Jingus

I saw a Hogan vs. Tugboat match when I was a kid. And the Undertaker's promo after he died and ascended to heaven at RR94. What, you think THAT got me interested in wrestling? Of course not. I never bothered watching that shit again until I happened to see Rock vs. Mankind, Empty Arena, Halftime Heat in a college dorm lobby.

I don't see how this could possibly be a good idea. In the middle of the still-ongoing Benoit scandal, TNA signs a known violent criminal who was such a fuckup that even the NFL kicked him out?! And at the same time when what replaced Benoit as the scandal-du-jour was Vick, a fellow NFL player? And the same week they sign a wrestler who got fired from the WWE for failing the wellness program? That's right, TNA signed Test too. TNA has only avoided serious controversy and/or official heat because they've been so inept at gaining national attention. When someone tells the Nancy Graces of the world about the guys who died from ODs while working there and the situation with medical bills with Konnan and Killings and how TNA steals their wrestler's indy payoffs, shit it's on son.

Considering how pro-WWE Jericho was in all the recent media furor, I'd be REAL surprised if he decided to go to TNA.

Or offer to sell copies to the losing bidders. Technically against Ebay policy, but you can make a boatload of money in a case like this one.

So was Jumbo Tsuruta. So's half the NOAH roster. "Big" doesn't have to equal "crappy".

Like I said, sounded like sheer magical accident, which seems to happen a lot in Rowling's universe. I vaguely recall Snape talking one time about being able to block spells and return them to sender, but Harry never learned how to do that. Certainly that particular spell has never been portrayed as powerful enough to not only stop but reverse a killing curse.

The Nancy Graces of the world have absolutely no interest in telling happy stories. Their entire gimmick is to get all outraged about bad shit and act like they're crusading for the people's benefit. That's how they get ratings.

Never been paid for it = amateur.

Since when does expelliarmus reflect another spell back at the caster? Before now, all it's ever done is just knock the wand out of their hand.

I think that's when they found all those blood clots in Jesse's lungs that forced him to retire.

French for "steal". One of the many, many examples of someone helping themselves to a past name/gimmick.

A friend of mine had this to say back in '04: "So, Vince managed to sign the one Japanese wrestler who sucks?!" (Exagerrated, of course, but why does Kenzo Goddamn Suzuki get a bigger push than Ultimo Fucking Dragon?) Especially since he'd appeared on TNA one time and had one hella crappy match.

Sure it would be, if their TV ratings and PPV buyrates were high enough. But they're not. They're nowhere close.

HELL fucking no. Most Nashvillians would cross the street just to avoid being anywhere near Jones. He's such a violent fuckup that even the NFL doesn't want him. And now TNA is signing him right in the middle of two of the biggest scandals in both wrestling and football history?

My thoughts haven't changed since the police announced he did it. He's a wrestling legend AND a piece of crap. JINGUS WANT ALL THAT INTERVIEW.

I don't like him either, but I am very curious as to exactly how TNA edited it, if they just cut out those two words and nothing else, if they did a whole new track (like they did with that monday night special), or what. Part of that curiousity is probably because I was an announcer, but don't you wonder how the big boys handle weird situations like this sometimes?

Back in the days before Mixed Martial Arts (or before Bruce Lee if you want to go further), who could really tell? Most fights between martial artists were private, illegal affairs. Except for the tournaments, but most of those tended to be kinda wussy, over-regulated matches based on points, not which guy beat the other. But considering that Gotch was the grand-trainer of Kazushi Sakuraba, I'd say he had at least some input into the modern fighting world.

Considering he was a completely inexperienced unpublished amateur who never wrote anything else, are you surprised? For some reason I keep forcing myself to go back to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Let's just say that the latest one, Harlequin, isn't AS bad as some of the other later books in the series, but it's still got its (massive) share of flaws. Especially since the entire series has by now become more formulaic and predictable than porn. World War Z was interesting. It's by Max Brooks, the guy who wrote the cult favorite Zombie Survival Guide, and this time around it's a novel, sort of. He still writes as if it's all real. The basic gist is that the book is what George Romero never had the budget to portray: a worldwide zombie outbreak that takes humanity to the very edge of extinction. It's written almost in the form of a hundred little short stories, as different people all over the world tell about their own personal experiences with the undead. Highly recommended to zombie fans, but I don't see it appealing much to others. re Palanhiuk: yeah, what the fuck is it with his endings? It's like sometime before he writes the last 20-50 pages, he just gets really stoned and forgets what the book was about.

Harry was just trying to disarm him. It was one of those kinda annoying "PG-13 children's entertainment" endings where the villain had to die, but the author didn't want to seem un-PC by actually having our heroes kill him, so he just ended up dead by coincedence instead.

Yeah, Sting turned heel during/after the FB match, not before.

"My son, THAT (whack) is for sticking it inside men instead of women!"

...good question, actually. (A better question might be why you bother to watch Michael Shane matches on a DVD, but nevermind.) Anyone have both the original broadcast version and the "fixed" dvd to compare?

Unless their buyrates randomly jump a thousand percent of what they've been doing, they're just about guaranteed to lose money on that show regardless if they have 1 paying fan or 10000. (IIRC, they've still yet to actually break even on any PPV ever.) So how exactly could it be any kind of success?

So that's at least three separate sources in three different states that Benoit has definitely bought steroids from. Can we officially drop the arguments about "well maybe it was just hormone replacement therapy" (which ignores the fact that his testicular problems which could've required therapy were almost certainly caused by steroid abuse in the first place)?

I think you're all missing one thing: Neville wasn't going to "take out" anyone, period. There wasn't a single instance of a kid killing anyone, anywhere in the entire Harry Potter series (except maybe for Young Voldemort, but even that one's iffy). I understand why she wrote it that way, children's books and all, but I thought it was kind of weird that you had kids being killed, tortured, etc, but none of them ever snapped and killed someone themselves. The rare times a minor caused someone's death (Crabbe, Voldemort) it was always by accident. So, Neville wasn't gonna kill Lestrange, so she had Mama Weezy do it instead.