3 + 5 > 32

From the archives:

A 3-year-old, a 5-year-old, and a 32-year-old run in circles for an hour. Who recovers last?

Explanation: After some high-speed playing yesterday with my two nephews, I learned an interesting fact about age. They were both unconscious within 20 minutes of leaving my house, while I continued (albeit slowly) throughout my day. While both of them awoke from their naps refreshed and ready to play again, I trudged through the rest of my day, went to bed early, and woke up feeling like I still have a kid clinging to each ankle.

The moral of the story? Ibuprofen is good.

Sadly, that's the moral to a lot of my stories lately.

Special Blog Bonus: Speaking of performance enhancing drugs, let's talk about professional wrestling in the 80's. Here's some fun stuff for you:

First, two Mental Floss quizzes on Wrestling Action figures: Quiz 1 and Quiz 2. I got 9/14 correct and 12/15 correct, respectively.

Second, here's a video I don't remember existing. See if you can figure out who everyone is! (I was stumped on one gentleman, until I remembered that he later served as governor of Minnesota!)

Macho, Macho Man!

From the archives:

Randy "Macho Man" Savage will always be the Intercontinental Champion to me.

Source: Professional wrestling.

Explanation: Back when it was the WWF (and when I cared) Randy "Macho Man" Savage was the Intercontinental Champion for a long time. Why did they even have an "Intercontinental" champion? So they could have one more belt to add to the drama of the heavyweight champion and the tag team champions. Plus, the Macho Man went everywhere with his manager, the lovely Miss Elizabeth, so that was an added perk. Anyway, I was just waxing nostalgic one day and thought, if there's one person who will always be the Intercontinental champion to me, it would be Randy Savage. So there you go.

Special Blog Bonus: Here he is on Arsenio Hall. I miss the eighties...



Editor's Note: Despite the obvious similarities, Randy Savage and Fred Savage are not related.

Wrestling Recap

I caught the recent professional wrestling event on Monday night. Here's a recap in case you missed it: It appears the hideously ugly overweight and heavily tattooed crazy man may have met his match in an even larger, freakishly muscled man. The guy in the suit who doesn't wrestle still managed to stir things up. That wrestler guy who came into the ring with a scantily clad surgically enhanced escort soundly defeated the guy who the announcers didn't really talk about much. Someone got hit over the head with a chair. In the tag team title fight, the referee somehow was knocked unconscious for a portion of the match. It also appears that there may be some animosity between two of the prominent tag team fighters. Oh, there's also an extremely large man with a pituitary problem who other wrestlers really don't know what to do with. And most importantly, Wrestlemania is approaching! There. Aren't you glad to be all caught up now?

Source: My description of Monday night's WWE Raw event.

Explanation: This is the first time I've really watched any professional wrestling in about 20 years. Absolutely nothing has changed... well, except Shawn Michaels is 20 years older.

Special Blog Bonus: Looking for more information about the surgically enhanced escort? Tough. Instead, here's a sweet picture of Andre the Giant and Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka.