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I have an associate degree in computer programming, and, at age 29, am on my own working for a retailer in service. (That said, no one is shooting at me.)
Just letting you know that I'm in Dallas visiting family on the above weekdays. If any of you want to hook up (or have me come up for the day), please let me know.
I'm on vacation next week and there is a very good chance that I will be in the Ok. area on Monday-Tuesday. If you and the gang are free, I would LOVE to hook up with you. Can you email me at anthony.jennings at gmail.com so that we can talk?
I'm going to stand by the belief that as long as we beat OSU, it doesn't matter how many times the Wolverines lost this season. Doubly so because a loss to U of M will ensure that the Buckeyes can't get into the NC game, now that their half-baked gameplan of 'take the lead, fart around, then make a 4th quarter comeback' finally backfired against Illinois. :P
Mike Hart - the greatest running back to lose four times to Ohio State.
Also, since Oregon lost and Texas Tech is making Oklahoma look silly prior to halftime, there still exists the chance of Ohio State in a BCS game. (A doubtful one, to be sure, but we can look on hopefully.)
Pro wrestler Chris Benoit canceled a pay-per-view appearance at the "Vengeance" event in Houston because of "personal reasons" a day before he, his wife and their 7-year-old son were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
Details of the deaths "are going to prove a little bizarre" when released to the public, Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Autopsies were scheduled Tuesday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in DeKalb County.
Authorities were investigating the deaths at a secluded Fayette County home as a murder-suicide and were not seeking any suspects.
Investigators believe Benoit, (pronounced ben-WAH) killed his wife and son over the weekend and then himself sometime Monday. The bodies were found Monday afternoon in three different rooms of the house on Green Meadow Lane, in a subdivision off a gravel road about two miles from the Whitewater Country Club.
Ballard told The Associated Press a gun was not used in any of the deaths. But he declined to say how the three died.
"We're pretty sure we know, but we want to confirm it with the crime lab," Ballard said early Tuesday.
Fayette County Coroner C.J. Mowell did not return phone calls. The answering service for his funeral home said he was out of town.
World Wrestling Entertainment said on its Web site that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who received "several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning."
Sheriff's Lt. Tommy Pope told WSB-TV that the three were found about 2:30 p.m., but he wouldn't release other details.
Stamford, Conn.-based WWE also said on its Web site it had been asked by authorities not to release further information on the deaths of Benoit, 40; his wife, Nancy, 43; and son, Daniel.
Benoit was born in Montreal. He was a former world heavyweight champion, Intercontinental champion and held several tag-team titles over his career. He was known by several names including "The Canadian Crippler."
"WWE extends its sincerest thoughts and prayers to the Benoit family's relatives and loved ones in this time of tragedy," the company said in a statement on its Web site.
Benoit had maintained a home in metro Atlanta from the time he wrestled for the defunct World Championship Wrestling.
The WWE canceled its live "Monday Night RAW" card in Corpus Christi, Texas, and USA Network aired a three-hour tribute to Benoit in place of the scheduled wrestling telecast.
Benoit's wife managed several wrestlers and went by the stage name, "Woman," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
They met when her then-husband drew up a script that had them involved in a relationship as part of an ongoing story line on World Championship Wrestling, the newspaper said.
Benoit has two other children from a prior relationship.
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I never was a wrestling fan the way you guys were, but from what I have been led to understand the fellow was a great sportsman and I am sad to hear of his passing.
Just glancing at it, I would say what you have come across is some weirdo rant just like you said. Maybe if I get some time I will delve a little deeper, but remember every nut who ever managed to get as far as signing the application considers himself a military expert nowadays.
So, I was fooling around on the 'net, and heard about Demonbane, an anime that inexplicably mixes the Cthulhu mythos with giant robots and lolipervs. So I read that in this version that Nyarlathotep was in the form of a bookstore owner named Nya. I heard that s/he/it had large boobs.
Some of the other interpretations of Lovecraft characters are interesting: Herbert West is an eccentric artist in the story who flips out on guitars and looks totally sweet. (He'd make a decent rival for Axel the Dark Hero.) And Al Azif is a cute little loli who the main character becomes intimate with much later on.
It's a very strange bird indeed. Oh, and the OAV for it kind of sucks, but that's neither here nor there.
I've heard that the so-called OAV only makes sense if you also play the games. Since I haven't, I didn't even bother with it.
And Herbert West really, truly annoys me. It actually makes more sense to me that Nyarlathotep has hyper-inflated knockers than Herbert West being a multi-hair-colored hyperactive nutjob who rocks out on guitars and steals moves from "Desperado". Call me weird like that.
I also find it deeply disturbing that the Necronomicon is represented by a 12-year old prone to panty shots.
I am not sure how many folks still pay attention in here anymore, but I am leaving for 18 months of deployment in about a week.
Send some good thoughts for wife and kids.
I know this board may not be around much longer, but you are folks I don't wanna lose touch with, even if I only say hi infrequently. The email above is the one constant thing about me and I don't plan to give it up anytime soon so write it down and drop me a line so I can save you in my address book. If you care at all that is
You can even add me to a spam list if you want, but I won't pass any along.
I will be going to New York and London in early May! Anyone want to meet up? Only guys that I know, of course. Or else maybe if you are a young, attractive female...
