ROLLERBALL “RULES”: It's such a great movie; I wish the game were real.

Jonathan E., aka James Caan, Maud Adams with other rich folks sauntering through the future, motorcycles doing many things, John Houseman being John Houseman, and well, hell yes to spiked gloves and limpless bodies being dragged off mid-game. Rules? Yeah, there are, and we’ve got them here. And the opening scene here.

ROLLERDERBY RULES: It's Such a wacky sport, and we’re still not sure if the game is for real.

Look above; there are rules, so perhaps it’s real. We spent many a Saturday night ogling the crazed antics of those early Roller Derby “matches”. This clip claims to show the “hardest” Roller Derby moment of all time.

THE VIETNAM WAR WAS LONG.

So long in fact that the start of the conflict pre-dates our old asses here at the Throne. We knew of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (but didn’t honestly know enough about it), and we hadn’t heard of most of the “9 Key Moments of the Vietnam War”.

SHAKE

Revenge of the herds.

Why would you mess with a - BISON?

Why would you mess with a - SEAL?

Why would you mess with a - MONKEY?

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