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I could only dream of this happening to me one day... so I could fulfill my lifelong fantasy of beating the everliving hell out of a snotty professor.

Ah hell, people just need to grow up. The infamous TNA Heel Section are regulars at the local fed I announce for, and they give me plenty of grief every week, even stooping to "Little Borash!" chants, yet I've never felt the need to have any of them ejected from the building. Wrestling fans always have and always will be loud and obnoxious, as a rule.

Simply put: the second-lamest Cactus Jack elbow drop off the apron EVER, performed by yours truly. I kinda hit feet first, and then collapsed onto the guy. A feline-owning friend promptly dubbed it "the Catshit elbow" and it stuck.

You'd be surprised. I had four shoot grappling bouts with Chase Stevens, and tapped right the fuck out four times in a row (to three chokes and one highly effective his-foot-to-my-nuts technique). Looks mean nothing in terms of fighting abilities.

Bill Behrens says that apparently the promotion knew it was a hardcore match and Jack's opponent wasn't that badly injured, so why he was arrested is anybody's guess. Link

King has certainly written some shitty finales in his time, with The Stand being my least favorite example. But I'd say he's had a few decent endings to his novels: Carrie and The Shining had perfectly good climaxes, and plenty of others like Cujo, Eyes of the Dragon, hell even The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan weren't offensive in the end. But the prime example was the sixth Dark Tower book: the little deal with King's journal entries was cute, and the last entry itself was fairly mindfuckular. Why he came up with something so good for the last one and then followed it with something so worthless is what bothers me.

The entire argument over marijuana is incidental. It's just a distraction from the real issue: that a completely paralyzed man died in custody because the police were either unable or unwilling to provide him with the medical care needed to keep him alive. That is unacceptable and wrong.

Does anyone have any anecdotal evidence about how their hometown's economy is booming and the job market is great? Just curious, cuz boy howdy it sucks down here in my area.

Why does this surprise anyone? TNA has never exactly brought in the best Japanese talent. Check out the list of previously-used puro guys: Takao Omori (who apparently couldn't job to Shamrock when he was champion), a bunch of Osaka Pro comedy guys in pokemon outfits, and Kenzo Fucking Suzuki. Inoue isn't that much worse than any of the others.

Teke, the only guy who wrote them, stopped doing them, basically because he refused to buy any more RFVideo tapes for ethical reasons.

What, nunya could just answer the guy's question? Scott Keith, along with half the 411 staff, recently jumped to their own new site, Inside Pulse, where Keith still does Raw rants and Hyatte is still... well... Hyatte.

Wow, surprised this thread is still going strong. ...actually no I'm not. A question to both IDRM and SP: what do you believe Hell really is? And as an addendum, why God would force people to spend all eternity there instead of coming up with some sort of parole system?

. . . ...I miss her too. BTW: anyone else notice how TRITEC is the only member (on this page anyway) who wasn't deleted in the various system crashes? More proof of her goddessness, says I.

Well then, SPOILERS AHEAD: The ending was as boring and generic as it possibly could've been. So all of King's faithful readers have followed this series for years and years, and at the end are given... the oscillating universe theory? The journey beginning anew? A fucking MOEBIUS LOOP? Christ. King got to the end of his series, and then either didn't have the balls or the imagination to give it a real ending. The whole finale was the biggest copout imaginable.

At least once a year, there's always some big-budget Hollywood production that gets a massive negative buzz before it even comes out, and people just decide to hate it because, y'know, everyone hates it. Gigli and Catwoman are two recent examples, with Showgirls probably being the all-time best. Then there are the mainstream hits that most people love, but plenty of hipsters backlash against: Titanic, Gone With the Wind, It's a Wonderful Life, the LOTR flicks, etc etc etc. And finally, there are those movies whose content or plotlines piss people off simply by being described to them. Lots of religious flicks fall in this category: The Last Temptation of Christ, Priest, Dogma, and Passion of the Christ all fall into this category. Farenheit 9/11 (or pretty much any Michael Moore movie) falls into the general category too.

::prepares to duck hurtling objects:: I dunno, I've not really liked any of Argento's work that I've seen. I don't understand why Suspiria is so highly rated. It seemed just like an average horror flick to me. I also saw Trauma, which was pretty boring, and Phantom of the Opera, which was a steaming pile o' shite and easily the worst Phantom movie ever (which is REALLY saying something). Also, yeah, Asia is hot as hell, but having her get in creepy sexual situations in her own father's movies just seems sick to me.

I'd say we've overlooked one obvious one: Oblivion. (Let's face it, a cat pretty much takes over whatever household it's living in.)

If I had to pick just eight... hmmm. In chronological order: Passion Becoming Part 2 City Of Restless The Body Once More With Feeling Conversations With Dead People Not Fade Away

In a lot of posts and show reviews, I've noticed recently that the stiffer a match is, the more it tends to be praised. Why is that? Wrestling is fake, it's a work; we've all known that for years. What makes a match better when the wrestlers are legitimately beating the shit out of each other? I've seen guys like Samoa Joe, Super Dragon, Low-Ki, and so on be praised ridiculously by fans for how hard they hit other people. And I've known plenty of workers who actually pride themselves on stiffing the hell out of their opponents. To them, I say: try that on Tracey Smothers, and good luck surviving the night. To me, this is stupid. Hitting another guy REALLY hard may pop the crowd tonight, but it tends to cause injuries and shorten careers in the long term. To me, a lot of the stiffness marks are the modern-day equivalent of the "vampires" back in the ECW days of the 90s, guys who didn't give a shit about the show, the match, or the wrestlers; all they wanted to see was somebody bleed a lot. Lots of smart marks today seem like they'll bury a match unless it's stiff, and I think that attitude is selfish and physically unrealistic. Thoughts?

. . . Can I mention, once again, that I hate reality TV?

I'm not sure if this would happen, but it's goddamned funny to invision Yeah, that was my favorite part too. (And I like Downhome.)

It would be impossible to win by campaigning in only New York and Los Angeles. When every vote counts, you'd have to canvas the entire country. Or, to put it another way: how often do the Democrats stop in Texas now to make speeches? How many Republican press conferences were held in New York lately? Answer: not many, because we already know where all those electoral votes are going.

Hmmm, Dymond and Coffin? Guess I must've made the Idiots thread over at Spidertwist. Gee Chris, thanks for the notoriety. I hate trotting out the old "You can't say SHIT unless you're a WORKER" argument, cuz I've had it used on me by plenty of wannabes myself. But, the fact remains: there are certain things about wrestling that you'll only learn by actually doing it, that cannot be adequately grasped by any other means. This isn't boy's club bullshit, it's the truth. Any wrestler, no matter how modest or honest a person they happen to be, will agree with me here. Clearly you know nothing about the real Smothers, who's one of the legit toughest guys in the entire industry. I've heard plenty of stories about him almost beating various guys to death when he got pissed off. Even rough types like New Jack back off from Tracey. That's the thing, I DID ask him straight-up, and he answered me the same way. You threw the word out first. So, in order to be a mark, you have to attend live shows which are staffed by people who referred to you as such? That's fairly complicated. I bring up a specific example of how I really am employed and working in professional wrestling and are not just hanging around like you claimed... so you change the subject to deriding my ability (which you've never seen or heard) by making fun of other completely different people? Heh. Nice trick. Firstly, his name's Dan. Secondly, I know him pretty well, so I doubt that he'd bullshit me over stuff that makes no difference. Thirdly: if you were gonna make fun of anybody in that list for being flakey, you could've at least gone with the obvious choice and picked Gertner. Marks never get paid. I always do. Like I said before, I'm mostly an announcer and manager, but I've had a few matches. Admittedly, most of them were less-than-great and rarely went over 10 minutes, but I had fun. Oh, that wasn't even a tenth of the namedropping I'm capable of. I can produce more random namedrops than a recent Misawa/Kobashi match can throw out headdrops. No, but his running big boot sure as hell tends to be. Once again: Storm has actually been there and done that, while we're just talking about it. I'd rather trust Storm's opinion on the matter than yours. Despite damn near everyone who ever knew him's testimony that Funk is one of the smartest guys in wrestling? Yes, Steve was full of shit when it came to his delusions of grandeur about his place in the business. Lots of guys are. Still doesn't change his ability to tell if someone's hitting him really hard in the face.

Kill UYI.

Spin the Bottle* (4.06) Hush (4.10) Like this one's even a question. Not Fade Away* (5.22) Becoming, Part 2 (2.22) Don't all hate me for this: my vote here is the equivalent of voting for Nader; you know he's not gonna win, and you don't actually want him to, but sometimes it just feels good to throw a bone to a hopelessly matched underdog. You’re Welcome* (5.12) The Gift (5.22) I'm surprised anyone is voting against The Gift, one of the finest pieces of television that Whedon has ever produced. Passion (2.17) Salvage* (4.13) Oh, come on guys. Salvage wasn't the best or even second-best episode of its season; Passion was the turning point of the entire Buffyverse, that broke the rules and provided the backstory which most of Buffy and damn near all of Angel was built on.