DrVenkman PhD

I received an e-mail, allegedly from Best Buy, saying someone has ordered something using my CC #. Funny thing though, I've never given BB by e-mail or CC # for them to who I am or that someone else could be using my #. Is this some sort of scam where I verify who I am by giving out the # and 'proving the other person is a fraud'? I only ask because this e-mail comes a few weeks after I made my very first internet purcahse (but from Amazon).

Big ups, Will.

It would be awesome if when you did a match as a continued feud, Dames had a "Match Backround". It would probably only say shit like "On <date>, Booker T assaulted Chris Jericho backstage. On <date>, Chris Jericho pinned Booker T with interferance by Christian" and stuff like that, but it would still be neat. Maybe.

No one has bothered to steal my columns and cross post them yet. The only thing that bothers me for some reason is when I'll send house show results to 1w or Observer, written in detail with more than just the result, then see the entire thing show up on some dirtboard with header "InsaneWrestlingMayhemInc Reader Stephen Gray sent along these results" when I did no such thing. If smaller websites are going to take house show results from the bigger news sites, I wish they'd just edit out my stuff and list straight results, but since the majority just credited me without calling me a reader or claiming I sent them in to them, I was ok with it.

The question isn't (seriously - it was jokingly... I thought jokingly) if it was Linda Miles. The question is the fact people are saying Shaniqua this and SHaniqua that while no spoilers I've read on the big 2 (sorry, PWTorch, you're out of the loop for me) and the small 1 (LOP) had any mention of that particular name.

I remember when Brian Knobs or JErry Saggs only scored like 3 points so Hennan jokingly walked away. That was funny. Foley backed out of a planned Byte This interview because of the necrophilia and (I don't know what the Insider version of the story is, just what Booker T said on TV) didn't show up at Raw X. However, those were all months ago and nothing terribly offensive (content wise) has happened since he started watching regularly again (I believe a Make a Wish kid got him interested again). It was a bit of a groan moment to hear Foley say "When I was watching Raw last week AS I ALWAYS DO..."

Apparently it was Mick who called WWE and not vice versa. Basically he just wanted some exposure before his book came out. I figured the deal was made due to the book, but I just figured WWE had called him to ref the match (since it's somehow become about 100x more interesting than it had any right to be).

As I said, Lord Azzington is the only person I heard use that name, and he's banned so what does THAT tell you about him?

Every set of spoilers I've read refered to her as "Linda Miles", so what is this Shaniqua thing all about?

Seeing as how I wrote the damn things I don't think 411 should have any sort of copyright on them. Anyhow, if I re-wrote them to eliminate all Smarks/411 references would it be possible to archive them when my other stuff gets archived? I knwo I didn't write them for TSM and only stuff written for TSM should be archived on the TSM forums, but it was just something I was wondering.

Raw is replayed one hour after it ends in Canada, so SKeith watched that and reviewed it. No offense to anyone who took place in this boycott (and wasn't just not watching Raw anyway), but what the fuck was being proved here? The rating ended up being down but I'm 99.9% sure that had nothing to do with a boycott half the people (myself included) in this thread didn't even seem to know was happening. I was only really aware of a boycott Tim "El Dandy~" Livingston mentioned in one of his columns on 411 for sometime in May, and out of politeness I didn't trash it as totally useless or retarded in Shades of Gray (also because I ended up not writing another column since I started working 2 months ago... I had a bit of time today and was going to write a Bad Blood preview, but then I asked myself why I would even bother something like that and passed, waiting for another idea to hit me on a day off in the future.. but I digress). The only people who know there was a boycott seem to be the people who already aren't watching or watching and not enjoying it, so saying "yep, I didn't watch Raw" shows nothing. Perhaps there is some mission statement written somewhere I haven't read that details the fact that such a boycott would do nothing of importance and was merely designed for the sake of principle, but seeing nothing myself I wrote to Keith and asked why he even bothered with the boycott when as a Canadian his not watching mattered even less. I said he should have just stuck with the hockey excuse, but it really didn't matter since a few hours later a Raw rant was up with brand new reasoning (the IQ Test on FOX). So, whatever. Petitions, boycotts, etc. = Worthless. But that's just my opinion. Wow, you're boycotting a show that no one knows if you're watching or not since you don't have a neilsen box. REBELS~!

Of course with Family Guy long since gone from FOX, they paid tribute (I guess) to the show by having Peter Griffin be a Homer Clone in the last Halloween Special.

Never really watched JAG, but thought he was good as Kano in Mortal Kombat. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ople_goddard_dc

Jericho vs Angle was also Angle's 1st round match for the 2000 KOTR (really should have been the final since Rikishi had no business doing 3 matches that night, but that's an old complaint at this point). Glad to see someone else didn't totally ignore Shawn Michaels in their dream match selections.

Shawn Michaels or Ric Flair vs. The SmackDown 6 (perferably Tajiri instead of Chavo - nothing against Chavo). Flair vs. Eddie was pretty damn average at KOTR last year, but Flair seems to have a spark in him now (and I guess that off air tribute has furthered it).

"History of the Championship" has had multiple release dates and is seemingly never coming out. Hopefully it actually does come out this year.

What I should have clarified is they were removed from the bar that comes down when you put a cursor over "News" and moved to the Commentary section, in place of the old non-wrestler writers.

Don't know if everyone already knew this, but I just noticed today. Under "News" on WWE.com, where it would normally come down to say "Headlines / Commentary / Edge Column / Droz Column / WWE Corp", it got rid of Edge and Droz, and the Commentary page is now nothing but wrestlers and Tom Pritchard.

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WrestleMania 2000 came with the awesome History disc, but why everyone expects the Mania DVDs to have blow away extras every year when now 2 years in a row no such thing has been presented amazes me. WMX-7, which the box somehow calculated at 7 hours, had a few interviews from Heat, the match from Heat, and the ability to watch video packages of stuff that was already presented on the show. They didn't even have the full Rock/Austin match from the next Raw, just a video package about it that I believe was used the following week on Raw or at Backlash 2001. X8 stepped it up but was still basically a collection of the materials presented on the Countdown to WrestleMania special, almost no different then the way XIX is using the WrestleMania related pieces from Confidential as extras this year. The biggest extras on X8 were a few minutes of footage from Byte This! with Vince McMahon and the Hogan/Warrior match from WM6, but I already own that show so big deal. No Heat match on X8, but the Heat match is on XIX. To it's credit, X8 has a FULL segment from the next night's Raw instead of the video package business they did with X-7, but XIX also has the Goldberg debut from Raw which I did enjoy more than Hogan's little deal with Rock post-Mania (and I like Hogan way more than Goldberg - old school WWF fan mentality). Winner: WMXIX

WWE.com had a story up right after the PPV about WrestleMania: The Movie. It will be a 1 hour special on UPN, airdate unknown.

Depending on how much extra stuff WWE crams on a DVD to make it extend past the 3 hours the disc was intended for, the picture gets noticably "downloaded and watched on a computer type blurry square pixel look" (which I believe the kids call artifacting but I could be wrong). I'm not a big videophile so I can't say I notice a picture problem but I'm sure someone will. It's looks bright and crisp to me, better than any VHS tapes I have.

5 weeks ago I was certain Brock/Angle was going to main event the first ever SD! PPV in an attempt to make it look big, much the same way I assumed HHH/Goldberg would do the same at Bad Blood. Spoiler (Highlight to Read): However, after reading the SD! Spoilers, Angle/Brock seems really unlikely since they're all buddy/buddy now. I imagine Angle/Brock was planned for a heel Angle return, but the creative side that was lobbying for babyface won, so looks like a Brock/Kurt vs. Team Benoit feud until Kurt and Brock eventually face off again at WMXX .

Now, I figured they cut America the Beautiful from WM14 because it was an absolutely terrible rendition, but why from the WM XIX release? Royalty issues with Ashanti or the song itself? Not that I really care (considering I'm Canadian), just something I wondered while watching Mania today.

Q: Quebecers - Bringing back one of the greatest tag teams ever in 1998 without their (Not the) Mountie costumes and jobbing them to the Godwins. Q: Queers - The Billy and Chuck saga ending with Stephanie McMahon making out with Rikishi in drag.