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TheShowKiller

TheShowKiller

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Old school randoms:

*The positive part about being completely out on most pop culture trends is that I get to do stuff like watching Breaking Bad for the first time. E6 and I’m enjoying the ride.

*Took my son out to fish Sunday morning, he’s completely obsessed with fishing at the moment. Hit the conditions just right for the largemouths to hit top water. We slayed them and I’ve never seen the kid so happy. Core daddy memory right there.

*I’m trying to introduce the twins to some of my kid movies I grew up with. Home Alone and Honey I Shrunk The Kids went over well. But as I think back, so many movies I watched at 7 years old were either bad or inappropriate or both. I don’t know what my boy would think of Rambo, which we weren’t only watching but they were making kids toys for.

*I’ll leave the virus stuff out except to say I think this week has done it for a lot of people that were just rolling along not paying much attention.

*Never been but something gives me the sense that a trip to the Horseshoe as an opposing fan wouldn’t be met with the same hospitality as a trip to Rupp. Willing to be wrong about that, Willy.

*It was usually only once a year but dammit I’m going to miss a good tailgate and foosball game.

*Lets end on a positive...upcoming lake weekend with friends. Grilling, frosties, almost zero cell service in the area we are headed. Legggo!
 
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PuffyNips

PuffyNips

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TheShowKiller said:
*Never been but something gives me the sense that a trip to the Horseshoe as an opposing fan wouldn’t be met with the same hospitality as a trip to Rupp. Willing to be wrong about that, Willy.
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You might be right. I wouldn’t know. I’ve never been to the Horseshoe.
 
_Chase_

_Chase_

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TheShowKiller said:
*Never been but something gives me the sense that a trip to the Horseshoe as an opposing fan wouldn’t be met with the same hospitality as a trip to Rupp. Willing to be wrong about that, Willy.
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You would be correct. It’s been since law school, but I’ve been to about 10 games there back in the Maurice Clarett days. I wouldn’t consider it hospitable in the least. I don’t recall any of their fans, ever, being welcoming to opposing fans. They were generally either outright dicks, or simply ignored them totally.

I’ll tell you though, there are few things better than seeing Ohio State get stabbed in the heart at home. They can’t wrap their heads around it.
 
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Strokin_Bandit

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Ever since BKH went missing (is he ok? Anyone know?), I’ve been looking for a new Wildcat Best Friend that shares many of the same views on sports, life, family, and society as I do. ShowKiller could be that dude. I too am on my first time through Breaking Bad and on ep. 6. That’s enough for me!
 
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Hank Camacho

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UnfrozenCatfanLawyer said:
Had completely forgotten about Rambo toys. Good lord - that second one was a hard "R," too. But I sure as **** went to see it when it came out ... along with my 6-year-old brother. Then we got to go to the Army surplus store and buy giant survival knives afterward. Just in case I needed to murder any Vietcong in my backyard.

The 80s!
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It was so bitching as a kid in the 80s to have that survival knife with the fishing line, hooks, cable saw, etc in the handle. Also, we had real ninja stars and threw them all the time and shot each other with bb guns.

CPS would take custody immediately if that happened in 2020.
 
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TriangleUKCat

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That Rambo knife somehow made it through the years to my current house along with a bunch of TMNT, Ghostbusters, Starting Lineup, etc. toys. My 2 year old uses it in her tea parties with Minnie Mouse, Elsa, and Splinter.
 
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PTI Anon1640710541

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I know running sucks and what not, but the Rock N Roll New Orleans full/half marathon was just canceled.


That’s in March.

o_O


Not a great sign.
 
TheShowKiller

TheShowKiller

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I had one Rambo knife with the blade that retracted into the handle so you could mimic stabbing your closest friend.

Can you imagine a 2020 birthday party in which the kid opens a gift like that? "Honey, please use your hand sanitizer before you pretend to gut Colton in the front yard."

Colonel Trautman, underrated badass.
 
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_Chase_

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My buddy had a Rambo knife, and we decided it would be a badass idea to use it to dig a tunnel from his closet to the other side of the house. We got through the drywall before his Mom noticed. I was immediately sent home, he may have been murdered then resuscitated, then beaten before being grounded for a long time.
 
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_Chase_

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Side note on knives in the 80s.

*A kid down the street had a butterfly knife that we thought was super cool. I tried using that thing a few times and knicked a couple fingers. Decided I better stop before losing one.

*There was a fight set up with me and a different kid in the neighborhood. A teenager was to oversee said fight. Right before we are about to begin he notices something tucked in the kid's pants. Teenager pulls up the kid's shirt and he had a big *** knife hidden in there. Teenager proceeded to take the knife from him, and rough him up a little bit.
 
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_Chase_

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In other rascally randoms from The Dam...

*Got in deep **** once holding my neighbor's bumper riding a skateboard like in Back to the Future. Only made it probably 10 feet before I fell and they stopped and told my parents.

*Rambo buddy and I put a metal baseball bat underneath a slip'n slide. Our "victim" went down head first and busted his nose on it.

*Rambo buddy and I invited the knife kid over to my house one day to corner him and kick his ***. Got in trouble there too.

*Older group of teenagers made me and Rambo buddy box each other, except we each only got one glove and we had to use our opposite hand. He was ambidextrous and wore my *** out. Accidentally lost control and punched him with my normal hand without a glove. He still won.

*There was a large rockpile in our neighborhood. Rambo buddy and I were on each side of two trees using slingshots for a rock fight. I bent down to pick up a rock and he smoked me right on the eyebrow. Biggest black eye I've ever had, turned yellowish-green, swelled shut a couple of days, all that good stuff. 1/4 inch lower and I'm certain I'd have lost an eye.

*Older teenagers informed me when I was 5 that Santa wasn't real, and I was a dipshit for believing it.

*BB-gun fights were standard.

*Threw a pack of firecrackers on the hood of a passing cop car. He never found us.

*Guy with the butterfly knife wanted to fight this other little **** who had really been running his mouth. When push came to shove the kid ran back through my yard, saw my Dad, and asked for help. My Dad told him to go fight him or go home.

*Built many a "jumps" for our BMX bikes. Tried to be like Crew Jones, but best we got were riding wheelies, bunny hops, side-kicks, etc... There was one weird asian kid though that could stand up and ride his bike. We'd see him gliding down the street every now and then with one foot on the handlebars and one foot on the seat.

I'm sure you all have many of the same-type stories. And you'd never see any of that **** happening nowadays. Childhood was a hell of a lot of fun in the 80s, that's for damn sure. Outside from morning until dark. Nintendo or R rated movies until bed.
 
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MaxPowerrr

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Hells yeah butterfly knives.

Growing up you either had a butterfly knife or you knew the kid with the butterfly knife. Me and my crew were decidedly on the non-owners side but I’m glad I knew the kid on the street who had the butterfly knife and the plywood sheet we used for Chinese star and nunchuck practices.


Now that I’m a dad I can imagine what my parents thought of that kid’s parents.
 
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Remember when - every kid in the neighborhood, including a few tomgirls, were armed with the Daisy bb gun at or before age 10? Bonus points to the one kid who was the MacGyver of the crew who rigged a functioning sight scope to that deer slayer.

Parents would buy us ammunition and think nothing of a full scale war sans eye covering o_O
 
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UnfrozenCatfanLawyer

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My dad also bought my brother and me a samurai sword (straight from the pages of Black Belt magazine) that was essentially the "nuclear option" whenever we got into a fight. It never went that far, but we both knew the threat was there.
 
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MaxPowerrr

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Shoutout to the random issue of this mixed in with adult mags

 
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KingLlama

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Stallone's "Cobra" was a mainstay for ol' KL sleepovers back in the day, for some reason.

It has not held up well.
 
ukalum01

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Called Smoky Mountain Knife Works as a kid to try to order a 6 foot blow-dart gun out of their awesome catalog.

13 year old ukalum01- “I’d like the blow-dart gun.”
Customer service rep that didn’t care - “You have to be 18 to order this. How old are you?”
Me - “13”
Them - “It’ll be there in 5-7 business days”.

Gave my stepmom the cash and the dang thing came COD.
 
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Rock fights were not unheard of on the playground of my elementary school. Dodge ball with mini-basketballs also common with head shots.
 
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