if it'll actually work well or not.

Yeah, and I got no problem with you, I'm talking about three or four other guys. Why bother signing up at a board when we know you from somewhere else, but you decide that your identity has to stay on double-secret probation? You wanna register under the name we know you by, then we're glad to have you, but don't pull that "heh, they don't even suspect that it's really me, LOL" childish crap.

Hey now, we're not all conservatives at the Pit. Like, there's Eric and Jobber. And, uh, Cheesala's there sometimes. And... uh... well, I'm not really conservative on most issues, and then there's... um... well, it is a bit lopsided. Oh and we got a bunch of new accounts sitting in line which are obviously people from here who were apparently afraid to have themselves recognized. Lame. Just use the name we know you by.

Part of the whole "preconditions" deal is that Iran demands its own preconditions for talks, too. Namely, that we stop supporting Israel and completely pull out of the entire Middle East region. Now it could be possible for us to eventually talk them out of demanding ridiculous shit like that, but that's their current stance. Which is an incredibly naive view to take. For the thousandth time: Osama Bin Ladin has said, over and over again, that the primary motivation behind the 9/11 attacks was the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia. Those troops are there because the Saudis ASKED us to put troops there. You can't just leave these fuckers alone and assume they'll do the same. Like, how much intervention did Spain do in the Middle East? Not much, right? Funny how they still got bombed.

Hell no you're not. Mickey's first line being "You could get killed!" is an all-time classic. Plus Duck Versus Duck in the piano bar scene. Not exactly what you mean, but Roadrunner did play with the formula at least once. At the end, Wile was shrunk down to tiny rodent size, and ended up grabbing onto the bottom of Roadrunner's feet, looking up at his now-gargantuan prey. Then he looked up at the camera in rage, and held up a sign that said "Well, you always wanted me to catch him!". I loved the little fourth-wall-breaking moments like that which WB would toss in as bonuses.

The less Kevin Smith-ish a Kevin Smith movie is, the more the studio promotes it, seems to be the rule of thumb.

It's been repeatedly argued that the first thing that needs to be addressed is the legal immigration process, which is insanely long and complicated. I think it says a lot that Mexicans are willing to hop a fence, swim a river, live like fugitives, and work for criminally low wages, instead of just going about it in the officially approved manner. Fix that first. Go after companies which employ and profit off illegal labor second. Worry about the rest of the stuff only after that. ^dis Wait a damn minute. How has this gone unremarked? Islamic terrorists "have fucked with us never"?

One that nobody's mentioned so far is Tiny Toons. Sure, it was essentially a beta test run for the kind of stuff they'd later perfect in Animaniacs, but it had its moments. Well thank god they did, otherwise you would've seen absolutely nothing entertaining at all that day.

Easily WB, for reasons already postulated here. More clever, more subversive, etc. At a certain point in my young childhood around 6 years old, Road Runner cartoons >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everything else.

Whoa. How did I miss this. I mean, it's one thing to enjoy a life of drug use and promiscuous sex, but it's another to insist that's what everyone else should be doing for the sake of the business. Blatant bullshit. He's best friends with Raven, for fuck's sake. RAVEN! One of the most openly admitted drug addicts in this entire industry! The rest of this pile of stupidity is just questionable opinions, but don't claim that you never knew anyone on coke when you worked for WCW for a goddamn decade.

I signed up, and it was fun, until the opening stuff was all over and done with and I figured out just how fast a measely four forum visits tend to fly by. You can easily burn through your whole day's allotment in twenty minutes, especially if you get killed a couple times.

The local Texas elections are kinda depressing. Pretty much all a bunch of far-right republican incumbents running with massive leads over their hopeless opponents. Hope and change aren't so big around here. No referendums of any kind on the ballot, either. ...the hell does that mean? . . . You mean this guy?

Mordacai. Kenzo Suzuki

-The real irony here is that he used to be a legit carnival sideshow geek, doing the human dartboard and other similar gimmicks, which is where Creative probably got their brilliant inspiration for the idea here. "Hey, he used to be a Carny, haw haw!" -I have no idea how he would be on promos. Dude always dressed up like some kind of devilman, but then in the back whenever he opened his mouth, suddenly dontcha know it was all aboot maple syrup and mounties, eh? Real strong Canuck accent, which so utterly did not go with his demonic gimmick. -He was always a competent worker whenever I saw him, but that was always doing Southern style matches, either the tag-team brawls in TNA or working the standard slowed-down style on the local indies. No idea how he'll do in the WWE environment. -That being said, hope he succeeds, was always a hell of a nice guy to me, real open to talk about anything.

Nude Mena Suvari is a big deal? Considering she already did that a decade ago in American Beauty and all. This was a good'un which got completely ignored because of the title and concept, which admittedly sounds like it should result in a movie which would be just awful. But really the only thing in here I didn't like were all the crappy Mexican janitor jokes. The rest was shockingly good, including a fun turn from Englund playing against type, and a script that was way sharper than it had any right to be. The dialogue sounded like it was actually written by and for people with at least some intelligence, and what the hell are all these references to Nietzsche and other existential philosophers doing in a movie called Zombie Strippers? (Apparently it's actually kind of a remake of an old existential play called Rhinocerous, but that's a long story.) Plus there was an interesting underlying subtext about men's objectification of women, and using zombification as a metaphor for cosmetic surgery and selling out to provide what society unrealistically demands of the feminine form, and an undead Jenna Jameson shooting ping-pong balls out of her cooter as a form of attack. Any movie which can somehow combine all that shit into eighty minutes of low-budget cheesy brain-eating goodness is a work of art which demands a sort of awed respect. omg, I'm talking bout horror movies again, Superjail's gonna demand I gtfo

Hey, that's MISTER referee/ring announcer/play-by-play announcer/incompetent heel manager/music guy/cameraman/food run deliverer/airport shuttle service/"Hey, you, kid, get me some water"/general entourage/on rare occasions really shitty wrestler, buddy. Yeah, I know it's crooked, and with the internet and all the wrestler's autobiographies and shoot interviews and stuff even a first-day trainee should know it's crooked if they do their homework before paying for training. But just because it's always been crooked doesn't mean it's okay for it to continue being crooked. And since I have no way to change it, I'll do the next best thing, and whine about it on a message board. True, you make better money in TNA than you do working the random indies. But my problem with them is that TNA acts like they're a full-time employer, rather than someone who uses their talent just a few days per month. They try to have a disproportionate amount of control over their talent. And the new rules could fuck them out of some bookings, too. Like, let's say the wrestler used to take cheap bookings from some local fed because it's right down the road from their house. Under the new rules, they either had to take a pay cut, or the fed had to shell out more cash, and I could easily see neither one happening and the wrestler just sitting home those nights instead. But once again, it places constraints on the other promotions' ability to use these guys, and makes them less likely to book these guys at all. At one point, I think the company even announced a rule that TNA guys were only allowed to be booked if they were wrestling other TNA guys! I don't think that one lasted long, but this company has a lot of little nitpicky things like that which get in the way of outside employment for their contracted talent. As for the TV thing, why does it matter? This isn't like the old days, where a star had to be "protected" from doing jobs on television. And anyway, it's not a competing product since nobody else but the WWE has national television. Every other wrestling show in this country is just on a local station, and I don't see how having Sharkboy show up on a no-budget local wrestling show on a paid-access cable station and be seen by that show's dozens and dozens of viewers could possibly affect TNA's bottom line in any way whatsoever. It just makes any independent company which happens to have their own TV show very unlikely to book any TNA guys at all. Hell no it's not fine. I first trained at a crappy little place like that, they'd train you for relatively cheap but then you had to work for them, for free, until they felt you'd "paid your dues". Of course, this led to guys either working there for years without getting paid, or just up and quitting the promotion and going elsewhere for work. After about six weeks of training there, the friends I had there left the company, and thankfully I followed their example, otherwise I might still be there. There are countless little tiny promotions out there which run the same bullshit, and it's exactly that, bullshit. Well, Raven, Kanyon, and Mike Sanders are trying that, with their lawsuit against the WWE's "independent contractor" illegal nonsense. Hopefully that will actually go somewhere.

It is still playing favorites among the reporters, though, and a bit of an eyebrow raiser. It's not like the Washington Times or New York Post are some tiny little backwater rags, they're established papers with fairly wide circulation, and their reporters were apparently among those told to take a hike. Is that a First Amendment violation? Absolutely not. Is it legal to kick them out just because you feel dissed that their papers endorsed McCain? Absolutely. No law was broken here. Still doesn't change the fact that it's a kinda shady move, and seems to imply a bit of passive blackmail ("don't help our opponent, or you won't get a seat at the table").

Yeah, but the wrestlers were already getting money from gimmick sales before TNA ever put this policy in place, or at least the ones who had their shit together were. The guys were already handling their own bookings. Heck, a lot of them worked more independent shows back then than they do now, Samoa Joe's one example. And then TNA has rules about what their workers are and aren't allowed to do (no appearing on TV! no doing jobs to locals!) and has certain companies where you aren't allowed to work (hello ROH) unless you get specific permission ahead of time. I think it's especially shady for TNA to demand this when, for the majority of their workers, they don't actually pay a full living wage. The undercarders have to work indy shows in order to just make a living due to TNA underpaying them, and then that company turns around and demands a large chunk of their independent bookings? Fuck that. It's pure greed on TNA's part. Even the WWE doesn't do that; admittedly, their guys have to get permission to work an indy show in the first place, but the company doesn't demand a cut of their outside revenues. Oh yeah, and that's just plain fraud or extortion. I think Larry Sharpe started that shit back in the old Monster Factory, but there are plenty of greedy trainers around today who insist on taking a percentage, or that after graduation you have to work all their shows for free, and so on. It's unethical bullshit, and if pro wrestling were actually on the legal radar (which it's not, I'd say 99% of indy shows aren't reported to the IRS) it could seriously be contested in court.