DrVenkman PhD

I know that guy with the sign was on Confidential a few years ago... was it explained exactly why he dresses like a gas station attendant but manages to afford to go to all these shows all over the place with floor seats?

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?...t&p=2277512 Talking about the SF II DVD, because again I don't know where that sort of discusson really belongs.

So I watched the new SF II Animated Movie DVD last night, enjoyable stuff. At first, skimming through the English version on Side A, I was a bit cocnerned over the fact the video looks faded and less vibrant than my 11 year old VHS casette (the quality looked almsot on par with the version on the SF Anthology) but some tinkering with my TV colour settings made it better. However, the Japanese version on Side B (because they are slightly different cuts - credits, Japanese text, and I believe an extra ass shot of Chun Li - you can't switch audio back and forth, you have to use side A or side B) looks great. I love the Japanese ending where - and just to be safe, I'll tag it - . The end of the credits also have a funny "Coming Spring 1995 - Street Fighter The Movie. Now filming in Hollywood!" card at the end. We all know how that turned out.

Isn't Tina gone now?

Hey, can you guys stop advertising WWE.com's announced matches until after 7pm? It gives people who check this forum but not WWE.com an unfair Fantasy advantage. Help a brother out, k?

"A correction from the report from last night's ECW show in Fitchburg, MA, there were in excess of 1,000 fans at the show" - Meltzer Hey spman, you can lie to us, you can lie to Dave Scherer, but don't f'n lie to The Meltz. Just because you don't like something and thought driving two hours to a watered down ECW show is a good idea is no reason to make up attendance numbers and claim the venue "smelled like a bowling alley". What the hell does that mean, anyway? I've never gone into a bowling alley and said "wow, this place has a unique smell I will apply to similar smelling locales". Maybe it's because the ones I've been to are nice? I don't know, I'm veering off topic here... oh, right: DON'T LIE TO BIG DAVE.

Don't know if this is more CTDWAT in this section or the OAO Anime tread in TV/Movies, but I was pleasently surprised to see, on a totally random trip to Zellers, a copy of SFII on DVD in a new box, proclaiming it to be "Uncut, Uncensored" with mentions on the back of the box how it's te Japanese master available on DVD, etc. This sounds like something I heard awhile ago was finally coming out but I totally forgot.

In my day we changed the channel to avoid watching commercials, but this whole "find something else to do for 45 minutes while the show you want to watch it on, then skip commercials" sounds much more efficient and logical.

Another thread devoted to pointing out "Raw sucks and I'm too cool for it". Hooray. Also, I believe I read somewhere Raw would still be on Monday's during the US open, just later.

I think I'm stuck in 5th or worst for the rest of the season. Things started good for me and I hoped for a top 3 or better finish, but every week the top 5-10 people seem to move up almost the same. Maybe next season...

I feel like advertising the fact I have a flickr account - why I'd think people are interested in pictures I've taken, I don't know, but none the less here are links: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timpang80 - all my wrestling event photos go here http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgray21 - general pictures I've taken and uploaded - NYC, Atlantic City, and a picture of a disturbingly patriotic snack cake box.

Fujifilm "FinePix". The camers says "A345" on it as well. 4.1 MPs, 3x zoom.

I liked flying around the world searching for the Dragonballs in Budokai 3. That has nothing to do with this, but I thought I'd mention it. I didn't much care for the board game story mode in the other games.

Results: Dark: Ryan Wilson defeated Funaki with a pumphandle slam. Jamie Noble defeated "Zakudo" (no one around me heard his name) by doing a suplerplex rolled into his sleeper submission. SmackDown: Ken Kennedy defeated Batista via count-out Vito defeated Simon Dean with his under the dress submission. Sylvan Grenier defeated Tatanka with the TKO Michelle McCool defeated Jillian Hall with her feet on the ropes for leverage. I believe at this point, there was a big celebration for King Booker's title win with balloons, a carriage to the ring, and the like. Rey interupted by doing a jumping Senton onto Booker's throne. Chavo said he owes no one any answers, but will, at a later date, teach Rey what being a Guerrero really means. Finlay and Regal discuss their past battles in WCW, with Regal saying he thought that was all in the past. He blames the "troll" for his loss at the Bash, but Finlay corrects him to say it was a leprechaun. Finlay defeated William Regal to retain the US title when Little Bastard gave William a low blow. Finlay rolled him up and used the tights. JT won the Diva Search "Musical Chairs". Sylvester Terkay (with his manager Elijah Burke) defeated Matt Hardy by what appeared to be a variant of the hammerlock (or key lock) for the submission. King Booker defeated Rey Mysterio to retain the World Title. Chavo Guerrero interfered to help Booker retain. --- Notes: Notes: Tony Chimmel was the ring announcer. WrestleMania 22 highlight package (from the end of the PPV) was shown before the show. Ryan Wilson vs Funaki was pretty short and uninteresting. Wilson was dressed in a plaid shirt and kahkis (I think - some sort of street clothes pants). The maksed Japanese character whose name no one seemed to catch came out to old WWE standby for generic asan wrestlers - the Orient Express theme. He seemed pretty good and the crowd eventually got into him. When Noble was lying on the 2nd rope, the masked wrestler leaped from the floor to dropkick Noble in the head, landing on the ring apron as well. While the crowd (by the way, the crowd's entire lower bowl was sold out and about half to 1/4 of the upper deck was as well) was more behind Batista, there were a good share of people cheering on Kennedy. Kennedy did get to do his intro without being interupted. There was a Simon Dean promo stating Vito was playing mind games, and there was an implication that Simon Dean was gay and wanted Vito to lift his dress to cose him the match. He stopped thinking about that and regained his train of thought. At one point during the match Vito was held in a suplex, causing his dress to fall and "delight" the fans. Miz was shown waiting outside of Rey Mysterio's locker room. I believe they did a quick interview where Rey complained about Chavo. Tatanka vs. Grenier was about as good as you'd think it would be, although Tatanka did get a pop coming out and fans would get into the "rally" when a chinlock was applied. Grenier ave Tatanka a low blow when the ref was taking the tomohawk away from Sylvan, then the TKO. Michelle McCool vs Jillian was very short and not too bad (and very pleasant to watch live). The odd thing here was Kristal and Ashley were standing on the apron as if it was a tag match, even though Tony said it was one on one. They eventually went onto the floor. Match was fairly short. William Regal did a promo which I think may have been arena only (I assume this because he said "Fit" Finlay and they did a promo together after this) talking about their days in WCW. I forget how it ended, but the intent was to make Regal out to be the heel so fans would know which guy they were SUPPOSED to boo. A commercial for 24/7 Aired to the song "Right Now". It was pretty good. Finlay vs Regal was good and wasn't too focused on Little Basyard until the end. The crowd was quite silent at first, not knowing what to make of it. Now, I don't want to take credit for anything, but when Finlay was in a hold by Regal, my friend and I tried a rally. People may have been doing the same in other sections too, I don't know. Anyway, this did led to the arena doing a rally, then doing a "Let's go Finlay!" chant, which was odd after all the silence. Finlay gave LB a high-five on the way out (he was still under the ring). Match was about 7 minutes. The Diva Search is a lot more bareable to watch live, I'll give it that much. The time stamps on my camera have this segment being under 7 minutes, an improvement over some of the much longer ones of the past. Whichever chick lost to JT at the end almost swung the last chair at her, but Miz broke it up. Terkay vs Hardy was fairly boring and mostly unimpressive. Little response except for "Hardy" chants and faint "We Want Jeff" chants. King Booker vs Rey was maybe about 9 minutes and a good match. People tried to chant "Chavo" after people were done chanting Eddie. ECW Notes: Fairly boring show. Ariel does a nice thing on the ropes when she enters that I don't believe was on TV as right after it, a CM Punk promo aired. Post show, while almost everyone was exiting (and ended up standing at the top of stairways), Undertaker and Kane defeated BIg Show and Kahli with a double chokeslam on Khali. Khali did nothing except leave mid-way through the match when Big Show tried to tag. Boy, the crew works REALLY hard to get that ECW ring set up by 10 pm. Even Charlies Robinson and Tony Chimmel bust their ass getting things ready. A nice thing to see on the way home was someone complaining about the new ECW, saying Vince is just pissing on it and Heyman sucks for allowing it. He was doing this while wearing a brand new WWE-version Sandman shirt. There were also some girls near the arena steps handing out flyers for TNA Bound for Glory. We heard they were sent there by PTW's Dave Martin.

Ken's letter to Jeopardy is hilarious stuff. Is the Post the rag paper, or is it the Times? I often forget.

Thanks. I'm a bit surprised at how many views Billy Kidman in a mask has versus how many views Jillian's thong has but that's the net for you.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/timpang80/ Photos from the taping (among other wrestling photos). Check out Kidman in the Japanese get-up.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/artic...0N1.DTL&o=0 " The Raiders' Jerry Porter, who wore a gold belt with dollars signs on the first day of camp, says he wants to be traded."

It was a Tenshinhan / Tien quote, used because he lost his arm in battle and I guess it would have been too difficult to paint one on for the remainder of his screen time, before being sent to another dimension.

I can see their parachutes! When my arm grows back...!

It was a good show in the sense that wrestling matches outweighed non-wrestling segments (only the King Booker and Diva Search segments) but outside of the main event, the matches were either short or not that great. Nothing outside of Sylvan was dull, though.

Matt Hardy sent word to his webmaster at TheHardyShow.com that he will be taking time off from WWE for health reasons. Hello everyone, Just a little update on Matt for the sake of killing any rumors and assumptions as to his status. Simply enough, when Matt was given the standard blood test, they found dormant trace elements of the Staph infection which plagued him many months ago. After a light antibiotic treatment and a few weeks off to properly rest, Matt will be back... Feel free to send him your thoughts, possibly via a 'get well' thread on the board? Hope all of you are making the most of the summer!

I took this video off a digital camera, please excuse the poor quality. I also don't know why I chose such uninteresting / unimportant events to record while leaving match finishes to my memory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMREptMcYxs - Noble vs Kidman, apparently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzXwuzzteSQ - Musical chairs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnBVzZue9b4 - Musical chairs - the conclusion! - for fun, as I'm waiting for youtube to process King Booker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uaBt0Jc_bw - King Booker Not sure why there are video jumps, I just chalk it up the fact a digital camera is not a real video camera.

Short, not a bad match. I believe the ending was Batista clotheslining the ring post and being counted out while Kennedy barely got back in the ring (I think he kicked Batista back out before he could come back in).

Also awesome: During the SmackDown to ECW conversion, we saw Little Bastard SPRINT from the ring to the back. He's one fast midget.