DrVenkman PhD

Can you believe the actor they hired for the promotional poster used a friggin gun? Luckily they got their act together by the 3rd event.

Judgment Day. I can’t tell you how excited I was to walk out in front of more than 18,000 people in the STAPLES Center and wrestle Eddie Guerrero. I knew the moment would never be replicated as long as I lived. I was just hoping I had enough wind to last through the match, because I knew that Eddie did. This was a moment I had waited all my life for, and I knew I had to seize it or it would pass. I feel like I seized it. I love putting myself into a corner, because then I am stuck and have to produce. What an awesome feeling to leave the STAPLES Center knowing that people wanted more of JBL. I had many, many doubters; I love doubters. It had been a long time since I had been in an important main event, and the first time in WWE. My first main event ever, against Kevin Von Erich, was very bad, not because of Kevin, but because of my inability to handle it. I had many in Europe and Japan, but it had been over a decade with nothing close to this level. I am looking forward to Round 2 at Norfolk, Va., at The Great American Bash. I think you will be surprised at how exciting a Bull Rope Match can be. I grew up watching and later doing these matches in Texas and Europe. I plan on raising the bar again, I am sure to the chagrin of many people out there. Now, I want to make perfectly clear who I was talking about in my last column. I referred to a bunch of Internet guys, but the people I am referring to are not everyone who goes on the Internet; that is half of America. The people I am referring to are the guys who have their own Web sites, or who think they are reporters, which they are not. Actually, when I referred to their questionable sexual orientation in a joking matter I was trying to say that they were momma’s boys. However, after seeing how upset they got, I realize I struck a chord. So, they feel like they have to defend their sexual orientation, which isn’t what I intended; if they are homosexuals I have no prejudice against them, that is their business, and this is 2004. Again, the people I am talking about are an infinitely small percentage that think they know our business. Honestly, they are just plain stupid, and I’ll explain why. They wondered in print if I was working or not, meanwhile making sure I was front and center on everyone’s mind before the pay-per-view. Now, they will do a couple of things, either say they are done with me, and make sure my name stays out there, or talk about how bad I am, and make sure my name stays out there. (See how easy they are? I am beginning to enjoy this.) Of course, they have to realize this: I promised 30 minutes at Judgment Day, I delivered. I promised a memorable match, I delivered. You see, I have delivered all my life, which makes these guys mad, because the reason they are player-haters is because they have never, ever done anything. That is why they sit behind their computers with their Krispy Kreme doughnuts and write about me. Face it, you spend your time talking about me. This is like clubbing baby seals, at least give me a challenge. I am sorry that makes you so mad. Now to some important things at hand. And, again, those of you who care enough to read my column, thank you. Believe me, I am not talking about our regular fans; you guys are great. After all, my friend Winn reads this, and he is my drinking buddy. The June 30 deadline to hand sovereignty to Iraq is very important. I believe we now see a little light at the end of the tunnel. These people face a hard road ahead. They have not even been allowed to vote, and now they are running a country that is very wealthy, very similar to what happened in South Africa. The advantage Iraq has is that we will be there to help them, South Africa didn’t have that. Hopefully, we will find a way to bring our people home sooner rather than later. We must start giving these people control of their own destiny so that our guys can get out of there. I think George W. Bush is going to be reelected president; I think John Kerry’s inadequacies are beginning to show. I think we need Bush right now to finish this war on terror. Also, I really dislike Kerry’s tax plan. I think it hurts the economy. And most importantly, Bush is from Texas. There are some great buys in the stock market right now. I am buying on every dip. I think the market is overreacting to news in Iraq. I was really hoping Smarty Jones would win the Triple Crown. I think everyone was. The NBA Finals have started, and I am excited to see how it comes out. Sports wise, the worst time of the year is coming up for me. After the finals, there is nothing but baseball on until the NFL kicks off. No offense to baseball fans, but I find the regular season very boring. Since I have been negligent in writing my supposed weekly column, I have a ton of e-mails. So I need to answer them. Keep sending them. I can’t answer them all, but I do read them all. To Steven: Equating Bush with the terrorist is not rational. Bush is sending Americans into a war that he did not start. Now I know some of you out there will say he did, but those Towers did not come down by themselves. Also, we have to take the fight to them because they will not bring it to us. There are some that would like the U.S. effort to fail because they want Bush to lose. What a horribly unpatriotic stance. To Evan: I cannot compare Iraq with Vietnam because one was fought to control communism, the other was fought to defend our own soil. If I were secretary of defense, and it is good I am not, I would do what they are doing now, and give these people more and more control until they have full control and we can bring our people home. Good luck in your studies at Keene State College. To Erin from Tallahassee, home of FSU: I agree the key to reducing poverty is education and opportunity. Educated people have an easier time finding jobs. Also, educated people are less likely to be bigots, which helps our country. Most of the stupid things done against other races in history were done by uneducated people. Educated people are harder to work into a frenzy. The minimum wage is a real conundrum. You increase the cost of business. However, the main problem with business cost is not wage increase but rising health-care cost, because our health-care industry is the biggest waste of money in our country. To Mike from Blackpool: England. JBL does have some similar traits with Ted DiBiase; hopefully, JBL can wrestle as great as Ted could. I believe my character has really blurred the line of reality in a way few characters have. Actually, my character is me, so I don’t feel like I am a copy of anyone. Though it is complimentary to compare me with Ted; he was great. To Neil: I understand your disagreement with me about my approval of the Enola Gay being on display at the Smithsonian, but I stand by what I wrote. I recently was in Munich, where the prison camp Dachau was during World War II. I didn’t get to visit it this time, but I have a couple of times. I found it unbelievable and horrible at the same time. This was a terrible place, but it is preserved because of history. .. and then he just continues on about non-wrestling matters.

While Link has yet to cut a promo that used more than a loud yell on the major scene yet (outside of his animated series), I have heard that when Nintendo allowed him to be booked on independant shows, he may have cut a promo. I have yet to verify if htis has occured, but it's my understanding that when he worked for Phillips, it was an embarassment to his career and it's best to be forgotton.

I think the thread title is a bit misleading since he actually bought 2 $90 tickets plus service charges, not 1 $200 seat. Some of your replies seem to suggest he bought a frownt row chair.

IF you want to get technical, 3.Anything is horrible for Raw and anything less than 3.8 is horrible for SmackDown! based on past glory. Past glory is done. Frankly, if the SD! rating maintains 3.0 or more, it's surviving fine considering the show at the moment. And yeah, Raw should be in the upper 3's - 4's range, but it could be doing 1.4 and it would still be a top rated cable show.

Well, the rating was already discussed in another thread, even noting the difference in the way sites reported it (PWI says it's horrible, Meltzer said it's good). I remember thinking last year that Rikishi hadn't renewed his contract and how he was gone from SmackDown matches forever, but then he finally signed a new deal, came back, and won the tag titles. Hopefully history does not repeat itself. Edit: Oops, I forgot. The rating was actually being discussed in JHawk's feedback thread, not a thread of it;s own.

I'll rent it, assuming I can. LOWII was MIA in this city for rental, and I didn't care at all for LOW enough to buy the game and see if it improvedany. Speaking of GameStop, when made a trip to Michigan last week, I noticed they had the slogan "Where it All Begins... Again" all over their store to promote Madden 2005. Good to see wrestling fans running a gaming store and using a copyrighted slogan.

Off topic, to this day I do not understand why the Zelda games didn't get an All-Star 16-bit treatment. I mean, now that "All-Stars" updates for the Mario games are 11 years old, I can look back and realize I like the originals better for their "charm" (for lack of a better word to say "old 8 bit graphics"), but I think it would be awesome to at least try a version of the original Zelda that looks like A Link to the Past. I heard something about that existing in Japan via satellite gaming, but I figure now, with the GBA, a really great looking update could be made.

This is a pure guess, but since it's not "Mario Advanced 5: Super Mario Brothers" but simply "Super Mario Brothers", I would assume it's an exact port where you are Mario. In a somewhat annoying move, GameFAQS doesn't seem to care to add an entry into the GBA area for these NES Classic games. While I understand that it would be viewed as unnecessary, it would be nice if they put them there anyway just so there was a specific area to discuss matters like this. Oh well. People apparently talk about the GBA port in the NES section...

Roddy Piper

What's the current opinion on Nintendo's latest angle of using 4 different workers to play the Link character at the same time? So far from what I've seen, it's resulting in tremendous, "old school" style work from this stable that's really enjoyable.

If Piper is in again, hopefully they realize he is not even close to being a cruiserweight.

Let's not forget when Pac-Man was booked as a guy who the audience was encouraged to sling rocks at in order for him to change his mood. Then they have his character do vignettes where his wife forces him to go get milk and do all the chores.

Hope THQ gives the Legends proper entrances, otherwise they'll just be a group of guys I never use again (save for Old School Undertaker, who I use quite often in HCTP).

I love the absolute and total difference in ratings reporting from PWI and Meltzer. Meltzer reported the same rating, but went on to say "This rating is quite good for being up against the NBA Finals and the MTV Movie Awards (which cut into SD's rating every year)."

Well a month ago they were saying the movie itself was in doubt anyway.

That list also doesn't mention my 2nd favourite segment (1st being the Scorpion King): King of the Ring 2002, where Goldust immitates The Rock, only to have The Rock intervene and be hilarious.

Toad needs to learn to work the Nintendo style or he'll be Bowser's job boy forever.

It was an Iron Claw into an STO (Kenzo's finisher, that is)

I nominate "Who Ya Gonna Call?"

I don't believe he wrestled until the 2002 Royal Rumble. He wrestled very rarley before the brand extnetion, at which point he turned heel and feuded with Steve Austin, as well as having a match against Hulk Hogan for the WWE title. I believe his one and only SmackDown match would have been the very last full roster SmackDown!, with Ric Flair and Triple H vs Kurt Angle and Vince McMahon. It would appear Flair's first wrestling match on Raw this millennium would be May 6, 2002, when Scott Hall, The Big Show, and X-Pac fought to a No Contest against Ric Flair, Steve Austin, and Bradshaw. I believe Flair turned heel to manage the nWo to make the result a No Contest, as the next week he wrestled Hogan for the title.

Let's not forget Mario's years of being into bigamy. I heard rumours that during the 80s he accidentally killed Pauline while coked up, but I believe she was found to be alive when Mario went chasing her skirt again in 1994. On the surface it appears Mario seems to have finally kicked her to the curb, and with Luigi hooking up with Mario's "Land" flame Daisy, Mario is only with Peach now, but you never know if he's screwing over his brother by seeing his women on the side.

While Mortal Kombat is a very good game, I think that Donkey Kong is the best game ever. "Donkey Kong sucks" YOU SUCK. Btw, I recommend the Atari 2600 DK over any Nintendo release. Just check out the awesome: DK 2600!

If I buy either, I'll probably be an absolute moron about it and fall for Nintendo's "Old School" ad campaign about these games, go buy the Retro GBA SP (I currently have the old arctic one), Mario, and Zelda. However, if being Old School isn't important, it's probably more financially sound to find the GBC version. In 1999, it was being called a perfect port (and it should have been... SMB is 20 years old now) so, without reading any reviews or things of that nature, I have no idea how the new release of it could be any different.