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I wonder if they'll book Santino vs Venis as the "Pick the ref" match to pay-off the Austin thing.

Kane almost winning the vote in 2004 and Piper winning a vote that was "supposed" to be won by Rhodes are other indicators. Good thing Piper won, too.

That was my guess in the Cyber Sunday thread (which was started ungodly early for whatever reason) K-Ro. I can't see them using the Cell for an ECW title defense.

That is weird since they already announced on Sunday that the votes were for a stipulation or a referee. Of course they were never specific about what match got what, so maybe ECW gets the stip natch? Morrison vs Punk having a Cell match just seems odd though. I'm going to guess that HHH/Umaga gets the HIAC/FCA/SF gimmick vote. Also, are we going to have a 4th year of everyone saying the voting is rigged and voters are all fools despite all credible sources indicating the voting for 2004, 2005, and 2006 was totally legit (however fans are "conditioned" on what they should be voting for).

Unlike most of the people here I'm a big HBK fan, so hooray for his return. I hate agreeing with Sledge (especially with that annoying signature and arguing with people in here when that should be done elsewhere) but damnit I also thought he looked like Skinner when he came out. I figured you guys would be going nuts over the new 222 vid showing the word "GO J_" being typed (as in "Go Jericho Go") but I guess no one noticed it. Or I imagined it.

And after 10 years of bad booking decisions, he's STILL over. That's Matt Hardy level of overcoming the booking odds to maintain overness.

Props for "the belt".

I noticed this was called a "new hit comedy". That's good, because I love this show but assumed it would be gone by January.

Well they did luck out with Mania IX weather wise.

Well following all of their posted directives didn't help, so now hopefully their e-mail response is "give us the UPC code from the adapter packaging and we will determine you really did buy it this year even though you don't have a receipt and send you a new one that should work". I assume that's how things go down.

http://www.wwe.com/shows/ecw/superstars/mattstriker/striker/ I was reading Striker's 3 part "Nicknames" column. I thought it was a good read.

I see, MacGruber is always 3 parts. In that case, rock on, Grube.

Simpsons and KOTH were pretty unmemorable, but the half of Family Guy I saw before falling asleep (west coast feed, watched the PPV prior) was pretty good. Lots of good meta humour and I liked the Spider-Man callback (everybody gets one).

I went to watch TNT... it's actually Badd Blood Part 1. What the hell, Cogeco?

I like MacGruber... but when I saw it once while watching a rerun last month. There was THREE (unless there was another after I fell asleep) and that was overkill, but I still love the yelling "MACGRUBER!".

If the technology to support OnDemand programming on satellites existed, that would probably be a huge deal for 24/7.

Yeah, where am I supposed to say "The Rock won't put HBK over"? In THIS thread?

Fair enough, but unlike said WHC title (which I don't even want to get into) they have never NOT acknowledged the US title's WCW past.

He leaped from the first cage over to the second. It wasn't spectacular or anything, but a nice spot. It would have been devastating if he blew it.

I often wonder if, with wrestling's current popularity state, I'm the one of the only people in my city subscribing to this. Maybe no one else noticed problems before?

I decided to (months later!) just e-mail Nintendo about my suddenly not-working WiFi USB adapter. I absolutely love the immediate response you get from the webpage. "Due to the unprecedented popularity of the Wii, we're currently experiencing extremely high email volumes and it may take several days before we are able to respond" They love bragging this console war, eh?

I used to use that HIAC technicality when I was a ref (question asker) in an IRC trivia league.

Nope, just like the CW (and unlike the World Title) they fully recognize it as being a WCW title.

It does not spin anymore. I didn't really notice that last night but others did (and just by looking at that picture, if Cena were to hold the belt like that the WWE logo would have moved).

I think 10 Pounds and I both filed our claim with BBB BEFORE you received a letter back saying it was the cable company's fault. With 10 Pounds being told that the recent PPVs are not allowed to air here, that solves almost all of my problems with Cogeco; as I've said, they've been really good lately (except this ECW screw-up).