JIMBOB
Unicron
PLAY! REWIND! RELIVE!
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Post by JIMBOB on Mar 17, 2007 22:26:24 GMT -5
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Ace Diamond
Patti Mayonnaise
Believes in Adrian Veidt, as Should We All.
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Post by Ace Diamond on Mar 17, 2007 22:34:35 GMT -5
Those SOB's at MIT have finally found a way to make us WPI people jealous.
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Post by 'Sweet n' Sour' A. A. Estrada on Mar 17, 2007 22:51:21 GMT -5
Do they teach you how to fall off a twenty foot ladder?
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Ace Diamond
Patti Mayonnaise
Believes in Adrian Veidt, as Should We All.
mmm...flavor text
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Post by Ace Diamond on Mar 17, 2007 23:17:47 GMT -5
Do they teach you how to fall off a twenty foot ladder? Surprisingly not, unless you have taken Physics IV. |
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WWHHHD
Unicron
Break it down for a 5 second pose!
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Post by WWHHHD on Mar 18, 2007 0:11:15 GMT -5
JR is reforming the MIT blackjack team!!! BY GAWD!!
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Post by feelingfroggy on Mar 18, 2007 0:15:03 GMT -5
You gotta be screwing with me
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Post by redriverjack on Mar 18, 2007 0:47:37 GMT -5
This is actually pretty cool, something I would love to attend if my school ever did it. I get the feeling that you'll see Matt Striker and Chris Nowinski as speakers eventually.
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Post by LoganB on Mar 18, 2007 23:33:55 GMT -5
Can you take this as a major? I'm considering applying just for this.
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Post by rubbaband on Mar 19, 2007 0:03:32 GMT -5
does anyone know if they have a syllabus for the class posted anywhere? I know MIT is really good with giving them free online for most of their classes
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The Line
Patti Mayonnaise
Real Name: Bumkiss. Stanley Bumkiss.
Peanut Butter & JAAAAAMMMM!
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Post by The Line on Mar 19, 2007 0:12:04 GMT -5
I shit you not, but I think Death of WCW is on the college reading list
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Post by rubbaband on Mar 19, 2007 0:20:07 GMT -5
well, here's the class blog: mitcmsprowrestling.blogspot.com/they have students write on it, and if you read the instructor's posts (his name is Sam), there is some clues to what they read and watch, I still want to find a syllabus |
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Post by x on Mar 19, 2007 2:54:32 GMT -5
This class watched Flair/Steamboat and discussed it.
Imagine us in that class:
Teacher: So that was WrestleMania 2000
Us: No more McMahons! I am sick of seeing the McMahons! HHH is burying the entire roster! He buried CM Punk! Cena sucks! Everything sucks!
Teacher: Somebodys cranky...
Then the teacher would put on Ted DiBiase's theme song and we'd all take a nice nap for the rest of class
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nisi
Vegeta
Da Bears
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Post by nisi on Mar 19, 2007 17:48:11 GMT -5
There are quite a few academic works on pro wrestling. Most pretty negative, going on and on about wrestling is misogynist and homophobic and classist and racist and yatta yatta, but there is also some research about how it is a counterintuitive form of male soap opera, etc. Some of the books that are fairly even handed can be really neat to read, especially when they get into what wrestling moves symbolize, how it's all connected to ancient mythology, good stuff like that.
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Post by willywonka666 on Mar 19, 2007 17:54:08 GMT -5
crap! Swear to God I know Sam Ford-He got Mick Foley to come to a local college and lecture a couple years back, he even wrote a paper on Foley to get in
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Post by heffer111 on Mar 19, 2007 19:04:18 GMT -5
Candice Michelle SPEAKS OUT About Her Backstage Heat With Melina (Vince Ready To Fire Them Both?!?) **HUGE NEWS - CLICK HERE**
lol thats best part
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AmandaJ
Don Corleone
My heart...after you broke it.
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Post by AmandaJ on Mar 19, 2007 19:16:56 GMT -5
I am so jealous! I want to take this class. If my sister's tiny private college can offer an entire course dedicated to Star Trek, why can't mine offer a course dedicated to wrestling?
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