DrVenkman PhD

The VQ update. They said if the winner already had the highest video quality, the runner up would go up too.

Don't know and don't know, just saw it in Community Games and thought it was interesting.

I suspected that 80s MSG intro was fake and youtube confirms it is, but I don't care, that 24/7 dub music is incredibly upbeat. This is the real intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FowWh8hK-Fk Note the sports clips I think have to be excised from 24/7 as well.

Raw is pretty great! Lots of historic things going on there. Jim Ross comes up with the New Age Outlaws name, Vince compares WWE to King of the Hill (a notion I wanted to make fun of, but I guess Austin does drive a pick-up truck and drink beer), Owen cuts an awesome profanity laced promo, and observant viewers will notice the debut of the scratch logo watermark. Unless that happened last week and I wasn't being observant. But Sultan vs. Tom Brandi? Yikes.

Street Fighter '94 is on Showcase Action right now. I know how I'm spending the next 2 hours!

That was kind of addressed on an episode of Heat by Michael Hayes and Kevin Kelly during a Steve Blackman / Funaki hardcore match. Hayes: Why did Funaki catch the trash can? Kelly: Why wouldn't he? "I'm just going to let the trash can hit me in the head!"

There was a clip on 24/7 of Hogan and Warrior hugging at the Mania VI arena so I would guess that was from the "Relive" stuff.

I say it every March! I still like the TV shows though, but only one MNW episode this month is a bit of a piss off.

Meltzer mentioned on the Monday audio update that Kozlov has several detractors now (I believe based on his poor matches with everyone, and I think the Undertaker match on Friday was the clincher). The fact he has lost twice clean looks to me like they're about done pushing him.

I read that comment in JBL's voice. I'm going to assume that is who you are.

All-American Wrestling is fun. My favourite part had to be the UPDATE! portion. Apparently it was very important that Al Hayes tell us in a deadpan, monotone delivery (with different camera angles!) that JYD was dancing with a young Booker T. That was literally the whole segment - JYD getting down. I was sad that Mr. T told Hulk they'd do some street fighting with muggers, but no street fighting made it into their training montage. I could have been hearing things but it sounded like just for a little bit, you could hear the "Eye of the Tiger" playing softly in the background, but once Hogan said "eye of the tiger" to cue the song at full blast, naturally a dub song took over.

Fun story about the WWE Merchandising Dept: They once sent me an envelope with some sloppy handwriting with my address and Canada was spelled wrong ("Candana" or some similar spelling). The envelope had a nice WWE logo on it though (it contained a Vengeance 2003 proof of purchase, or whichever 2003 DVD was erroneously missing one that caused you to have to request one to get the box for the 2003 DVDs).

Considering Legacy hasn't even properly updated their page - and that's the section WWE.com actually cares about - I won't hold my breath on a 24/7 page update today. Edit: Oh, I get it, it's a daily thing this month. I think someone at .com read this and took it as a challenge since the Mania 2 video was immediately posted. I guess I'll just wait patiently for the On Demand page to be updated then.

If Hitler City, North Carolina hadn't changed their name to Charlotte, they'd be sunk!

It became a regular bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketches_from...Conan_O%27Brien Small Talk Moment - Conan and Max make small talk about a particular subject. The result is usually that both Max and Conan, bantering back and forth, end up going into extreme detail or citing obscure people and events. Once they have exhausted the subject, Max stops and says, "Wow, Conan! Talking about (this subject) sure is interesting," to which Conan enthusiastically responds, "It sure is, Max!" They then stare at one another in dull fashion as the camera cuts back and forth between them.

So you're taking credit for "<Subject> Small Talk Moment"?

If I send $14.75 to WWF Merchandising Dept, PO Box 6789 Stamford, CT 06904 and allow 4-6 weeks for delivery, is it likely I'll receive a WrestleMania 1 shirt as advertised on this VHS tape I'm watching?

I watched a 3 minute "Conan in Toronto" clip on youtube (making fun of everyone for chanting "Go Leafs Go") and now I really wish they'd just air blocks of classic Conan episodes. Does Jimmy still break and look at the camera?

Dr Spaceman Hawk PhD needs a "Canadian" in there for the tri... quad... pentafecta?

Figures. I love Hogan's limited PPV contract... the Nitro that was just on had him outright saying "I'll defend my belt in February after I beat Sting". February!

I wish I kept that facebook application, I could just reference that... Countries: Canada (home), United States. Provinces: Ontario (live here, visited friends in London and Toronto), Quebec (a school trip to Quebec City and Montreal in 1995 and Montreal in 2000). States: Michigan (lots of trips to Detroit - I'm in a border city and think flaming cheese / "queso flamadeo" and super nachos from Mexicantown are godly foods), Ohio (Cedar Point!), Pennsylvania (a few hours in Scranton with a friend to take in some Office related sights, also been to Pittsburgh for a day for no real reason and have stayed in various small towns as a stopover on a larger trip), New York (NYC, a day trip to Buffalo, drove through the state last summer), New Jersey (Atlantic City, home base for NYC based trips), Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, D.C. (more or less all part of one trip, though West Virginia was part of a drive to Baltimore last year, which was a different trip than usual), Indiana (overnight stay in Indianapolis en route to Kansas), Missouri (day trip to St. Louis, watched the Tigers play the Royals in 2006), Kansas (stayed in Overland Park between the previously mentioned Royals/Tigers games), Iowa (night stay), Wisconsin (night stay, drive through), Minneapolis (Tigers vs. Twins games in 2007), Nevada (a few different quick trips to Vegas), Illinois (Chicago in 1998 and 2008, an overnight stay in 2006)... I think that's it but I might be missing a few random drive through / overnight stays. Oh, Florida in the early / mid 90s to visit my grandparents. Spent an hour in Memphis, Tennessee at an airport in 1991 (the flight we had to Florida had a stop over here). It's hard to vote for the worst because I enjoy travelling and have never really had a bad experience. I was going to say "Michigan" just because, but then I remembered how awesome the drive through the the upper peninsula was in September 2007. I wasn't in Wisconsin long enough to develop a bad opinion of it. Maybe Nevada because I found Vegas a bit overrated (and every damned machine I touched when I went in November game me an electric shock, and the air seemed really dry).

"Finishers" are a whole other wrestling quirk. Getting dropped on your head is getting dropped on your head.

Yeah, the other spoilers I read made it sound like Matt admitted to the fake accidents, not the real ones (which, from a logic standpoint, still lacks but is a bit better).

Well it's all news to JN News. His MSN source failed to tell him about past practice.

What the hell is "WCW Main Event"? Was that the name of their Sunday night show? I thought it was WCW Pro but maybe that was Sunday morning. Anyway, it's really odd because I expected a small studio match for Hogan/Kamala but they're in a big arena with a set. They kept talking about COTC until the point I realized the Clash show was apparently on right after this show ended. I guess my question is why the hell did WCW run a free show from the Clash arena with a Hogan main event BEFORE their free Clash show on the same network? This seems a bit stupid. Hogan vs. Atlas is fun if only for Hogan's technicolour dreamcape and him telling Atlas he should be "shining his boots". They have a 2 minute match which seems to end rather mysteriously - Atlas is on the offense, they cut to the crowd, then Hogan gives Atlas an atomic drop on the top rope. Odd way to end a match.