notJames

Hmmm… an Amish person on a computer. I call bullshit shenanigans on that one. Hang your grey-bearded head in shame.

I want to be in America Okay by me in America Everything free in America (For a small fee in Americaaaaaa…)

Damnit, Ravishing Rick Rudo... if that is your real name... I'm telling you I'm notJames. James is someone else, possibly Prince Paul. You've got the wrong man. See, here's my license... [License removed in accordance with Federal Witness Protection regulations] Aarrrgghhhh...

Exactly. And BTW, I'm notJames. James is the guy I'm not. If only you booked the WWE....... I would have quit 10 minutes after having to write any of the McMahon's into a program.

I always thought that the commentary team should carry the onus of hooking the viewers with a rundown of the matches, whatever history the wrestlers have with each other, and generally telling the audience to "stay tuned". 20-minute in-ring promos do nothing for me except remind me that I hate Vince McMahon and everyone related to him.

Allow me to play Captain Obvious for a minute: UT will interfere at the end of the Iron Man to cause Lesnar to lose, thereby exacting revenge for last night's interference, setting in motion UT vs. Lesnar for the next PPV (No Mercy?). Expect interference from a returning Zach Gowen, which should result in an UT win, which eventually will transition to UT vs. Vince in this rumoured Buried Alive match at SurSer. I would imagine it might also lead to some sort of Lesnar/Gowen match at the same PPV. Angle keeps the title, Lesnar doesn't lose too much heat, Taker gets his win back from last year's HIAC, and Vince gets to headline yet another PPV. WW_ booking is so much easier when you turn off your brain.

I don't think Tenacious Z took the flight down the stairs. I was actually waiting for the camera cut so they could switch him with his stunt double. I'm not 100% sure on this, but I'd bet dollars to donuts that that's how it went down.

Definitely the latter. Neither of these guys had the egos that Hart and Michaels, and the bookers have to know that all the pinfalls/submissions will all add drama to the match.

I just noticed on Amazon.com that a Christopher Guest collection will be available later this month. Does anyone know if this is an actual box set, or are they just selling the three as a promotion? If this is the case, does anyone know if there are plans to release the three as a true set? Aside: my wife and I were watching Best in Show over two years ago, and right around the middle of the movie, her water broke. Roughly 14 hours later, our son was born. So this movie has much more appeal to me than it normally would. So I'm a big softy... sue me.

Mulatto Heat mentioned it on Page 1... unless you meant someone mentioning Angle's injuries on SD!.

Forrest Gump Special Edition King of the Hill Season One

As has been stated numerous times, a heel RVD has almost no chance of happening. One only has to look at his WW_ debut and the subsequent and overwhelming fan approval to see that a heel turn will never come to pass.

I'm beginning to think they'll go the 30 minute route on this one, especially considering this is a 90-minute episode of SD!. I don't think the brass at WW_ have much faith in the American viewing public to watch one hour of the same match on free TV, especially during prime time.

I can't believe that Roddick/Malisse match went on after midnight EST last night, and people still stayed to watch it. Malisse put up a great fight in the 3rd set, but Roddick put him away quite nicely. At this rate, the Women are going to have to play until October to determine a champ... unless they all start pulling a Taylor Dent and pull out due to injuries, especially with the way the condensation and rain are affecting the courts. Go Agassi!

I think their lack of talent has already solidified that.

Boo-urns!!!

And as we all know, that gimmick is so 1997.

This from a person who has "Cry me a river... so I can drown you" in his profile. And not for nothing, but wouldn't Orton being the head of a group in direct competition with Trips be considered main eventing? Because really, that's all Evolution would be doing for at least six months were they to oust Stephanie's beard from the fold.

At this rate, they better start selling scuba gear at the USTA gift shoppe...

But you forget the First Canon of the Wrestling Fraternity: What happens in the locker room stays in the locker room... ... for thirty minutes until someone can get to a computer.

The one glaring omission that ties those four together is that they are all boring and un-over. I can't remember one instance where any of them came out to even a smattering of polite applause or residual heel heat. Orton lost any potential once the RNN updates stopped coming in and they made him over into a Triple H clone. Batista's stint as a run-of-the-mill hoss left no impression, and no doubt his return will garner many a question mark in the minds of fans who didn't even notice him the first time around. Don't even get me started on the twin tyros of Heat. They've shown me nothing but a vanilla presentation, a Tough Enough-esque repertoire of moves (including 18 variations on a very boring dropkick), and not even a hint of charisma. Piper is dead. Dust the ashes off and move on. A gathering of this many green untalented wrestlers for a main event angle would spell disaster for any wrestling company. Which means it's perfect for the shit stew that RAW has become. Kudos on channelling those monkeys scribbling their RAW scripts on cocktail napkins. Perhaps you can send some kind of psychic aneurysm their way and end that Monday Night Farce altogether. (Sorry for the extra vitriol. Somebody shit in my cereal today.)

I keep getting visions of the title sequence to Thundarr the Barbarian: The year 1994: From out of space comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. I don't think I'm prepared to live in world like that. Damn you, runaway planet! Damn you all to hell!!!

Both movies were mentioned already, and the title is They Live. And that movie is known for sporting one of, if not the longest continuous fight scenes in cinema history. And the funny thing is: Keith David, the burly black man opposite Piper, was trained at Julliard as a Shakespearean actor, before trolling around the B-movie scene and getting bit parts in movies like Platoon and The Pirates of Penzance.

On TBS, Judd Nelson's "Fuck you" becomes "Damn you" in The Breakfast Club. I still can't figure out why they edit "Forget to watch your jock?" and "Eat my shorts!" That just seems extraneous and silly. Also, the "elephantitis of the nuts" is edited to "elephantitis of the BUTT". They also add in two deleted scenes in place of the pot-smoking scene... one where Molly Ringwald asks for change for a $50 before Emilio Estevez and Ally Sheedy go to the soda machine, and one where the kids are sneaking around the school and they pass the principal trying to get soda out of a soda machine. USA uses the "digital bra" technique with The People vs. Larry Flynt, specifically during Courtney Love's "photo shoot". They airbrush in pillows, I think, to cover up her nubbins. The "Mr. Falcon" line kills me.

Not to be a pedant or anything, but Hurricane's Buff Blockbuster is called the Overcast… it's a weather reference, like the Eye of the Storm. And I must say that Trish Stratus' "spinebuster" is horrendous. And technically, it should be called a sidewalk slam ala Ron Simmons since the attacker doesn't spin around. And the thing they call a sidewalk slam should really be called a side salto or side slam ala Dino Bravo. Unfortunately, that got bastardized in the '90s, most likely by Vince McMahon or Tony Schiavone. My head hurts.