08/21/2005 Entry: "Just another manic Sunday."

Ahh! I passed out from over-wineage early yesterday. We'll have to do our next Saturday Night Thread next Saturday night, yeah. Meantime, here's the All Day Sunday Buffet Super Special Thread. I'm trying to make up for it, see?

Chestnuts roasted by Warx @ 08/21/2005 11:12 AM EST

I had way too much Pizza and beer last night. It's like I'm sitting on a volcano.

Also Jeremy Horn lost last night. I really didn't expect him to sub Chuck Liddell, and he didn put up a better performance and Randy Couture did last time, but I always like the underdog. Now I wait a week to see if Wanderlei pulls of the Pride GP again this time around.

I'm sure 2 of you know what I'm talking about. http://www.sherdog.com/

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak @ 08/21/2005 12:19 PM EST

I was worried i would miss the saturday thread because our cable was out so i couldn't get on the internet and then the power went out. It was a rather bleek saturday night for me.

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/21/2005 01:56 PM EST

You could tell what I was doing last night based on my posts over in the Ghost/Alien/Cryptozoo thread. As middle school as it is, I've taken measures to prevent the debacle that was last Saturday.

Once again, my sincerest apologies Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/21/2005 02:15 PM EST

ooh! Sunday buffet! Let's see, I'll have some lasagna, the roast beef looks good, AMC is showing my favorite Roger Moore Bond film, Live and Let Die, swedish meatballs, some fried okra, I saw the ginormous Starscream Figure (with crown) at my local Wal-Mart, and my Hallowe'en take so far is: two plastic tumblers and cd of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. Hm, just small pieces of cake for dessert. If I scrape the icing off, it should be all right to eat. Of course I'll eat the icing when noe one is looking....

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/21/2005 02:31 PM EST

Yesterday I went to the Sun Prairie Sweet Corn Fest - it was pretty awesome. A tote of like 12 ears of corn only cost $4.00 and you shuck and butter and salt them yourself.
Other highlights, since I know that these sort of events are beloved by X-Ers:
1) We got the Tilt-a-Whirl going ridiciously fast by shifting our weight into the tilts.
2) One of the "games" was literally a couple cider blocks and a bowling ball hanging from the ceiling at the back of the booth and the player was supposed to try to break beer bottles by throwing them at the objects. Very classy.
3) The attitudes of the wanna-be carnies working the rides and games. Not too much job satisfaction there.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 08/21/2005 02:51 PM EST

This is my last free Sunday before classes start again.

And what am I doing? Cleaning my apartment.

Sucks, doesn't it....

I feel a NES gaming session coming on soon...

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 08/21/2005 03:55 PM EST

I don't care if someone has mentioned this before and I missed it. If I did, it deserves to be said again. I only mention this because I assume there may be some cereal eaters is this forum as there may be anywhere. DO NOT under any circumstances eat the cherry pecan flavored Archer Farms cereal that Target is offering. It's like somebody tasted a cherry and started a personal vendetta/smear campaign against them. I had to brush my teeth just to get the disgusting taste out of my mouth and it still hangs on my palette a little bit. We all eventually have to try new things in life, but avoid this stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Andy @ 08/21/2005 04:03 PM EST

My entire sunday consists of watching Dracula: The Series. Where Dracula become a mega business man and such. It's quite the amazing viewing treat.

Chestnuts roasted by AJ @ 08/21/2005 05:08 PM EST

I give Matt a big thumbs up for rectifying past minor oversights. Your "I know I messed up but I am trying to make it all better" is a shining example to dead beat dads everywhere.
Sunday: the inevitable downer. Yes, it's technically part of the weekend but ironically the day when one thinks about work the most.
Geez, YETI, what did Jesus ever do to you to deserve such animosity?

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 08/21/2005 05:54 PM EST

School starts tomorrow and I'm dreading it. On the plus side, I have what is probably my best schedule ever. What's going on with this Furby project Matt? Sounds odd.

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 08/21/2005 06:10 PM EST

Today is one of maybe three Sundays this summer that I actually had to work. I dont like working on Sundays, especially at 8:30am. *pout*

Chestnuts roasted by Jenna @ 08/21/2005 06:15 PM EST

Assisted Living Dracula anyone? Classes start tomorrow, but for the first time in my whole life, I don't need to be there. It's almost sad really...almost but not quite. Life after college is not so bad at all

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/21/2005 06:34 PM EST

Sundays are great, I play Golf Road Baseball like a champion. Only 2 losses for the season folks, that's the best record out of anyone.

Chestnuts roasted by Tenacious Tate @ 08/21/2005 06:58 PM EST

Meh.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 08/21/2005 08:48 PM EST

watching summerslam pretty dull so far waiting for the hogan-hbk match.

Chestnuts roasted by 80'skid @ 08/21/2005 09:45 PM EST

Sundays were meant for laziness!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/21/2005 09:49 PM EST

Don't be player haters, but I just got back from a family vaction to Hawaii. 'Twas sweet, got to do some cool stuff I never thought I'd do, including surfing, scuba diving, and hiking on a volcano (no "Fireball Island" action, but I did see some red hot mmmagma). It was a blast doing it all with the wifey. (Small bonus for the haters, because of the 12 hour time shift between there and here, I'm still suffering jetlag. It's 4am, for cryin' out loud.)

Sunday Routine:
Church; Lunch w/ in-laws; email, visit or call long lost people; maybe more church, maybe more food; sleep. Makes me happy.

Knegative- I know what you mean about not going back to school. I took a break once, (twice now) and it felt so wierd not doing something I had done every year for thirteen years.

Chestnuts roasted by Mad Cow @ 08/21/2005 10:20 PM EST

Halloween approacheth. Grab your McBoo. Madd Matt bring great tidings of wreaking havoc and devouring shitloads of Nair soon.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 08/21/2005 10:40 PM EST

My sunday is of.. buying a bass guitar and hoping it comes wendsday so i can start my lessions, and i begin college again tomorrow on monday..so im eating boneless bbq wings XD;

Chestnuts roasted by DashiKun @ 08/21/2005 11:24 PM EST

I hate sunday because it normally means school the next day [fortunately it's still summer] and also my family eats macaroni every sunday. I hate macaroni. So I basically starve on Sundays. That sounded poignantly religious. :-O
- - Joe

Chestnuts roasted by Joe Pentangelo @ 08/21/2005 11:52 PM EST

Like everyone else here, Sunday is my least favorite day of the week. At least I'm in kind of this weird space where it's summer, and I just moved back to New Orleans and into an off campus apartment (first home that doesn't involve mom, yay and scary at the same time) so it being Sunday doesn't register as much. Besides, I have all this shiny new stuff like dishes and curtains and a vacuum to play with.

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 08/22/2005 12:03 AM EST

Matt, this is completely off topic, but I read your atlantic city article, and was wondering 1: when lodgenet changed their logos, 2: If lodgenet still has that computer voice saying "Welcome to atlaaantic city, we hope you enjoy your stay with us," and on the off chance you know this, 3: did harrah*s get rid of their gameroom?
Thanks - - Joe

Chestnuts roasted by Joe Pentangelo @ 08/22/2005 12:36 AM EST

DashiKun,

Welcome to the fold. Who needs lessons? Forget that remark, I still play like crap. My heroes are Mark Hoppus and Erik from Bowling for Soup, so what does that tell you? What did ya get? I play a lefty Squier Pbass, pretty standard (i.e. plain).

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/22/2005 12:46 AM EST

The posts at noon and before noon confuse me. How is it possible? Anyway, does anybody know of the link to the guy's website (a domain) He has articles of obsure stuff like a lot of people, but the funniest thing he had was bootleg toys that he made fun of. He had a toy piano with pikachu and hello kitty on it, with engrish on the box. Does it ring a bell? I hope so I have been trying to find it forever it seems like again to read the stupid thing. Thanks in advance.

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 08/22/2005 12:48 AM EST

www.engrish.com ?
maddox.xmission.com ?
www.retrocrush.com ?
here?

These are the top four sites I go to that make fun of or critique anything. Good Luck

Chestnuts roasted by Joe Pentangelo @ 08/22/2005 12:56 AM EST

I LOVE SUNDAYS!!! I would shout this from rooftops if I wasn't so scared of heights...

Why? It's the only day that I KNOW I'll have off work.

The only (very) minorly shitty part about Sundays is that stores aren't open until their normal times. But hey I can work with that.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 08/22/2005 01:05 AM EST

Sunday is a pretty crappy day. Nothing at all good on television, everybody's getting ready to go back to school or work. Saturday is better. Friday is even better.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 08/22/2005 02:00 AM EST

That's some crazy ass shit going on with Natasha Lyonne, eh?

I mean, I knew the girl partied but DAMN. I hope she'll be alright and I hope she gets some help.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 08/22/2005 02:04 AM EST

Goob, the website you're talking about is http://www.bootlegactionfigures.com/

Chestnuts roasted by Alex @ 08/22/2005 02:23 AM EST

I suddenly have a craving for fried seafood, as I'm thinking of a Travel Channel show that mentioned the ACME Oyster House and saw it had a fried seafood platter, that and I ate at one of my favorite restaurants last night, Pier 44 here on LI, where I got both surf (fried calamari for appeatizer) and turf (cheap, delicious Baby Back ribs), which caused me to experience (as always when I eat there) what Chappelle's Show has called "Mud Butt."

And I know it's august but I will send you free money to whomever sends me a fresh box of either Frankenberry and/or Boo Berry.

Send it to: Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 08/22/2005 02:23 AM EST

I know this is really random but did anyone else put Fruit Roll-Ups in the freezer before they ate them??

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/22/2005 02:41 AM EST

Nope none of those are the website I am looking for. Bootlegactionfigures.com I found that one trying to find the one I am looking for. He talked about the back of the box in detail, made fun of it in detail, had pics of the store even. I found it in somebody's name in the blog, and I know it was a domain cause that is all I click on. Unless the person sounds like a hot chick 'drools' hehe....thanks anyway

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 08/22/2005 03:50 AM EST

Thanks Knegative the welcome is gladly taken.. its now 6:19 am and im preparing to get a shower to start my day of going to classes and hearing the teacher talk on them, the bass guitar is a ibanez looks like a hot lil number for a 4string.. Gonna try to learn a few songs on it, and some to impress a girl who's a gorillaz's fan, Yay for 2d and murdoc. >_>; but im gonna try to learn a few songs, maybe i can jam out to some Primus, or cowboy mouth,

Chestnuts roasted by DashiKun @ 08/22/2005 07:21 AM EST

I was poking around some obscure corner of the net last night and found a sound clip that I knew my pals here would love. its from a vintage NES Zelda commercial I assume it was recorded from a TV commercial but its not the one in the 80's ad section.

For the sake of simplicity I stuck the link in the homepage field of my post. Anyways enjoy! now I'm gonna go back to trying to figure out why my chest feels like I went 3 rounds with Bald Bull >_< I prolly just smoked waaaaaaaay too much last night

Chestnuts roasted by The Krypt Angel @ 08/22/2005 09:13 AM EST

Picked up a big bag o' Splenda at the market yesterday to make Kool-Aid. Guess what was with the bag? A Kool-Aid spoon with his face on the spoon and 2 free packs of Kool-Aid. Very Cool!

Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 08/22/2005 09:35 AM EST

Picked up a big bag o' Splenda at the market yesterday to make Kool-Aid. Guess what was with the bag? A Kool-Aid spoon with his face on the spoon and 2 free packs of Kool-Aid. Very Cool!

Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 08/22/2005 09:35 AM EST

Ahhh, Sunday- Trying desperately to get done all the productive things I skipped on Friday and Saturday in favor of party-ing. Sunday is Regret Day.
MANIMAL: I start teaching this Wednesday (the 24th). I am so nervous that I wish I had stayed in Korea!
So, can anyone tell me what happened on SUMMERSLAM? 80sKid?

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 08/22/2005 11:30 AM EST

Splenda and Kool-Aid Man?!?! An unholy alliance forged in the depths of hell, Splenda will charm Kool-Aid Man into a lull of trust and comfort, with promises of the lesser calories, and the diabetes-friendliness...but then, oh then, Splenda will unleash the evil power of Bad Aftertaste!!! The horror, the vile, unmerciless torture of chemical over- and under-tones!! OH! Too much for Kool-Aid Man, he turns his back on Splenda, "Farewell, vile powder which should never be mixed with my own powder! Farewell."

Chestnuts roasted by kidneyboy @ 08/22/2005 11:34 AM EST

kidneyboy,
you've made me terrified of the lesser calorie drinks. . . for life.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 08/22/2005 11:57 AM EST

A few months ago I thought I'd try some 7-Up Plus, not noticing that the "Plus" meant that it was made with Splenda instead of good old fashioned sugar. Big mistake; it was pretty gross.

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 08/22/2005 12:41 PM EST

The whole commercial for that Zelda thing can be found here: http://hyena.kiwibonga.com/evcrit/zeldac.htm

Chestnuts roasted by Radio @ 08/22/2005 12:54 PM EST

Hey Yeti,

I hate you too.

Chestnuts roasted by Jesus @ 08/22/2005 01:50 PM EST

Yeah, I always figured as much.

Chestnuts roasted by The Yeti @ 08/22/2005 02:00 PM EST

Oh come one, give Splenda a break. After all it is sugar that's been chlorinated.

Chestnuts roasted by Joe in OH @ 08/22/2005 02:12 PM EST

i think Charles Osgood has a secret flock of vampire bowties ready to fly at his command. At least I think they belong to Mr. Osgood. Either way, if I were Yeti, I'd wear turtlenecks for a while. Those little flapping four-in-ones tend to be territorial of the guys who still wear 'em.

Any opinions about the news that Slipknot wants to sue Burger King over the "Coq Roq" ads? They claim that thier fans might get confused and think that Slipknot s endorsing chicken fries. Sounds to me like they have no confidence in thier fans' intelligence. It's no Melting Grimace, but at least there's no ad with some dude waking up in the morning with Coq Roq looking at him.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash: not affiliated with burger king @ 08/22/2005 02:16 PM EST

Comment on that Zelda rap commercial: Yes I very much remember this commercial because for some reason i thought the rap was bad ass as a 6 year old. I wasted a lot of energy reciting that commercial and probably annoying the shit out of a lot of people in the process. My real question is why couldn't they fit the Darknuts somewhere in there? Maybe I should write an update to the zelda rap....

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/22/2005 02:21 PM EST

The local grocer now offers Frankenberry again! The only reason I love the Halloween season, oh and X-E 's Halloween countdown of course. Let the good times begin!

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 08/22/2005 03:35 PM EST

I'm spoiled - my grocery store stocks Boo Berry, Frankenberry, and Count Chocula all year round. And for only like $2.00 a box. For a while I was actually eating it so much that I almost got tired of it. I'm not a heretic - I said "almost".

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 08/22/2005 03:54 PM EST

I only like Sundays from the perspective that they are kind of a relaxed, chill-out day in which you're not really expected to do too much. On the other hand, I tend to spend all of Sunday evening contemplating (and dreading) all of the work I have ahead of me when I return to work Monday.

But this is somewhat eased by the kick-ass Sunday night HBO lineup (Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Entourage).

Chestnuts roasted by tanta07 @ 08/22/2005 04:04 PM EST

King Kong Arms

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 08/22/2005 05:47 PM EST

Thanks to TV Land, I now <3 Dan Fielding.
'Night Court' is the bomb.

Chestnuts roasted by Ekkostar @ 08/22/2005 06:08 PM EST

Does anybody remember the Zelda commercial for Link's Awakening that had a rapper on it? It had some random guy spitting rhymes about the game while screens of the gameplay (I believe using a Super Gameboy) were displayed behind him.

It's likely to be a painful thing to drag again into the light of day, but I'd like to at least see it one more time.

Chestnuts roasted by Night_Trekker @ 08/22/2005 06:47 PM EST

I picked up the Thundercats DVD at Target for $50 yesterday.Does anyone else have it? your thoughts?

Chestnuts roasted by Sonny @ 08/22/2005 07:10 PM EST

I picked up the Thundercats DVD at Target for $50 yesterday.Does anyone else have it? your thoughts?

Chestnuts roasted by Sonny @ 08/22/2005 07:10 PM EST

Hey Matt, when you get to Toronto look me up.. Id be happy to show you around the sites..

cyanyde@gmail.com

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 08/22/2005 07:49 PM EST

summerslam results

chris benoit beat orlando jordan and is the new us champ

Edge bloodied matt hardy forcing a stoppage of the match first time i've ever seen a wrestling match stopped for blood. edge was declared the winner

Rey Mysterio wins custody of dominick beating Eddie Guerrero

Kurt Angle reclaimed his gold medals from Eugene

Randy Orton defeated the Undertaker

John Cena retained the WWE title defeating Chris Jericho

Batista retained the world heavyweight championship defeating JBL

"The Immortal" Hulk Hogan defeated "The Show Stopper" Shawn Michaels.

Chestnuts roasted by 80'skid @ 08/22/2005 10:02 PM EST

Thought I'd drop this here...

The Legend of Zelda cartoons from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! are coming out on DVD...

A 3 disc set with all 13 episodes.

http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3951

Chestnuts roasted by selvig @ 08/23/2005 10:57 AM EST

I didn't really do anything Special this past Sunday except watch Summerslam.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 08/24/2005 01:04 AM EST

My college starts after Labor Day, but alas, I won't be there--I'm graduating in December, but I have enough credits to not have to go this semester. I'm starting to search the internet for jobs. I have my first interview for a marketing in promotions group in Manayunk (Philadelphia) on Monday. I don't have my degree yet, and they want to interview me!!! I bought a woman's suit and everything. Wish me luck!!!!

I miss my internship. :-(

I'm going to exercise now.

Chestnuts roasted by Allison @ 08/24/2005 08:10 PM EST

summerslam was pretty good

Chestnuts roasted by tony montanian @ 08/26/2005 08:40 AM EST

Well said. I totally agree with you. The point you are making here does make sense. And all those who oppose your views actually lack the basic essence of the subject. You must keep doing the good work.

Chestnuts roasted by Milli @ 09/05/2005 05:27 AM EST

I HATE THE 80's

Chestnuts roasted by DASH @ 09/08/2005 08:24 PM EST