Jingus

All the above just reinforces why I like Viva La Bam so much. Margera got rich by doing goofy & dangerous shit on-camera. So what does he do with all the money? Film himself doing even goofier & more dangerous shit. I love it.

<--- wishes there was a union for Televised Professional Wrestling Commentators. (If nothing else, I'd get to hang out with Cornette and Heenan at the meetings, which would make up for having to be around Mark Madden.) I don't understand some unions though. When the airline you're working for has just declared bankruptcy, how can you bitch about a pay cut? Which do you prefer, a smaller check or no check at all?

I actually can't post my coolest encounter here, cuz what we were smoking during the encounter wasn't exactly legal and I don't wanna name names. Let's just say it was mostly guys who'd been in ECW at some point or another. I was having dinner one time with a bunch of TNA wresters. Scott Hall was ribbing the hell out of AJ Styles the entire time (Scott: "Hey AJ, I was talking to some of the boys in NY, and you know who asked about you?" AJ: (all excited) "Who?!" Scott: "...nobody." Sean Waltman, Jerry Lynn w/ wife, David Young, me: roaring laughter). And then Scott promptly got a piece of steak caught in his windpipe and almost choked to death. Apparently he can't laugh with food in his mouth. The most annoying encounter: having Dusty Rhodes drag me over to Vince Russo just to show him my resemblance to Tony Schiavone.

That is a logical empass. Occhiam's Razor: someone fucked up while typing out the official Silverdome website and put the "with seats" total where the "without seats" total should've gone.

That actually led to one of my favorite Invasion moments. I forget the exact setup or quotes, but it went something like this: X-Pac: Hey Commissioner Regal, I want a match against Tajiri! Regal: No, you can't have that match. Tajiri: (says something in Japanese, he and Regal kinda giggle) X-Pac: Why not? And what'd he say? Regal: Because... X-PAC SUCKS. (Regal and Tajiri both fall down laughing) Thay was the goldiest gold that ever golded.

Salvatore Rinauro is the funniest wrestler alive.

The Rock finally did what no other American wrestler except Jesse Ventura has done: he beat the system. He became just as rich & powerful as the promoters, and is officially the very first professional wrestler to become a full-fledged movie star. He's out-maneuvered Hogan, HHH, Austin, and used all of them to make himself a bigger star than ever. The man is quite frankly a genius, and deserves his rewards. Oh, and he will come back to the WWE, sooner or later. It's in his blood. He can't stay away forever. Wrestlemania calls.

I gave up, and I'm strongly resisting the urge to call up a hacker friend and have him nuke the home computer of the asshole who designed this whole thing. 3? Magic Eye bullshit which at least half the population is born unable to do. 4? NOTHING THERE. (And yes, I'm using IE, and there's NOT A FUCKING THING IN THAT BOX). 5? The only thing in the picture is a red herring that takes forever to input and gives you carpal tunnel syndrome along the way. Fuck this bullshit, this cocksucker is just laughing at everyone who thinks that they might actually solve this thing.

I've had two years of college, can type 60 words per minute, know Word and Excel, have experience as a TV broadcast announcer, and know enough about video production that I'm a one-man camera crew, but I still can't find a job that pays $11-12 an hour. I think I just became a racist.

The Super-Show... ah, now THERE was quality entertainment. Captain Lou Albano as MARIO. More perfect casting is not humanly possible. (Note: the Zelda episodes only showed on Fridays)

Damn. I wish they'd release YCDTOT. Any show ballsy enough to have little kids being murdered by firing squads as one of their favorite running jokes is okay by me. Did any of the cast members except for Alanis Morisette ever do anything else? ::surfing around imdb:: Holy shit, Jay and Silent Bob were guest stars on Degrassi: The New Generation?!

Damn, half my picks have already been named. And so (once again) in No Particular Order: Cowboy Bebop: Ballad of Fallen Angels MST3K: The Final Sacrifice My So Called Life: So Called Angels Venture Brothers: Pilot Buffy: The Body Angel: Not Fade Away Monday Nitro: the Russo/Bischoff "restart" show X-Men animated series: the season finale where they murder-death-killed about a thousand Sentinels The New He-Man show: Pilot (why the hell didn't they make more of this? This show fucking ruled) Homicide: that episode that took place entirely in The Box Briscoe County Jr: season finale

::spit take:: That was, indeed, too gold. Racism on whose part? This measure is clearly aimed directly at thug types who sag their pants.

But my point is, why does it matter who pinned him? He just took a fucking chokeslam on the floor. Hermoine Granger could've pinned him after that. Considering that to achieve the said pinfall I had Tracy Brook's mighty mammaries pressing down on my face and her arm wrapped between my legs, so really I couldn't have cared less about any "humiliation".

A bunch of people on one of the local TN message boards knew this chick... apparently none of them were really surprised. Anyone else think that giving a hot chick who did such a massive favor to some 13-year-old boy 100 years in prison is just a wee bit of an overreaction? Fun fact: when she won Miss Nitro, for some reason she lost her college basketball scholarship over it. The poor gal just ain't got no luck.

Goldberg. But he's about the only one.

::looks around:: Damn, this is a cool thread. Makes me wish that my computer was something other than a dinosaurian Macintosh equipped with a couple of sparklers for firewalls so I could actually watch some of these.

In theory, but it's the fucking WWE folder, not like this is gonna lower the property values any further.

Yeah, the Bankyish vibe is kinda there... but he seems a lot more sincere about it. Which is equal parts commendable and creepy. Dammit man, vaginas don't just grow on trees 'round these parts, don't scare off any females unless they turn into psycho Russian tennis players!

My most proud encounter, retroactively: accidentally making a steroid joke at Randy Orton's expense.

I can't tell yet if FBTG just likes tweaking people, or is a really sick motherfucker. Either way, it's pretty amusing.

I love that site, although I do feel sorry for its author obviously having wasted his entire life posting online. Jingus: tirelessly rebutting on TSM since 2001.

Why shouldn't they job out someone who's leaving? What about all the people who jobbed to the DDT to get Jake over as a superstar? He didn't have to work there after Wrestlemania; Taker did. And so what if he no-sold the (two) DDTs? Taker was supposed to be dead back then. Goofy as it was, he no-sold everyone and everything that was thrown at him, that was his gimmick and it got him massively over.

Well, it all depends on what your criteria for acceptance into the HOF are. For drawing a lot of money? No. For being a really great guy? Apparently not. For superior wrestling skills? Fuck no. For contributing to the sport in any meaningful way? No. The only argument is what IDRM said about him being a recognizable icon. EDIT: when you've only had competent matches with four people in your entire career (Hogan, Savage, Rude, Dibiase) you're a pretty fucking terrible worker. Orton was a good wrestler (better than his son) who was involved in main-event feuds against everyone from Hogan and Backlund on down throughout the early and mid 80's.

Wrestlemania 13. Except for That One Match it was a godawful failure on just about every level it could be: bad wrestling, bad booking, and superstar egos getting in the way of maybe drawing money.