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Lord willing, by the time the Xbox 2 and PS3 are released to the North American market, I will be gainfully employed, and thus I shall be able to purchase them both. Ideally. Provided my massive loan payments don't cripple my finances.

Ah, the old INXS rears his head. I was concerned, because it looked as if earlier on in this thread, INXS developed an unusual (for him) sense of rationality, where he realized that this woman's story wasn't completely on the up and up, but he has thankfully resorted back to his usual irrational bias / hatred for all things American. All is once more right with the world.

That's a rhetorical question, right?

You should, Mike, considering it's Washington's worst kept secret that Cheney is still running the company and making mad profits off of everything they do. Well, actually, I have no proof of that whatsoever. No one does. Because it's actually not true, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly where NoCal is going with this.

As much as I've grown to detest Joss Whedon over time (in part due to Whedon fanboys & girls), that episode really did hit on all cylinders. Best moments, IMO, were Anya trying to express grief but not being able to understand exactly how to do it, and the final shot, with Dawn slowly extending a hand to touch her mother's body. That was the show's peak. It was all downhill from there.

I'm looking forward to the May PPV, where Dusty will probably book THREE Ultimate X matches, two cage matches, and a "full metal mayhem" match. All gimmick matches, all the time. It'll be glorious.

*click* Done with this show.

God he is a pretty man. He really, really is. Look, not that I'm gay or anything. I'm just saying, who knows what would happen if I happened to be drunk and in the same room as he was. At night. With no one else around. Indeed.

Look, if they can't swing Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, then just let the franchise die, cause it's totally run its course about 8 times over. I just saw Jason X on the Sci-Fi channel this past weekend. Goddamn Jason Voorhees in space. Outside of Lexa Doig, who is VERY doable, that film was utter shit. Just let it die already!

Worse yet it had absolutely zero to do with Wrestlemania. All of the other promos - they had something to do with the PPV...or wrestling. Mentioned it, made wrestling references, etc. This was just Taker literally doing a scene from a Dirty Harry flick, and doing it very poorly. Just awful.

What do you think of Asashoryu? Because I swear, I am a huge Asa mark. The size, the look, the attitude.

I'd really like to see this show. Typo. I meant 1994. The way I understand, and the way the programming schedules read, the 6 to 10 bucks covers the entire month. Each week there's a set of programming, which I assume probably averages out to only so many hours of a day, and that block replays every day that week. The next week, a new programming block replaces the prior week's block (although since it's only 20 hours, some of the same material is repeated). So, week 1 they might air some specials, a full length PPV, some old TV shows. Week 2, maybe they change the PPV, change a special, keep the tv shows, etc. Basically, way I see it the price covers an entire month of programming (it's just that the programming is largely the same, week after week, because of the 20 hour limit). Like I said, 20 hours is pretty skimpy considering what they COULD give us, but 10 bucks for 20 hours is worth it, at least to me, considering that for the 20 hours they seem to be giving at least 2 to three PPVs plus a lot of old school stuff. I don't know about you, but there's enough nostalgia in my sould that I'd pay the money just to see some old tapes of the Killer Bees vs. Nikolai Volkoff & The Iron Sheik.

WWE 24/7's Web Site has a programming listing for the current month. I still say that 20 hours for the entire MONTH is terribly light, given the volume of their tape library. However, for April 2005: In Your House: Revenge of the Taker WCW Spring Stampede 2004 AWA: Wreslerock 86 NWA Crockett Cupp 88 Plus three "old school" cards from as far back as 1978 That is most definitely worth my 10 bucks. Hell, it's worth it just for Spring Stampede 94, with the truly awesome Flair / Steamboat match for the WCW title.

I don't know if the abduction was a hoax or not, but regardless, the U.S. troops were totally in the right for firing upon the vehicle. If you run a checkpoint, your ass is GOING to be shot, because the troops have absolutely zippy chance of knowing whether or not you're driving a car bomb. And whatever her culpability in this, this woman is, rather despicably, using the Italian agent's death to further her political agenda. She's pretty much saying now that she was targeted for assassination by the American troops all along, which is complete horseshit. It's just rather sad to see that this agent pretty much gave his life for her to use his death as a political weapon. I must say, though, I'm surprised the usual suspects here haven't come out already and made the typical anti-American posts.

I mentioned this one - but you bastards no sold it. Now that I remember it, there was another Silver Spoons episode about child abuse where Rick learns that a friend of his is being abused by his father.

I have Cox Cable. It's very shitty, but for 6 to 10 bucks, I might sign up for this. Although the only 20 hours a month thing is complete bullshit, given that they have 75k of material. They'd better give me something for my money, too - PPVs, specials, etc., cause I ain't paying money just for them to rebroadcast old episodes of RAW.

Barron's just an unrepentant Hillary Duff mark. Which is something that he damn well SHOULD be repentant for. You know what this means, don't you? Vin Diesel's career is still very much alive. The success of this film means that Hollywood studios will greenlight at least 3 or 4 new Diesel projects. But hey, as long as one of them is another Pitch Black movie, I'll be happy.

I'm pretty much in the "it's too early to tell" camp myself, since everything that's happening is still tenuous and could fall apart at the drop of a hat. And even what we have now is not truly a "success", YET, because Afghanistan is still a shithole, Iraq seems to be on the "right" track but has a hell of a lot of growing pains to go through before it's a stable democracy, Syria ain't out of Lebanon just yet and the reforms in Egypt aren't near what they REALLY should be. All of that said, if everything does click into place? BAD for Democrats. Bush really will have a legacy much like Reagan, in that everyone said his methods were wrong until those same methods yielded exactly the results that he promised they would.

That was a classic one, and the first one that sprang to mind when I read this topic. Didn't Dan actually die in one of them? That's about as "special" as it gets. BTW, since "Saved by the Bell" was mentioned so many times, I'm shocked no one brought up the one about environmentalism, where they struck oil on the football field (or something) and the resulting spill killed Mr. Belding's pet duck. At least I think it was his pet duck. It was SOMEONE's pet duck.

That joke never gets old to me. As for anyone who might ask, "Why fuck Lita?" Because if all of the stories about her are true, she's a dirty whore. And dirty whores a) will do just about anything you want them too, and b) are usually pretty good at doing whatever perverse activity that you have devised. Who knows, maybe Mrs. Edge wouldn't give up the balloonknot (that one's for Meatwad), so Edge went to the one woman he KNEW would be into that. To be fair to her (for once), it does take TWO people to cheat. If the story is legit, I highly doubt she was some sort of irresistable temptress that seduced Edge into infidelity - and even if she was, he still could have said no.

Didn't Rob spend part of that time away from ECW filming "Black Mask 2" as well as a period where he was injured?

Koontz is maybe the biggest con artist in all of modern literature, because somehow he manages to convince millions of people to buy the dozen or so books he churns out every year. I know, I exaggerate a bit, but the guy does put out a LOT of books in a short amount of time, and that's because each one pretty much follows a standard formula, with the only deviation being in the type of villain that he uses (he only has a handful of different types, really, but he alternates between them). What's really frustrating is that SOME of his books (the earlier ones) actually are decent, about 2/3rds of the way at least, but then just fall completely apart. But he really is a very mediocre writer who somehow managed to devise a formula that sells.

They still are. No one on the right really takes her seriously. It's not as if the head of the RNC is coming out and gushing about how great she is, unlike ol' Terry and his pal Mikey.

Dude, I saw the movie the day it opened, at the Uptown here in Washington D.C. Maybe it was because, first day and all, a larger number than usual of comic geeks were in the crowd, but it brought a tear to my eye when Bruce appeared on the screen, and a sizable percentage of the viewing audience simultaneously cried out, "ASH!!!!!" That was a mark out moment for me.

Overrated writers: WAY too many to count. Kevin Smith is DEFINITELY on the list. Bendis is for pretty much everything the writes these days outside of Daredevil (which is still pretty good). You know who else? Jeph Loeb. He's been overrated for a good LONG time. Underrated: I'd definitely second Dan Slott. The She-Hulk series was very good at times. I've got a friend who normally loathes superhero comics, but he loved that series.