Art Sandusky

Boy, this folder shows me how boring my diet is.

I'd never even heard of Eight Below until I opened this thread. As I told Czech, Curious George is getting my seasonal movie theater trip.

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0BEUPT2...ZO0YSW9YENOJWNK Bumped because I think the above will be enjoyable for all.

This is far more accurate than it has any right to be.

I should add (on a government secrets-related note), in all seriousness, that if this administration were the one that finally went public with what the government knows about UFOs and aliens I would completely forgive everything.

So hey, how about naming a new Raw GM?

If Edge adding more viewers than HHH/Flair lost (and in a consistent manner) didn't tell them something, nothing will.

I was actually worried Angle had fucked up his throat when he caught the top of the announcer's table on the edge, after Undertaker had tossed him into the steps. Something else from last night that was kind of a big deal for me: It's 2006. Michael Cole has been the play-by-play guy for Smackdown week in and week out for six and a half years and has shown absolutely no improvement whatsoever. Before last night he was just annoying to me, but during all the garbage after the Rey match it fully hit me that I really hate that motherfucker. I honestly think that I, with no experience whatsoever, could do better than him. That's fuckin' sad. The man is so absolutely terrible that I'm compelled to think that everything since September of 1999 has been a huge dream because there's no way that this guy should still be employed, at least not in anything beyond being a backstage interviewer. Fuck Michael Cole. Fuck Michael Cole with a big rubber dick. Then break it off in his ass and beat him with the rest of it. Seriously, all that had never come to me before last night.

I make no illusions of where I am on the fence. That doesn't mean that I lack the ability to look at something objectively. This was your argument: You're pretty much saying that because everyone saw it happen, there couldn't possibly be anything remiss about the situation. Trying to accuse someone of trivializing the resultant deaths is also re-directing the argument into a position where your opponent is forced to agree with you. It's not very effective. Okay, for all who dismiss anything that isn't the official story, why were the towers' power grids shut down for three hours (meaning we don't have any security camera footage of this time period either) a few days before the attacks for the reason of upgrading their computer network when this was a procedure that had yet to be executed once since the towers' opening in the mid-70s? And why were the bomb-sniffing dogs removed around the same time? Finally, if the planes hit the towers well above ground level, why were firefighters reporting at the time that there was explosion-like destruction (dust caking everything, elevator doors blown open, etc.) all the way down in the lobby? There are simply a lot of questions that should be answered somehow, but until people can get over themselves and stop dismissing anything they don't agree with, none of them will ever get more than a "psh, you're just some wacko" reaction. EDIT: Of course no one will believe me, but I don't mean to imply anything by asking these things. Just because you have questions doesn't mean that you assume the worst. How the entire incident has been cynically used by everyone to force one agenda or another to this very day and for years in the future has me far more upset than any news of what actually happened could make me.

HD operates in cycles, it seems. A couple of weeks ago it was pretty good.

Did I say I was a goddamn patriot? Find something else to make a pithy remark about.

Yes, yes, and yes. Earlier when I said I didn't like the match for the same reasons as you and LOTC it was more in relation to the freakouts over the actual submissions and whatnot. This evaluation of how the match developed and eventually ended is verbalized way better than I could muster myself. That even the leg grapevine (or, as you put it, the Ankle Lock '03) couldn't finish the Undertaker off gave me one of those great "well shit, now what the fuck else can he do?" moments, because it was already at a phase where it appeared that Angle was going to be just as nail-tough as Undertaker was. As much as I complain to my fellow PPV watchers that there's never anything outside of the usual endings, in this case the flow of the match forced something unconventional. Given the workers involved and how it was built as a match between two just plain great competitors who happen to be faces, you also knew that it'd be good and far from cheap. As for the no countout stipulation, while it sounds good in the context of how tonight's match progressed, I'm scared it'd turn into a dumb Attitude-era main event brawl.

I personally like how they love to swerve everyone (and everyone falls for it each time) at PPVs and have the main announcer table be stripped down, only to destroy the untouched Spanish table.

But Carnival, DocOck, and the rest of their merry crew have improved so much!

I'm also of the persuasion that WWE has MUCH WORSE people they could put into a match besides Michaels, so yeah. It's a sort of sliding scale when you take the rest of the roster into account.

While not excited about it for the same reasons as Rudo and Curry, that title match was pretty damn good. First time in a long while where I've left the sports bar and felt satisfied with a show, one that wasn't offering more than the usual "it was all right I guess" feeling to that point. I'm a big believer in the main event of a show offering the best match, so maybe that's why this show left me feeling good. The only problem I had with it was the sheer amount of time Undertaker's leg spent being punished with a minimal limp as the result, but he's supposed to be a zombie so it gets a little leeway with me. Orton/Mysterio wasn't the stinker it's been portrayed as thus far, but it wasn't very good either. I love the hell out of how Orton sells everything, but besides that and his pose, I still haven't cared about him since the summer of 2004. The post-match crap doesn't really require elaboration.

Or you're someone who doesn't sweat all that stuff. Discussion of strikes, psychology, all that stuff, whatever. It's a lot better for reducing stress too. It doesn't make you some mark (and I wish that wouldn't be considered a dirty word).

Something happening on live television doesn't make it ironclad reality. We all ended up at this board by watching a certain program on live television every Monday night. And the "you hate America" line is soooooo played out. Fuck off with that dumb shit. I'm not sure if you noticed in the midst of all this perversion of what America is supposed to be, but we're built on questioning and disagreement. My distrust of how genuine any of the jokers in the White House or their *appointed, not elected* cabinet are whenever they say virtually anything isn't hating America, it's distrusting certain people. What crap.

You can't act like the attempts to turn a specific "morality" into concrete law actually has us moving forward.

I'll say that we shall have to agree to disagree about this one, since this is the WWE folder. You're watching the right channel, but there's much better stuff (not to say ol' Coop is bad, he'd easily be the cream of the crop were he on another network).

It's Rita Cosby in a more intelligent wrapper.

Yikes, someone who likes Anderson Cooper 360. I didn't think those people existed.

If Terry Funk is to be a centerpiece of this (as some newsbits I read a while back said), it should be called Another One Night Stand: I'm Getting Too Old For This Shit.

You get the Gilmore Girls part? I think my own like for women's matches comes from wanting to see women do more than just look pretty, as well as the faint, insignificant chance that consistent respectable women's matches will lead to a degree of respect for them in a business that lags about 75 years behind the rest of society. I'd check out the Japanese women's stuff, but the enjoyment for me is in watching improvement as opposed to seeing those who are already good. Trish became one of my overall (male or female) favorites every week because she looked to put a lot of effort into what she was doing starting in late 2001 and it shows now. The T&A Trish lived in an alternate universe in my mind.

I didn't really balk at his return, it was just a "what the fuck?" kinda thing. Totally unexpected to see Smackdown spoilers one week saying "FINLAY IS COMING!"