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But with Rock and Hogan are on the card, more people buy the show. Period. They're two of the biggest draws in the history of wrestling, and Vince certainly wouldn't turn down the extra profits.

Point taken, this should probably stay just a discussion about "average" in terms of bigger companies like WWF, WCW, ECW, TNA, etc. I don't know if I'd agree with DDP, based solely on the fucking miracle he dragged out of Goldberg at Halloween Havoc 98.

<---see the title? It ain't no gimmick.

I think some people here need to go out and see some really shitty indy shows, just to put things in perspective. Guys like Cena, Kane, or hell even Albert aren't what I'd call "below average". There are SO many shitty workers out there that make even the Kenzo Suzukis of the world look like Lou Thesz by comparison. It's rare that the WWE signs someone who is really THAT bad, when there are hundreds of weekend-warrior "wrestlers" who literally can't even lock up correctly. Oh, and Dibiase was another guy who could get something out of Warrior.

New Jack vs. Hulk Hogan. MAKE IT HAPPEN, WWE.

Yeah, that's shitty, and Graner should certainly be prosecuted and jailed. But I don't see what it's got to do with the rest of this thread. Uh.... I know you are, but what am I?!.... fuck.

Dammit. Knew it sounded too good to be true.

So can we PLEASE drop the entire "Saddam had WMDs!" bullshit excuse for the war?

Imagine this: you're a soldier living in the middle of the desert, and you've been eating nothing but MREs for the past several months. A kindly relative sends you some candy. (This scenerio assumes that said candy hasn't gone bad in the month or so that it takes care packages to reach the troops, especially since all such packages are exposed to air when they're opened and searched by MPs before they get to the grunts.) Do you: 1. Instantly scarf down the slightly moldy candy, since anything is better than a solid diet of military rations; or 2. Hang onto the candy because, at some unknown point far down the road, you want to use it to lure in children just like a creepy pedophile trying to get them into your windowless van. So you strongly disagree with removing Saddam and the war in general... but you agree with using children as human shields?! Is there a name for whatever psychological infirmity you suffer from? No. It's not a believable tactic. I can't quote you the exact rule, but I'm pretty goddamn sure that somewhere in the US Military's "How Not To Fight A War" guidebook there's a rule against kidnapping dozens of children and strapping them onto your tank, most likely with a punishment of many many years in jail. This is me stricken completely fucking speechless. "Occupying forces" is a hell of a way to describe the troops who removed a brutal tyrant who has used and abused the people under his control for decades. And how does a "regular Iraqi guy" know how to manufacture, conceal, and effectively detonate a high-explosive bomb like the kind killing innocent people EVERY DAY in that country? That's just my point: it never happened. Nobody except you, the guy who wrote the article, and Banky believes that it happened.

Aside from the biggest movie star in the world who happens to be a Republican governor, of course.

But every single one of the voters IS a film director. That's why it's called the Director's Guild Awards. The FUCK?! Foxx was the lead actor in that movie, period. Sure, Cruise was billed first in the credits and the ads, but Foxx was the hero and had much more screen time, so I don't see how on earth he was "supporting" anyone.

Do you get to pick which particular DVD you get, or is it just a surprise til you open the box?

I live in Nashville, TN, which as you'd imagine is pretty conservative. Let me put it this way: except for blindly optimistic hardcore Dems, nobody here really expected Al Gore to win his home state's electoral votes in 2000. The culture here is an odd one: although Tennessee does have its share of some of the most backward-ass hillbillies in the land, you'll also find a couple of gay bars in the downtown area that prosper surprisingly well. And although Protestant denominations sometimes seem to rule the state with an iron fist, you'll also find scattered temples and groups of people practicing every other faith on the globe, from Unitarians to wiccans to Bahai. My personal political beliefs are so scattered and unrelated to the tenets of any one party that in my hometown, like pretty much everywhere I go, I never exactly fit in, but rarely piss people off to the point I get beat up either.

Now that's TWO of my lame gimmicks stolen.

Michael Hayes, and the guy who supposedly did it (Xpac) is also gone.

Except Rude was willing to absolutely murder himself (almost literally) with sick bumps at times, he'd just fling himself backwards with no regard whatsoever as to where he landed or how much it might hurt. Absolutely average? One word: Maven.

Good movie, but your point is...?

Then you're a fucking idiot. The Pentagon would fucking CRUCIFY anyone they caught doing shit like this. Where the hell would they get it? In the middle of the goddamn desert? It's not like you can just go down to the QuickieMart on your particular street corner and buy a few bags of M&Ms. The soldiers only have whatever food their superiors issue to them, unless they want to risk intestinal infection and buy some from the locals. So how is handing out candy to kids a bad thing? Especially if they're throwing rocks at you and you want them to stop? Would you rather they had shot the kids instead?

Wow, an official WWE book release that looks like it might be something other than either a coffee table book (Wrestlemania, Unscripted) or complete shit (the cookbook).

One could ask it, if one had never met an American soldier who was truly committed to his job. I'm not saying that bad decisions are never made and innocents never die; it seems every week we hear of some new fuckup, and that is a shame. But that's VERY different from the terrorists who strap bombs to their own bodies and go out to intentionally murder as many people as they can, not caring if their victims are hardened Marines or newborn babies.

Well, a man can dream. But seriously, RF's carpet must have all kinds of lumps in it, from the amount of dirt he swept under the rug in this interview. In the words of Awesomo-4000: LAME.

Jaxl, I think the point some are making here is that 160 pounds on a 5'9" girl is hardly what most would describe as "fat". What's your definition of "a little chunk"?

Well, I was only 13 at the time myself, so I didn't find it amusing. I never found out what happened exactly, apparently this retarded girl had gotten hold of her parents' keys and decided it's be a good idea to joyride around a crowded Walmart parking lot. This lasted all of maybe a minute before she ran into a lightpole. When they dragged her out of the car, she obviously wasn't hurt, she was only going maybe 15-20 miles an hour, but she looked like she was in a trance or something, never said a word as far as I heard. Had long dark hair that made her look a lot like Samara, too. And yeah, horror movies are about the only genre out there where a numeral 2 or 3 behind the title doesn't guarantee that the movie will suck (Lethal Weapon and Die Hard aside).

How the hell could this not be fake? I've known a few guys who fought in Iraq, and every single one of them would've rather shot their own commanding officer than kidnapped a bunch of children and strapped them to the top of their vehicle as human shields. Also, when has the possibility of innocents being killed in the crossfire EVER stopped terrorists from attacking?

You wouldn't have been laughing if you'd had a bigass pickup truck barrelling towards you with what looked like a 10-year-old behind the wheel. How the hell her feet reached the pedals, I'll never know.