LessonInMachismo

The CMLL tag title belts as seen today on the show look like generic, oversized versions of the late-80's WWF IC title belt. Also, the commentators said "Kofi Annan" during a match. What could they have been talking about? Guy #1: Wow, he hit him hard! Guy #2: He hit him harder than the lawsuits hit Kofi Annan!

Sí, yo puedo hablar español, pero no puedo comprender cuando ellos hablar muy rapido.

But his brother Rod was so much cooler. He got to nail Inga.

Was it when he promoted "Rockabilly?"

Thanks a bunch.

They're probably thinking... "I've got to get rid of this toothless redneck! It's almost break time!" I love the stigma that comes from being a wrestling fan. Seriously. I like to talk with all these food technologists and other intellectual types at work about serious stuff and then "let it slip" that I'm a fan. They have these dumbfounded looks on their faces like they can't understand how an intelligent man like myself could LIKE wrestling.

The Kingdom, not Kingdom Come, and it was the moron Waid's idea.

Enough of this! Vader...release him! I picked up the novelization today at Wal-Mart for $17.96. The only reason I bought is because Matt Stover is the author. He did excellent jobs on Traitor and Shatterpoint, and I really liked his dark style, so I had planned on buying the novelization ever since I heard he was going to be the author. I'm hoping he will really go into Mace's head in the book, kind of as a continuance to Shatterpoint.

But when these "minor nuisances" that I had nothing to do with add up to several hundred dollars of your security deposit/pro-rated rent being taken away you tend to get a bit pissy (if memory serves the amount was around $500). Like LIM said in this thread, landlords will nitpick at every little thing to get more of your security deposit. Now I can understand that many tennants are assholes and leave a place in shitty condition, but that's not the fault of the tennants out there that try to keep a living quarters clean. I suggest to anyone moving in a place to spend the first day or so inspecting the place and taking pictures of anything that a landlord might charge you for when you move out. Make copies of the pictures and give the landlord a copy. And if the pics aren't dated, get them notarized if possible. For once, trust your elders on this one, young TSM posters. For both. lol -- when we moved into our house in August, the lawn hadn't been mowed in at least a month. The couple we bought the house from were old and didn't do the lawncare (which I don't blame them for -- they have both since passed on). Anyway, we figured we'd buy a lawn mower once we got moved in. No sense in buying it and then having to put it in a U-Haul. Anyway, the first day or so we had all our stuff in the house this neighborhood kid comes up and offeres to mow our lawn. He did a shitty job, but it was better than having a jungle growing. All I needed to do was have my car parked on cinder blocks and we would have looked like white trash. Oh, and since we moved in, two houses nearby have been sold, and two more are on the market. This was all after I had my Bush/Cheney sign out on the front yard (Our house was the only one with such a sign...) This weird, nervous mulato kid and a little white kid with an earring showed up at my door a year after I moved into my first house. They said they wanted to mow my lawn. I told them I'd pay them $10. So I go to the store, come back and find the lawn half mowed. I go to the side of the house and found that they had run over a sewer pipe plug. PVC was everywhere. I guess they got scared and took off. I started up my lawnmower, finished the job, cleaned up the PVC and went to the hardware store to buy the stuff to repair the pipe. Cost me over $10. So the mulato kid shows up a few days later wanting his money. I started doing Rock gestures and said, "Let me get this straight...you mowed half my lawn, tore up a pipe without cleaning it up and you expect me to pay you?" The kid just stared at me. So I took my wallet out and said, "Kid, here's five bucks. Never come back. Take this as a lesson in life. If you had stayed and admitted your mistake, maybe things would have turned out differently." The next day the white kid sees my driving and yells, "Hey, I helped him mow the lawn, too!" So I yell back, "You owe me five bucks, then!" Speaking of political signs, that neighborhood was strictly Kerry/Edwards. My house, the one next door and one down the street were the only houses that were new and worth more than $100,000, but the next three streets were all new and there were a few Bush/Cheney signs. Up in the mansion area where Bill Clinton used to live was all Kerry, too. Here in my new suburban neighborhood, almost every house had a Bush/Cheney sign and there weren't any Kerry signs. My boss lives in a crappy townhouse in the university area and he got thrashed for his Bush/Cheney signs. He proceeded to put up a W cardboard cutout.

I agreed with everything you said, except surely you could have found a better example than Babylon 5 B5 rocks all.

Update, BL?

I'd like to see that new British kid that WWE just inked (forget his name) team with Doug Williams (who they should ink) with Regal as their manager. They could be a serious, asskicker tag team.

Why did you steal my sig idea? Micah L. Glossinger Tough Enough Contestant Group: Members Posts: 69 Member No.: 6366 Joined: 16-September 04 69, dude!

If we were going to cut those programs in an across-the-board effort to balance the budget, that'd be one thing. But to cut them out INSTEAD OF cancelling a tax cut? No thanks. I'm not going to completely take away health coverage from the poor and the elderly just so we can owe a few less dollars on April 15th. Then why don't people like you, and richies like Kerry, Edwards and Dean DONATE 3/4 of your salaries to the poor and elderly? What a novel idea!

You have to pass a test. You need to name 5 Famous Canadians who aren't Athletes or Actors/Comedians. Gerard Bull, traitor to the free world.

That was uncalled for. His opinions are as valid as the next man's. The fact that you brought up his nationality undid the fact that you can argue better than he can. Dickhead. Maybe if the U.S had taken the Canadian compromise at the U.N seriously instead of just brushing it off, there wouldn't be the mess that we see now. Maybe if Canada would have dealt with Gerard Bull themselves, the Mossad wouldn't have had to deal with him...their way.

But these people are putting their lives on the line for something they believe in. They are following orders. The whole "we don't support the war, though" is a form of patronization. I see it as more of a gesture of pity than of support. How is that patronizing? If anything, I think it indicates a paramount respect for the people doing the actual fighting. That's how I feel: I still don't think this war was particularly necessary, but we're in it, so I hope we win it with absolutely the fewest possible casualties. I don't think most people who oppose the war are so self-important that they think their individual opinions are nearly as important as the lives of American soldiers. For one, I think they say that because if they said they didn't support the troops, they'd lose votes or the respect of others, depending upon their position in life. Secondly, if some troops don't believe in the war, then by the liberal logic they shouldn't fight in it. They should go AWOL and act upon their convictions. How can you support someone doing a job the duty of which you disagree with? On Babylon 5, Earth has a civil war. Many in EarthForce take the side of the despotic president, even after he declared martial law, dissolved the Senate and even bombed civilian targets on Mars. Would you say, "Well, I don't agree with that stuff, but the troops are just doing their jobs!?" The point is...if going into Iraq was so wrong, then why didn't the troops revolt? How can you support someone who followed orders that you think are wrong? And some did, a few months back, refusing to follow orders, if I remember correctly.

There was a redneck who lived in his van in the driveway of his sister's house next door to the house that I just sold. He would mow my lawn for $10. Not too bad. I'd pull out of the garage to go to work and he'd be standing there with his skullet, cheap cap and fake Oakley's working on his "race car" and he'd like wave his arms at me and I'd roll the window down and he go, "Want me to zip ya?" I'd just give him the thumbs up and say, "Zip me." On the subject of apartments...yeah, that's a bunch of bullshit. Fortunately, I don't have to put up with a lot of garbage like that because I'm big and menacing. Not only am I 6'6, 270lbs, but I can put this look on that makes people...more inclined to agree with me. When I moved from California in 1998, the shitty apartment I was living in (another story altogether) had a roof that was not only leaking, but was about to collapse. When I handed in the key to the literal four-hundred pound manager, he asked me about the last month's rent. I said in a sarcastic Seinfeld voice, "The check's in the mail." I think that if I would've added "fatboy" to the end of that line, it would've been cooler.

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How is it BS? They don't think that there should be a war, but they aren't exactly rooting for the women and men to die either. They support the troops(do your job and don't do that whole dying thing) but they don't support the war(don't think the troops should be there in the first place). Makes sense to me. But these people are putting their lives on the line for something they believe in. They are following orders. The whole "we don't support the war, though" is a form of patronization. I see it as more of a gesture of pity than of support.

I really get a kick out of the liberal line "I support the troops, but not the war." That's a bunch of BS. No one can realize what it's like to be out in the field unless they've experienced it. A sixth sense takes over. You are fighting for your country and your life at the same time. This verdict is nothing more than the military making it look like they are "doing something" about "stuff like this." Let the boys do their job and we'll do ours.

The Avatar'll come out, tomorrow, Bet your bottom dollar, that tomorrow, There’ll be Mumia... And the day after tomorrow there'll be WrestleMumia! As for the security desposit, the property management company that ran the last complex I lived in before moving on up, so to speak, would do a walk through and then start checking costs and by the time they were done, your deposite was gone. We took really good care of everything, cleaned the carpet, and replaced the stovetop pans (which the company would have charged $30 for, when they are much less in the store) and we stll only got $70 out of $200 back.

I work in food processing and I'm going to tell you some stories that will no doubt frighten you. I work in the quality assurance department and have read thousands of "certificates of analyses" over the years. Depending on what the raw material is, a CoA can read something like this: Certificate of Analysis Vegetable Mix #3 Carrots Peas Corn Staph...............Negative E. Coli..............Negative Salmonella........Negative Listeria.............Negative TPC.................<100 VRB.................None Infestation (insects, etc.).....less than one per 500lbs Not only that, but when we were producing those Uncle Ben's rice bowls a few years ago, the beef we used for the Beef and Broccoli bowl came from some obscure packer and we constantly found pieces of beef with skin and hair and even HUGE arteries. Caterpillars were probably three to every 500lbs of the aforementioned vegetable mix from one of the veggie packers in California. Imagine biting into a nice juicy caterpillar.

Your signature reminds me of that idiot Micah L. Glossinger's. Except yours doesn't look like pure crap, but it's not necessarily funny either. Which again reminds me of that idiot Micah L. Glossinger's signature. Hmmm. I don't know if the intention of my signature is necessarily comedic in nature. It's more like a catalyst for the mind to envision a middle-class, straight-edged guy like Ward Cleaver delivering knife-edged chops to the chest of a hippie like Ward Churchill...and an impetus for the satisfaction that is gained through such a musing.

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