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Yeah, KotH was beyond weird the way they killed off Cotton, like Simspons killing Maud or Seinfeld killing Susan levels of bizarre death. I mean, really, long lingering death over choking on a shrimp and tripping and falling? All of the shows last night had some kind of swerve which in theory would long-term affect the series. Milhouse's parents get back together, Hank's dad dies, and if American Dad were any less goofy a happening like Haley shooting Stan in the head would be fairly important. Did Fox maybe ask the creators to start doing more ongoing-storyline type plot twists? And then there was Family Guy. I liked the episode and found it fairly entertaining, especially the running gimmick of Stewie forcing Brian to randomly insult Joe. The ending, though... well like Venk said, there's no way they could let this and the previous episode stand as canon, they had to Take It Back somehow. Still, writing something weak and then having your owh characters bitch about it being weak, while amusing in a self-referential fashion, doesn't change the fact that it still is weak.

I took a worked hammer shot to the head during a wrestling match once. Does that count? Are you seriously comparing this obviously calm, intelligent individual to the Don't Taze Me bro? This story proves nothing other than Hannity is an ass, which we already knew.

Level 10 too. That's when it gets really hard with all kinds of obscure African countries that most Westerners have never even heard of.

So, you just hate any match that goes to a draw? For this topic, two matches that immediately come to mind: -Austin vs. Angle, Summerslam 2001. I understand why they ended the match the way they did, because they had to keep the feud going and Rock was going over in the main event to send the people home happy, but the screwjob/heel ref/DQ ending was pretty flat for such a hot match. -Cactus Jack vs. Terry Funk, King of the Death Match finals. These guys were so beaten up by the end of the tournament that they could hardly walk, but they still managed to put on a halfway decent finale. That is, until the "exploding ring" bit where the pyrotechnics looked slightly less impressive than your average bottle rocket. Then it all just fell apart from there, especially the confusing ending where Funk knocks Foley off a ladder, and then... Foley just randomly crawls over and pins Funk to win the tournament.

Krugman has a couple of really good points there. So why did he bury them in between several weak ones? Politicians are shifty chameleons who tell their audience what they want to hear, period. You're facing a bunch of paranoid rednecks? Tell 'em you don't cotton to the guvment tresspassin on they property. It's a standard political speech tactic, and I don't see how it indicates anything other than Reagan just being an average suit. Considering what we know about Reagan's memory, or almost complete lack thereof, so what if it was debunked? Dude probably couldn't remember his own name on some days. That's being senile, not racist. Especially since he never specified that the woman was supposed to be black, did he? Firstly, provide some sources that he did use the phrase in the South but not in the North. Secondly, it's bullshit anyway, I've lived in the South my whole life and heard a whole rainbow of interesting denigrative terms for black people, but "young buck" means nothing to me in racial terms except for being that one rapper's name. What were they fired for? More backstory needs to be provided here. As it stands, it sounds kinda like insisting that a particular cop is racist because he's arrested three black guys. See, THOSE are excellent, hard-to-defend points which really do make the former Prez look like the type of man to say "darkie" and mean it. They shouldn't be barely covered in just two sentences and buried near but not at the bottom of the story, the blind spot of journalism which many people tend to skip.

Her race is the only thing I can think of which differentiates her from the other Divas. Same cheerleader/fitness model background, same implants, same physique which looks awfully similar to those maintained by hardcore fat burners and speed pills, etcetera. Also, is it just me, or does the WWE tend to fire women over "ego problems" or "behaviour issues" more often than they do with men? Seems like practically every time they release a diva, we get some inevitable "she was a bitch" story in the next Observer. Interesting look at a possible double standard within the company, though it would hardly be unique, corporate America is still very often an old white boys' club. And agreed on the fact that, even though she's essentially just a dancer who is damn near worthless in a wrestling setting, it's not like Kelly is better than her.

Man, that's hardcore stupidity right there. The best story I got was working at a music store and having this one woman come up to me and ask "Do you have that CD about shoes?" Would the straight razor in question have a snail crawling on the edge, and a big old bald fat guy soliloquizing about it?

More importantly, he does half the main characters' voices, so if he strikes there's basically no show. But there really should be more than just a month's worth of episodes in the can, this ain't like South Park where they throw the show together over a few days, FG is animated overseas and it takes months to produce each episode. It wouldn't be an issue with not having the voices recorded either, since typically those are done first and then the animators match it up.

Where the hell are Amazing Kong, James Storm, Eric Young, Chris Harris, Raven and all his flunkies, the New Age Outlaws, LAX, Triple X, and half the X division? Think the roster is just a BIT too full maybe? Anyone remember when WCW did damn near the exact same match, with Nash & Sting teaming against Savage and Sid in the main event of some crappy summer-of-99 ppv? Who cares? The X Division belt is an afterthought at this point, Black Machismo is funny but it's a one-note character, and The Guru sucks all around. As long as the Steiners don't just squash their young opponents, this could actually be pretty good. Styles is a bump machine, Tomko is better than average for a big hoss, and at least one Steiner doesn't suck. Scott has been on a minor resurgance recently, getting back into his late 90s shape as opposed to how he was in the WWE. Of all the big-budget wrestling companies on the planet, how is it that frigging TNA has somehow put together one of the better women's divisions in recent memory? It ain't exactly SHIMMER or GAEA, but it's way better than anything else done in North America with the possible exception of the Trish/Molly golden days. But they mostly resist the urge to book dumb sexual storylines that make the girls look like bimbos, and actually focus on the wrestling, which is like unheard of in chick fighting. Never given a shit about Kazarian, probably never will. And hey, wasn't the finals for this tournament on Impact last week? I wasn't paying attention, but why are they having it again, and why is it a ladder match? POO. Jesus christ, what the fuck is wrong with this company, that they've got Joe basically jerking the curtain with a complete waste of TV time like Roode. Devon and especially Bubba have sadly degenerated ever since they got to TNA, turning into grumpy, stiff, no-selling, not-much-working assholes. Motor City Machineguns have mostly done a bunch of jobs to other people. Yet the storyline in this match has the babyface MCMGs being the righteous avangers, crusading to stop the scourge of the big bad bullies. Either way, the outcome of this match will be telling. Aha, so you are That Guy! Must be lonely.

Are you saying they should bring back the draft?

Only one person saw it = bad. TNA did indeed make it so "subtle" that practically nobody even noticed it. But for that one guy, they pretty much completely give away that Booker is the mystery guy, as long as you're a smark and know his real name. What's the point? At least the Jericho promos worked, even if the office seems to be pissed that people figured it out so fast.

I forget the exact term for it, but there's anti-insomnia too, a tendency to sleep way too much. I've got that, and every single day if I'm not woken up by an outside source (alarm clock, phone ringing, other person, whatever) I'll sleep 10-12 hours straight, period. Yet even sleeping that much doesn't make me feel refreshed or energized during the day. I've never been able to go to a sleep specialist doctor for it, so I don't know how or even if it can really be treated.

Tenay and West sucking is mostly the office's fault. They literally write down scripted lines for them to read, the camera caught them reading once during a live show. Watch some of the older Nashville stuff to see how they sounded when they weren't being forced to commentate a certain way by the bosses.

Let's not forget now that it wasn't just a "won't lose in Canada" deal. It was, very specifically, a "if you MUST job me to that fucking piece of shit who I hate more than any other human being Shawn Michaels, at least don't do it in my own country where they see me as a legit hero". Bret's stated many times that he would've been perfectly fine with losing it in Montreal to anyone else but Shawn, and that he would've done the job to Shawn if it had been in America. This was just a pure case of Vince getting childishly angry when he had someone disagreeing with him, which let's face it is something we've seen many times over the years. The final word is that Bret had the creative control clause, so Vince had no right to do what he did and the whole thing was illegal anyway.

I was that way for a while, because as mentioned earlier I just didn't care much about the better picture and sound of a DVD, plus the very first DVD I ever bought got scratched in like a week. But then I discovered the wonderful world of filmmaker's commentary tracks, and never looked back.

That card reads more like it would be a show in California, what with all the luchadores and west coast indy guys. Not sure how it'll play in the middle of Indiana. But the NWA clearly has a great money mark funding all this, no way that Parka vs. Parka match came cheap.

Hogan's been talking about starting his own promotion since 1993, pay him no mind.

I don't watch sports, and aside from that I don't see how HD improves a lot of programming. I'm sure HDDVD movies will look great in the new format, but as for TV shows, does it really matter that much? I don't think that HD would make me enjoy, say, Two and a Half Men, even if you can see the soulless emptiness in Charlie Sheen's eyes. I don't mind those people who want to spend extra money for a new format, but I do mind being forced to buy a pricey new television just to watch the same stuff I always have. I guess part of my underwhelming reaction is from the sheer amount of video footage I've watched either on grainy bootleg videos or, more recently, pixilated bootleg downloads. Unless I've got on some big-budget movie with beautiful cinematography, I just plain don't care about the sharpness of resolution and number of scanlines and all that crap. (Yet oddly enough, I am one of those Widescreen Nazis who despises full-frame... yeah, I got issues.)

Agreed. When dealing with someone with mental illnesses like schizophrenia, they're so unpredictable and so far removed from reality that there's absolutely no way to reliably control them. I assume that the officers would've tried talking first and told her to put the hammer down, and got nowhere. But if you can't reason with her, what the hell can you do to a geriatric that won't hurt them? Even if one of the cops just stepped forward, trusted to blind luck that she wouldn't bash him in the head, and pulled the hammer out of her hand, it could've easily broken her wrist. The police are kinda fucked from the start in situations like this, because like he said there's no good option. That being said, no, they shouldn't have tazed her. You can just look at most 82-year-old women and guess that they've got a heart problem of some kind, and you'd probably be right. People that old are precisely who tasers shouldn't be used on, because the inherent risks go way up in that age bracket. I still don't know what the best alternative course of action would be, though.

So now you can sue someone because they caught you doing drugs multiple times and fired you?

THE worst adult's animation show ever was easily this godawful New Yogi Bear show that Adult Swim aired a couple of times. It was so terrible that they even roasted it in their own commercial bumpers, "why haven't we cancelled this show already" and such.

Yes, I realize that, but Leland is on the show, he's even specifically named in the opening credits. I just find it odd that a private conversation causes a fucking firestorm, yet the media completely ignores the fact that the guy's other son and co-star on his show was in a public brawl just days before. You'd think someone would at least bring it up, in a Bill O'Reilly-type attempt at showing evidence that the whole family is nuts.

I don't think they falsified the test results or anything dumb like that, but it is a hell of a coincedence that they announce two relative nobodies getting suspended a day after the new rule takes effect. Probably these two failed a test sometime in the recent past, and the office sat on the suspension until the "name names in public" policy was officially in place. In order to send a message that Vince won't take no guff when it comes to drug use.

Every version I've heard was "sucker punch". And c'mon, do you seriously think that Leland friggin' Chapman could knock out Don Frye twice in a row, apparently one punch each time, in a straight-up fight? Hell, I'm amazed that he could knock him out period. even by ambushing him. Remember, this is the same Don Frye who took a few dozen punches to the head from Tank Abbott and basically laughed it off and casually knocked Tank out.

And all but one of those guys are gone from the company... and the one who's left is by far the worst wrestler in the bunch. The WWE seems to fire people these days by picking their names out of a hat. Better how? Not only did she fuck herself up on a stupid bump that she had no business taking, but it was the second time in like two weeks that she'd blown that exact spot in the exact same manner, she crashed the same way back in England. She always looked sloppy as hell to me on her bumping, I thought it was just a matter of time til she hurt herself.