DrVenkman PhD

Woo. Edit: Ok, now I have next week's Raw and Nitro as well as next week's Shorties. I won't hold my breathe for getting the episodes that should actually be there and I'm just happy I have content. However, they did put up the Lawler HOF profile and that is part of last week's update, so we'll see.

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=93421

Kane needs to be in the Rumble so Glenn Jacobs can be in his 27th Rumble in a row.

I recently turned a thread intended for serious discussion into several people doing the rap lyrics to the "Nation of Domination" theme. This is my ace in the hole for round 2.

I sent the angriest of angry e-mails when I got home from work this morning (you know it's angry when it includes demands for partial refunds for a full week of paying for no content and cancellation of the service) and in waking up for a few minutes discovered the system works - I now have HOF: Jerry Lawler! Edit: And now they've put up the 1998 Royal Rumble. This is so wacky.

Ruining his thread. The ensuing thread was awesome.

I just want to hear the real estate company try and sell the house. Ned Flanders: Oh, my-diddly-eye! Will you look at this place. And the price has been slashed repeatedly. Maude Flanders: It's sure built solid. The kids could scream bloody murder and no one would hear. Ned Flanders: Well, I'm just going to spill my guts. I love it to death. I'm going to give you a deposit this minute.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolink...howard-the-duck

He would probably say it's not his fault. It's been said before, but when he's assigned to do commentary and he just comments on what he sees and tries to insert some humour, he's great. A great example of this was the "Showdown at Shea" commentary he did with Foley for WWE 24/7. His commentary with Tazz on the 2002 "Global Warning" DVD from Australia is pretty good too.

Based on how it was obviously booked for the #1 / #2 storyline, I doubt this is the case, but I do have to wonder if the one minute intervals were booked based on the 1994 Rumble. That was the first 90 second interval Rumble and it wasn't advertised as such - they said it was cut down for "time constraints" and Vince felt this would make it the MOST EXCITING RUMBLE EVER! Hence, his logic would be one minute would make it even MORE exciting. Just a theory.

Why do people spoiler tag anything (not including spoilers)? Why do people make you scroll down for ages just to read one word? Why do people quote other people and add nothing else? These things must end, and under my rule as POTY 2009, they will, so vote for me! On a more serious note, I quite enjoy this site / discussion forum - www.digitalhome.ca It's a bit off putting that they have some expert advice telling you to watch 4:3 programming in 16:9, but they are right in the context of why they said it (preventing screen burn-in, which I became a victim of within 3 months of watching shows in their proper aspect ratio). Also lots of cable talk for Canadians. Complaining too!

I actually prefer hard copy articles about video games too, but the problem became that I work in front of a computer for 8 hours and find it easier to pay attention to my actual job if my reading is limited to online webpages and not my head looking down at a magazine. I don't really read books in my spare time either. My only real "hard copy" reading time is waiting for / riding a bus, but since I stopped working at a location that was a 1 hour bus commute and am back at 15-25 minutes, there's not much magazine reading time in there.

I hold no feud that gave Sunny screen time in ill will.

That was a Monsoon-ism, Scroty. I also want Michael Cole to refer to matches such as Mike Knox vs. Rey Mysterio as main events anywhere in the country.

Greetings TSM! It's your good pal Stephen here. Many of you know me best as my TSM persona "DrVenkman PhD" but today we're going to be prying deep (or not so deep) into what makes - or perhaps made - your wrestling clocks tick. This is basically kind of exactly like a survey Cheech already did in Site Feedback, but I am trying to put a larger focus on wrestling on this one. Traffic wise, it made sense to launch the survey in the WWE folder, but heck (HECK!) if you've never watched a minute of WWE television and want to talk about why Fedora Town Wrestling rocks the wrestling world, please do. I'm also interested in hearing from the ex-fans that populate the board, but that would require them to actually be in this area to read this, and honestly, almost all of the questions are skewed to current viewers (I'm planning on doing some "why are you LESS interested" type questions, but not many "Why aren't you interested at all?" questions). Either way, have some fun with it and if you hate this and think it's dumb... well, keep it to yourself. You'll hurt my feeling otherwise Or mention it in the appropriate NHB thread. General Interest Questions 1. Who are you and what's your business here? Feel free to not answer this if you don't want to. Basically, if you wish, let us know what your deal is and how you came across TSM Forums. 2. When did you discover an interest in wrestling? What year/era? Perhaps it was the Showa era? Maybe the Heisei era? 1993? Attitude era? (You get the idea). What angle, match, or wrestler/character do you vividly remember as your first wrestling experience? 3. The Company Line: A. Which companies have you actively followed in your tenure as a wrestling fan? B. What have some of your favourite companies been? Your least favourite? (In theory, your answer can be the same - if you were growing up a fan of the technical wrestling WCW brought to the table but thought the end of the line for them was some of the worst television this side of My Mother The Car, that's cool). C. What is your favourite company right now? Any reason why? 4. (Not So) Favourites: A. Who were your favourite wrestlers (or gimmicks) growing up / when you first started watching wrestling? B. Who were some guys you couldn't stand? C. Who are your current favourites (if applicable / different from A.) D. There was a 4th question here, but it basically ripped off the entire premise of a thread (or more than one thread, in theory) that already exists in General. Specific Questions about your Interest 5. How would you gauge your current interest level in the product? Do you still get butterflies of excitement that make you look forward to upcoming PPVs? Did you ever? Do you watch every televsied wrestling program live, or just a few - and FF'd via DVR at that? If you consider right now to be the most interested in wrestling you've ever been, the rest of the questions in this section can be skipped over. 6. At what point in wrestling history (if it's not now) would you consider your interest to have been at it's peak? When were you compelled to watch every second of televised wrestling AND shell out money on PPVs, get excited about the release of video games, have TV/PPV parties with friends, etc. 7. At what point could you tell your interest was dipping and why do you think this happened, or what specific event(s) triggered the decrease? Was there anything even specific? Just a gradual interest loss of interest? Retirement (or death) of a favourite? A boring title reign on SmackDown in the Summer of 2004? 8. Have you ALWAYS stuck with wrestling even during times of low interest, or are there any lengths of time you stopped watching for a period only to come back at a later date? 9. If applicable, at what point did you decide to pack in the wrestling fandom? Interesting Questions of a Somewhat Random Nature 10. What style of pro wrestling best resonates with your personal tastes? Has it always been this way, or have your tastes changed over time? 11. Where do you "draw the line" with the whole "suspended disbelief" deal? Do you tell critics to "relax because it's just wrestling and you should enjoy the matches" (aka TNA fans about everything that happens on Impact!), do you come up with solutions that the writing team didn't bother to think about but you figure "it's there if you read between the lines" (aka "WWE Apologists"), somewhere inbetween, or do you take your greatest joy in watching wrestling to deconstruct everything that makes no sense? 12. Do you attend live events? And more specifically, do you get a thrill out of big arena shows, do you prefer the smaller 'intimate' settings of the local indy show, or would you rather forget the whole thing and watch everything unfold on your HDTV without dealing with 'the marks'? 13. If applicable, what are the best and worst experiences you've had going to a show live? 14. What are your favourite matches, moments, or events? 15. Freestyle Add any closing remarks you feel are absolutely necessary to letting TSM know your thoughts on wrestling. Again, just have fun with it. If it comes off as lame, I apologize, but I'm hoping it brings the "wrestling sections" of the board closer together instead of further apart.

I love EGM, but I have a STACK of magazines sitting on a table / in my work shoulder bag that remain unread and are now completely out of date. Print is dead and I just don't give myself a lot of time to sit and read something that isn't on a webpage. I do have fond memories of the magazine though and I was always happy when grandma gave me a subscription for my birthday and/or Christmas. Funny how the December 2008 cover says "THE END IF NIGH" (in the context of a Watchmen prequel game, but still).

I wish Cole would work Monsoon-isms into his commentary. I want to hear people referred to as "the devious one".

Why do people add images as attachments? Perhaps it's just a minor pet peeve but that always bothers me (probably because I have images and what not turned off so it's even more glaring when these pop up).

I recall my friends and I had a .wav file of that - no idea where it came from, but I know the AOL version of WWF.com had a theme database back in the day - and listened to it all the time. Awesome song. I apologize to Promoter for basically ruining his thread, but really, this has been awesome.

I've also been led to believe USWA has roots in the death of WCCW which I'm sure further confuses things.

I would like to point out I used Watts name as a joke (though we know he did tape one). BTW, the PYBO choices are SuperBrawl III (another show with a Benoit match mentioned in the WWE.com card listing, for those keeping track), In Your House: Final Four, and No Way Out 2005. SuperBrawl III won a PYBO back when I wasn't getting PYBO shows (a better time then "getting no shows" era I seem to be in right now) so I could go for that. I have a VHS copy of the IYH show somewhere - it's very good and I actually hope that one wins. NWO 2005 is the worst option.

I thought this was about JC Ice and Wolife D.

Thanks for the update. It's frustrating because up until last week, everything was great - midnight updates, a PYBO after one had been missing, etc. We'll see.

I enjoyed that.

I've taken my complaint to the big leagues now - The Digital Home Canada discussion forums! http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=99291 I'm interested in what's happening on 10 Pounds of Gold's end.