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The story from CNet. According to that, 285 people were given their notices, while 80 will be kept on to work for the new channel. I don't know if that includes hosts or not. That said, it'd be very stupid to ditch some of those hosts, considering the fanbase they have.

Here they are. http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=53172

It's up now. The server was probably messed up. Just because a Page Not Found or Cannot Find Server error comes up, doesn't mean a site is shut down.

Not much for the Gamecube But Nintendo is supposed to have some sort of huge surprise which could make up for the lack of games. Meh. It seemed easier than picking out a top five or ten. I'm interested in the Bebop and Inuyasha games, but I don't have my hopes up too high. If they were smart, they'd 'borrow' the Max Payne engine for Bebop, of course with a dogfight in space here and there. Most of all I'm interested in DJV2 and the Nintendo offerings. I'm guessing Nintendo's rumoured 'surprise' is a new Mario or, although it's probably a longshot, the announcement of the next console.

Singleton hasn't done anything worthwhile beside Boyz in the Hood, while Tyrese (if he should get the role) is... Tyrese. Chalk one up for complete indifference toward this movie. Anyway, Luke Cage is a former gang member who was framed and put in jail. To get parole, he allows scientists to perform experiments on him, which gives him various powers. With his new powers, he became a hero for hire. He was most successful from the 70s through the mid 80s, when blaxploitation was the order of the day. In the last ten or fifteen years, aside from I believe one or two short lived books and the odd guest appearance here and there, he's been pretty irrelevant.

I'm fairly certain Wolf's Rain and WHR are from the same people, which explains the similarities. And yeah, Gundam Wing was horrible. Everyone involved was usually either skulking or generally being miserable.

It was a big disappointment overall. There were flashes of good stuff, especially in the humor department (and the gag in Andrew wearing the Strong Bad shirt). However, it should've aired earlier, not at a time when the finale and Armageddon should be getting the hard sell. If not that, SMG actually being in this one would've salvaged it and the previously mentioned issue could be forgiven. As Sakura said, the fact that this is likely the blowoff to Spike/Buffy/Angel is sort of depressing. All that, and the head of the Rome W&H branch was fucking annoying. Right now the only thing worth something in this one was the Wes/Illyria storyline and the humor.

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It's been gradually declining for the past month or so. I blame myself.

I loved the stuff. Occasionally when getting a fountain soda or if I have everything available at home, I make myself a faux OK Soda (Coke, Pibb/Dr. Pepper and Orange).

Im the first to admit it wasnt so good last time but thats only because they give him meaningless fueds against Roddy Piper, and Vince McMahon then gave him the Mr. America crap. Not just then. When when they gave him the title in 2002, it was a disaster. That's another good one, if only for the awesome entrance.

Because Hogan coming back and doing all that worked so well the last time. I'll go with what others have already said in bringing back Raven, Kanyon and Spanky. Of course WWE should actually bother to do something with them.

Bull. Jon Barry never actually said anything that was wrong and tonight he did nothing more inflammatory than playing around with the crowd. If you must go after someone on the Nuggets first, then go after Francisco Elson who made a far bigger jackass of himself during the series.

This Nuggets/Wolves game is a fucking disaster thus far (for me anyway). Edit: Or maybe not. It's suddenly back down to 12 at the end of the half.

The website is still being worked on. Take this witn a grain of salt, since I'm not completely sure, but I think Johnny has the programming and such done, while the design end of things still needs to be completed. Someone else will be able to answer more accurately anyway. Archiving was halted, either because of apathy or because we finished getting the 'important' stuff we went in for. And lastly, Operation POOFNAR... --- "Echo team, come in. Over." *ssshshshhsshshsh* "Copy, Pink leader. We-" "That's RED leader!" "Hee hee... I know." "Echo team, what's your status? Over." *shshshhshs* "We've penetrated the outer wall's defenses and have breached Alpha sector seven. Over." "Huh?" *shshshhshshshs* "What Spark means is we stuck some gum on a camera and jimmied the door open." "Ok. Ren-des-vous at Bravo nine. Over and out." Two men bedecked in black ski masks, turtlenecks, pants, and gloves slowly slink through the hallways of Ceasar's Palace, walkie-talkies in hand and duffel bags in tow. The man in front is carrying a flashlight which he keeps pointed only a few feet in front of him. "Hey Chris." "What?" "What if we see a security guard?" Chris taps his duffel bag. "No!" "Don't worry." *shshshhhshshshs* "Echo team at Bravo nine." "Copy that, Echo team. Equiptment check." Deep in the bowels of the arena, two more men, dressed similarly, quietly unzip their duffel bags. "Paint?" "Check." "Tapes?" "Check." "Beer?" "..." "Beer?!" "Oh, here it is. Check." "Don't scare me like that, King!" "You there!" A flashlight beam swings across the halls, and the King of Hearts and Spark barely have time to duck into a janitors closet. *sschchchcc* "Come in Beta squadron! Night guard!" *schchshshhshshs* "Copy that, Echo team. En route. ETA, about 17 seconds. Maintain radio silence." "Anybody here?" The security guard asks nervously. Obviously, he's new. "Hellooooo?" He takes slow cautious steps, swinging his head this way and that, ready for anything. "I know you're here... come out with your hands up, or... or else!" *splat* "Huh?" *splat* "What the hec-" *thump* The security guard looks down to see the cold dead eyes of a large trout staring back up at him on his shoe. *thump* Another one bounces off his chest! "Hey! Cut it out!" *splat* *thump* *thump* "Stoppit!" *splat* "Aaagh!" *thump* *splat* The guard runs down the hall, arms flailing, voice cracking. A few moments later, two dark shapes cross the hall to the closet. "Echo team, we're here." "Good job." "Let's get this over with. Eagle two, you're on fish duty." "Aw nuts." "King... theme music." Chris Raynor then sticks his head out of the closet and peers both ways before waving the others to leave. First Mark, then Spark, and finally the King of Hearts, who is butchering the Mission Impossible theme song. "Dun, dun, DUN DUN Dun, dun, dun dun dun, dun, DUN DUN dun, dun, dun dun.. deedloo... deedloo.... deedloo... doo doo." The four men tiptoe down the halls, twisting this way and that, until they come to the long row of locker rooms. "This is it. Go!" Chris kicks open the door and the four barge into the room. Spark slams the door and flicks on the light switch to reveal the locker room of Evil Inc. "Gentlemen... let's get down to business!" Mark tosses his duffel bag onto the couch, and everyone else follows suit. Each member of the Midnight Carnival heads to a different area of the room, each with a hand on their chin, shaking their head and "tsk-tsk"-ing the sight. "It's so..." Spark waves his hand in circles trying to come up with the word. "... drear." "Pale." "Ugly." "Them." They all share a moment of silence. "Well, we've got a ways to go, so let's get started!" ***a few hours later*** "I must say Chris, you've REALLY outdone yourself this time." "Ah well, they say you should channel anger into outlets like art..." Spark gazes around the room and says "Don't ever get this angry at me." "Oh hush, I'm sure they will love what we did with the place. We did them a favor. I see no reason why they won't jump up and down like little girls when they see it." "Well, I'd rather not be here to see that, so et's-lay am-scray." "As you wish." Chris takes a final look at the room and then turns and says "King! Theme song!" The four banditos quickly exit the room and dash down the hall, with the King of Heart's "Dun-dun"-ing echoing quietly behind them. A door closing, a golf cart zooming off, and then all is silent... ***the next day*** "And so I says to the guy, "It's supposed to be a monkey!"" The lower halls of Caesars Palace ignite with laughter as Chris Storm, Perfect Bo, Suicide, and Johnny Rotten make their way to their locker room. "I swear," Bo says as he wipes a tear from his eye, "that gets funnier every time you tell it, Storm." "Here we are, guy-" Suicide starts, but all four of them stop dead in their tracks. The door is open, the lights are on, and people are talking inside. Storm puts a finger to his lips and shushes his partners as he creeps toward the door. He sticks his ear to the crack... "-nd Chris Storm is a pansy!" "Yea! I bet he and Bo have sexual relations!" "And what about Suicide? Man, what a loser!" Some horrible canned laughter ensues. "Evil Inc. are just a bunch of doodoo heads!" "You can say that again!" "I think I will!" Canned laughter. Storm turns to his partners and mouths "Carnival". They all nod, and Storm holds up three fingers... then two... then one... ATTACK! Storm flings the door open and they all charge the four figures standing in a semicircle in the center of the room! Storm clotheslines one of them from behind, knocking his head off! Bo waistlocks the other from behind, but he falls apart! Suicide and Rotten grab the heads of the last two and smash them together, and they dissipate! "What the- "Straw f*cking dummies!" Storm kicks the headless dummy, and it's upper torso flies across the room as its bottom half collapses, revealing a small tape player. "Son of a b*tch!" "Uh, guys..." "I can't believe they'd stoop that low!" "Guys?" "Of all the ner- "GUYS!" "WHAT?!" They all glare at Suicide, who meekly points at the walls. The newly wallpapered plaid walls. With bright pink and green streamers. And pictures of clowns. Lots and lots of clowns. The floor is covered in about an inch-thick layer of confetti. And hanging on the far wall, a huge banner, reading "Cheer up guys!" All four stand in a moment of silence. Suicide looks like he's trying to hold in laughter, while Bo and Storm are flaring. "They went too f*cking far." "This is just f*cking WRONG!" "PLAID wallpaper?!" Suddenly a tiny voice cries "Storm and Bo-Bo, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" All four Evil Inc.'ers go to work on the dummies, stomping on them until they hear the crunch of plastic under their feet. They all sigh and start to trudge out of the room when Suicide again stops. "Guys..." "What now?" Suicide simply points to the closed door across the room, this one leading to the bathroom. Storm looks plainly at his partner and says "I don't even want to know." Suicide shrugs and joins his friends as they storm out of the room toward the commissioner's office. END

1) You Got F'd In The A 2) Good Times With Weapons 3) Up The Down Steroid 4) Awesom-O 5) Passion of the Jew 6) Goobacks 7) The Jeffersons I didn't think there was a bad episode all season, but The Jeffersons was only 'okay.' The only thing that clicked there were the cops. Goobacks was much better than The Jeffersons, Passion of the Jew was great if only for the Mel Gibson bits. 1-4 were extremely close for me.

1. It's 'skeet.' 2. It means to ejaculate. 3. Shut up.

He wrestled Noble just a few weeks ago, with Noble playing the face.

No. It's called Comedy Central, so give me comedy, not a show of musical performances. If I wanted music, I'd watch MTV (let's just pretend they play music here).

Yeah. The first episode of Wolf's Rain just aired this past Saturday.

The Breakdown. I think it was a full-nelson face drop. Yeah. FYI, the Breakdown and the Stroke are not the same thing, though both end the same way regardless. Breakdown: full nelson face first russian legsweep. The Stroke: hold nearest arm in front of you, grab head, then hit the face first russian legsweep. Though I agree that neither should be used for the three.

Re: Witch Hunter Robin It was okay. It had a really slow, dull start for me though, before picking up later on, from the middle to end of what's already been shown. Apparently, a live action adaptation is in the works for the Sci-Fi Network too. I'm counting on it to suck. I saw half an ep of the first Wolf's Rain, before going off to do something and forgetting about it. It was decent in the blood department, at least.

As much as I like Inuyasha, it's extremely overrated.

I was going to recommend Bebop, Trigun, Outlaw Star, etc, but he said no series so I held off. But now that someone at least mentioned them... For at least sampling various shows, if you have Cartoon Network then there's no more accessable place than that to start. The late night Adult Swim line-up features anime Monday-Thursday and Saturday. In rotation right now are Inuyasha, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Wolf's Rain and FLCL (one I think you may like, just because it's so fucking weird, although it's only six episodes long). A lot of shows are somewhere around 26 episodes, so if they run the full 5 days like Bebop or Trigun, CN burns through them rapidly, allowing someone to catch up quickly. Thankfully a lot of anime also gets domestically released on dvd these days, sometimes available in box sets like Bebop, so it's really easy track down the dvds if you like the show.

IIRC, Rant was planning on bringing back SmarkTalk, but he lost the domain to someone else (one of those companies who snatch up domains only to turn them into shitty pop-up inundated search pages). A couple of the 'Hosted Forums' links need to be fixed as well. The SWF link should be pointing to the SWF Forum in lieu of a proper website, which is being worked on but it's been going slow for the better part of a year. Meanwhile the Innovation of Wrestling link needs to be deleted completely.