DrVenkman PhD

There are far too many senators, lieutenants, and generals on TSM right now. It's like the "Canadian" pandemic all over again. This doesn't even account for doctors or spacemen (and we apparently have a Spiff who is both a Space Man and a General).

Antonio knows how to sell a pizza.

I doubt it. I don't see the DVD having 25 matches (though that's not impossible) and The Essential Starrcade is clearly set up as defined episodes with the Mean Gene studio segments.

The Road Warriors Anthem - both the song and video - seems like the kind of thing that should have killed the careers of lesser men. I've watched WrestleRock Rumble at least 3 times, and I had already watched a crappy youtube video of it multiple times before. It's so awesomely bad. I like how present day Slick seems to get a big kick out of Jive Soul Bro in a pop-up window.

I can safely say that Stupified in particular is about as far away from 1970s pro wrestling as they could have gotten. Don't judge the book(er) by it's cover? I'm thinking that the alliances will be more Black and White. However, the wrestlers might continue to use the styles that made them popular. Here's an excerpt from Monday's F4W explaining the "70s mentality" deal:

Matt Young

So far, no. I get a message alerting me of WWE.com's new video player which doesn't load the video.

I love the crappy pun names. I like the Adamle photo.

WWE.com has a photo of Ross dressed as Silly Sailor. FYI, SmackDown was taped in San Diego, so that explains Rey.

Hey, you really can enhance the experience by going to WWE.com (as stated in a graphic at the end of the show!). http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwe247/starrcade25th/ They have "extras" to go with the matches.

New set pieces for Michael Cole!

Neat, I can put Survivior Series 91 and Tuesday in Texas on the same tape. Hooray recent early 90s obsession by 24/7!

So far: 25. Piper vs. Hogan - 1996 24. Sting vs. Muta - 1989 23. Douglas/Steamboat vs. Pillman/Windham - 1992 22. Goldberg vs. Nash - 1998 21. Battlebowl - 1991 This show is well put together. I enjoy the format.

Spin-off topic! I imagine a lot of answers will be about heel wrestlers we just didn't like as kids, but I will say when I was 11 I could not stand Dustin Rhodes in 1992 WCW. Seeing some of that stuff again, he seemed to be in some pretty good tag matches but I was pretty damn happy when Windham turned on him.

I'm sure they won't. Plus I still think these are fake until Truthiness says where he got them.

HHH is on the next Raw because it's a special celebration of the 806th episode with all 3 brands.

1. How often do you visit TSM? How long are you here on a typical visit? How many minutes, or hours, do you spend here daily? It varies. Basically, if I'm at a computer - whether I'm chatting with people, looking something up, or at work - I make trips to TSM. The length of my stay depends on the situation. If it's my first visit since waking up I will peruse the areas of the board I post in the most and see what's new. Add more time if I had thoughts to add. Other times I just make a quick trip to see if anyone has said anything in a thread I recently commented in, then move on. As I am currently without my own dedicated PC (for the next few days), I basically depend on borrowing someone's laptop to post, using the Wii to browse (no way I am posting using a Wiimote), or the 8 hours I'm at work with a computer. As these 8 work hours fall between midnight and 8 am eastern, I find board traffic is fairly slow and my visits are usually pretty quick. To put TSM visits in context with the rest of my browsing, it ranks up there with compulsively checking facebook to see if anyone has made a wall post, sent me a private message, commented on a photo, etc. I make a check to here and there, go off to egotastic to see if anyone's boob pooped out in public recently (for times I'm not at work, that is), then re-check TSM/FB. Or whatever. 2. Which folders do you spend the most time in? Why? Which ones do you skip over? I probably spend the most time in the WWE and WWE 24/7 folder, followed by General Wrestling. Technically as the mod type fellow of the whole wrestling domain I should be putting some time in with TNA and such, but I just check in, see that there's no traffic outside of people who don't realize Impact is the worst television show in the history of professional wrestling, and move on. Outside of the realm of wrestling, I enjoy seeing what folks are up to in the bottom half of the board. That's where the real talk seems to go down. General is fun too. I enjoy the Foold Folder when it's not being snobby. I enjoy video games, television, and movies but Mole's reign of terror really stifled conversation in the respective folders of those mediums. The video game folder is 3 folders about specific systems that are several pages long, a CTDWAT thread, and assorted game dedicated threads. There should be more of the latter, but Mole decided those were bad and now people don't make them anymore due to familiarity over how things 'work' in that area. TV/Movies seems the same way, but I enjoy discussing The Office. Current Events is a bit too combustable for my tastes. I was the guy in school that never went to concerts or owned a CD (I just listen to whatever is on the radio) so the Music folder serves no purpose in my life. I'm not into sports enough to bother with that area unless I'm cheering on my favourite team in the play-offs. Apparently my way of looking at sports is known as "Homerism" and is a DEADLY SIN in the Sports folder here, so it's best I stay away. 3. Who are your favorite posters? What makes a poster "good"? 4. Who are your least favorite? Why? The qualities of a good poster have been well documented with the above answers. There are lots of posters who are very good at rationally expressing a thought or belief. There are people who can make you think. There are people who can eloquently put together a post to express their deepest feelings. Some people that fall in those groups aren't very funny though and everything can be too serious. TSM is about having some laughs while interacting with folks who enjoy the same things you do (or perhaps they don't, giving you a chance to explain why you do or do not agree with someone - but keep it civil). MillenniumMan is a guy that in a "serious wrestling conversation" - in quotes because the very idea of such a thing existing for pro wrestling baffles even me, Mr. Wrestling - can give good insight, lay on the history, and know his business, but when the potential is there for a zinger, he can do that too. And I love it when posters lob softballs to set up a joke, you know? Like that time in the "Vader is dead?" thread, I said, "And now we play the waiting game". Bruiser Chong was right there to say that the waiting game sucks and we should play Hungry Hungry Hippos instead. With the POTY tourney just a few months away, I can't go naming specific people for fear of losing a vote (but by that logic, I should single out a boatload of "best posters" - like Dandy, Kinetic, Cheech, Czech, Smues, Curry, and more! - to lay the ground for votes, but that's not my style) but there certainly are "styles" of posters I'm not a fan of. People who think it's 1996 and it's still cool to not spell things correctly (we all make mistakes, but some people aren't even trying) or locate the shift key on their keyboard annoy me. I also get very annoyed with people who assume their opinion is FACT. This happens a lot in the subjective world of wrestling. Someone will decide that they are 100% against a storyline (even if it happened 11 years ago) or the push a wrestler is getting (let's use Randy Orton as en example) and determine that because they are too retarded to figure out the paint by numbers specifics of an angle from 1997 or they personally feel a wrestler has no heat, then we must ALL think like that. I'm sure those of you who frequent the wrestling area of TSM know exactly who this is about. They are apparently no better in Sports. 5. Who is your favorite mod? Can you actually name the mods we have? bob_barron is the best ombudsman TSM has ever had. 6. What brought you to TSM in the first place? Do you still come for the same reasons? Do you still watch wrestling? I forget how I stumbled upon this place but I'm certain I was here briefly here due to something or other on Rantsylvania. I really have no recollection of that time period though, nor do I remember who I ended up coming back to make my first posts comparing Doug Basham to Larry Appleton during an episode of Velocity. Oh wait, I think I came back because a friend of mine was in the SWF. Yeah, that sounds about right. I just got involved in the rest of the board but never the SWF. My interest in wrestling is not what it once was (I remember when the idea of missing SmackDown was crazy talk, now I find myself FF'ing through a lot of it on DVR) but I still enjoy it quite a bit, especially WWE 24/7. 7. When was the board at its best? I don't know. The timeline historians give as the Best of the Board was a time where I talked soley about video games and wrestling, didn't know a Nightwing from a Nighthawk, and had no idea we had people feuding with each other. I'll just say I had good times in late 2005 / 2006 when I finally became aware why people were calling the Leelee character Leena and all the history going on there. Not to mention my one and only run as a gimmick poster and whatever fun my pal MisawaGQ / World's Worst Man had sabotaging Video Game threads for our own amusement on IRC. Not really mature, but we enojyed it. Then treble told us to stop. 8. What is the one thing, above all else, that keeps you coming back here? I enjoy making posts what ignore everything previous posters said in a thread, then not reading any replies that follow. Treating TSM like a sentinent internet being is the way to do it. Or perhaps the exact opposite. Plus I like trying to get a laugh - sometimes it might take 9 failures for 1 landing, but it's cool. 9. If you could change one thing about TSM, what would it be? Nothing really comes to mind off-hand. 10. How much longer will TSM be around? TSM will end on February 14, 2016. I received this information from an alien at the Holiday Inn in Paramus, NJ. It may have just been a spaceship made up to look like a room at the Paramus Holiday Inn - I can't say for certain.

I still find the team of Jake, Savage, and Steamboat pretty amusing.

Random note: The fella in the front row at Cyber Sunday with all the anti-Cena signs and shirt was wearing a John Cena Chain Gang logo shirt at Vengeance 2005.

I'm amused how this thread turned the idea of "Superstar" becoming "Entertainer" into making jokes about the word "Wrestling" be turned into "Entertainer".

It is rather confusing. It's not worth bringing up since the guidelines have been very loose since the build to Survivor Series 2006 (I believe that was the point they just had guys showing up on any show as it led to a Hardy reunion that broke all the extension rules when they became tag champs) but if they're going to have a Draft and treat it like a big deal, they should try and give some reasoning behind things like this. At the end of the day, the bradns only exist for touring purposes and that's fine by me.

I love the show, but from a storytelling aspect it really does suffer from Gilligan's Island syndrome. That doesn't make it bad, it's just somewhat of a flawed premise. Still funny though.

Fun fact: Before becoming a referee and getting fired, Wes Adams was jobbing on ECW in ealry 2007 or so. As an episode of The Dirt Sheet pointed out, Wes was fired for counting to 3 even though Morrison kicked out.

I haven't found any problems with the hanging Wiimote but that could be due to the fact that despite the fact I'm a grown man, my room configuration makes it easiest to play my videa games by sitting on the floor leaned up against the foot of my bed (or conversely, sitting on the bed - either way, the remote just rests at the side). I only have on N64 VC Game (F-Zero X) and I agree the Cube controller set-up probably works better than the way the N64 is mapped on the Classic, but my controller is wired and somewhat crappy (I got the system used in 2002 and from day 1 the c-stick seemed too loose) so this works for me. Also, I'm AWFUL at Earthworm Jim. This seemed easier 14 years ago.

Must be a lot of 1992-era wrestling fans voting in these polls. That's the 3rd 1992 winner in a row! I haven't seen the show before though (it's previous airing during my subscribtion must have occurred when Cogeco wasn't showing PYBO winners, or if it was a regular Big One, Cogeco just didn't show it).