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There are a few like that already, most notably CHIKARA, except for your bizarra idea of loading a comedy show with bloody violence. Three words: Kaiju Big Battel. (Or my old indy fed, where the goofy TV editor once put a "boing!" sound in every time one guy bumped in a particular match.) Didn't some Japanese shooto style fed use a point system? I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head. UWFI is probably what you're thinking of, but I believe there were a couple others.

Agreed, the earlier parts were better than the later parts Indeed. Hai. Ja. Si.

No it wasn't, they'd wrestled a few times before, including the previous year's Wrestlemania. (Yes, I know that one was a three-way with Jericho, but you didn't say "first singles match".) X-7 is probably my favorite Mania ever, even despite the dumb Right To Censor matches and the stupid Austin heel turn. Between the massive venue, the big matchups, some goofy comedy, all put together it just worked perfectly. And even though it does feature the aforementioned dumb heel turn, Austin/Rock II might be my favorite Mania main event ever.

1-2-3 Kid vs. Owen Hart Jack Evans vs. Matt Sydal And I can't seem to find the whole match, unfortunately, but here's a brutal clip from Mike Awesome vs. JT Smith. EDIT: and here's another one.

Wait. What? Haute Tension was loaded with gory violence.

Why are we using spoiler tags for years-old comics? Anyone reading this probably either already knows this stuff or doesn't care. As for that bit, Just stupid horseshit. The worst thing about Loeb is that he CAN be good, as The Long Halloween proved, but oh so often he's just not.

It's already sold out.

For the acceptance speech, look for both parts. Like happened several times last night, the huge assholes in the production room kept having the orchestra come in and cut off anyone whose speech was running long. I know that always happens, but they were fucking nazis about it last night, "running long" seemed to be defined as "fifteen seconds or more". It was so bad that after Marketa got cut off and didn't get to speak at all, and Jon Stewart actually brought her back out onstage after the commercial break so she could talk. I do want to see Once now, just for the crowd response. Every single time it was mentioned, everyone roared louder than they did for anything else all night long. For a tiny indy movie nobody's ever heard of, that's something unusual.

Oh yeah, that bugged the shit out of me. I don't understand the people saying that any kids in the real world really talk like that. I was in the Indy Artsy Geek Clique back then, and nobody spoke the way that Juno does in the movie. Although, while I despised Juno herself, I really liked the rest of the movie around her. Cera is always great doing the same schtick, Bateman managed to be so creepy but in such a subtle way, and since when can Jennifer Garner act?! ARGH. NO. I've seen Gummo, and offhand I can't think of another movie which made me feel such deep, raging, bile-filled hatred. Even worse, I knew a couple of people who worked on that movie, and they all said he was a sociopathic nutcase who was obsessed with his own "genius" while treating everyone else like shit.

says the guy not from the south

We were in the middle of rich kid suburbia. You would've had to go on a road trip to get to anything resembling a bad neighborhood. Every kid in school was the offspring of lawyers, doctors, and country music executives. We had a police force so overzealous that they literally would give you a ticket for going one mile over the speed limit, just because they were bored and never had anything to do. The idea of any sort of "gang" in this town was just laughable. And here this girl (who had been born there, iirc) was trying to convince us that she was baliin straight outta da hood, west-saiyeed, G. By the end of the period, the one guy who had actually been to South Central was tearing her a new asshole and she was almost crying.

TREBLE EST TEH HIGHER POWER, fite me u p0ser

Well yeah, but I mean whenever they went on their "we don't kill people!" rampage, none of the 815ers mentioned Scott/Steve either.

Yeah, I could explain away every mystery on the island with that remark, but let's look at it seriously. It's not like they've never made mistakes. How about all those speeches from Ben and the Others where they preached about how they weren't murderers and never killed anyone? Yet nobody ever brought up how Ethan snuck in from the ocean and somehow beat Scott/Steve to death and broke half the bones in his body without anyone else noticing.

I got in an argument back in high school with some dumb bitch who claimed to be a Crip of some sort, because she'd slept with an O-Dog (I think that's the rank she described) and that apparently makes you an automatic part of the gang, 4 Life. This chick was a spoiled white girl who lived in the wealthiest county in the whole state, and our public school was so well-funded that even the local rich kids went there because it was actually better than the private schools in the area. She kept yammering on about how she was keeping it mad real on da streets yo, and wouldn't even listen to one guy who'd moved there from a shitty neighborhood in SoCal who had friends who'd been killed in the gangs. When she busted out the line "You don't break The Code", I literally cracked up laughing so loud that I had to go outside to compose myself.

Nah, I've devoted at least six hundred posts to that already. Thanks for the thread, twixted, although it's not really my official post total. Mine got reset back in the Post Count Vortex fiasco, and lost all 5000+ posts. When I complained (I didn't know what the hell the PCV did, nobody had explained it yet), some asshole mod sarcastically set my count at negative five grand. After several months of that, with every post making it count down instead of up, someone changed the number from negative to positive. So my post count isn't anywhere near the actual number of posts I've made. I guess it should have an asterisk beside it or something.

Aaron definitely doesn't count as one of the 6, and I doubt Ben does either. As for "if the dead guy was one of the 6 why no media?", that easily could've just been a fuckup on the writers' part, especially since they made it clear that Jack didn't like whoever it was but was still surprised that nobody else was there. Meh. "Okay, here's one thing that we're going to reveal at some unknown point between now and a few months from now, because we knew that the viewers would be REALLY pissed off if we didn't. But as for the rest, you'll just have to wait!" Typical cocktease bullshit from these guys. Yeah, I'm not sold on them either. It does remove a lot of suspense, as it lets you know for sure that certain characters can never die as long as they're still on the island. And it does feel like it's built more on Russo swerves and hints about the future than it is on the established mysteries and characters we already know. That being said, I do like that they ended the damn flashbacks. Those were by far my least favorite part of the show, and I always just sat impatiently waiting for them to end so they could get on with the real story about the island already. No, I don't care about Reason #281 Why Jin And Sun's Marriage Is Troubled, just get back to the fucking mysteries and stop dragging your feet.

The second "hope" should be read as "invading, toppling the current regime, installing an alleged democracy, and paying billions of dollars in aid".

And you work full time? Damn thats shitty, I started at $14 an hours at my job. Welcome to the wonderful world of retail and/or service. At pretty much any store, restaurant, or similar business that you might walk into, the employees all get paid jack shit.

Because it's generally considered bad form in American law to execute someone for something they haven't actually done.

It's directed by Michel Gondry, so I'll watch it. After doing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I'll give that guy a shot with anything he makes. Even though his followups to ETotSM haven't been nearly as impressive, I still hope that he'll return to being THAT good.

If Hillary wins the nomination he could have a shot. At this point, I think she'd get bitchslapped by a massive backlash from her own party members who want Obama in that spot. Also, despite the hatred for the Bush administration, do remember that there are a lot of conservatives in this country who would rather vote for McCain rather than let any Democrat into office. In the past twenty years, all of the presidential elections have been pretty close affairs. The most one-sided victory in the last two decades, Clinton "squashing" Dole, was in fact won by a margin of a mere 8.5% of the popular vote. As was proved in 2000, don't ever count any possibility out.

Arrgh. While watching Lost I switched over to TNA in the commercial breaks. Somehow I managed to see every fucking match except the one I would've actually WANTED to see. -How do you make me utterly not care one little bit about an AJ/Tomko match? Make their opponents Billy Gunn and Bob Armstrong. Yee-fucking-haw, this sucked. A week after seeing Stomko get their asses kicked by old man Nash, they get beaten unmercifully by the Bullet, who's older than Terry Funk, no joke. Billy turns on Bob and BG after the match, just to piss me off even more. Fuck all this. -I can't believe Frankie Kazarian and Johnny the Bull actually had the balls to directly steal their finish from Bret Hart & Steve Austin's first match. Why are we supposed to take Rellik seriously as a monster when he jobs 90% of the time? I'm not feeling Dustin Rhodes's La Parka suit. -I think Johnny Devine is a talented fellow, but he'll never get to show it working two-minute matches with the likes of Sloppy Sonjay and Puts-Me-To-Sleep Petey. Also, every single match either ended with interference or featured a post-match beatdown or both. If Russo just insists on being so into coke Jesus that he can't go for an hour without sneaking off to a bathroom stall church, yay for him, but I hate having to see his tweaking preaching recreated through TNA's booking. -So we're supposed to believe that Bubba Ray is under 275 pounds?! And the Dudley vs. Sharkboy/Curryman match had the EXACT same ending as last week, only with the other Dudley hitting the other masked guy. That's just fucking lazy. -Because God hates both good professional wrestling and yours truly, I happen to wander downstairs, grab some pizza, and chat with my family at about precisely the same time as the women's match. MOTHERFUCKER. -Angle vs. Booker is a tolerable main event. Of course leave it to the announce team to fuck shit up. Tenay: "YOU WANT STARPOWER?! WE GIVE YOU STARPOWER!!!" Kinda heavy on the hype for a match which happened in the midcard of about a hundred Smackdowns, don't ya think? Anywho, Kurt and T proceed to do not one thing you'll remember tomorrow and have a really cookie-cutter, "let's not work too hard" type match. And they take TWO commercial breaks in a TEN MINUTE MATCH. Unbefuckinglievable. Christ this company is the dumbest thing in the world right now.

No, looking at the results, they wrestled five times on Raw in January and February. And it was like six weeks after the "blow-off" that they wrestled again in April.