Jingus

Yeah, that's me, I still work for them. Our show airs on Comcast 75 every Saturday at midnight, and our live shows are in Madison, TN every Friday night. Come by and say hi sometime.

::Just smiles quietly, as sinister Cancer Man-ish music plays in the background. Or something like that.::

Heh, thanks guys. Well, I kinda doubt it, since I'm about to go leave & work one of my indy shows. Brilliant Promoter's Plan: take my sneaky, incompetent heel manager character, and have him turn babyface and become the ring announcer... by apologizing to the audience about all those nasty things he's said and done over the past year. Bloody genius.

Is it just me, or does Angel seem to be making a slow change from the dark angst the series was known for into more comical, colorful, Buffy-type adventures? Not complaining, as that spoiler preview seems like it'll be funny as hell, just an observation. The Spike Ghost Thing: there is NO good way to explain it, period. Dozens or hundreds of movies, TV shows, books, video games, etc. have portrayed ghosts as being completely unable to touch anything physically, walking through walls and all that, but they still seem able to stand or sit on anything they like. It's a fuckup that's commonly used for storytelling purposes. Just accept it. And oh yeah, saw OMWF for the first time myself, and jesus holy christ, that's maybe one of the best episodes of any TV show I've ever encountered. I was surprised by some of the cast's vocal abilities. Tara's sappy numbers got kinda old, and I wish Dawn would've sung more (and am thankful that Willow didn't), but Spike had a shockingly good voice, as did Anya; Giles did about as well as expected, and Buffy and Xander did better than I thought they would. Favorite highlight: Anya's freakout solo blaming little bunny rabbits for all the evil in the world. Question: are all the songs from this episode available on CD to buy?

COUGHrememberallthoseallnightonlineconvosCOUGH (I will own a personal computer again sometime soon, God as my witness.)

Teddy is 22, I believe. If he seems way too cautious here, remember how the HBO wrestling special showed footage of him insinuating that he'd do steroids in order to make it in the business? He said that after they told him the camera was off, but was actually still going secretly. He's got good reason to cover his ass constantly, to make sure nothing like that happens again. Only myself and two other people will get that joke, but still, now that's funny.

Hell, there are way too many good indy workers who never get props. I could easily name off a couple dozen local guys around here who are better than some of the schlubs in the WWE right now, but nobody's ever heard of them. Those who make it do it on a combination of ability, looks, contacts, and luck; and ability is often the least important for a successful wrestling career.

It's been a couple of years now, but personally I had no problem with the campus cafeteria food. Of course, I'm a dedicated fatass carnivore who has no problem scarfing down all-you-can-eat servings of incredibly greasy burgers, pizza, and the like, so I might be a bit biased there. I imagine that vegans and other health food types wouldn't find much to like there, and there wasn't much in the way of variety, foreign foods, or anything like that.

I may be incredibly wrong, but didn't Doyle write a couple of the Holmes stories after he killed Holmes, but before the resurrection? Something along the lines of "Holmes is still dead, but here's one of his old adventures that I never got around to writing before." I swear I remember something like that.

A question to our more legal-minded members here: could the Shephard family sue Phelps for defamation of character, libel, or any similar crime for claiming on a public monument that Matthew is now burning in hell for his sins?

It's different in every state. In some states without athletic commissions, you don't even need a promoter's license.

To start: my resignation wasn't a "punishment" or anything like that. In fact, it was I who asked to quit, and I asked for one very simple reason: I fucked up. Yeah, I haven't been online much in the past few months, but that's far from the main reason why. I still cleaned up junk threads, deleted double posts, banned trolls, all the usual stuff that mods do. I didn't do as much as the others, but I still carried my share of the load. Tim, I owe you a very large and very sincere apology. You were falsely accused of an action you didn't enact, and were banned and had your reputation stained because of it. And quite simply, it was my fault entirely. Sure, there were several people in the chain of misinformation, but I have to take full responsibility for being the one who went to Dames asking for you to be banned. After some reflection, I realized why this whole mess happened, and why I am totally to blame: I didn't like Tim. I personally didn't like him. I thought him to be hostile and condescending. And when I was told that Tim had supposedly done something wrong, with only unsubstantiated hearsay to back up that allegation, I was far too willing to believe that "Yeah, I can easily see that asshole doing something like that." Or, to put it another way, what if the reverse of this situation occured? What if Tim came to me with a flimsy case against a poster who was a friend of mine and demanded their head? I would've completely blown it off. I would've lied to Tim, claimed to be looking into it seriously, and then a few days later come back with some half-assed "well, there's no real evidence" excuse and dropped the whole thing. I would have been derelect in my duty as a moderator because of my personal feelings for the members involved. And THAT RIGHT THERE is why I've resigned my position as a moderator at TSM. For all the complaining some people have done about the "Message to Jubuki" debacle, that thread was made fully within the rules of this website. My immoral treatment of Tim Cooke far surpassed that in terms of unethical behavior, and is probably the worst thing I've ever done on this website. I'm not leaving the boards. I'll still be here, posting my opinion on various subjects. But I don't trust myself with a position of leadership and accountability any more. And Tim, if I ever meet you in person, I certainly owe you a drink.

Oh boy howdy do they still sell illegal bootlegged footage. They've got tons of WCW footage on various tapes, and even some WWF stuff creeps in there every now and then. The shoot interviews are some of the biggest offenders, especially the ones that RF didn't make, but they copied and sold as their own anyway (like Brian Lee's, for example). Like me and Jay have both said a zillion times, the tape trader DID NOTHING ILLEGAL. He lives in Canada. RF has no international copywright on ROH footage. You can copy and sell ROH tapes all day in Canada and break no laws whatsoever.

"Lose their passion"? The guy has been brutalized so much, he can barely get out of bed in the morning. If you notice, he can't walk without a limp. He obviously can't do the same kind of spotfests that he did in 1999-2000 How does all that (and the inevitable drug problems which usually come with such injuries) translate to losing his passion?

This is almost a trick question, as the way it's worded can make you think it's asking for an answer that it's not. It's asking for the total value of the property, after the increase in value happened. It tells you that the cash value of the increase was $8,500 while the percentage value of the increase was 8.5%. Crunching the numbers, this means the property was worth $100,000 before the increase. The final answer is: $108,500.00

Is it weird that I've only played one of the games they listed, and only ever heard of three of them? Also, Earthbound rules. I was playing it earlier today, actually. And I'd throw out votes for Dune (Genesis), Pirates! (NES), and any game on any system that ever had the name Shadowrun slapped onto it.

Ya know, if your halftime show could ever be described with the words "and then the Nazi flag was presented on the field", you deserve whatever you get. Where were the flags for Italy, Russia, China, and all the other nations that participated in WWII on a major scale? How is simply displaying some flags and playing some music considered a "historical, accurate depiction" of a World War which spanned the entire globe, killed over fifty million people, and took almost a decade to finish?

I found it funny how on his message board he was talking about getting some friend of his named Jon Burr to find me and punch me in the face. Things Wrong With This Statement: 1. It was made AFTER Coey IP-banned me (for no reason, despite everyone bitching about Tim being banned for no reason) off his website, so I was never supposed to see it. This means either that he's serious about it, or he was just talking big to impress his e-friends when he knew I couldn't call him on it. 2. Hitting a complete stranger in the face tends to be a felony and carries hefty legal punishments, including never being able to get a decent job for years, if ever. Convincing a friend of yours to hit someone in the face is also illegal, in a "conspiracy to commit" type of way. 3. Coey said he'd get some friend of his to do it for him, instead of doing it himself. We have a word for this type of man, and it describes an organ only sported by women. And to think at one point, I actually felt I'd treated Jubuki too harshly, and PM'd him to try and apologize. Of course, he completely blew me off, as is typical of him. Fucking asshole.

In the words of the blind guy from Robin Hood: Men In Tights: "He's black?!"

Christ, I give up. I didn't ban Tim, and I certainly didn't know that he and McGovern had any kind of beef, that was news to me. I'm going to bed now, I'll try to sort out all this shit tomorrow. And OS, since you're apparently in with Tim's crew, can you answer me two questions in the meanwhile? 1. Why was I IP-banned from spidertwist? (If it's just cuz Chris didn't like me when he was here, that's pretty weak.) 2. Why are you so certain that Tim did not do any of this?

I gotta agree with the MIB here. I mean, Final Fantasy was a series that always had damn good endings ever since it was technologically possible. From IV onwards, they gave you a nice, long, specific ending that showed you what happened to each of the characters after the game ended, and lasted thirty minutes or more. And then when I won FFVII, my general reaction was: "What the FUCK was that?! What a goddamned ripoff!" They gave you a couple of minutes of flashy pyrotechnic stuff (completely omitting Vincent and Yuffie if you'd picked them up, something FFVI certainly didn't do with its extra characters), a weird-ass unexplained happening, and then BOOM: "500 years later". It was bullshit.

Weird to hear that coming from you of all people, Bank. Suddenly? I never once claimed that I banned him. I never said who did. That's because I didn't know. Check the threads yourself.

One more time, more slowly: the rules is a list of things not to do. It tells you several things you can be banned for. However, it is not an inexhaustible list of every single possible thing one could ever do wrong. Such a list is impossible to write, by definition. Yes, you are wrong. I hated how he acted here, but I was the only one with a grudge; Dames didn't care. I threatened him with banning that one time I went off on him, but was told very firmly that Chris hadn't done anything ban-worthy. Then he made an incredibly tasteless comment that was a combination of wishing death on posters and making light of 9/11, and he was banned. I wouldn't know anything about Spider Twist, seeing as how I've been IP banned from even looking at the message boards there, despite having never done (or even been accused of doing, unlike Tim) anything wrong there.

christ... (big breath) Okay, this is the way I heard it happened: Tim -> guy he emailed -> tape trader -> Patrick -> Jay -> me -> Dames And if I heard correctly, Jay talked to the tape trader too and got confirmation. Weird thing: I don't know who actually banned Tim. Wasn't me, whoever did it hasn't said so yet.

Name calling. Great. How does this help your case? There aren't rules and regulations against hacking the board or calling up Dames and leaving death threats on his voice mail, but I'm sure those are bannable offenses too. The rules are a list of Things Not To Do, not an all-encompassing exclusive list of the only things a poster ever might get in trouble for. If the website has so little credibility, then why did you accept a moderating position here for several months? That's a blatant lie, Ricky. Dames banned Chris because he made some comment about wishing that we all had been in the WTC on 9/11. That's about as foul a comment as you can make, especially considering that Dames witnessed the disaster live and in person, and still has nightmares about it to this day. The comment was way out of line, and anyone who said that would've been banned.