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Yeah, that was the one I was thinking of. I'd heard a whole lot about how lame Civil War was from a lot of people, so I'd only skimmed over a few random issues here and there. Spider-Man was the only one where I read the whole thing (he's still my favorite Marvel character, even after all the bullshit they've done to him), and it was just horrible, pissed me off to no end. After finishing that piece of shit, I never even picked up anything else that bore the Civil War brandname.

Because aside from the occasional MMA show, I don't watch sports, period. I don't care about sports. At all. Never have. If they all vanished tomorrow, it wouldn't affect my life one bit. As for the commercials, you mean there are people who actually pay attention to that bullshit?

Nah, that joke's too easy. I just hated the clumsy, obvious, sledgehammer-you-over-the-head metaphor that they drew between CW and real world current events. TEH NEGATIVE ZONE = GITMO, LOL. It seems like everyone besides Moore who ever tries to do political statements in comics tends to make them in an overly simplistic and one-sided manner. Marvel claimed beforehand that this would be a fair and balanced treatment, with both sides of the conflict being portrayed in an equally sympathetic light. But what we got was essentially Captain America's Freedom Fighters vs. Tony Stark's Evil Empire. Also, where the hell were all the villains during CW? That would've been a great opportunity to do the "arch-enemies teaming up against a greater threat" thing which is always entertaining.

True dat. My mom's been a special education teacher for over thirty years, with a sterling track record and a masters degree from the Peabody school at Vanderbilt, which is arguably the best education program in the world. She still gets paid less than a rookie accountant makes in their first year. Don't even think about becoming a teacher if you like to have money.

Who? Who? Who? But you sure do get all fired up about that there baseketball.

Alan Moore, Swamp Thing. I've read Hush. Yes, yes he is. I know it's been discussed a lot already, but I was just reading some of it for the first time and MAN Civil War was fucking terrible. Completely destroyed Iron Man's character forever, as far as I'm concerned.

Who?

The grenade practically blew up in his hand. Also, it happened underwater, which causes explosions to be much more violent and powerful at close range, since water doesn't compress like air. So he should be chunky salsa dead. ...I know, it's a friggin' magic island, take nothing for granted. I just recently got into Lost, and while it hooked me pretty quick, it's also annoyed the hell out of me by just NEVER explaining anything fully. I mean, we're in season 4, and we still don't know the point of the numbers, what's the deal with the black smog monster, the origins and/or motivations of the Others, the "sickness" that Roussaeu said infected her comrades, how the island miraculously cures people, what happened to Jack's dad, and why polar bears? Plus about a billion other mysteries which never get resolved. It's worse than the fucking X-Files when it comes to teasing you with answers, and then running away laughing that you'll never know.

Jesus, can you order a Big Mac without lecturing the fat chick with frightening fingernails who's working the drive-thru about foreign policy and how much America sucks? Furthermore, what exactly are these war crimes? I mean I want specific details of when, where, and how they violated which exact rulings from the revised Geneva Conventions of 1949. As for Cuba, part of it was how they aimed nuclear missles at us, less than a hundred miles from the American mainland. People tend to hold a grudge over that sort of thing. Also, we did tried everything short of full-scale invasion to topple Castro's regime, and none of it worked. People tend to hold a grudge over that sort of thing too, especially conservative Americans, some of whom would still enjoy seeing a massive new bombing campaign upon Vietnam today.

Yes, they did. I counted, and they danced five times. I'm usually not one for conspiracy theories, but consider this. Halloween Havoc was the first WCW ppv ever to have a high-profile Hulk Hogan match which wasn't the main event. (He'd occasionally been in some tag matches which were second or third from the top, which always ended with him getting the pinfall victory.) Even after Goldberg won the belt, he was still doing jack shit in the undercard or not wrestling at all, while Hogan And Friends invariably got the main event. Here comes Halloween Havoc, the first show with a big important Hogan match which wasn't going on last. Also, it was the first show in which the main event (Goldberg/DDP) didn't include a former WWF star. And hey, look what happened, WCW "accidentally" ran out of time so that the show cut off after Hogan/Warrior. Coincedence? Maybe. But it's a hell of a coincedence.

Reading the whole list, only 30% of these apply to me. As being the whitest whiteboy who ever whited, I call shenanigans.

Yeah, it usually seemed to speed my pulse up a bit.

I've taken it a few times. I used to pop one before going to my weekly indy show. Since I was doing live commentary on every match all night long, it helped me keep up my energy and concentration. As for what it feels like, it's just an upper. Makes you hyper, you tend to talk loud and grind your teeth a lot.

There's quite a few specific things that I don't like about Obama. Here's the main ones. And do not claim I'm making any of this up, it's all directly from the nonpartisan and well-researched website Ontheissues.org. -He voted for partial-birth abortions. I'm generally pro-choice, but I don't see much difference between partial-birth abortions and just waiting a couple minutes and then strangling the baby after it's born. -Despite his strong pro-gay agenda, oddly enough he's completely against gay marriage. Coincedentally, gay marriage is the one big gay issue which conservatives have actively crusaded against for the past few years. I get the impression that Obama backs off on the marriage issue because it's the one hot button that everyone gets ornery about these days and he doesn't want to rock the boat. -He demanded free college for any student with a B average, bu didn't explain how to pay for it. -He claims he never took money from federal lobbyists or their companies. Then he says that loopholes like taking money from the lobbyist's wives, which he has admitted doing, doesn't count. -He wants to ban all semi-automatic firearms. I'm generally not a fan of gun control, but even objectively this is just stupid. There are probably well over a hundred million semi-auto guns out there, and it would be impossible to confiscate them all. -He claimed that reducing obesity rates would save us one trillion dollars, which is about fifty times larger than the real number. -He promised he wouldn't vote for the Patriot Act. He voted for the Patriot Act. -He wants to give social security benefits and driver's licenses to illegal aliens. I don't agree with the "hunt 'em down like dogs!" school of thought on the immigration issues, but I don't agree with giving them free government benefits. -He lied about the current rate of violence in Iraq, saying it's worse now than two years ago, statistically incorrect. -For an anti-war candidate, he sure voted in favor of the war a lot. Not that Obama is the only candidate I dislike. I could do a list like this for any of them, and will be voting for none of them.

So what do you think about Obama's support of partial-birth abortions?

That should be the correct sequence.

Is Megaupload working for anyone else? I can't get the site to come up at all for me. Which makes me a sad panda, considering the huge number of ganked shoots that our fine gentleman Chuck just dropped on us.

Yikes. I know I sometimes preach the fat girl gospel a little too hard, but that chick is below even my standards. The one in the first post, that is. I would hope the other one is below everyone's standards.

Tasers aren't a good option here. Police rarely use them against criminals armed with guns, and with good reason. Tasers have a very short range, just a few yards, and aren't terribly accurate. If you've got a taser and I've got a gun, all I have to do is back up a few steps and then shoot you from a position of complete safety. Plus their effects are often unpredictable, with some people being able to just shrug it off. The sad fact is that there's no such thing as a reliable form of non-lethal long range weaponry. Ever worn one? They're heavy, awkward, and get real hot real fast. It's hard to convince many college kids to wear their seatbelts, there's no way you'd get even half of them to wear the vests on a regular basis. Plus they're expensive, hundreds of dollars apiece. And the kind that civilians can buy are only rated to stop pistols loaded with conventional bullets. If you've got specialized ammo or any kind of rifle, they'll generally go through a kevlar vest like it's not even there. They don't stop knives either. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: there is no way to prevent these types of massacre shootings. These people aren't stopped by gun control laws, or metal detectors, or Three Strikes laws. It's literally like trying to stop a suicide bomber. The only way to do it is to catch them before they act, and that's much easier said than done.

Hope you don't end up in the same camp as me. I'm a fat guy who intends on staying that way, and I fight dirty. I'll take yo' cornbread, sucka. Or whatever cornbreadish tofu substitute that Commandant Rainflower decides to give us, anyway.

Most of the people who post incomplete entries in this thread are content to simply leave out the title or author of the book they're quoting. Not ErnieRowe; he's truly a free spirit, so he provides the title without the quote. He leaned close to me. His eyes were serious and bleak, but not hard. "Is there anything in Lavery's place, apart from the gun, that might indicate Crystal has been there lately?" The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

True dat, yo. However, since Jack is currently on the shelf with a broken face (as in, had four steel plates inserted) maybe they went to Eminem as the next best thing.

I'm amazed by the number of people who are more willing to believe that there is a Fake Curry Man than to believe that Daniels just has a wig under the mask. Hell, I've known at least two indy workers who had masks with fake hair built in.

Can you see Marvin as the governor's son in Oh Brother Where Art Thou, saying "Hey pappy, maybe we shoud get us some o' that re-form!"

Anyone wanna take bets on whether I liked Impact or not? And we're already off and running, as Tenay and West are so addicted to the sound of their own voices that they try to talk over the opening pyro, and you can barely hear a word they say. Does ANYONE think the Angle "comedy" sketches are actually funny? This one was especially lame since it involves Kurt's daughter, who looks like she can't be a day over five years old. Having young kids as onscreen talent for a business as scummy as wrestling is inexcusable. So, they've tried for THREE WEEKS just to get Samoa Joe to sign a contract, and someone apparently runs in every time. Does the contract legally require to be signed on television? Why can't they just FedEx the damn thing to him? What's next, a contract signing in a steel cage? Joe and Christian both sucked out loud in their mic work, with Cornette only barely managing to save the whole segment. Since when does AJ Styles consider Angle's wife to be his woman? I wonder what AJ's real-life conservative Christian wife thinks of this storyline at home. Okay, I admit I laughed at Bubba's desperate attempts to make the weight limit for his match. Curry Man is hilarious, from his crazy entrance onward, it's the kind of out-of-the-box goofiness you rarely see in American wrestling. Stone Cold Sharkboy... meh. He's got the impression down well enough, but I just think the whole gimmick is a bad idea. Holy SHIT did you see that fucking disgusting bump Johnny Devine took for the stunner?! Find something for this guy to actually do. And hey look, yet another handicap match ends with one guy beating two, what a shock. We've got Scott Steiner vs. Abyss, a match which has never been done before and that I find at least a little intriguing. So of course TNA promptly ruins it by having Abyss walk away without even getting in the ring. Way to make your psychotic hardcore monster babyface to look like a complete pussy. Steiner vs. Petey Williams was okay. I'm not a big fan of Petey, but they worked well enough together; I don't know how the hell Steiner has pulled off this resurgence over the past couple years, but he's been performing better than he has anytime in the previous decade. Too bad about the clueless, nervous-looking new diva with the awful name of "Rocka Khan". And hey, how about that pop when Steiner helped Petey up after the match?! Damn that Russo, he insisted that good sportsmanship doesn't get over!!! Is there a lazier angle in wrestling than the one where someone gets laid out in the back, off-camera, and we only come upon them laying there out cold? This one was so lame they didn't even bother having anyone trying to help Christian after he'd been beaten into unconciousness. GodFuckingDAMMIT, Kevin Nash is in a match. And his worthless selfish crippled lying lazy has-been never-was ass is beating the shit out of younger, actually talented fellows like Styles and Tomko. Those two both punched Nash exactly once apiece, in between long sessions of the old guy with gimpy knees kicking both their asses simultaneously. Nash didn't take one bump, and Joe got pinned. Fuck this fucking show. Anyone else notice that Steiner and Tomko both won their matches with Olympic Slams? Nash and Joe, promo time. Joe does all the talking, thus negating the entire justification for Nash continuing to breathe. Ohhhh, this is a bad, bad show. Rellik has about the stupidest, most simplistic "supernatural" gimmick possible. His name is Killer spelled backwards, he wears a spooky hockey mask, and his hometown is Salem. You know, the place where there WEREN'T ANY WITCHES. The Motor City Machineguns, LAX, and some Nascar hicks proceed to cut the WORST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME. Eight people, one microphone, and everybody's talking at once. Just bush league and terrible. Sabin vs. Rave vs. Homicide is a fun match, so of course they only go for three minutes and includes massive interference. Rave and Hoyt with the Guitar Hero controllers is pretty humorous, especially with Hoyt dressed up like Slash. Shelly Martinez and Christy Hemme need to do some lesbian porn together, tomorrow. Some other clueless Nascar putz does guest commentary, and he creeps me out by being a Roddy Piper soundalike. Rhino is here! Rhino is talking. Rhino isn't goring anyone. Boo-urns. And then he demands THE RETURN OF THE GODFUCKING SCAFFOLD MATCH at the next PPV. Rhino vs. James Storm in a match where some 250 pound guy has to fall off a scaffold, can't see anything possibly going wrong here! Sweet Jesus make the pain stop. It's time for the one part of the show I've actually been looking forward to, the women's match, and guess what? They manage to fuck that up too! Awesome Kong vs. ODB is mostly one of those boring Attitude-style brawls on the floor, and has one of the worst-timed commercial breaks I've ever seen. Gail Kim runs in, and at least her perky nipples gave me something to look at. Kong still has Cheerleader Melissa inexplicably dressed up in a burkha as a Muslim bodyguard, and it's stupid beyond words. We also find out that Kong's finisher is called the IMPLANT BUSTER. No, really, I'm serious, the words "Implant Buster" actually came out of Don West's mouth. Absolutely disgusting. And now it's time for the Angle wedding, and it's about as retarded as you'd expect. The joke about Jeremy Borash being the maid of honor would've been funnier if they hadn't run it into the ground by saying it twenty times in a row. The classiest thing was having Angle's preschool-aged daughter there at ringside, so she could get a nice close look at her dad getting stripped down to his underwear and beaten unmercifully, and hear her mom get called a "dimestore gold-digging skank" and get kissed by another man. And somehow Karen Angle and AJ Styles get married. I HATE TNA SO FUCKING MUCH.