{"id":501,"date":"2007-03-07T01:10:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2007-03-07T01:10:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:10:13","slug":"today-a-few-words-about-mr-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Today, a few words about Mr T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody love Mr T.  I sure did love him when I was young and talked my parents into letting me watch the A-Team even though there was guns.  Because there was also Inventing, in the sense that every week the A-Team would be locked in a workshop surrounded by goons and they would have to invent something with which to bust out of the workshop and take down the goons.  (Usually they would invent a tank.)<br \/>\nBut, did you know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr T provided the impetus for one of the very first internet memes, the Ate My Balls phenomenon of 1996-1998.  The original <a href=http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/nkpatel\/mrt\/>Mr T ate my balls<\/a> website is still around, as is <a href=http:\/\/archive.salon.com\/july97\/21st\/balls970710.html>a Salon article<\/a> on the phenomenon.<\/li>\n<li>Mr T partnered with Hulk Hogan in a tag team match in the first Wrestlemania.  Watch Mr T whale on some famous wrestler dudes <a href=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UycLwE8eXyQ>here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mr T&#8217;s legendary rap number &#8220;Treat Your Mother Right&#8221; was ghostwritten by Ice T.  Seriously.  Okay, I&#8217;ve never found confirmation, but it has to be true.  Watch T rap and mothers dance <a href=http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/ifilmdetail\/2668992>here<\/a>.  &#8216;Treat Your Mother Right&#8221; was from T&#8217;s renowned video, <a href=http:\/\/www.agonybooth.com\/mr_t\/>Be Somebody or Be Somebody&#8217;s Fool<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mr T had a supporting role in the legendary cult oddity <a href=http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0109838\/>Freaked<\/a>, as a Bearded Lady.  He was playing alongside an uncredited Keanu Reeves, who covered his face in hair for the entire film.  I love this movie always.<\/li>\n<li>One of the Onion&#8217;s best ever articles was driven by our man Mr T: &#8220;Mr T Announces Pity List for 1986&#8221;.  It features Mr T announcing &#8220;This year I pity the following fools&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>This is all the Alligator&#8217;s fault, dammit, I should be working.  Check out more Mr T awesome, <a href=http:\/\/wanisan.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/sweet-as.html>here<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/wanisan.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/more-mistah-t.html>here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody love Mr T. I sure did love him when I was young and talked my parents into letting me watch the A-Team even though there was guns. 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