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Yea, Owen's funeral was crazy. In Martha Hart's book, it sounded like the city of Calgary stopped to remember him. The premiere of Alberta was even there.

Thanks a lot

Yes

Your hatred for me makes me laugh.

I think Seth is barely in skits because of his new role of writing supervisor.

Losing clean to John Cena on a night where wins and losses are irrelevant is not a burial.

I loved when Eddy rammed Edge's head into an exposed turnbuckle, and then gave him a SICK powerbomb. With all that, he still pulled the tights to win.

In June 02, me and two friends went to a house show at MSG and one of the matches was Eddy v. RVD in a ladder match. We were excited, but we assumed both guys would half-ass it and maybe only take one-two bumps. But no. Eddy and RVD both went out there and wrestled like it was Wrestlemania. They did tons of crazy spots and bumps and really put on a show for the crowd. It's probably one of the best matches I've ever seen live. I remember me, my two friends and all these Spanish people near us were the only ones cheering Eddy. We were chanting his name and yelling Viva La Raza. I talked about that moment with my friend and we spent an hour just remembering all these great Eddy moments. Even on a dark day like this, Eddy somehow managed to put a smile on my face.

Can someone say what Meltzer said? I forgot to listen to WOL.

From boxofficeguru- Shooting up a strong opening in fourth place was Paramount's urban action drama Get Rich or Die Tryin' which collected an estimated $12.5M over the three-day period despite playing in the fewest theaters among the weekend's three big openers. The semi-autobiographical film starring hip hop superstar 50 Cent averaged a muscular $7,567 from only 1,652 theaters and captured $18.2M since its Wednesday launch. According to studio data, African Americans made up 75% of the audience while 53% was under the age of 25. The gender split was virtually even with females slightly edging out the guys with 51% of those polled. Reviews were mostly bad, but the rapper's loyal following was counted on to show up on opening weekend. Paramount hopes it can now broaden the film's appeal to non-fans and those who normally do not spend money on urban fare.

50's movie did very well

Remember when Angle laid out Chyna, and Eddie went to hug her and ended up pinning her to win her I-C title? Great stuff.

I just keep thinking about being at Wrestlemania XX and going insane for Eddy in his match v. Angle. What a great match, one of many the guy had. RIP

The news doesn't seem real yet. This totally sucks.

RIP Eddie.

SNL Review- Jason Lee/ Foo Fighters Sports Report- Leafs- Not the best week for the Leafs (That game against the Sabres was hard to watch), but tonight’s game against the Habs was great. Not only did they ruin a “special” night for the Canadiens, but they won in overtime. They’re still not a great time, but they’re treading water in a very tough division. Canucks- They were off to that great start, but Miika Kiprusoff seemed to make sure that good start got derailed pretty quickly. I think people realised that Auld really isn’t that good, and the Canucks need Cloutier to be successful. Hopefully Bertuzzi can start producing and Cloots can come back strong. Nets- Been an interesting start for the Nets. Vince has been good for the most part but their defence hasn’t been strong as it’s been in recent seasons. And that game against the Heat was bullshit. I do wish Coach Frank would play Antoine Wright. Guy’s got promise, and making him ride the bench is pointless. Saints- So much for inspiring a city, I guess. The 2001 Yankees they are not. Mailbag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- Chad Ruffner writes- Raw this past Monday was the least enjoyable program The Company has put on since they moved back to USA, IMO. This show reminded me of the type of programming that was offered In the last few months of their tenure with Spike T.V. I.E. slow, boring, and with huge gaps of internal logic. Speaking of which, Bischoff "censoring" the live crowd so Angle would wrestle In The Main Event ranks right up there with the "best" of them. Did the writers really think that by having Bischoff edit out the "you suck" chants by the live crowd on T.V. that Angle somehow couldn't hear them In the arena? Worse yet, It made Angle look like a complete moron to come down to the ring for The M.E. and sell that he couldn't hear their chants. Whatever. Then they had Daivari come back from exile for whatever reason and be the special guest referee for The M.E. Last time I checked, Daivari was on Smackdown! Shouldn't they have announced that he was traded for someone on the Raw roster? After all, they bothered to announce that 2 for 2 Divas trade after this past year's Summer- Slam, so why wouldn't they do It here? Then again Daivari hasn't been seen since July, so I guess were supposed to forget all about his S.D. tenure. Finally, we had Raw G.M. Bischoff announce that Edge will be facing Batista In a "Street Fight" on Smackdown! this Friday. Um, how does the opposing General Manager for one show make matches for the other? They could have at least had Bischoff say he consulted with Smackdown G.M. Teddy Long before making the match. I realize that I maybe am thinking to hard here, but It wouldn't be half as frustrating If It was actually a hard problem to fix. It would take all of 5-10 minutes to correct during the booking meetings. Then again Vince and Co. haven't thought these things haven't been Important for the last few years, so the chances of It becoming relevant anytime soon are slim. The only things positive I can say about The Show was the debut of Joey Styles as play by play man, (hopefully he'll be full time at the position If Ross doesn't come back), and the absence of The McMahon family. One of The Company's 4 biggest PPV's of the year is in less than 3 weeks, so I hope they do a hell of a better job In the next 2 weeks promoting It then they did Monday. Thumbs Down. What Did You Think? Chad **P.S. Sorry I was so long winded. I was just In the bitching mood!** I’m sure the people at S-N-L.com will be loving this one. RAW was an okay show this week. Daivari going to RAW can be explained. After Hassan got injured, Teddy Long said he didn’t care what happened to them and they could go to hell for all he cared. So he probably told Daivari he was persona non grata and he went back to RAW. The Edge-Batista thing was probably okayed by Teddy Long, since he probably assumed Big Dave would kick his ass. I thought RAW was okay, but to be honest, I was flipping back and forth between that and Colts v. Pats. Wanna be in the mailbag????? Email me at [email protected] And of course, with my birthday 4 days away, I’d be remiss in not plugging my Amazon Wish List: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry...d=3KQ1O3J0CCIYY And now the review… Cold Opening Cast- Darrell Hammond, Amy Poehler, Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis Thoughts- Generally, being sober is a good way to make sure that you read the cue cards correctly and don’t trip over your words. I’m not implying anything, just making a public service announcement. Compared to other Hardballs, this came off pretty flat. The opening bit with Scott McClellan was pretty lame and didn’t do anything for me. I thought the Nancy Pelosi bit was funny, and I loved Amy zipping up her mouth at the end. As usual, the highlight was Forte as Zell Miller. I loved him talking about needing a door knob and some pliers (WTF?) and while he didn’t go full on psycho, maybe it’s good for Forte’s health that he doesn’t. The first half of this Hardball was pretty blah, but the second half did a good job of saving it. ***1/4 Monologue Cast- Lorne Michaels, Jason Lee, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson, Finesse Mitchell, Horatio Sanz, Andy Samberg Thoughts- I actually thought Jason Lee’s moustache was just a prop for My Name Is Earl. I didn’t know he actually had to walk around with that damn thing on. Seeing people falling while skateboarding is always funny. In fact, on campus, they used to have this place where people would skateboard. But they were all really horrible, so I could spend all day watching people attempt to do crazy tricks and fall flat on their ass. Watching Jason Lee pull of those skateboarding moves was impressive though. Kenan crashing through the wall and Lorne’s awesome skateboarding were the two highlights of an otherwise lame monologue. **1/4 Jack Johnson’s Barefoot Thingies Whatever Cast- Forte, Poehler, Mitchell, Rachel Dratch, Poehler, Bill Hader, Samberg Thoughts- Here’s my problem with this skit. Well besides the fact that it wasn’t funny and ripping on Jack Johnson is quite an out there person to be ripping on. People who go barefoot, obviously like the feeling of being barefoot or else they would wear shoes like everyone else. So why would anyone wear barefoot shoes? I mean you’re not barefoot, as you would have padding underneath your feet, thus deleting the whole point of wanting to go barefoot in the first place. Plus, people who go barefoot all the time, generally do it to be different and not conform to society. So wearing a barefoot like shoe is conforming and giving into the man, something I’m sure is a no-no in the barefoot community. I mean seriously, this is almost as bad as the time SNL did a skit about a talking movie….in 1923. Surely there’s someone out there that knows their continuity! DUD Good Morning Meth! Cast- Lee, Poehler, Thompson, Forte, Hader, Sudeikis Thoughts- An interesting idea for a skit, but they didn’t make it interesting enough to keep me from wondering whether I should switch to the Flames v. Avalanche game. It just wasn’t as funny as it could’ve or should’ve been. I thought the cooking segment was pretty bad. Forte was awesome as Keith the vacuumer (which is not a word according to MS Word) and I thought Kenan was his usual funny self. Other then that, this was just some flat attempts at drug humour with an inspired attempt by Forte to save it. **3/4 Falconer Cast- Lee, Forte Thoughts- I’ll say it: I thought this edition of the Falconer was very funny, and both Forte and Lee did an excellent job. They did a great job of playing beat the censor and it had some very funny moments. I thought Lee and Donald going down on each other was funny if nothing else, and like I said, I’m surprised some of it got on TV. I think the highlight for me was Lee giving Forte the briefcase, then taking it back and calling him a dickweed for questioning it all. I’m not up and going to become a Falconer fan or anything since I still don’t like it, but this was really good stuff. ***3/4 Thomas and Dobbs Cast- Poehler, Mitchell Thoughts- This was a MUCH better commercial then the Jack Johnson one. I loved the chart of Amy’s investments in various lottery funds, as well Amy talking about the Beanie Baby bust of years ago and the random comment of her showing up her mother. They really should’ve aired this earlier, and saved Jack Johnson for the death slot or just not aired it at all. *** Soaking Wet Killer Cast- Lee, Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig Thoughts- Welcome to the show Kristen Wiig. A skit like this isn’t really a good way to gauge how good she is. It seemed like they were trying to go for easy laughs to get the crowd into it, so the payoff would be worth it, and it just didn’t work, since the easy laughs didn’t work. I think a skit like this could work, but this just had bad timing and you could see everything coming a mile away. I didn’t really like the payoff, since we never got to see what happened to Lee’s character anyway. So not off to a good start for Wiig. * Refurbishments Cast- Lee, Armisen, Dratch, Parnell Thoughts- You all know I had to love this one. As I explained in the Cork Soakers skit, cock is one of my favourite words in the English language, and thus any skit based around it, I will love. Again, I don’t know how they got this past the censors but God bless them for it. This was hilarious, and probably my favourite skit of the young season. Tons of great double entendres, and Parnell did his usual great Chris Parnell performance that he does in these skits. His pronunciation of cock sold this skit for me. Jason Lee was awesome as well, and I was laughing almost the whole time. It never lost steam and even had a good ending too. ****1/2 Foo Fighters ‘DOA’ Thoughts- I really like the Foo Fighters and they are really good live. The crowd was really into it and Dave Grohl and the rest of the band seemed to be having a lot of fun up there, which always adds to the performances. Not much to say about this one, it was just the Foo Fighters going out there and kicking ass for a few minutes. ***3/4 Weekend Update Cast- Tina Fey, Poehler, Armisen, Mitchell, Thompson, Hader, Samberg Thoughts- I’m not going to go off on the playing with Barbies thing because I had a simple solution to fixing it, that didn’t exist last year: I flipped to Flames v. Avalanche and watched the end of the game. I’m just going to freely admit that even if it was not horrible, I probably wouldn’t have laughed anyway. The positive is that there were some good jokes amidst the array of clunkers, although as usual, Tina’s constant laughing bothered me. Andy Samberg’s commentary wasn’t very good except for the beginning where he talked about the death penalty. The bit with the French guys was okay. I thought Hader was really funny, and Fred surrending was cute, but the kids weren’t needed. I always enjoy seeing Donovan and Mama McNabb at the Update desk, and this was no different. I especially liked Mama McNabb scolding Donovan on the Campbell’s catchphrase and her telling Tina to eat her Chunky soup. The usual iffy Update, but it did have some nice highlights. My new rule is: As long as there is a good hockey game on, Tina and Amy playing with Barbies isn’t that horrible. **1/4 I Like Big Butts And I Cannot Lie Cast- Lee, Parnell, Fey, Poehler, Forte, Wiig Thoughts- Now my idea when I saw the setup for the skit was that there’d be a surprise baby shower for a couple, but the twist would be that the couple just came back from having an abortion. Can you say awkward? Okay maybe it’s not the greatest, but it’s certainly better then what this was. I thought Parnell was funny, but really, there’s only so much you can do with a lame premise like this. The ending with Will Forte was quite random and pretty out of place. *1/2 Stachin’ Cast- Lee, Seth Meyers, Parnell, Armisen, Dratch, Sanz, Hader, Samberg, Sudeikis Thoughts- I admittedly missed the beginning of this because I accidentally had it on CBC. I did like Seth’s moustache in this skit, and thought he was funny, as was Lee. The concept of a moustache rider is funny, but of course Horatio had to ruin it. The best part was the exchange between Seth and Parnell, and it really saved the skit. (“How did the fire start?” Oh well burning down a synagogue.”) Gold. Parnell really had a good night tonight, maybe Thick and Thin reinvigorated him or something. **1/4 Foo Fighters ‘Best Of You’ Thoughts- I thought this was good, but overlong. The hook was kind of annoying, and the song seemed a bit pretentious and self-indulgent. I mean, I get the message Dave, no need to hammer it home like he did. Anyway, despite my complaints this was fine. *** American Tazer Cast- Lee, Parnell, Hammond, Meyers, Poehler, Dratch, Fortem Thompson, Mitchell, Hader, Samberg, Sudeikis Thoughts- Too many names to type. There were about 12 mini-segments here and I only thought two of them were funny. Seth was good and I loved Forte tazing his wife and talking about the domestic tazer. Nothing else in this skit really worked for me. And seriously, Seth should be in more then two skits, supervising writing or not. *1/2 The Bottom Line- Avg. skit was **.5 making this just barely a thumbs up. I actually had it at thumbs in the middle, but felt the Falconer should get an upgrade and that’s what pushed it over the top. Given how great Lee is on My Name Is Earl this could be considered a mild disappointment, but given the last three SNLs, I feel I should accept a good show and not get greedy. There was one great skit, a good musical guest and some good stuff scattered throughout. My one complaint is that too many skits have lame premises and set-ups that give them no chance at succeeding, and you essentially have dead air. They need to find a way to fix this, because it’s getting tiring watching skits with no chance of survival continue to skit. I don’t watch Desperate Housewives so I really have no expectations for next week’s show, but hopefully they can cut down on some of the crap and produce a good show. 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I never get why people say HBK v. Taker is so one-sided, because it's not. The first time I watched it, I was actually surprised at how much HBK controlled. I guess it got too much hype as a Taker squash for me.

This is the second time Frigid has taken an uneeded potshot at the Pit, but said he didn't want to derail the thread.

Don't read anything into it. I don't know if that Shane story is true, but the guy does get very into WWE live shows and like to do all the crowd chants and stuff

They weren't trying to be "sophisticated". Why should a crowd care about a match that had terrible buildup, and where both guys were leaving the next day? The reason they cheered Austin is because Austin is a folk hero to a lot of these people. The way they portrayed his walkout made him look that much cooler, because it was a total Stone Cold thing to do. I was there, and I couldn't give two shits about a match where both guys were leaving the next day, so I chose to amuse myself as did others.

If a crowd is shitting on the match, doing a feeling out process and a two minute long staredown is stupid. They should've just worked a power match for a few minutes and if they were still getting shit on, gone home.

They gave it the post Simpsons time slot for two seasons. I remember them promoting it quite a bit back in the day, but the show is so hard to promote because of the way the jokes work. The ads for AD were always not funny, because all the jokes are just payoffs of other jokes it seems.

If it is gone, I can't really blame FOX since they gave it a bunch of chances to succeed. I just hope they can somehow wrap up the show and payoff all the storylines.

No.