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  • Nightcrawler could teleport (which they had a great "bamf" sound effect for) and could climb walls and ceilings (so could Wolverine by using his claws.

    Conflict Zen 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from bamf wrote 37 weeks 1 day ago

    Phil Bourjaily's Ten Best Cheap Shotguns for Turkeys 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from bamf wrote 42 weeks 4 days ago right between my eyes

    If you were hunting squirrel and only had a .22 and you had a bear at 15 yards (this is a true story) were would you shoot if it 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from bamf wrote 37 weeks 1 day ago

    Phil Bourjaily's Ten Best Cheap Shotguns for Turkeys 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from bamf wrote 42 weeks 4 days ago right between my eyes

    If you were hunting squirrel and only had a .22 and you had a bear at 15 yards (this is a true story) were would you shoot if it 2009

  • Let's get the ball rolling to get some hype up for the kid who played Boba Fett to reprise is role in the show since he's a total bamf.

    What’s This About a New Star Wars Movie? | /Film 2009

  • And it is difficult to convey the joy of seeing big-budget film adaptations of the comics you grew up reading, so faithful to the source material that they even get the sounds exactly right (the 'snikt' of Wolverine's claws and the 'bamf' of Nightcrawler's teleportation in the X-Men movies, for example).

    02.04 M-mv 2004

  • And it is difficult to convey the joy of seeing big-budget film adaptations of the comics you grew up reading, so faithful to the source material that they even get the sounds exactly right (the 'snikt' of Wolverine's claws and the 'bamf' of Nightcrawler's teleportation in the X-Men movies, for example).

    02.04 M-mv 2004

  • And it is difficult to convey the joy of seeing big-budget film adaptations of the comics you grew up reading, so faithful to the source material that they even get the sounds exactly right (the 'snikt' of Wolverine's claws and the 'bamf' of Nightcrawler's teleportation in the X-Men movies, for example).

    Archive 2004-03-01 M-mv 2004

  • And it is difficult to convey the joy of seeing big-budget film adaptations of the comics you grew up reading, so faithful to the source material that they even get the sounds exactly right (the 'snikt' of Wolverine's claws and the 'bamf' of Nightcrawler's teleportation in the X-Men movies, for example).

    02.04 M-mv 2004

  • From the use of “BAMF,” (short for bad-ass motherfucker for those of you who cannot remember that far in the past) to the Emanuel-fication of a Chuck Norris meme, it’s clear that this was the internet of the late 2000s, when starting a sentence with the LOLcat-inspired “can I haz” wasn’t considered deeply dorky.

    Remembering Rahmbamarama, the Obama Era's Most Zealous Fan Community The A.V. Club 2021

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  • The sound that Nightcrawler, from the X-Men comics, makes when he teleports

    June 25, 2009

  • Acronym for bad-ass motherfucker

    June 25, 2009