Jingus

Lushy, I would step right over both the girl in your avatar and the one in your sig combined to get to Blanchett.

What Mole said. I smell a little bit of gay in here.

I briefly made an ill-advised change to "J*ingus Christ", but otherwise have had the same name since back in the yellow-board days. Aside from a short period when I changed it to Akira Taue (if you don't know, don't ask) I've had the same avatar the whole time too.

Yeah, that's nice. For many Americans like myself, neither of those are a possible option. Don't bother, I've tried to tell him this before. Like, in my area of Texas, there's no public transportation whatsoever, and riding a bike on these roads would be suicide. Of course, TX also gives tax breaks to anyone who buys a truck, van, SUV, or anything else larger than a regular car. The get classified as "work vehicles", allegedly for farms. So maybe it's just that Texas is actively trying to get people to burn gas all around.

Whole lotta Dark Tower round here. "They hate us because of our freedoms? But really because they're evil. I know they're evil. I was just thinking that maybe if we understood what specifically seemed to trigger the- Why are you apologizing for the terrorists?" from Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken.

And Mystery Science Theater. And OAOAST. And repeatedly failing to get a GED. He still posts at the Pit sometimes.

Because it would essentially be a License To Fuck. As long as you're not born sterile, any time a man and a woman have vaginal intercourse they run the risk of conceiving a fetus. Thus you're basically criminalizing sex. (And don't say Safe Sex, because it doesn't really exist.) I don't like the amount of control our government tries to exercise over people's genitalia now, much less adding on any more fascist bullshit. These "undesirables shouldn't breed" theories are not new, and Hitler was real fond of them. Man I'm not happy about having missed this thread, you can't BUY stupidity like that.

Dude... please stop. Bizarre, that was my next-nearest book.

"Phew." Lavaeolus leaned against a hull, took off his helmet, and wiped his forehead. "That's a load off my mind, I'll tell you. I was afraid the gods might have a grudge against me." Faust Eric by Terry Pratchett

Yes. Direct quote from my brother, during our one and only trip to that state, after buying a pack of gum: "...and it's stale! This state blows!" We flew into Baltimore, took a cab ride from some serial killer who ran a service in a SUV, bought a car from a guy who looked even more like a serial killer, drove over a headache-inducing assortment of crooked roads laid out in a counterintuitive fashion, and ate at the very worst Shoneys I've ever been to. (And I've been to a lot of Shoneyses, and none of them were all that good, so "very worst Shoneys" is a fairly strong statement.) Yet, once we drove over the line into Delaware, everything magically got better like someone flicked a switch.

I've never bought the "gateway drug" arguement. Marijuana is just the first illegal drug that anyone tries because it's by far the most commonly used and easiest to get ahold of. I think smoking weed is an symptom of someone who's already open to doing other stuff, not something which takes innocent whitebread folks and leads them down the path to hell. If it were legal, saying that it leads to other drugs would be almost exactly like claiming that tobacco and alcohol are gateway drugs.

But not forever. He fought the law and, the law won. Or if you prefer, he shot the mayor, but he did not shoot the deputy mayor.

Eat the cracker, get a mod spot.

True, but there's a difference between a homeless alchololic and beggars who wear nice clothes, eat in expensive restaurants, and live in hotels which are at least ritzy enough to offer a continental breakfast. The news about a family of parasites like that would get around pretty damn quick in a town that small, and I can't see how anyone would give these fuckers money. This story just sounds like there's something missing.

Upon doing a little research, this story sounds fishy. According to the article, they're staying in Ashland, OR long term. But according to Wiki, Ashland is a fairly small town of only 20,000 people. How the hell would these beggars somehow keep getting money from the same limited pool of beggees on a long term basis?

Back off, man. He's a scientist.

I am deeply ashamed that nobody has mentioned what is obviously thr most important part of this whole situation: they fired Al Snow too.

Yeah, because your body is 100% pimple-free, I'm sure. Exactly. It's a damn Woody Allen movie. There's never been anything sexy in a Woody Allen movie. Don't get your hopes up, people.

Sometimes people do just drop dead for no apparent reason. Very rarely, but there are enough documented cases of a healthy young person suffering a heart attack or stroke out of nowhere. I'm not saying that's what happened here, but don't say "that doesn't happen" because it occasionally does. I'm still wondering why, with the countless missing persons and murder cases in the world, this one is STILL getting so much media attention. Apparently journalists are still of the opinion that rich pretty white girls are the most important people on earth.

After just today slogging through a whole bunch of episodes of Lost in which they teased all kinds of stuff but nothing important actually happened, yes, I will join you in your crusade against J.J. Abrahms, my real American brotha.

And KISS, and Beetlejuice, and the ICP, and Courtney Cox, and probably several others I'm forgetting, and that was just in 2000. Of course, this is the company which brought us Jay Leno: Main Event Wrestler... and his match was BETTER than the abortions featuring Dennis Rodman. Hey, there's a great candidate: Rodman/Hogan vs. Malone/DDP. I want that forty minutes of my life back. A long WCW tradition, going back to Robocop running in on the Horsemen.

No, I'm another one. IV was the first old-school Wrestlemania I saw on video, so I have a soft spot for it. Plus I'm a mark for tournaments. Plus it was the only Mania which didn't have goddamn Hogan in the main event. Yes, he had a couple of brief runs. The Polaco thing was in, what, 2005? He also had a run sometime around 2003 with a mini-feud against Jerry Lynn. I fondly remember one time they were shooting a backstage fight between the two, and Justin thought that security was being too aggressive in their pulling-apart, and started screaming "Let go of me! It's fucking fake!" Damn near every WCW ppv from their beginning to the bitter end had at least one match on there that absolutely nobody wanted to see.

TOO SOON

Yes, Part 3 is the one where the first ever non-white characters in an F13 film appear... and they're two gang members and one poor Mexican who tries to pay with food stamps at a gas station. It also features a sex scene and nudity from only one girl... and she's pregnant, which the movie seems to have forgotten about by the time she's in the shower or getting killed via machete through the tit. And it ignores the fact that Jason had been damn near split in half the night before, he acts like nothing's wrong. And it makes Jason look completely different from Part 2, for no real reason. And it has a distasteful rape-ish backstory for the Final Girl. And it's all filmed in shitty 3D which mostly consists of such incredibly lazy shit of someone holding a stick up towards the camera, ooh, exciting. And they didn't even try to explain why Jason was killing these new people. And it had the annoying fat guy. And the gore looked like crap. Part 3 blew. Yes, it was. It was one of the few Friday the 13ths that didn't take itself so damn seriously, it poked fun at itself. Plus you got stuff that the rest of the movies just never showed, like Jason walking around in daylight, or actual children inhabiting the kid's summer camp.