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I'm not really asking for a clean win. At this point I'd be happy to see Finlay hit someone with a chair.

Is anyone getting as tired as I am of WWE not being able to come up with a better way for Finlay to win matches than smack someone with his shileliegh nearly every week? It's getting a little old.

It reads B.S.K., which means "Backstage Kings". I believe he and The Godfather both have the same tattoo.

This is one I hay have brought up in this thread already, but I'm not up to loking through the previous posts. Back in 2002, I was in an EB Games, and simply picking up a magazine. The assistant manager was trying for the life of him to get me to preorder Eternal Darkness. He went on this long-winded 3+ minute speech about the features of the game, but I simply had no interest. After I left, I got to thinking that his rant seemed oddly familiar. So, I got to looking around when I got home, and noticed that he had memorized and recited, word-for word, Gamepro's entire preview article on the game. Sad.

Trying to stay on topic as much as possible here, I attended an indy show last night featuring some former WWE guys. It featured The Steiners in a tag match against Buff Bagwell and a local guy named Ricky Nelson. Buff is still in tremendous physical condition and hasn't changed at all since the last days of WCW/early Invasion. Scott Steiner still looks the same as he did when last seen in TNA, though he wrestled with a t-shirt on for the entire match. Rick Steiner just looks like hell, though he is getting up in age. Ricky Morton was there playing his usual uber babyface schtick against a heel Chris Hamrick. This match was mostly Hamrick doing some rather creative and humorous stalling, and Morton having the crowd in the palm of his hand. In regards to Hamrick, can someone explain to me why he was never signed by WWE? Aside from looking to be a little old, he did some solid high spots, seemed to be a skilled mat-wrestler, and had more personality than I've seen from most of the WWE roster.

What % of the total workforce would that end up being quitting at once? That would leave 1 other person (who may end up jumping on the bandwagon) and the District Manager (who serves as the manager of our particular store) to run the place. That would be the Assistant Manager (myself), Shift Leader, and 2 (possibly 3) part-timers putting in our notices at the same time. I left Gamestop the first time due to the horrible hours, and I left the second time (I went back due to being hired back as 3rd key) because I was offered the ASM job at Rhino, which pays much better along with providing some overtime every now and then. The no-hassle sales method is also very nice.

Yep, I work at Rhino and I can 100% confirm this. This is truly sad news, and a gigantic load of bullshit. Say goodbye to going into a fairly hassle-free environment to buy NES, PSX, SNES, etc. games. Say HELLo to being foced into only buying current-gen stuff while being hassled to reserve "That Live" or get that gay-ass gameplay guarantee scam. I've done 2 seperate tours of duty at Gamestop, and I am in no way prepared to put up with their bullshit for a third time. Myself as well as 4 other employees have come to the decision to put in our notices effective on the take-over date. FUCK GAMESTOP!

I'm kind of surprised to see all the hate for the new Tool album. 'The Pot' is the first song by them that I haven't completely loathed since 'Sober'. I give my vote for worst song of the year to that song ('I Remember When'?) by Gnarles Barkley.

You know, sadly enough I am somewhat interested in that match. Should be interesting to see what (if any) power moves Lashley can bust out on that huge son of a bitch. Personally I would rather have Lashey vs RVD at Mania, leading to RVD dropping the belt to CM Punk at ONS3 on his way to TNA.

Giving JBL a face run is something WWE should definitely look into. I rather enjoyed seeing him clothesline Chris Masters last night.

Believe me when I tell you this, as a former Gamestop employee, we HATE having to hock the insurance, reserves and magazine subs just as much as you hate hearing about it. However, as everyone else here knows, your job is on the line there every day if you dont sell this stuff, so you'll have to forgive the employees for shoving it down your throat. I think it's a bullshit thing to do to your employees, and I honestly dont know why there are so many people that would give their right eye to work there. Staying on topic though, I hear shit like this all day (my store is outside of a ghetto): "Yea, let me get that Gears for the PS2" "Can I get that new Super Mario joint for the 360?" "Got that 7?" (VAGUE!) Not really a question I've been asked, but I find a lot of joy in some of the hardcore World of Warcraft players. There is a fairly attractive girl that works at my store that plays constantly when she isn't working, and when she gets to talking to some of these guys about the game, its like they have a massive 'nerdgasm'. It's one of those things that you have to be there in person to truly enjoy.

I'll just have to repeat one: - Jeff Hardy would be back on Raw, and I would actually be looking forward to seeing him perform week-in and week-out. IMO, he is easily the most improved WWE wrestler of the year, and has really had one of the best comebacks of the year.

I'm guessing WWE may throw the traditional end of the year/early new year title switch at us next week and have Umaga win the battle royal then beat Cena in the main event. I like one poster's use of destroying Cena "Clubber Lang" style. With the way they used Umaga last night , (if Estrada isnt there to guide him, Umaga is MUCH more vicious) I think it could make for a fun beatdown and title switch. Of course if we go about this in a "Clubber Lang" fashion, it means we get about 2 or 3 weeks of Cena training and finding his Eye of the Tiger, to come back and squash Umaga for the belt at NYR. Plus one has to wonder if Umaga would carry around the spinning belt or if WWE would finally pull Brock's Belt out of storage and give that to him instead?

I honestly fear for the condition our country is going to be in within the next 5-10 years when all these little shits grow up and start running the place. I work in retail and I see all day long the effects of the continued "pussification" of America's parents. All these kids that figured-out growing up that all one has to do to get their way is scream and hit people/things are going to be running our government and teaching in our schools and its a very scary thought. I watched one father get bossed around by his 5 year old a few weeks ago that made me sick to his stomach. The kid was ready to leave the store, and the Dad was still looking. So all I heard was Daddy! Daddy! Then finally when the Dad walked up to his son, the little boy said "DADDY, FOR THE LAST TIME, WHEN I TELL YOU IM READY TO GO, THATS WHEN YOU COME!". The father then proceeded to beg for forgiveness from this little shit in ways that no parent ever should. There is NO excuse for any parent to put up with this kind of talk from their children, and like a previous poster said (responding to the "dont hit your kids, they hit back" post). This is why parents are able to hit their kids harder. It came obvious to me very soon in life, that if you hit your parent back after a spanking, you get the shit knocked out of you. Keep in mind, you are your child's PARENT. You can still be buddies, but in the end, the child has to know that you are the authority figure. Not them.

This probably should go in the December to Dismember thread, but I think now that Heyman is gone, its appropriate. It never really set in with me that the old ECW is dead and buried until last night, sitting in the crowd at DtD. I finally had to accept the fact that I was sitting in a WWE crowd, and the only resemblence to the ECW of old was a few of the originals. During the Stevie vs Rene Dupree dark match, instead of the typical YOU SUCK DICK and YOU CANT WRESTLE chants being directed towards Dupree (or really any heel for that matter), all I heard were the typical USA USA USA or <INSERT NAME HERE> SUCKS chants from the 10 year olds in attendance. There was a small SHES A CRACK WHORE chant that was attempted to be directed towards Melina, but it was soon drowned out by a nigh-pitched NITRO SUCKS chant. Nitro wouldn't even be wrestling and would still get the chant. You would have figured Striker would have gotten a good old SHUT THE FUCK UP chant during his promo, but instead all that was heard was STRIKER SUCKS. For fucks sake, there was even some tool at the show that kept holding up a DX sign. I know thats nitpicky, but IMO a lot of the old ECW charm was the various chants that came from the crowds. This is now lost and replaced by the same old tired, done to death chants that have been screamed by WWE crowds for years. Out of all the people in attendance at the show, the section to the right of ours had a group of about 10 guys that attempted to get the crowd going with some old school ECW chants, only to be drowned out by the WWE fans. The old ECW is dead and gone and this has finally sunk in with me. I was holding onto some hope because the extreme rules matches that are occasionally on Sci-Fi gave me happy memories of the old ECW, but even that is gone now for the most part. Fuck you Vince. Here's to Heyman, god-willing, heading to TNA, lighting a fire under the ass of the creative team, and finally turning them into legit competition to WWE.

I just got back from this show. I got a free ticket, so who am I to complain? My opinion of the show is mostly negative, though there were a small handful of shining moments. MNM vs the Hardys got the place going, and was a good match that was given a LOT of time, but for how much they got the crowd going, the Striker vs Balls match killed it. Jeff Hardy has secured my votes for comeback and most improved wrestler of the year with the performances and effort he has put forth lately. Striker vs Balls put the place to sleep. The less said about it, the better. Striker was "pitching a tent" for most of the match, which got a lot of laughs from the folks sitting in our area. There was literally no one in the building watching FBI vs Burke and Terkay. All eyes were on Trinity, and with the outfit she was wearing, there may as well not have been a match taking place. A few guys tossed her a dollar at one point, which she did a nice little dance to bend over and pick up, before the guys were taken out of the place by security. Thorn and Aerial vs Kelly Kelly and Mike Knox match was ok enough. Aerial got some of the loudest cheers of the night due to constantly being bent over the top rope (while wearing what could best be described as dental floss). I dont know if it could be heard on PPV, but after the second time she gave KK the boot choke in the corner, a rather loud 'ONE MORE TIME!' chant started. Again, no one gave a flip about the match and popped like mad for the women. Sandman got a nuclear crowd pop when he made his entrance and beat-down Thorn. Daivari vs Dreamer wasn't too great. Khali is an absolute BEAST to see in person, and is quite an intimidating sight to see. The slam that Dreamer took on the ramp after the match got a good reaction from the crowd. The crowd shit all over Lashley when he cut his promo on the tron, but popped for him when he came out and when he won. He was pretty much getting "Cena Heat". The EC looks a LOT smaller in person than it does on TV. If TV adds an extra 10 pounds to a person, it adds about 2 tons to this thing. It was still an alright match though. Punk getting taken-out the way he did, did not go over with the crowd at all. Neither did RVD getting pinned after Test's elbow drop of doom. This was met with a very loud bullshit chant (seconded only by the bullshit chant that followed Sabu being taken out of the match), and caused a very loud TNA chant to start. I dunno how it came across on TV but the ref only counted to 2 when Test pinned Hardcore Holly. This got a nice you fucked up chant. Following the match and what I assume was the close of the show (after Lashley's gigantic pyro celebration), Big Show got a deafening "THANK YOU BIG SHOW *CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP* " from the crowd, and seemed truly grateful for it. He is from the area afterall. On a side note, you could tell the finish to the match was moments away when the tech crew came out about a minute before Lashley won and started laying out the insane amount of pyro all around the stage. If anyone has any questions about the show, feel free to ask.

I never tried the Holiday Spice Pepsi, but the local gas station has some Holiday Spice Coffee. It owns me at the moment.

I'm all for Taker vs Dave at Mania next year. While I am not a fan of Batista on a personal level (mainly due to how he has treated his wife who beat Cancer not too long ago), I do not mind this at all. WWE has done a piss-poor job of elevating any of the midcarders to the point of reasonably being able to end Undertaker's streak. I would kind of rather it be Benoit, via tapout, but I dont mind this.

I dont think I would be bragging about picking up Little Nicky, but whatever floats your boat. I'll be headed to work in a half hour. Black Friday in a video game store.............god help me.

I'll be doing 3 till "God knows when" this year. Im actually kind of glad about the schedule because this will be the first time since 2002 that I havent had to be at my job at 5 AM or earlier.

No, Dish didnt carry the show tonight. You can buy the replay tomorrow if you would like, though. It was probably the Dish CEO having some hissy with someone again. A similar situation happened in early 2004 when the guy had a disagreement with Viacom and he had all their channels pulled from Dish.

In regards to him fighting the Spirit Squad. If you want this guy to make an immediate impact (no pun intended), put him in the ring against a Squad member. Have a ref bump then let the Squad do their usual 5-on-1 beatdown. Have Brown mount a miraculous comeback, followed by him running for the ropes, and (through some incredibly contrived circumstances), fly back with the Pounce on all 5 Squad members at once, sending them flying in all directions. Its quite over the top, but could make for a fun visual.

A fellow that I work with and I headed to our local Best Buy this morning. We were told yesterday by a Best Buy customer service rep, that they were going to be replinished with a small amount of PS3's this morning, so we wanted to make sure we got one for each of us. So, anyways, we both got there around 645 am. By 830, the line grew to a total of 10 people who had all been told the same thing. Well, 9 am gets here, and the store opens. NOT A SINGLE PS3! We were obviously a little pissed off at the fact that none of the morning employees bothered to let anyone waiting know that they did not receive any of the systems. I wouldnt have been upset at all if I had been told that they didnt have any. I wouldve simply counted my losses, and went home to catch up on some sleep. It wouldve beat the hell out of waiting for 2 hours only to find out they had no systems. Wish I had remembered the name of the employee that gave me the info yesterday.

I never read if this was going to be a feature or not, but in the 360 version, can you give a CAW entrance music from your HD?