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Benoit was out of action because of his neck during the angle.

Yeah sounds like he was out of it.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...mn_pluggedin_dc Retro Games, Devices, Recall Electronic Youth By Franklin Paul NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Cindy Simmons and her husband get home from a hard day at the office, they cozy up and relax like many young couples -- by bombing enemy ships on "River Raid" using their classic Atari video game console. "It is just like being 11 years old again," said Simmons, 32, an on-air radio personality from Atlanta. "Except I didn't have 30 games then -- now I do." High-tech gadgets like digital cameras top many holiday wish lists, but old-school items such as "Pac-Man" video games and vintage televisions are finding an audience with tech-savvy consumers yearning for nostalgia. Rapid advances in computer technology have allowed consumer electronics makers to pack increasingly more power into smaller boxes, helping to grow the CE market to almost $100 billion. But even "thirtysomething" shoppers -- the first generation to grow up with personal "Walkman" music players and own a home version of "Space Invaders" -- are overwhelmed when confronted with Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news) (news - web sites). PlayStation 2 (news - web sites) and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox (news - web sites) consoles that also surf the Web and play DVDs, or pocket devices that can store 10,000 songs. "Devices and games are getting more complex. The learning curve is not what it used to be and or you're not as willing to spend the time to learn as you would years ago," analyst Danielle Levitas of research firm IDC said. "Also, every generation experiences nostalgia, reflecting on what they did in their free time when they were teen-agers." The trend is most evident with video games. Teens today enjoy them primarily on living room consoles that can, for example, simulate with stunning three-dimensional precision, a World War II battle scene. A single game, packed with maps and myriad weaponry, can take hours to learn and weeks to complete. By contrast, beloved games of late 1970s and early 1980s were no-brainers, where strategy meant little more than picking whether to chase and chomp the stationary picture of a strawberry or the red cone-shaped monster with the googly eyes. "The essence of these games was that they didn't go on for 40 hours. You can just pick up and figure out what was going on fairly quickly and then play," said Keith Robinson, president of Intellivision Productions, which is also selling a version of its 1980s games for new game consoles. RESURRECTING ASTEROIDS, SPACE ARMADA At eBay Inc.'s online auction site, more than 43,000 vintage gaming items are being offered for sale, including the classic brand names Atari, Colecovision and Commodore. Gross merchandise sales -- the value of goods sold via the site -- for Commodore alone are up 61 percent for the last three months. "This growth is related to the children of baby boomers wanting to recapture a piece of their youth in the early 1980s," eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said. Intellivision this year is offering "Intellivision Lives!" for PS2 and Xbox, resurrecting long-forgotten titles like "Shark! Shark!" and "Space Armada." Its Intellivision 25 direct-to-TV controller lets users without a console play 25 games by plugging a game controller into their TV or VCR. Similar game controller products are available from Atari, Activision and Namco, bringing "Dig Dug" and "Asteroids" from the era of Lionel Ritchie and Diane Keaton to that of Missy Elliott and Ben Affleck. Each game controller looks almost exactly like the original joystick-and-single-button model -- a relic compared to current models that often sport six buttons and two directional sticks. "People identify with the original Atari 2600 joystick," said Genna Goldberg of JAKKS Pacific Inc., which makes the three joystick games. "For many it was the first video game system they had as a kid." MORE THAN GAMES The nostalgia trend extends beyond games. For example, one of PalmOne Inc.'s most successful handheld computers is in its Zire line of no-frills versions whose features are more like that of its 1998 forefather, the Palm III. Data storage company Verbatim Corp. sells blank recordable computer CDs whose face resembles a vinyl album. The "Digital Vinyl CD-R," which looks like an old, groovy 45-rpm record, is marketed as "a great way to save delicate LP collections" and urges buyers to "grab a blast from the past." Dave Riedel and Mike Scott, principal partners at Telstar Electronics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sell 1950's style 21- and 24-inch "Predicta" televisions. Each is as eye-catching for its design and hand-polished wood as a 50-inch plasma screen is for its flatness. Riedel says buyers of the TVs, which come cable-ready with a remote control and sell for up to $3,300, understand today's advanced technology, but want something more unique. "They don't need a big TV in order to have a satisfied life," he said. "And they are not afraid to embrace technology -- a majority of our sales are assisted by our Web site." According to IDC's Levitas, this nostalgia market is still a niche category, "but one that should have legs and evolve with the aging population."

Carey said the reason he did Ace Ventura 2 was because he was under contract to do it. Carey said wouldn't have done it otherwise.

Because Cena is getting over and we can't have that now can we?

I remember this one time after the US went to war. Harvard Chris was coming the ring and he said something like this "Should the US bomb a country just because they don't agree with us." And JR yells back "HELL YEAH WE SHOULD."

Lou Thesz/Ric Flair Award (Wrestler Of The Year) 1 - Kenta Kobashi 2 - Brock Lesnar 3 - Satoshi Kojima Most Outstanding Wrestler 1 - Kenta Kobashi 2 - Eddy Guerrero 3 - Shinjiro Ohtaini Best Box Office Draw 1 - Bob Sapp 2 - Kenta Kobashi 3 - The Rock Feud Of The Year 1 - Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle 2 - Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa 3 - Raven vs. Jeff Jarrett Tag Team Of The Year 1 - KENTA & Naomichi Marufuji 2 - Koji Kanemoto & Jushin Liger 3 - America's Most Wanted Most Improved 1 - KENTA 2 - Brock Lesnar 3 - Michael Shane Best On Interviews 1 - The Rock 2 - John Cena 3 - Raven Most Charismatic 1 - The Rock 2 - Chris Jericho 3 - Satoshi Kojima Best Technical Wrestler 1 - Yuji Nagata 2 - Kurt Angle 3 - Chris Benoit Bruiser Brody Memorial Award 1 - Kenta Kobashi 2 - Brock Lesnar 3 - Yoshihiro Takayama Best Flying Wrestler 1 - Chris Sabin 2 - Kaz Hayashi 3 - Rey Misterio Jr. Most Overrated 1 - Triple H 2 - Keiji Mutoh 3 - Erik Watts Most Underrated 1 - Matt Hardy 2 - Tiger Mask IV 3 - Ultimo Dragon Promotion Of The Year 1 - Pro Wrestling NOAH 2 - Zero One 3 - Ring Of Honor Best Weekly Television Show 1 - NOAH 2 - Major League Wrestling 3 - Smackdown Shoot Fighter Of The Year 1 - Randy Coture 2 - Wanderlai Silva 3 - Mirko Cro Cop Worked Match Of The Year 1 - Kenta Kobashi vs. Mitsuharu Misawa 03/01/03 2 - Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho 3 - Juventud Guerrera vs. Chris Sabin Shoot Fight Of The Year 1 - Wanderlai Silva vs. Hidehiko Yoshida 2 - Randy Coture vs. Tito Ortiz 3 - Antonio Nogueira vs. Mirko Cro Cop Rookie Of The Year 1 - Chris Sabin 2 - Josh Barnett 3 - uh Zach Gowen? Best Non-Wrestler 1 - Eric Bischoff 2 - Sinister Minister 3 - Teddy Long Best Television Announcer 1 - Mike Tenay 2 - Mike Goldberg 3 - Bas Rutten Worst Television Announcer 1 - Joe Rogan 2 - Ernest Miller 3 - Jonathan Coachman Best Major Wrestling Show 1 - WWE WrestleMania XIX 2 - NOAH Budokan Hall 9/12/03 3 - NWA TNA 9/3/03 Worst Major Show New Japan Tokyo Dome 10/13/03 Best Wrestling Move Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic Favorite Wrestler Chris Jericho Least Favorite Wrestler A-Train Worst Wrestler Nathan Jones Worst Tag Team Three Minute Warning Worst Television Show NWA TNA Xplosion Worst Non-Wrestling Personality Vince Russo Worst Match Of The Year Shinya Hashimoto vs. Kejiji Mutoh Worst Feud Of The Year Jeff Jarrett vs. Vince Russo Worst On Interviews Stephanie Worst Promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling Best Booker Gabe Sapolsky Promoter Of The Year Mitsuharu Misawa Best Gimmick John Cena Thuganomics Worst Gimmick Rico The Homo Most Embarassing Wrestler Matt Ghafari

I don't think they're going to cut Scotty 2 Hotty. I mean he's just got back and they're giving him and Risksi (sp?) a decent push. Hell I have a feeling sooner or later they will hold the SD tag titles.

I think they might cut Ultimo Dragon. Lord knows they're not doing anything with him.

Seeing as how Steph didn't know anything about the angles on Heat I bet that if Stevie and Tommy do get cut they could still go and wrestle on Heat and none of higher ups would know it.

Well we know they're not resigning Dustin so who else do you think the fed might cut?

Yes because Sting is good worker, is over, and is THE man in WCW. He is WCW. But, no because you know Vince would book him like shit. Think about you have the man that has never left WCW so you know Vince would book him like shit and have him lose to HHH and talk about how WCW was nothing and how Sting REALLY wanted to join WWF/E. Hell I bet Vince would go over "Mr WCW" himself.

You know Vince was happy about that.

Remember the classic Lampoons Christmas Vacation movie with Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, and Randy Quaid? Well they made a made for TV sequel that will be on NBC tomorrow. From the TV preview: Randy Quaid reprises his fim series role as Cousin Eddie in this 2003 made for TV sequel in which he and his family are shipwrecked during a South Seas Christmas vacation. Without Chase or D'Angelo this is gong to suck real bad. Hey want can I say I loved the vacation movies.

Yeah it is. In fact on the Rey DVD when he went back to Mexico he didn't wear the mask cause he would have been dead if he did.

I don't know about anybody else but, I don't want to see Paris half-naked. She's such as skinny bitch.

More details on the next X-Sequel After the huge success of the first two X-Men movies, obviously there has been a lot of rumor and news about the next in the series. Here are some interview highlights from Richard Donner, who recently talked about X3: He is also working on a Wolverine movie separately from X3, which would come out after X3 Ideally he’d like the movie to be out in Summer 2005 He confirms that the Dark Phoenix saga will be at least one of the storylines in the movie On whether some of the top stars will be back for the third movie: I can't imagine doing it without him or Patrick [stewart] or any of the main cast...and Halle [berry]. We have to make sure that she's used well and we have a great great storyline for her, or maybe we do a Storm movie...who knows. credit: cinecon

No kidding. Never mind the fact that the brand extension has been better for business (in a way) their payoffs are lower. End the extension. Yes. That way we can get Benoit & Eddy jobbing on Velocity while HHHMania runs wild over every show. Guys like the WGTT & Rey Misterio wouldn't even be employed if it wasn't for the brand extension. The brand extension is the only thing saving WWE at the moment. I don't think anyone wants to go back to early 2002 with HHH & Steph eating up every segment on both shows and Jericho left cleaning up dogshit (literally). Here is something that I noticed. See how the report says top card guys. So I'm guessing it's people like HHH, UT, Austin, etc that are bitching. Because think about if the brand extension ended those would be the guys that would be main eventing all the PPVs and get most of the money. While, like you said, guys like Rey Jr. and TWGTT would hardly be on the PPV>

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Yeah I remember in Vegas vacation they had his daughter as a stripper.

No kidding. Never mind the fact that the brand extension has been better for business (in a way) their payoffs are lower. End the extension.

I doubt the fans thought that La Resistance of all wrestlers had a chance against the Rock. You want to talk about making someone look good watch Rock's work with the Hurricane. Now there is where the Rock helped the Hurricane.

What heat? Rock totally cut their balls off on the mike and made them look like chumps.

No Goldberg's unhappy when he's booked like a chump and made to lose the belt to the owner's son in law who hadn't been on TV for weeks leading up to the match.

Yeah unless it's Goldberg then they bitch about him having an ego even if he's right.