Baller Or Bust?

From his debut in feature film in 1973 until the end of the television series in 1978 Lee Majors was the Six Million Dollar Man, my question before knowing anything about the show other than its name is does he deserve this title?




After a quick search of the popular website Wikipedia I have learned that Lee Majors played a character known as Steve Austin. This character got messed up in some sort of accident and became a bionic man of sorts. I don't quite understand how this makes him a millionaire so I decided to continue reading.



Here is part of the "stub" from Wikepedia that seemed long and boring and has nothing to do with money.
"A number of changes had to be made to Caidin’s version of the character to make him work for television. In the original novels, Austin was a cold-blooded killer, while the TV version rarely killed after his status as a childhood hero had been realized, and in fact Austin explicitly states his opposition to killing in the pilot film.

A number of changes to Austin’s bionics were also made. In the novel, Austin’s left arm, not his right, was the bionic one. Also, the arm was little more than a superpowered battering ram and not as complex as the TV version. Austin was blind in his bionic eye in the books, which was simply used as alternately a camera or a laser, and was removable. The book version of Steve Austin had some abilities the TV version lacked, such as a radio transmitter contained within a rib, a steel-reinforced skull that made it impossible for him to be knocked out with a blow to the head, and a CO2-powered poison dart gun in one of his bionic fingers which the literary version of Austin often used to eliminate bad guys."
Got that? good, because I see nothing at all about money. Why on earth is this guy known as The Six Million Dollar man? I just don't get it.



Without delving further into this "stub" I am going to go ahead and decide that both the charachter "Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man" and Lee Majors are not cheddar shredders. I think the the title of this show was very misleading and if I was of the litigious nature I would totally sue the man who created this program. Thankfully, I am not, fore I am way too busy getting drunk, spending money and hitting on chicks to do that.



Yeah, sure, we'll see about that, baby.

I Can't Get Enough Of This Guy

I really do wish that I never found out that Ted Dibiase, The Million Dollar Man, was a fraud. It ruined just about my entire month of February. I have new hopes for March though. I am going to kind of pretend that it never happened and go back to posting awesome video clips from The Million Dollar Man. The Godfather of spending, I love him.

Book Club.

Sunday evenings are a nice night for relaxing. After 36 hours of constant drinking, sexing and spending one must sit down and relax. This could be because you have earned taking a couple of hours for yourself. Another reason could be because you go so wasted on Saturday night that you couldn't muster up the energy to get out of bed since you are so hungover that your mouth is more dry than a 90 year old chicks cooter.



So when in a state of uselessness you have to think about how to pass the time. Mind you, this does not happen often but once in a while you might prefer not getting bombed. The only time when this is permitted is if you are ready to come back twice as hard and get twice as fucked up the following night. So I guess that I will have an exciting Tuesday post for you, yet I digress. So when the night is young and booze isnt piquing your interest it may not be a bad idea to turn to a book.



So for evening's like these we here at MakingItRain have decided to start a book club. We are going to highlight books that have helped us become they people that we are today. Books about babes, cash and other awesome shit. Today, we profile The Million Dollar Man, Ted Dibiase's book, "Every Man Has His Price: The True Story Of Wrestling's Million Dollar Man"



So I start reading this book and guess what, not only is the real Ted Dibiase not a millionaire but wrestling is fake as well!! I feel cheated, scammed and above all else I am devastated that my hero growing up turned out to be nothing more than a fraud.



Needless to say this book gets zero stars by my ranking system. Thankfully though, with all of the frauds out there, that there are still real hero's who know how to make it rain.