DrVenkman PhD

I just assumed everyone was excited because 4/20 is Easter. The show has been airing for many many weeks now on Teletoon in Canada so there!

WWE also reads WrestlingDB.com according to the traffic log the webmaster tells IRC about. Anyway, unless I'm missing something here, it seems William wasn't exactly telling Scherer who he was to begin with. So, while I have nothing against the man who was ever so helpful in putting down my columns on TheSmarks, I can't see how Scotsman hacking into Scherer's mail and finding anonymous e-mails with no signed name on them leads to RVD. But maybe I'm in denial over the whole thing. Ever since the random yelling of FART! I've been convinced it's Goldust, living his gimmick in his own writing. The fact he said on Stern he WOULD be in Booker's corner and wasn't gives him valid reason to think he'd be on the show when he wasn't, and, in character or not, it didn't sound like he had kind things to say about Sable or Piper on Byte This... and what do you know, neither did Willie the Worker.

Maybe it's the outdoor atmosphere (which was awesome), maybe it's the fact it was the first Mania I could watch in the comfort of my own home, and maybe it was the fact I had only been watching wrestling for less than 2 years and my cousin and I thought Hogan ruled, but I liked the show. Match wise, Gonzalez vs Undertaker is god awful, but it's not like I have to watch the match thanks to revolutionary technology such as fast forwarding. I really enjoy Tatanka vs Michaels and Steiners vs Headshrinkers, it's Bobby Hennan's last WrestleMania, and there are TWO DOINKS. Overall, I enjoy WMIX a lot more than WM2, my personal least favourite.

yeah! Although to be fair, I don't even know what titles exist in the Puro world, let alone who holds them... but that's the beauty, I don't know because I don't follow, and therefore am not ever in that section. Likewise, I would imagine 99% of the peple in the WWE folder know who is what, same for TNA, same for etc.

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Since just about everyone I was backing in Miss Smart Marks III except for Elisha has been beaten, Stacy wil lget my votes for sure JHawk.

With Morely's scratchy voice, I'd love to hear him bust a rhyme.

The answer is Kanyon. He has a t-shirt to prove it.

For whatever reason, I watched the HHH tape from 1999, "It's Our Time" last night. Anyway, at one point, Chyna said the following (paraphrased): "[Trips] is always doing what's asked of him to the point where I have to tell him to stand up for himself and say no once and awhile and do what's best for him".

1wrestling says it might be a 6 man match between Jericho/Flair/HHH and Diesel/Shawn/Booker (nWo 2K2 Version 3 reunion!). It's upsetting Booker might not be getting a title win rematch, and I'm not sure if Nash and HHH being in the same ring is a good idea, but I was a mark for Two Dudes with Attitude back in the day and the prospect of Flair, Michaels, Jericho, and Booker in the same match is good... so hopefully this match works out.

I still think the best HHH quote is on the DVD of his where he says that the so called Smart Marks (I assume he means this board) think they hate Stephanie, but we're being fooled by here annoying TV persona.

In all this talk about Piper and Hogan, everyone seems to forget that the spoilers mention they did an angle on SmackDown where Hogan can go away until they can bring him back for another return pop (let's say the first SmackDown only PPV, Vengeance). Yes, I know in wrestling, firings / suspensions / retirements mean nothing, but this is a guy who has no actual contract and appeared to be wearing some sort of special tights with a supporter just so he could stand up properly at Mania.... Or maybe Hogan will just go to Raw since he wants to work matches with Goldberg, Austin, and Michaels.

I don't know why anyone thought Austin would be on SmackDown. Before Raw, there was lots of talk about Austin needing a hiatus from wrestling, and being "fired" seems to be that hiatus.

The Velocity spoilers are confusing. 411 (from Rajah) seems to actually have last week's spoilers while Observer has a totally different match list. Since the last match for Velocity on the WO spoilers is a FBI squash, I'm leaning towards Matt vs Funaki being the main event, not a dark match... but who knows.

I'm just having fun giving people shitty gimmicks and imagining them as happening... Gay Triple H, Gay Scott Steiner, Hillbilly Nathan Jones.... It was also fun to do an on screen firing for an angle then fire Steiner and Jones for real. As for an earlier post about my error, I deleted EWR 2.0 before installing 3.0, so that's very odd. I still have some images from 1.4 though (I threw them in the GRFX folder, remembering how 2.0 crashes anytime I tried to view Wrestling-Heat without being able to load Picture of the Day). The 5th website is pretty cool.... the Scott Keith "postbag" is funny. I'm starting to get worried about my EWR sessions... back when I was playing EWR 2.0, Angle suffered a neck injury and was scheduled to be out several months. Well, yesterday I hired a certain person.... Spoiler (Highlight to Read): and now Sable is actually back . Weird. I wonder if my hiring of Marty Jannetty will bring me luck in that department.

Freshly stolen from another board, here is Sable from SD!:

East Region (8) Jennifer Connelly (11) Elisha Cuthbert South Region (4) Denise Richards (2) Sarah Michelle Gellar Midwest Region (5) Heidi Klum (7) Kirsten Dunst Southeast Region (16) Alyssa Milano (2) Liz Hurley West Region (16) Shania Twain (14) Jennifer Love Hewitt Northeast Region (13) Torrie Wilson (7) Salma Hayek Southwest Region (13) Stacy Kiebler (6) Trish Stratus North Region (9) Natalie Portman (15) Laetitia Casta

I did a wedding between Lita and Matt Hardy that Edge interupted, and this was my Road Agent note: "Brian Lawler has gained overness from this segment". Huh?

I know I only have like 53 posts, but can I / how do I get a custom title?

I hope this doesn't take away from a WrestleMania Crossface (and it shouldn't) and the fact that no one really knows who Drew_K is (my friend Drew), but we just had what I consider, possibly out of bias, to have a really insightful and interesting discussion about WrestleMania which I intend to make the majority of Thursday's update.

Not the first time JR has done that... lately, when Goldust does a bulldog, JR will call it "Goldust hits a Bulldog, if you weeel" or something.... I don't know, I know he's done it before.

Speaking of Owen, not sure if this has been mentioned on one of the pages I didn't read, but at the Raw after Revenge of the Taker, Owen and Bulldog were having a conversation about getting revenge on Austin that could be heard, but barely. This caused someone to yell out "Again Owen!" and Owen then repeated his entire promo. Also, the Arnold "20 Years in the Making" promo last night was hilarious.

If WWE edits mistakes out of their DVD releases, shouldn't the Raw X DVD be Awards Show Free?

Well, it's done and posted. 6798 words - my longest column to date.

Ok.. I was going to lie and act like I didn't read this and go ahead with my column, but that would be dishonest. Yes, my discussion with Andrew is actually very close to the Crossface format. The difference is, to me, we're just two guys talking about WrestleMania to preview it while the Crossface is a big panel. The whole thing took me almost 2 hours (long conversation, editing it from AIM to normal text) and the fact is I think it would be a real shame if I just deleted it. In fairness, the only time that a star rating is used is when I say "Angle vs Brock won't be the ***** classic some people thought it might be", so in my mind, that makes it different enough that I'll print it. This will be the last time I do it, though. With this new info I've given, I shall wait for word on whether I should post it or not. If I knew how to take part in the staff discussion, I would have (I never got to be in a 411 Roundtable and I was hoping I could be in a Crossface over here). As for the old Shades of Gray, they're still archived on 411Mania under "Smarks News Update" so feel free to read my past.