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Old School Match of the Day


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NScr9u9u0Y

Is it just me or does it not sound like Gorilla & Bobby are calling the match directly from their seats of the Prime Time Wrestling TV set?


​Perish the thought.  ​

Comments

  1. What are you talking about? Lou Thesz = ratings.

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  2. Zombie Randy Savage just isn't a draw, BROTHER!

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  3. Needs more "_______ On A Pole" matches.

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  4. Wait, Scott really wasn't clear enough...so Russo is or isn't going to matter?

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  5. And so long as Spike and Panda energy are fine with that TNA will continue to exist.

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  6. I was really happy to find Smackdown HCTP,pretty rare in here.

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  7. I Love that just last year or late 2012 Russo said one of his "I swear on the souls of my children I am done with professional wrestling" rants he always does

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  8. I actually like to go to antique stores to buy paintings. You can get some really cool art to hang on the wall. Also its a great place to find gifts for people who want a bottle of alcohol as a present.

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  9. That is a really misleading email. Russo is a consultant only. The guy is happy in Denver living his life. He gets emailed scripts offers advice, hes not the creative outlet. He is not the booker, lagana under Big are in charge.

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  10. Well, as a former world champion, I think Vince Russo can say whatever he wants!

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  11. You don't think blatantly stealing an idea from the wwe and then executing it with guys who don't have 1% of the talent will put them over the top?

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  12. It's how I started most of my video game/movie collection back in the day growing up as a poor loser. My favorite was buying an old man's VHS stash, like 75 movies for $5. That's how I watched like everything from the 70s and 80s.

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  13. Ebert once wrote that Gene Siskel's prized possession in life was the white leisure suit that John Travolta wore in Saturday Night Fever. Not sure how that relates here, but it seems really amusing to me.

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  14. I had just finished reading Book 4 of the Dark Tower series. That afternoon I went into a Goodwill and found the next three books on the shelf, exactly the same versions (same cover styles and bindings). $3 later and I was ready to finish the series like I'd had the books lined up the whole time.

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  15. Zombie savage would get me interested!

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  16. Your_Favourite_LoserApril 18, 2014 at 11:57 AM

    recently i might have found a female interested in me.

    rarest. find. ever.

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  17. I read today that the reason they put the title on EY is to cross promote with his reality show on Animal Planet. That is hilarious if true.

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  18. In med school and a few years after I went through a huge pawn store shops. Bought an awesome laptop, flat screen TV and tons of other stuff from pawn shops. Never had an issue with anything I bought

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  19. I read a blurb about that and thought it was a joke.

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  20. Your_Favourite_LoserApril 18, 2014 at 12:09 PM

    dude, that was the residents' lounge. leaving a quarter in place of the item doesnt count

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  21. It's only stealing if you get caught!

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  22. This is TNA. NOTHING should be considered "beneath" them...

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  23. Now let's be realistic here.


    If CM Punk were to show up on Impact, that would garner... at least a 1.2, right?

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  24. About twenty years ago, I found the Ken Patera story and the '87 Crockett Cup on vhs at a flea market. Got them both for $2

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  25. Years ago, found an Atari 2600 and like 50 games for $10 at a yard sale.

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  26. Do you guys think we dump on TNA more because of how stupid the booking is or because we're frustrated that despite signing good talent throughout its history, it hasn't been able to become the WWE alternative/WCW replacement we wish it could have become?

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  27. No zombies are!

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  28. I got Andre Dawson, Dale Murphy, and cal Ripken Jr. Rookie cards for .25 cents a piece from an old guy at a yard sale when I was 10 years old

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  29. point A directly leads to point B in this case.

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  30. We dump on TNA because they do dumb things that are easy to make fun of.

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  31. I think you're asking at least partly in jest, but it's an interesting question as to just how much any modern-day WWE star could move the TNA needle. We always talk about how "the brand" is the star in WWE now, and while that's not *entirely* true, that would be a decent-if not wholly scientific- litmus test.

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  32. I think it is also because of the vehemence with which the TNA cultists on the net defend EVERYTHING that TNA does. Every angle is the best ever, every wrestler is awesome, and every episode of Impact is amazing. And if you disagree you get told how bad WWE is. It gets to a point where I find myself hating TNA just because of their fans.

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  33. In 1991, a girl at my school gave me a copy of Motley Crue's Too Fast For Love on vinyl in exchange for some Skid Row pictures for various metal mags. Turns out it the extremely rare Leathur Records version. I don't think she realized what she had, and I wasn't about to say anything.

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  34. The 411 newsline would look something like:


    • CM Punk complains about TNA creative
    • CM Punk complains about TNA ring size
    • CM Punk complains about Dixie Carter
    • CM Punk threatens to walk out if he's not put in BFG main event
    • CM Punk complains about complainers
    • CM Punk says the non-existent touring schedule is burning him out
    • CM Punk complains about lack of pay
    • CM Punk complains about lack of ratings
    • CM Punk complains

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  35. You know how to show your lady a good time Meekin

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  36. That thinking wouldn't surprise me.

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  37. I think it's mostly Dixie Carter being dumb. The only time I really remember any good will for that company was in the mid-00's when the X-Division was putting on great wrestling and when that failed to turn them into a WWE sized company they immediately hired Hogan and all his friends and basically recreated the dying days of WCW.


    They've got an endless line of credit and they just keep throwing it down the disposal.

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  38. I own a rare copy of Ghettopoly.

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  39. I found WCW Mayhem for both the N64 and the PS1

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  40. Don't you see, they've been following WCW's template for success!

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  41. Oprah NoodlemantraApril 18, 2014 at 1:14 PM

    I was convinced that "Big John" was just Russo in a fat suit...

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  42. Well and that's really the thing, I think that's why all the venom, we've already seen a company do these things and end up bankrupt.


    They'll have a little sparkle of hope about once a year and then just proceed to beat it to death with moronic decisions. It's the depressing reality of never having another war that makes people hate TNA, their failure to do anything of relevance.

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  43. Your_Favourite_LoserApril 18, 2014 at 1:15 PM

    i found the trivium blue ep (their 1st release) for 10 bucks at a used cd store a few years ago. it typically goes for hundreds on ebay.


    a lot of my rare finds are rare in the sense that you're not gonna see them all together in one place. there's an awesome chain of used cd's store here called the exchange, and for example, a few weeks before christmas one year, for whatever reason they had basically all of saga's discography used for 5 or 6 bucks a cd. you can order that stuff, but you won't find it in stores. so i rounded out my saga collection for about 50 bucks, as a christmas present to boot.


    i've also come across a ton of cd's that you'd have to order for full price, are oop, etc.

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  44. Don't worry, Jeff Jarrett and Toby Keith are gonna fix everything!

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  45. Your_Favourite_LoserApril 18, 2014 at 1:17 PM

    i once found wcw on sale for like $10, a bunch of jobbers' contracts + the video library included



    i picked up the ecw video library about a month or so before that for even less

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  46. Honestly if they booted up a company and just said flat out "We're a territory, that's it, a nice little southern territory that does classic territory stuff" I don't think people would mind, they might even watch it as a throwback.


    If they were just bush league the way ECW was and sort of reveled in that fact no one (I think) would care, the other part of easily hating TNA is while they're clearly the bush league of all bush leagues they scream every show about how they're taking over the world.


    Just be a little territory fed, pretending that you're on WWE's level just makes you look dumb. (Editorial "you" obviously)

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  47. Hm, I wonder what CM Punk would do after that?

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  48. What you're saying is generally true. I think there's money in evoking people's memory of "Southern Rasslin'". Money that should probably already belong to TNA.

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  49. Oh I bought a stainless steel meat smoker for $20 when I was in college. Unfortunately I only used it once.

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  50. I would be ALL IN on a dirty, smoky, bloody southern territory that just rehashed stuff from Mid-South for the next twenty years, I can't be the only one.

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  51. I loved Trivium when they first came out. The last 2-3 albums haven't done anything for me. The latest one blows.

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  52. Those go for like 5-600 now, don't they?

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  53. WCW battle bowl 93 for a dollar

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  54. If Jarrett's promotion comes to fruition, I wouldn't be surprised to see Russo be the booker for that given how Jarrett likes him.

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  55. WRONG. I'd only complain if they didn't have Gerber in catering and have the correct diaper size. Waaaaaaa

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  56. Your_Favourite_LoserApril 18, 2014 at 2:09 PM

    i liked in waves, havent really heard shogun

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  57. Your_Favourite_LoserApril 18, 2014 at 2:09 PM

    he'll buy that for a dollar!

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  58. I forgot about those people until I read the Jesse Neal thing on 411 this morning and read the comments section. Yikes!

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  59. Your_Favourite_LoserApril 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM

    "stainless steel meat smoker"

    a droid that gives bj's

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  60. A Canadian Loonie even

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  61. I found an original-printing (ie: no blur) Summerslam 2000 DVD at a pawn shop in 2006. This was already extremely difficult to find, and it only cost me five bucks.

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  62. Lol. You win this thread

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  63. About 6-8 years ago, I was in a consignment shop in some small town in upstate New York. My then-girlfriend wanted to look for some new used furniture/furnishings for our apartment. So, while she's looking at the housewares, I discover about 6 longboxes on the floor in front of the counter.


    I start going through them, about to give up after the third box because it's full of crap I didn't care about when I see something in the fourth box.


    Crisis on Infinite Earths No. 1. I go to grab it. The second issue is right behind it. And the third. The fourth, all the way through to issue 12. This guy had a complete run, and the books were in fantastic condition for books that were more than 20 years old.


    At $2 per issue, I felt like I got a steal.

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  64. Those no blur DVDs had quite a market on ebay for awhile.

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  65. That's about what they are still worth.

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  66. When Jeff Hardy jumped back the 2nd time he was red hot. I mean he was hotter than cena. He was close to Daniel Bryan hot. I thought for sure he would bump their ratings up. Obviously not that he would beat the wwe but I figured he'd get them at least an extra 100k or 2 viewers. He didn't move that shit an inch. So I don't even know if they got cena and punk to show up with Shawn Michaels and ripped off the nwo angle if they could raise the ratings.

    Part of it might be spikes horrible position on peoples cable channels. I know its in a weird jumble of channels on my att u verse. Also its possible lots of people don't even know what it is. This is just a silly antedoctal story but I heard some guy talking about this hulk Hogan documentary and he said it seemed like he was just trying to promote his "TNT" thing. I had no idea what he was talking about and then a little-while later it dawned on me he probably meant TNA.

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  67. Like the phrase "Otters" I'm the only one that loves this I think.

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  68. I had a shitload of "Battle Beast" toys as a kid, and I still find them in Vintage Shops/Antique Shops to this day, so that's pretty cool. It's hard to find the more rare ones (though apparently the Chameleon one I have is SUPER-hard to get, even for collectors).

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  69. Hogan on O&A a week ago:


    Opie: "Where have you been man?"
    Hogan: "The funny thing is I've been on TV the last five years straight but not a single person saw me."

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  70. Most of the knockouts division.

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  71. "Mr. Overdraft" Jef VinsonApril 18, 2014 at 2:29 PM

    TGGI

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  72. "Mr. Overdraft" Jef VinsonApril 18, 2014 at 2:30 PM

    How....do the two target audiences even BEGIN to..you know what? Nevermind.

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  73. "Mr. Overdraft" Jef VinsonApril 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM

    "• CM Punk fucks Dixie Carter"



    FTFY

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  74. Countless action figures worth some money when cleaned up and properly resold. Too many to mention.

    Found a lot of NES carts for cheap that turned out to be worth $10 - $30.

    The ultimate find though was a bunch of old NWA/WCW VHS tapes, just sitting there under a "ALL VHS MOVIES $0.49/3 FOR $1.00" sign. Halloween Havoc 1989, Starrcade 1990, Great American Bash '90... I kept all seven of those bad boys, you better believe.

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  75. Good, keep him in a wrestling company I'll never watch of cluttering shoots and stuff with his bullshit.

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  76. We can take care of them if they come here.

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  77. Besides the various Sunday Strip books I bought or had bought for me, best purchase I've ever made at a second-hand store is a fully functional no-glitch copy of WWF No Mercy. Some other great games I got were Super Mario Land, Adventure Island II (Game Boy), and NCAA Football 11 (fuck you, I liked the EA koolaid for a time)


    I'm less inclined to make the visits because my roomie is a constant bargain hunter who annoys the fuck out of me 98% of the time with his random purchases, not to mention I have ROMs and emulators for the old school game purchases, which are better anyways because savestates and screenshots and movie making within the emulator and etc etc etc. Occasionally I do get a decent kids sports novel (guilty pleasure, give me a ripoff template of the Bad News Bears or the Mighty Ducks and I'll be pleased any day.), and of course the collection of stuff like Dilbert and Doonesbury grows ever bigger.

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  78. They for a decent amount. I eventually got it fully signed, so if I ever die, the wife can get a pretty penny for it.

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  79. "Mr. Overdraft" Jef VinsonApril 18, 2014 at 3:55 PM

    I found a 1943 penny in a jar of change last week. The machine kept spitting it out and I almost threw it away before I checked the date on it.

    I also saw the Georgia Championship Wrestling TV title belt on eBay that I just missed out on. (Dammit)

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  80. Mad props to Jeff Jarrett for becoming a pariah in TWO national feds.

    Anyway he can piss of ROH to complete the trifecta?

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  81. Part of the problem is that they have percentages working against them. If you have a 1.0 average rating, you need to increase your viewers by 10% to bump it up 0.1. If you already have a 3.0 rating, you need only raise it by about 3% to do the same.

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  82. If you hadn't told the Crisis story here I would have been very disappointed

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  83. That sports card market really went to shit over the last 15 years or so didn't it?

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  84. Adding a known dead person to the roster would definitely get people's attention.


    Edo Tensei Chris Benoit vs Edo Tensei Bruiser Brody would be huge!

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  85. Jesus Christ... this is going to require a complete gimmick overhaul!

    Seriously though good luck/congrats.

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  86. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryApril 18, 2014 at 4:13 PM

    Scored one of the copies of Revenge of Shinobi with Batman and Spiderman at a thrift store for $5, pretty much in perfect condition. I also lament that I had a Sonic the Hedgehog board game from MB that I no longer do that actually is pretty rare

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  87. TJ: just watched the Pistons 30 for 30. Seen all of them...this is one if the best. If you're a hoops fan, watch it

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  88. Ugh, I remember in 1994, I looked back at cards 10 years old and saw they were worth thousands, so I got into it via basketball cards, and figured I'd be able to make a killing off them.


    Turns out, everyone else thought about the same in '94 and the market was flooded with tons of cards, held by tons of people, and no-one wanted them.


    I still have all mine though.

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  89. Your _ Favorite_ Stud

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  90. Haven't seen it yet but saw the clip of Bird throwing the ball at Laimbeer's head. It never gets old.

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  91. guy at the flea market used to have a ton of JCP shows on vhs back in the day before youtube and the like. Could have probably done better for himself if got into tape trading

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  92. Great moment. Topped only by Barkley throwing the ball at Shaq

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  93. So so good. I was born in 88, so I have more of an association with the 2004 Pistons championship team, but I eat up the footage with the Bad Boys. Love the physicality they had. Guys today would stand no chance against a team like that

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  94. I couldn't pass up telling that story! It was a helluva find.

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  95. Another odd find, from a few months ago:


    I was walking to a bar with one of my coworkers as we happened upon a pile of random crap left outside on the sidewalk to be picked up. She goes towards a good-looking tripod and a painting, but my eye brought me somewhere else.


    You know those Santa Claus figures that sing/dance/whatever? Instead of Santa, I found an almost perfect Louis Armstrong. White jacket, trumpet in hand, almost completely in tact, except for the battery lid (and some batteries).


    I grabbed the thing, brought it with me to the bar, because I didn't want to risk anyone else taking it. Everyone at the bar LOVES the Armstrong, asking me where I found it. And then there was the flaw in my plan: angry drunkards.


    One guy at the bar had clearly had too much to drink and decided HE should have my Louis Armstrong. He kept coming over to me, asking if I would give it to him, since it was his birthday. I was starting to get concerned that he was either going to steal him or knock me out and take him. So, I made him a deal. If he wanted the doll so bad, I'd give it to him, but he had to pay for my drinks for the night.


    He took the deal and the Louis Armstrong and I had a night of free drinks. My coworker and I also won a trivia night that night, so we walked away with a second voucher for the next time.

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  96. Fun Fact: Lisa Ann said John Salley has the biggest penis she's ever seen. Said it didn't even feel good.

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  97. Mister_E_Studd_Got100ProblemsApril 18, 2014 at 6:31 PM

    HIT IT!

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  98. Mister_E_Studd_Got100ProblemsApril 18, 2014 at 6:34 PM

    "As someone who was once offered Roger Ebert's wardrobe"


    I can't even really articulate why, but this line gives me a chuckle.

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  99. You're definitely going to die

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  100. I used to work at a consignment shop and people would constantly come in with Beanie Babies, thinking they were all collectibles. We had to explain that EVERYBODY owns Beanie Babies and that the average one doesn't carry any value.

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  101. Is there still a market for the original WWF VHS tapes and DVDs? The no-blur ones of course

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  102. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryApril 18, 2014 at 8:37 PM

    That's because it's not about length, it's about snugness. You gotta fit together like a L-line finishing off a Tetris!

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  103. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryApril 18, 2014 at 8:43 PM

    I really hate that I don't have ESPN right now, since I love me some 30for30. Esp since they also rolled out a doc about the Hillsborough disaster.

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  104. By "natural causes" of course.

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  105. Amsterdam_Adam_CurryApril 18, 2014 at 9:51 PM

    I guy I know sold me a NEO-GEO CD and 7 or 8 games for $50, that could probably fetch at least 10 times that on ebay. Dude offered it to me for $20 (drugs are bad, mmmmmkay...) but I can only lowball someone so much and not feel guilty about it.

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