James Van Der Beek has been doing that a lot recently, and he has become awesome. He is like a less talented Neal Patrick Harris (let's see Dawson song and dance like NPH), and I'm hoping he parlays a career comeback out of it like NPH did from Harold and Kumar. Too bad that "Don't tell the B in apartment 23" show wasn't that good.
Does that Xenadrin commercial with the futuristic sex cyborg zombie chicks who summon lightning by walk-dancing and fist pumps actually work? Who's watching that thinking, "Damn, that could be ME?!" Personally, I relate more to the Denny's commercial where the old guy promotes pancakes by saying they taste like 'murica.
Know whats a teeeyn? My hockey team. The old bastards manage to get 88 penalty minutes. We had 6 misconducts. It was ridiculous. Btw Gaunt, your fb post makes way more sense now. The Xenadrin commercials work because fat girls (and dudes) see that and think Hey I want to be dancing like that, I guess. That commerical reminds me of the orgy scene in the Matrix.
Someone saying they want to dance like that is akin to saying that they one day hope to walk up a flight of stairs.
I just got back from New Buffalo because my parents came up north for a visit. After having dragged the three heathens around, listening to roughly 5 meltdowns an hour, and dealing with children who wouldn't sleep I now understand the phrase "I need a vacation from my vacation. " On a positive note it was great to see my folks.
Look again at the redhead throwing the shit-massive hit right before the try (the guy who makes the pass to the scorer gets smoked). I surprised he's still wearing socks getting blindsided like that. Rugby, Aussie Football and Lacrosse are as primal as it gets for sports. Sure, there's those weird ones like the sport where the two guys basically beat the shit out of each other with hard leather straps, but on an international basis nothing beats them. I was talking to a member here on the last G+ (Tom was it? He was a big guy with a classy accent I honestly didn't know) and how he says despite the hard contact in rugby it's a "Gentlemen's Game". Guys help each other up after hits, and try to keep the dirty play to a minimum. I'm like REALLY? Because our rugby team in high school hand-crafted their cleats in shop class to resemble less like turf-gripping wedges and more like ninja stars "For the other team's ankles". Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Not gentleman-like to say the least.
I was severly depressed in high school that the coach wouldn't let me play for our rugby team. To his credit, he did it because he didn't want to see me get stomped flatter than a cheap pizza, he was my wrestling coach but every "little guy" in high school like myself joins that team because you only fight guys your own size.. I tipped the scale at a whopping 140 pounds maybe before my senior year and the rest of the guys on the team were apes with murder in their heart who won the city championship every year I was there. I wanted to play because I loved contact sports andunlike wrestling I had a lot of friends on the team. You could tell they were my friends, because in tryouts they tore me limb-from-limb (guys do that). Then I was told I made the team but would never play because I was too small. Sweet, huh?
We didn't have rugby available at my high school so I don't really understand the rules. I watched some when they were talking about a football strike a couple years back and it's pretty fun to watch. I'm not sure I would have played or not but it looks fun (dangerous).
Wait, what? When I was at school (and my old high school was *serious* about their rugby), the small guys used to get picked at flyhalf or scrumhalf, because size mattered less in those positions - it was more about being able to kick and pass accurately. A small scrumhalf is actually a good thing - a smaller guy is harder to hit in that position, but you had to be able to take a hit, since you'd be right on the back of the scrum and usually a starting point for most attacking plays, so you'd be a target for opposing players. I'm guessing you weren't good at kicking or something? In other news, we're getting 3 new channels on the satellite package next month, all filled with series. Nice. I'm hoping one will be for classic series - I'd love to see The Wire again and Breaking Bad (I never saw it)...