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Its cool WC. I wondered why there was no mention of it during the HOLT stuff, but figured maybe they saw me come out to cut a promo and decided it was a good time for a bathroom break.

In a way, I'm kind of sad that ELM got a bigger pop than I did.

To add to the already mentioned Lord of the Rings and Starship Troopers, I add the following... - Dune by Frank Herbert. - The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov - Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - The Chronicles of Amber (especially the first 5 books, more particuarly, Nine Princes in Amber) by Roger Zelazny - The Riftwar Saga by Raymond Feist.

I'm not sure about most overrated, but I know one match that is never mentioned that I loved. TLC IV: The Lost TLC Match. E&C, Hardys, Dudleys and Jericho & Benoit. Amazing match that never gets mentioned in any converstaion.

18. No, I'm still older than you. And not only did I never leave (I've just kept a low profile to help sell the "I've been away" thing), I'm back.

Yeah, I'm hoping I can get back into the groove of things quickly, and Duran seems like a good opponent to work with for me. We'll see. ::crosses fingers:: And i just realized that Z lists the cards backwards. How do you like that? 2.5 years off the active roster, and I come back in a main event! I think I'll enjoy the view while I have it.

-- Retired --

The promo that was missed has been added at the end of the excellent #1 Contender's match. I uh... just happened to have a copy. Please read it. Show comments later when I have a chance to review a little closer, but on first glance: Way to go Toxxic!

About the Eddie / Angle comedy stuff. Here's my take on why I think it works. Eddie knows that at SS he gets the chance to kick the hell out of Kurt, so why not humiliate him as much as possible before that? It makes sense to me. Besides, if Eddie gets handcuffed and beaten one more time, I'm going to be ill. It has happened far too much this year. And yes, I think twice is far too much.

I would like to point out that i already have one match in.

But Spiff, here's the thing. Sure graphics have changed and yeah, it might be Hayden in place of Sebastian and Greedo shoots first and, I'll agree, Jar-Jar is a little annoying. But to me none of this blunts the impact of the story or the rise, fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. Personally, until he changes something that changes the essential story of the 6 movies, then I really could care less. Should the original versions be preserved? Well, sure. That's history. Does it cheese me off to the extent that I had to think about buying the trilogy? Heck no.

Thank you BL. Sometimes I feel like I am the only person left who still loves the Star Wars series.

Updated with the shows leading to... The big show... the one we work for all year... GENESIS V

I'm starting to get into it actually. I've been thinking about picking up a TPB or something at GenCon to give it a shot. On a related note, anyone else here go to Gen Con?

I hate to be the one to cast a shadow on this thread, but as much as I would like to see a QL movie, if the only source on this is an entry on the notoriously unreliable IMDB, I'll have to call "shenanigans".

I and my PPV buddies have already said that come October, we are going to need to decide which PPV to order. All quality issues aside, it's just too damned expensive to buy 2 PPV's a month at $35 a pop. Now, putting the quality issue aside again and looking at this from a pure "what I can afford" perspective, I would be cooler with this if they lowered the price of the "split" PPV's to like $20 or $25. Heck, still charge the $35 or even $40 for SummerSlam, Survivor Series and the Rumble (and the $50 or whatever for Mania) but give us loyalists a break on the other 8 months if they go for the full 20 PPV's a year plan. Now, thinking about quality again, I'd say keep it like it is. The Big 4, SD gets 4 and Raw gets 4.

If DVD Recorders work anything like my VCR (and I am guessing they almost have to) it is simplicity itself to record from the DVR. In my case, i just start watching whatever it is I want to tape and hit the record button. Now, I know for a fact that there are ports on my DVR that are currently unused, one of which is a firewire port and another is a USB port. I am hoping that at some point in the future these will be enabled.

I just want to apologize. Normally, I have a reason, or at the least a good excuse for not turning in matches. Not this time. I flat-out forgot I needed to mark matches last night. So, huge apologies to everyone in the Fed.

... I'll play. And I'll delete the league I had set up. They are effectively the same with the exception of the draft.

Must've meant a lot coming from him. ::chuckle:: well, it meant enough that she still talks about it. She also changed the words to his old song, based on Edge & Christian's version: "Chris Benoit is here and he's really nice. Chris Benoit is here and he's really friendly..."

I've got a couple of meets and one big complaint. When HWA was still a WWE developmental territory, we got to see lots of current and future superstars and say hello. All of them were pretty cool about it. We got autographs from Ekmo & Kimo (Rosie & Jamal), Tommy Dreamer, Mike Awesome and Steven Richards one afternoon and stood around and chatted with "Surfer" Cody Hawk for a while after the show. Very, very cool. While Chris Benoit was out injured, he made an appearance at an HWA show. He was incredibly nice, signed everything, took pictures, played with all of the little kids who were nervous to meet him and told a friend of mine that she has a nice smile. Class act all the way and I went from being a fan of Benoit's to a huge mark for the guy. Now for the grousing: Last show we went to was Raw (the one where Kane "injured" HBK). All week we were talking about going outside after the show and trying to talk to some of the wrestlers. So the show ends, we hang out for a second or two (until rude security guy #1 made us leave even though there were about 50 people still getting Joe Schmoe's autograph) then headed out back to where we knew the wrestlers come out and where they park. Rude security guys # 2 - #15 were standing by to hustle everyone along. For that matter, I stopped to tie my shoe and got yelled at. I was wondering if this is a new WWE policy or just the Yellow Shirts at the Nutter Center being jerks?

OK, was there an alternate PPV that you guys saw that I didn't? Because I am firm in the opinion that the Hell in a Cell match rocked. I can't understand why people would dislike it. Maybe because they stayed in the cage? I remember the Undertaker / Brock HiaC that everyone (but me & about three other people) hated never left the cage.

::deep breath:: OK, I reread the entire thread and I have to say one thing... Damn, I was in a seriously bad mood yesterday. Owning a house is not the horror show I have made it out to be, and I don't really mind doing yardwork. It's just that we've had that ongoing issue with the sewer line, plus our yearly review for the warranty is up and I am a little stressed about that as the 90 day review didn't go well. kkk, if I frightened you off of the house i'm sorry. Overall, I think it was a good idea. But let me tell you, there are days where the security blanket of our old apartment looks pretty damn comfortable.

I'm curious about something Coffey... and I mean this in all seriousness... What was it about last night's show that turned you off? All right, outside the Lita Pregnancy thing which could, maybe, someday, be good but I have a bad feeling about. Personally, I was very happy with the show overall. Good segment with HHH, HBK & Kane at the open, Good Highlight Reel, awesome main event... I just find it odd that after a couple of weeks ago (not to mention Smackdown recently, which has been sub-par more often than not) this is the show that made you say "The hell with it."

Lushus: Yup, just me and the wife for now, although we plan on having kids, thus the 3 beds. We also have a 2-car garage and I love it. I love not having to get rained on to get in the car and in the winter I loved not having to clean off the car before leaving the house. Tom, That's what we've been saying for a yaer, but nobody believes us... kkk: Yeah, there are warranties, and we are getting a lot of the stuff fixed, but they dispute everything and try to make it sound like it is either your fault or "just something that new houses do." The funny part is, the people who built the house were awesome and very helpful. Its only since we were transferred into the warraty department that we have run into the proverbial brick wall. We saved for about 2 years or so for the down payment. I think we put down about $4000 under the FHA plan and I think we paid like $1500 in closing costs. Oh, and $50 for a mailbox. We got lucky on the interest rate and managed a 5%, so our payment, at least for now, is still under $1000.