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My Bad-Ass Quotient System (measure someone's bad- « Thread Started on May 12, 2007, 6:40pm »
I love it when people have "who would win in a fight" conversations. You know the kind - "Who would win in a fight between Robocop and the Terminator?" or "Who would win a fight between Peewee Herman and Gilligan?" Etc...
But something that is always laking in those conversations is a proper, quantifiable, measurement of how much of a "bad-ass" someone or something is.
Toward that end - here is my BAQ (Bad Ass Quotient) System:
Re: My Bad-Ass Quotient System (measure someone's « Reply #3 on Aug 9, 2009, 11:26pm »
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