How do you climb the ranks?

[Denim Gremlin]

has anyone tried his hot sauce?

[samir]

has anyone tried his hot sauce?

not yet, but a few of my friends want to make a road trip over the summer down to his restaurant in south florida.

[Gore Marie]

"Uhh, if you guys wanna see it, we got a kill screen up the front... Donkey Kong kill screen... KILL SCREEN!"

You could be the next Steve Wiebe.

Holy Moly - I just saw that movie the other night - amazing!  Pretty much everyone in it EXCEPT Steve Wiebe is a Grade-A FWD AND a nerd!  "You know - it's controversial - like the abortion debate."  Whew buoy...

Yeah!  Steve Wiebe's basically normal to slightly-nerdier-than-normal.  Like his whole approach of actually confronting people in a non-threatening straightforward way just rocked the shit out of the gaming world when it's sort of like a standard middle management thing.  "Hey, I'll call this guy I don't like and try and breach an uncomfortable subject like an adult."  NO YOU DIDN'T!  Now that guy has to spend all his time on cell phones with arcade goons spying on you!

Should I watch King Of Kong? I keep walking past it in the video store, and the guy with the muttonchops who works evenings taped a little note to it that's like "EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH THIS IT IS SO AMAZING" but that's sort of convincing me in the other direction because he's never been that nice to me. And he has muttonchops.

Does having a soft spot for muttonchops make me a terrible person? 

[Stan]

Does having a soft spot for muttonchops make me a terrible person? 

 FOTchan, Gloria.

 It's there for a reason.

[orangewhip]

has anyone tried his hot sauce?

not yet, but a few of my friends want to make a road trip over the summer down to his restaurant in south florida.

My cousin went there a couple weeks ago.  He sent me an email regarding it.  Here it is.

"So....Susan and I are on a couple-day spring break getaway to Fort Lauderdale, and this evening we drove 20 minutes down the road to Hollywood to have dinner at Billy Mitchell's restaurant. On the outside it looks like such a ridiculous dive. On the inside, much smaller than you'd guess from the shots in the movie, and packed with over-middle-aged-to-elderly hic locals all being very loud and old women in skanky clothing. Weirdness. A dialogue:

Me: I'll have the pastrami on rye with the cole slaw.
Waitress: Oh, our cole slaw sucks.
Me: Okay, I'll have the fries."

[Steve in North Hollywood]

Does having a soft spot for muttonchops make me a terrible person? 

Not in the slightest.

[Pat K]

has anyone tried his hot sauce?

A guy I know ordered some, and Billy Mitchell called him up on the phone about it, same as he did in that Onion article. He must do that a lot.

[Rainer]

How do you climb the FOT ranks?  I'd like to get to the Steve McQueen With A Skull Face ranking.

When the ranking category labels changed, I thought the man behind the curtain had dropped the ranking convention in favor of personally bestowed nicknames.  "I'm Steve McQueen with a Skull Face? Why? My complexion? Oh well, at least I'm not a rapist."