Spaceman Spiff

This thread should probably be pinned up top (as well as all future OAO News Threads). When the new week rolls around, the new thread gets pinned, and the old one gets unpinned.

And you get to preview it for us! Lucky you!

But...if they told us it's Torrie/Sable, and they showed us "behind the scenes" footage, there's no reason for a feud, or for Stacy & Jackie to team up. Right? Right???

So, does this put an end to the Jackie/Stacy stuff on Raw?

Jamie seems like a pretty decent girl, too.

It appears that posts & threads are missing, though. Anything posted between yesterday morning to this morning seems to be gone.

To be fair, the Bashams haven't had any feuds, save for a short program w/ Eddy/Chavo, which really only served to help break up the Guerreros. They have a match here & there, focus on Shaniqua, and that's it, so it's easy to see why they don't have any heat. I like the team, so it's a shame to see them just do a random job to drop the titles. So, then I guess Rikishi/S2H drop the belts to WGTT, who then become a heel team w/ no challengers, just like the Bashams. As for SD, usually the televised show comes off a lot better than the spoilers would seem to indicate, but I have a hard time seeing how this week's show could pull that off. This show just looks bad. Last week's SD was heads & shoulders better than the last 2 Raw's.

I don't see it as any big deal. They hired a GM, which was the most important thing, so Marino leaving this job shouldn't have any sort of impact.

So, I'm attempting to get to SNKT this morning, but it keeps directing me to ShootProject. I figured maybe the bookmark was the problem, so I tried typing in "snkt.net", and still got the same thing. Since both these boards share members, maybe someone knows what's up?

"Snogging mingers"? OK, I know what "snogging" is, but "mingers" = ???

You could say the same exact thing about Knoble, yet he only got a 1 month shot at Rey, with only 2 matches (1 of which was ~3 minutes). Their SD match was all kinds of good.

HHH - has good matches (usually) w/ HBK HBK - bumps & sells great (well, up until he kips up) Orton - seems to be improving Bradshaw - nice clothesline A-Train - good agility for a big man, decent grasp of psychology, willing to job to pretty much anybody Big Show - great charisma & mic skills, has been busting his ass since moving to SD Mark Henry - "Chocolate Moose" is a cool move, although he really doesn't use it much any more Batista - decent on the mic (better than Orton)

I wasn't actually serious. It was in response to everyone creaming their pants over Supernatural Taker.

Fired? Ah, a guy can dream can't he? Only if he takes 50% of the roster with him starting with all of Evolution. Yes, even that Dudley Moore acting freak Flair. He's just pathetic to watch now and I'm suddenly finding myself having more respect for Hulk Hogan. Have Flair dump Evolution, and re-form the Horsemen. Him, Benoit, Arn, and go find Tully. Who wouldn't mark out for that? It'd be fun. Flair wins the belt from HHH, and the rest run interference to make sure he keeps the belt.

Yeah, have the guy who had neck surgery do exactly that. Great idea.

Y'know what would be *WAY* out there, really stretching the bounds of reality? Taker putting someone (preferably a "newer" guy) over. Or maybe conjure up some heat for Randy Orton

Why stop w/ lightning? Taker can shoot "death rays" w/ his eyes - he just has to look at his opponent, and they'll fall down, w/ Taker getting the pin. Show vignettes of Taker "flying" through the air. Have Kane studying magic so he can learn spells like "revive" or "heal" to cast against Taker during their WM match, since anybody who's ever played an RPG can tell you that undead creatures are weak against such spells.

Also, I find it slightly hypocritical that they banned Helms from performing the chokeslam because he's "too small" for the move to be credible (despite his character being a superhero), yet Taker is back to shooting lightning & making the ring smoke. And, yes, I get that Helms just thinks he is a superhero, and doesn't really have superpowers, but I don't think we're suppposed to believe that Taker is really undead w/ supernatural powers, either.

Funny you should bring up this topic. A couple weeks ago, I was looking over my CD's, and realized I hadn't listened to Mazzy Star's So Tonight That I Might See in at least a couple years. Popped it in on the way to work. Great album.

I should also note that I hate both Taker & Kane, so that doesn't help matters, either. But even if I didn't, I'd still find it pretty lame.

So, either Undertaker has supernatural powers (lame), or he snuck into the arena and rigged up the "lightening" and the smoke for the ring (whaaah?). "Suspension of disbelief" is fine & dandy, but this stuff is just awful.

Orton uses *WAY* too many European uppercuts...

You also still like Michael Jackson.

Seriously, what the shit is this? Lightening? Smoky ring? "Losing the signal"? I can't be the only one rolling my eyes at this whole craptastical angle, can I?

Are you serious? I think that would have bombed worse than the WBF and XFL combined.