So I walked in the local comic book store to pick up my comic books the other night.( Don't judge)
I saw on the shop's white board the question of the day:
Who would win in a fight?
Curious George vs. Paddington Bear
Bill Shatner vs. Adam West
Magnum PI vs. Rockford
A Team (classic) vs. McGyver
I cast my votes with George, Shatner, Magnum,and of course the A team; and proceeded to debate with a few of my fellow comic book store patrons for a few minutes...
what do you think?
For the record I won't accept the "paddington bear wears a trench coat, you don't know what's under that thing" argument...
This last week has been a weird one. Scratch that, it's been frustrating as hell.
First, I battled a migraine pretty much all week. Light sensitivity that saw me sitting in a dark office wearing sun glasses. I suffered a minor back injury, and just struggled to get on the bike, to feel normal on the bike again... Finally Thursday night, I said, "damn the torpedoes" and showed up to the red cup ride. I was feeling pretty good, talking a little smack with Todd and the boys and then I had a minor derailleur adjustment:
I've been a little short with folks this week. Barely ridden 4 hours, and in general have been a grouchy son of a gun.Then Saturday night, I find myself sitting in Kim's backyard, sipping a New Castle Ale, surrounded by good people, and enjoying great conversation, and great food. You know, everything is gonna be alright. Yeah, I think it's gonna be okay... monkey enjoyed here bombay monkeys...
Kim, thanks for having us up, you don't know what a life safer it was... awesome time...
I expect to be off the bike a few days while the back kinds sorts itself out, my mid summer racing plans may have just been altered, but we'll see how it all pans out. 67 days until cross...
Now if I can just get Monkey to stop calling me, "Mr. Poopy Pants"
for the record, Bill Federer is a true gentleman, among mere mortals.
thanks for reading.
respect.
fatmarc
8 comments:
The boy and I went to an awesome comic book shop in NYC--St Mark's Comics. Bought some Star Trek magnets for the fridge, a giant Megatron, a Dr Crusher doll for the husband (big Dr Crusher fan), and some MAD magazines. Tried to find a Wedge Antilles but he only came in a box set that was $80 and I cheaped out.
By the way, you're wrong on Magnum. Rockford could kick his ass any old day.
Feel better, poopie pants.
Already poopie pants, here's what I got and why.
Curious George, hands down...take it from someone that's been ambushed by a pist off poo throwing monkey
Shatner, because well..I'm a little jealous over the green chic thing. And West ran around most of time with a kid half his age wearing tights and masks...sound to much like Cross racers to me.
Magnum, one word...mustache
But you lost me with the last one, gotta go McGyver. Give the A-Team five minutes of show time and what? They'd do a little cutting, and welding. Give that same five min's to McGyver and he'd turn a pencil a broken flashlight and a used piece of chewing gum into a tactical nuke.
- Curious George vs. Paddington Bear
Classic martial arts question there - what is the better fighting style, monkey or bear? In my instance, bear is definitely more effective, totally suited to my physique and temperament and affinity for hanging out in the woods and grazing on berries. But all things being equal... all things would be equal. It'd come down to the weapons portion of the competition, and if Curious George could get hold of the hammer that he used in Curious George Gets a Job, he'd win. Plus Curious George Rides a Bike allegedly inspired George Hincapie to take up crit racing, so I gotta go with the monkey.
- Bill Shatner vs. Adam West
Shatner, easily. He ravaged half the females in the universe, went gold on an album despite how bad everybody knew it was, starred with Heather Locklear, and has had a career resurgence that nicely co-incides with the renewed popularity of that other ham-like product, bacon. Plus he inducted Jerry "The King" Lawler into the Wrestling Hall of Fame." Adam West? He made a career out of acting campy. No contest.
- Magnum PI vs. Rockford
Rockford in a heartbeat. First of all, he owned that beat up mobile home and that Firebird he drove around in. Magnum? No visible means of support and no assets. He lived in the guest house of an older writer's mansion, drove the older writer's Ferrari, and drank the guy's booze, which was cool but it all made him look like a rent boy. Then there's the time served - Magnum served in 'nam as a SEAL, and allegedly a QB at Annapolis (apparently in the less-successful post-Staubach era), so he was no slouch. But Jimbo served in Folsom, and while Magnum could rely on two service buddies and knowledge of conventional weapons, Jimbo can call on his trusty shank, and the entire Aryan Nation. Plus Jimbo gets better drugs for the parties, and more interesting guests and he hangs out with disbarred lawyers, which I hope to be someday. Magnum does have an edge in his mentor - Higgins is the actual badass on that show, and although Rocky is pretty cool, he's only a retired trucker, not a veteran of the SOE and the China-Burma-India theater with Generals Stillwell and Wingate, nor is Rocky a recipient of the Victoria Cross. In fact, Higgins' presence is the only reason this one is close at all; he has more badassed street cred than Angel, Finally, Isaac Hayes played "Fitch" on Rockford Files. The only way Magnum could have topped that is if T.C. had a crazy informant cousin played by Bootsy Collins. He didn't, so Rockford Wins.
- A Team (classic) vs. McGyver
Dude, this isn't even close. I don't know why you brought this weakass shit around here. McGyver's Rube Goldberg contraptions would be totally thrown out of kilter by the first A-Team-caused explosion, and that's before we get into the rolling vehicles, the AK-47's, and the Team's willingness to destroy their own van episode after episode. And, serious question - do you think that even with all the duct tape and bailing wire in the world, that McGyver's capable of knocking out Mr. T in order to get him onto an aircraft to travel to the next mission? No. I didn't think so.
- Curious George vs. Paddington Bear
Classic martial arts question there - what is the better fighting style, monkey or bear? In my instance, bear is definitely more effective, totally suited to my physique and temperament. But all things being equal... all things would be equal. It'd come down to the weapons portion of the competition, and if Curious George could get hold of the hammer that he used in Curious George Gets a Job, he'd win. Plus Curious George Rides a Bike allegedly inspired George Hincapie to take up crit racing, so I gotta go with the monkey.
- Bill Shatner vs. Adam West
Shatner, easily. He ravaged half the females in the universe, went gold on an album despite how bad everybody knew it was, starred with Heather Locklear, and has had a career resurgence that nicely co-incides with the renewed popularity of that other ham-like product, bacon. Plus he inducted Jerry "The King" Lawler into the Wrestling Hall of Fame." Adam West? He made a career out of being campy. No contest.
- Magnum PI vs. Rockford
Rockford in a heartbeat. First of all, he owned that beat up mobile home and that Firebird he drove around in. Magnum? No visible means of support and no assets. He lived in the guest house of an older writer's mansion, drove the older writer's Ferrari, and drank the guy's booze, which was cool but it all made him look like a rent boy. Then there's the time served - Magnum served in 'nam as a SEAL, and allegedly a QB at Annapolis (apparently in the less-successful post-Staubach era), so he was no slouch. But Jimbo served in Folsom, and while Magnum could rely on two service buddies and knowledge of conventional weapons, Jimbo can call on his trusty shank, and the entire Aryan Nation. Plus Jimbo gets better drugs for the parties, and more interesting guests and he hangs out with disbarred lawyers, which I hope to be someday. Magnum does have an edge in his mentor - Higgins is the actual badass on that show, and although Rocky is pretty cool, he's only a retired trucker, not a veteran of the SOE and the China-Burma-India theater with Generals Stillwell and Wingate, nor is Rocky a recipient of the Victoria Cross. In fact, Higgins' presence is the only reason this one is close at all; he has more badassed street cred than Angel, Finally, Isaac Hayes played "Fitch" on Rockford Files. The only way Magnum could have topped that is if T.C. had a crazy informant cousin played by Bootsy Collins. He didn't, so Rockford Wins.
- A Team (classic) vs. McGyver
Dude, this isn't even close. I don't know why you brought this weakass shit around here. McGyver's Rube Goldberg contraptions would be totally thrown out of kilter by the first A-Team-caused explosion, and that's before we get into the rolling vehicles, the AK-47's, and the Team's willingness to destroy their own van episode after episode. And, serious question - do you think McGyver's even capable of knocking out Mr. T to get him on board an aircraft? No. I didn't think so.
Hope you're feeling better and back on the bike soon!
Magnum could take all of them combined.
im in a mood too, my friend. feel better. and ss that MF. fuck that shit.
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