I feel sorta crappy today. I woke up late, weirdly hungover (must be all that Pellegrino I had at the bar last night), and possessed with this eerie certainty that somewhere, something is very wrong. I freaking hate Impending Doom first thing in the morning. Can’t it wait until I’m properly caffeinated?
Anyway, I’d be on my way to feeling much better if someone could explain something to me. That gesture that WWE champion John Cena makes on all those RAW commercials – what is that? Some pro wrestling version of jazz hands? ‘Roid rage spirit fingers?
That’s about as complicated as my thinking has gotten this morning. I’m teetering somewhere between Mmmm, toast. and wondering if it’s too early for a nap. So, please, explain John Cena. Or if you can’t do that, explain how The Coreys (could there be anyone more irrelevant? Okay, maybe one of the cast members from Alf, but still!) got their own TV show. You know whoever threw that out during brainstorming (“there are no bad ideas!”) is sitting around shaking his head thinking things were just never meant to go so far.
I don’t know if they show it on the commercials, but John Cena says “You can’t see me” when he does the gesture. It is also often accompanied by a sholder brush-off.
Sorry I missed the get together at the Gingerman last night. I REALLY wanted to be there!
Uh, could the “something wrong” be the fact that the gas plant blew up? Or could the hungover feeling be the effect it’s had on the air? (Neither of these things said with any real seriousness.)
I REALLY need to be a little more disciplined about my TV watching. You know? Sit down and carve out a few hours a night (at least!)… because I have no clue who you’re talking about. Sorry I’ll be of no help on your quest to feeling better.
Call me nuts….and someone either call me out or back me up…but I swear (SWEAR) that I woke up to IceT (yeah, the rapper) on Nickolodeon. On one of their annoyingly wholesome family sitcoms.
That was my first thought this morning. “What the?….” I like my gangster rappers as gangster as possible. And I doubt Nickolodeon qualifies as street cred.
Ugh! “The Coreys” were on the radio the other day. They kept talking over each other & bragging. But, why did they get a show … because people seem to watch this trainwreck tv!
Although, I always liked the Feldman one, he sounded “better” now. He was talking about his projects & trying to be environmental, or whatever. But Haim, uck! he was just going on about all the “model hot” girls he’s had … yeah sure, if you have to promote that idea, it’s been YEARS since you got any a**. HAHA
Even so, I’d watch an Alf reality show, HA! Or how about The Bachelor: Alf !!
That ‘HAIM’ kid looks like he has just woken up in some doorway sleeping under newspapers after enjoying an evening smoking off of a crack pipe with some hooker named Shayneekwa!!
See, this is great. Fame screwed them both up. They TRIED to get their life together and now they are going to take another swing at screwing themselves up AGAIN in Hollywood. GOD help them if they hook up with that Lindsey mess!! Now…THAT would be one hell of a reality show!!
That’s actually not John Cena’s only “signature taunt.” They include:
-Waving one hand in front of his face and saying “You can’t see me.”
-Pumping up his Reebok Pump sneakers.
-Putting his hands up while spreading them and putting his thumb sideways and his pinky up, meaning “Word Life”.
-Occasionally freestyling on his opponents before his matches.
-Screaming “The Champ is Here!” (when he holds a championship)
-Spinning his spinner title championship belt.
I’m going to assume you were referring to the first one, which obviously means he’s trying to play magician by waving his hands in front of his face to make it magically disappear until “we can see him!”
I promise I had to do extensive research to uncover such repulsive, masculine information and am rather disgusted that I even brought forth such facts.
So much so that I think I just threw up in my mouth a litte. Hope this helps.
Get well soon,
Laura
The gesture is part of his five knuckle shuffle, which is his signature move in the ring. I am sorry that I know that.
My gosh I’m glad I’m not the only one. I thought I might have been out of the loop or something. I mock him every time I see that commercial…for those of us who don’t watch the wrestling mumbo jumbo it just looks ridiculous!
It was actually the early Funk-a-teers followed by ‘the rappers’ as said earlier that came up with it. See George Clinton, leader of P-Funk. If you need pictures I got plenty of me and others ‘signing’ at the “Wild Style” reunion.
of this…didn’t Cal Naughton Jr. come up with Magic Man? “Now you see me…now you don’t”
In regards to John Cena, sadly I can’t enlighten you at this time. During the winter I knew, but since summer has come, I’ve been finding every excuse to avoid the television and the house in general. Ask again when it starts getting nippy out. I’ll be back to watching T.V. again, because I don’t see the sense in freezing my azz off if I can’t afford all the cool toys to play in the snow with.