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Myspace licks balls. Aside from that, happy to see you hear; Divefire was always one of the Dream Matches I'd wanted to have.

I'm intrigued by the prospect of wireless internet, and I see a lot of my co-workers with these cell phones that they can use to access the internet... But, here's the thing: I don't actually want a cell phone, I just want to be able to subscribe to a wireless service so that I can get wireless internet on the go from, like a PDA, or maybe even a laptop, the same way these guys get it from their cell phones. Is there any (major) wireless company that provides a service like that, and would any of you know if it's even a viable option?

"Oui. T'anks, man!" Wildchild puts down his cell phone. "Dat's de last one; dey're all in!" Melissa Fasaki shakes her head. "I can't believe that you got all of those guys to agree to that." Wildchild grins a response. "Well, dey aren' all exactly fans of mine, but you'd be amazed by how unpopular Van Siclen is; some guys would literally work wit anybody just to stick it t'dat guy!" "I guess that works out in your favor then, huh?" "Oui," replies WC. "Dis is working out better dan I could have hoped; I couldn't have planned on dis!" "Okay," says Melissa. "Just be careful tonight." Wildchild looks at his girlfriend oddly. "Careful about what?" "Don't give me 'careful about what,' you know what!" insists Melissa. "After what happened to that Irwin guy... I just don't want anything bad to happen, that's all; you never know what could happen!" "Don' worry," insists WC. "Everyt'in' will be fine; I'll be back here in no time at all, an' den we gon' have our own li'l Junkanoo!" Wildchild slaps his girlfriend playfully on her rear end as he heads out of thier hotel room. "I'll be back in a bit!"

Actually, I liked TORU best because he reminded me of the Barbarian, who was one of my favorite late 80s-early 90s heels.

That was before I realized how much Toxxic was like WC... except somehow a dominant character, despite his weaknesses.

I did. Crow vs Sean Atlas vs Christian Blackwell, in the JL. It hurts that you've forgotten. It's not a question of having forgotten, it's more a matter of I didn't know in the first place: 1) Your run in the JL and mine didn't really coincide, and I didn't read the JL much after I got bumped, and 2) I never knew that Christian Blackwell was Muzz in the first place.

Or maybe all of you just have shitty tastes in "humor."

To be fair, Thugg only wrote one match after I joined the fed, and Fallout and Edwin had both been long since retired.

I can't remember that anybody ever beat Muzz when he bothered to show; hell, Mags didn't even beat him...

Huh... I'm 1-0 in WHC matches. Of course, I wrote myself to win by DQ (and therefore not win the title), but that's neither here nor there...

I'm black and I hated that movie...and trust me I don't agree with the "current state" of hip hop. All I hear about is about bitches and "look at my rims...they spin" BS!! Living Color was a stupid show along with Chappelle's show. Well theres always an exception. He's not the only exception... Of course, I'm also probably a good sight older than he is... The other thirty-somethings that I work with and my friends who still watch wrestling all thought that it was incredibly stupid.

Janus: during the "infancy" of the WC character, his weaknesses were always most obvious against big men, and with the abrupt disappearance of Thugg, Frost and Strangler shortly after I joined, Janus quickly established himself as one of the best big men during my tenure here. He even got the better of me in tag team writing, which almost NEVER happened! I've since gotten better at writing against big men, but I'll have this question mark in the back of my mind as to whether or not I could measure up. Landon: this mostly comes down to writing style. The reason why I've had such difficulty writing against him is basically because his writing style is better suited to writing my character than my writing style is suited to writing his. In other words, he writes WC better than I write Landon. I always did well against him in the tag division, but that was mostly thanks to Johnny, who is MUCH better at writing against Landon than I could hope to be. Ejiro: always brought out the best in me. It should come as little surprise that Mark probably knew how to write the WC character better than I do, such was the nature of our feud back in the day. I love being booked against guys like Ejiro, Tom, Pretzler, Mags and Jay, because those guys really force me to raise my game. Mags: speak of the devil... I still maintain that my losing match against Mags at Ground Zero '05 was my single-greatest match ever: better than my match at 'Fuck '04 against Flesher, better than my Iron Man with Pretzler at 13th Hour, better than the Career match against Johnny, better than the Cage match against Hawke... better than anything I've ever written for this fed, in my opinion... and I couldn't touch Mags; the man is greatness.

1. Ace309: The Tom Flesher character is so firmly established in SWF lore that he doesn't even need a title to be over! The only writer whom, in my opinion, can write a match where he completely squashes his opponent, and have it be credible. Hell, he even made Ghost Machine look legit... fucking Ghost Machine! He's easily the most versatile writer: he can work any style (technical, brawl, high-flying, etc.), or any kind of match, whether it be straight singles, multi-mans, tag team, “traditional” stips (like ladders and cages) or gimmicks (House Rules, like vodka matches). But what I probably like most about his writing is his pacing: better than any other active writer, Ace309 has an innate sense of when a match should have an “epic” feel, and when it’s just a “passing through” kind of match, but also has the unique ability to write both in such away as to hold the reader’s attention, and send them away thinking that they “got their money’s worth.” 2. MikeofEvil: Consistently plans excellent angles which have a way of getting large portions of the fed involved. And while my personal favorite of his alter egos was TORU Takahara, the strength of his writing is most clearly on display with the Michael “Toxxic” Stephens character. Toxxic reminds me most of Ejiro Fasaki in that his character is flawed: he’s not the fastest, nor the strongest, nor the toughest, nor the best wrestler. But what he has over everyone else is a single-minded determination to prove all his critics wrong by becoming the best that there is, and to establish an attribute like that without the overuse of hyperbolic promos and constantly regurgitating catchphrases is a sign of good writing. Another great thing about Toxxic being a flawed character is that, for the most part, it makes him an easy character to write, and his weaknesses mean that just about anybody in the fed can conceivably be a threat to beat him, which also makes his character fun to write, both of which are, in my opinion, just about the two highest compliments that you can give another writer’s character. 3. kellogs/Above Average: I don’t know if I can ever recall a more fluid writer in the fed… Mak/Ryan/Gabe always flows from spot to spot so well, that any attempt that I could make to elaborate on it would border on being disrespectful. I’m a big fan of his attention to detail, and the way that he makes little things that come up early in the match end up being significant down the line. I also like the way that you can often “see” the character’s thought process throughout the match; it’s not quite as extreme as Christian “first person” Fury, but the occasional injections of character dialogue in the middle of a match helps to bring meat to storylines, like Mak’s feud with Danny, and what Gabriel is doing right now with Toxxic; it kind of fleshes out the story a little better, and requires the reader to do more than just read the RPs to figure out what’s going on, and I’ve ALWAYS been a fan angles whose stories can be told inside the ring. 4. King_Cucaracha: Probably the best big-match writer in the fed. I’ve always felt that he overdoes it with the word limits (or lack thereof) on PPV, but there’s no question that, when an epic is in order, he delivers. He’s got the “annoying, conniving, chickenshit heel” down to a science with the Landon character, and you had to have been around for the House of Todd days to appreciate just how much he’s evolved as a writer. Those of us who have been here a while have literally watched Landon Maddix grow up, as he’s gone from being a comedy act, to a sidekick, to a frustrated midcarder to a cocky upper-midcarder to the youngest World Heavyweight Champion in fed history to an evil mastermind… not bad for someone that used to “carry Todd Royal’s bags” and was once thought of as the weak link of his tag team. 5. HollywoodSpikeJenkins: That’s right, I said it. The only thing that has ever really held him down is consistency. The Spike Jenkins character is versatile and easy to write; just good enough at everything that he seems believable performing almost any move or hold. There’s no denying that the writer understands the dynamics of a captivating wrestling storyline, as he has authored some beauts which, tragically, he has exhibited a propensity for not following up on. And, of course, in his most ambitious effort, an underdog story which I may have publicly ridiculed but secretly admired, he simply ran into a superior writer in El Luchadore Magnifico. But the talent is definitely there; I don’t think that there’s a writer in the fed whom Spike can’t best when he’s motivated. Unfortunately, how to motivate him seems to be the $64,000 question.

2.49-2.58 in Hampton.

I'm not sure I follow this...if he were to sit out the full season, that would only hurt his position come the draft, whether the injury's legit or not. I sincerely doubt it. You really think that a team that's desperately in need of a big man would refuse to draft him for sitting out rather than playing for OSU when they know that he doesn't want to play in college, and would have gone into the draft this year if the league had let him? Yes, that's actually exactly what I think.

I may be alone in this opinion, but I don't think that there's a thing wrong with Oden, or not much of anything, anyway. He may have been legitimately hurt, but I suspect that he's better already, but may well remain "injured" until a month before the '07 draft, when he becomes "miraculously" healed.

I'd agree with dropping Bosh and either Jamison or Miller; I'd be more inclined to keep Jamison over Miller, if only because he's a better rebounder than Miller, while having the same range on offense. I don't know about replacing all three of the "Class of '03" stars, as I think that Anthony definitely proved that he deserves to be there, and probably Wade, too. I like James, but I wouldn't be heartbroken if he got cut. At the same time, I don't think that Allen, Bryant and Redd would have made this team a winner, either. Personally, I think that the problem is that there are still too many stars and not enough guys that don't have to be the focal point: too many James' and Wades and Anthonys and not enough Ridnours and Wallaces and Okafors. Allen, Bryant and Redd wouldn't have changed that, but Redd would probably be the best fit of the three.

Told you so. Yeah, but the way you said it created the impression that we wouldn't make it because of Spain or Argentina, when they didn't actually have anything to do with it. [soapbox] And, on a side note to all you haters, fuck whatever sport you like. Basketball probably gets shit on by haters more than any other sport in this forum, and I'm sick of it; fuckers that don't even like basketball pop their fucking heads into basketball threads just to say how much they don't like it, and that's fucking bullshit. [/soapbox]

The only person whom it would make sense to replace with Arenas is Joe Johnson, and personally, I think that Johnson does the little things better, and is more effective in his role. Like I said in the other thread, Arenas isn't nearly as effective when he isn't the focal point of an offense, and with Anthony, James and Wade already already established as the focal points of the team, Arenas became expendable.

I don't follow this logic at all. I mean, am I the only person here who actually thinks that Arenas could have done everything they asked him to, and the coaching staff and Colangelo evaluated him fairly, and they still felt that the guys that they kept over Arenas were better fits? For crying out loud, it's not like he's a great shooter, or a great defender or anything. He's a great scorer, but if you've got Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, you don't need more volume shooters, you need fewer. Arenas is the kind of player that needs to be the focal point of an offense; he would not have been effective in the roles that Hinrich and Paul play for the team, so instead of asking who should have been cut between the two of them in order to keep Arenas, people should be asking which of the three focal points of the offense (Anthony, James, Wade) should have been cut to keep him.

In what sense are you using the term "role model?" Because I don't want my kid to look up to any athlete as a role model... Of course, he probably doesn't, anyway: he's not all that into sports.

Well, I usually try to give feedback in my comments but, due to other commitments, I only tend to comment on around one show a string, so you're not likely to find it all that helpful.

“Talk.” “It’s me,” says Johnny Dangerous from the other end of the cell phone. “I just talked to your boy; everything is set up to go here.” “Good.” “Nic'… do I…?” “Yes, for de last time, you have to,” replies WC. “If you don’, it’s not gon’ work… And, in case you’ve forgotten, you still owe me.” “He’s never going to fall for it.” “He doesn’ have t’fall for it,” replies Wildchild. “He jus’ has t’be looking at you long enough for me t’do what I’m gon’ dere for.” “Do you think this’ll be enough to get him to lift your suspension?” Johnny asks. “Not yet,” replies WC. “He’s still afraid dat he’s gon’ break a nail or somet’in if he has t’fight me, so he’s gon’ need t’be pushed in the right direction.” “Well,” says Johnny, “in that case, let’s push away!” “Have you talked t’de boys yet?” “I spoke to a few,” replies the Barracuda, “but there aren’t all that many willing to listen to me… I stepped on a few toes the last time I showed my face, as you’ll recall.” WC snorts derisively. “You don’ have t’tell me!” “Fine, fine,” says Johnny placatingly. “Let’s not rouse old ghosts, eh?” “Nevermind,” replies Wildchild. “I’ll talk t’them myself when I get there... Talk to you later.”

I don't know if it's "just you," but it's definitely not me. I'm fine with your proposal, as long as you're putting the guys in stip matches and House Rules matches that want to be in those matches; I don't want to be stuck writing matches that I can't stand to write just for the sake of not being "boring." It's a little different with titles, I'll grant you: the Champion shouldn't be able to get away with only having to write matches that favor his style but, for non-titleholders in non-title matches, we shouldn't be obligated to write goofball stuff in the name of "mixing it up." I can appreciate that you might be feeling burnt out from writing too many "regular" matches, but one of the main reasons why I've personally stuck around for four years is because of getting to write "regular" matches; I was ready to quit in '04 after it seemed like I was being booked in stip match after stip match, because I can't stand most stip matches. Even now, I think I've turned down three title shots in the last few months because I hate writing multi-mans so much. Then again, nothing that we come up with is likely to make everybody happy, so somebody's probably going to end up feeling like they got screwed either way...