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Taker and Angle have had a few one on one matches - one of them was even the angle to do a triple threat match at Vengeance in 2002 (Angle caused Taker to tap out while he was being pinned). Batista and Kane had a very bad match at Armageddon 2002 Also, I had a dream last night that the Bashams came to Raw to challenge La Resistance for the tag belts (?), so I guess that's techniclly a dream match.

It only occured to me afterwards that all but 2 of these matches take place in January. If you read, you'll see that January is not the gimmick - it's Most Requested Matches (allegedly - usually I let WWE slide on those claims.. but who has been requesting Warrior vs Slaughter?) Minus those two matches, this is the first time since August they've had all the matches be from the month in question. Usually it's the Webcasts that have the Monthly/PPV themes extra matches. NYR, for example, offers a bunch of matches from January (almost all WCW!), but it has one match from September (Pillman vs Lyger from the debut Nitro).

I don't think anyone has ever said anything (that I'm aware of) about Mick FOley's apparent cybernetic eye camera implants that were able to film Christian faking his illness at Fully Loaded 2000 when Foley stood on something and peered into the stall from above.

I noticed a weird joke in the Czech version of the 100th episode... the line about everyone thinking Bart had a walking clock under the box turned into "Dr. Spock". However, Dr. Spock and Star Trek were the only htings I understood, so I wonder what Bart's set-up to that was... unless the children thought Leonard Nimoy had ticks.

I found it somewhat eerie that on "Bart Gets Famous", Conan's commentary is talking about how he didn't hope his appearance on the show would be one of those ironic things that seemed good at the time but becomes sad [due to cancellation] when it was finally watched. The thing was, he was making this comment right around the time Bumblebee Man was readind a news report about a tidal wave death toll, played for laughs.

I like the totally needless knock on WCW, too. Well, maybe it was needed, but still, it seems like just another case of shooting the corpse. "The flamboyant Lenny Lane defeated Rey Mysterio for the Cruiserweight Championship in Lubbock, TX, in August 1999. The victory appeared to be just what Lane needed to boost his career into overdrive. But then out of nowhere, WCW stripped Lane of the Cruiserweight Championship without ever giving an explanation. In an equally baffling move, WCW then gave the title to Psicosis - again, without offering explanation"

CW title history is up does indeed date back to 1991. I don't think they are finished as it does not have a link on the main Title Histories page hub, only a link on "Inside WWE" with the headline "Did you know that Madusa once held the Cruiserweight Championship while in WCW?". In regards to the "unifcation" of the CW/LHW titles: "Billy Kidman came into the July 30 edition of RAW as the WCW Cruiserweight Champion and X-Pac came in as the WWE Light Heavyweight Champion. The two met in a unification match. The action was fast and furious as one would expect from these two Superstars, but in the end, X-Pac was able to pick up the pin and unify the belts to become the Cruiserweight Champion. The rivalry between the two Superstars would not end here, though, as they would continue to fight each other over the next couple of months." Then it just has Billy Kidman winning it back in October and continues the lineage from there.

A few yeas ago in Canada, the Government had an ad campaign for the 12 Days of Giving. It was a farce that was rightly ridiculed and I may even be breaking Canadian law for acknowledging it happened. Also, note my crazy sig!

Figure this one out... I got Simpsons Season 5 in the mail today, and that shiupped on Sunday with standard shipping. Seinfeld - my Christmas present - still remains undelivered, and was shipped 6 days ago with upgraded shipping since the first shipment from November was lost. I did get $10 credit from Amazon out of the whole deal, which made the price of Season 5 low enough I was able to classify that as an additional gift. Of course, this means it has to sit under the tree for a few days, but it's cool.

It was pretty cool that this year we got a new episode in December. It was pretty good, too. Interesting to see J-Rocc as plain ol Jamie.

The game was rushed out and is unfinished. That said, I quite enjoyed the time I spent with it when I rented it last month. It was actually pretty annoying as the game wasn't on the shelf, so I picked up an Inuyashs RPG I wasn't even aware was made and Rumble Roses... then saw the game behind the desk. I asked for it and said I would put one of the other games back, but the women at the desk, as store clerks do with weak minded individuals, convinced me I'd be a huge moron not to take advantgae of the price break I would get for renting 3 games at the same time. This sort of thing has never worked for me in the past and this time was no different. I probably played Inuyasha for 20 minutes, if that, in the time I had it since I was busy with the other 2 games plus work. I still don't think the game is a good "fighting" game, but it's getting close. While the other two games were most certainly "fan only", this game has a fun engine that is easy to pick up as a regular fighting game, but the downside is anyone who isn't really a fan, and even those that are, might not like the idea of those Dragon Rush battles which are 30 seconds of animation for 1 button push.

Well [name deleted] is talking about it on his blog, so you KNOW it has to be true now.

"That mute asshole" Oh Carl Johnson, your mockery of other characters amuses me.

Sinbad. Not the comedian, he's hilarious, but the sailor. But then I guess he was never meant to be funny.

Nintendo Power Pad and Power Glove 2.0!

Quick Question #2: What ever happened to EA's foray into the fighting game scene (Marvel vs EA)?

Not necessarily, but EA is being slightly (possible understatement) monopolistic lately which tends to make people angry. Quick question: Does EA still have any stake in Square, or did that whole deal go away when we got Squenix?

That happened to me once a few years ago with a PS1 memory card (on a PS2) when trying to load whatever Final Fantasy it is that came with the Crono Trigger. Somehow every save for it got corrupted, not sure how. Nothing like that has happened with me on PS2. Did you have any cheats? Also, I got through F,ML fairly easily... I guess the key is to not try. Trying leads to failure, while driving along at a decent pace and not bothering with shortcuts was an easy victory.

Man title unifications mess things up... The World Title, which for arguments sake we'll say starts in September 2002, unified with the IC title, which itself was unified with the US, European, and Hardcore titles. Then the IC title becomes unmerged with the World title, but should in theory still posess the powers of the other belts... unless they are in the World title... which has no lineage of them... and there is now a US title too... oy vey.

So I finally got to experience the "Farewell, My Love" mission everyone had so much trouble with last month... yeah, I'm pretty much having a bitch of a time with it too. The thing is I usually spin my car out of control no more than 35 seconds into the race, get pissed, and blow up my car to start over. One time I was doing really good, but it was only my 2nd time through the whole track (due to the mentioned impaticne with crappy driving early on) and I forgot where a checkpoint was, assumed it was on a dirt road like most were, headed up a hill and towards the light, found out the hard way it was on the lower road as my car sailed into the river. I was pissed.

My thoughts exactly

Kinda weird to hear Josh give this jobber (Celantro or what have you) a backstory about being a protoge of HBK who wrestled for Zero One.

Josh Mathews and WWE's newest announcer, Steve Romero, will be calling the shots in an action-packed Velocity this week. Hardcore Holly & Charlie Haas will be in tag team action and Paul London will face off against Shannon Moore in singles competition. Plus, a complete SmackDown! recap, including Dan Puder's victory in the $1,000,000 Tough Enough. Also, what's up with JBL and Kurt Angle? And if you missed the John Cena-Jesus Street Fight at Armageddon, we'll replay the bloody match for you. Don't miss Velocity this Saturday at 11/10 p.m. CT on Spike TV.

According to WWE.com's preview, the Jay Youngblood (birth name Steve Romero) is replacing DeMott tonight despite the notable handicap of being dead. Actually it's some Kansas City guy they just hired, also named Steve Romero.

Alright. I already have $7.3 million from betting on the ponies so side missions to make money aren't of interest to me at the moment (although I did do one "Stop the Courier" mission when Caeser called, just to see what it was all about).