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"May you choke to death on your wedding cake"

HE IS.

*Test is sitting in the back corner of the wedding reception, a half empty glass of cranberry cocktail in hand and a scornful look on his face as he watches Steph and HHH take their first dance as a married couple* *Stacy walks up to Test* Andrew? Andrew, are you alright? You don't look very well. Can I get you something else to drink? Andrew? Andrew??? *Test reflects back on the Summer of 99* *Steph is sitting backstage talking to Bruce Prichard, Test walks up to her* Test: Uh, hey Ms. McMahon Steph: Oh don't call me that Andrew, you can me Steph. Test: Oh wow, gosh, Steph. Um, yeah, I was just wondering, Steph, that maybe, someday, you and I can um, I dunno, go out and maybe get a drink or somethin, like a cranberry cocktail - there's this really cool bar down the road, I know the bouncer there he can hook us up, you know, or somethin, talk over the storyline and where it's headin. Steph: That sounds like a great idea Andrew, I have some great plans for our on-screen wedding and I already have the dress picked out! I'd love to talk to you about it. Andrew: Oh, really? That's great! Um, I'll pick you up in about an hour or - *HHH Walks in* HHH: Hey Steph, I was just talkin to your dad about this wedding angle and I came up with this great idea and he said I should share it with you first and I'd prefer if I told you it over a candle-lit dinner at a fancy restaurant - it's on me. Whattya say? Steph: Well, me and Andrew. HHH: Oh, Andrew doesn't mind, do you Andrew? Huh? DO YOU? Test: I, uh, I guess not. I'll just take a raincheck on that... uh... I'll talk to you later Steph. HHH: See? He's fine with it. We on? Steph: Yeah, I guess so. We're on. HHH: Great. *They walk away together, their voices begin to trail off the further they walk down the hall* HHH: Might I add that your performances over the past few weeks have been spectacular. Steph: Really? HHH: Yeah, top notch stuff! And you look great today? Steph: Ooooh Hunter! .... *Back to present day* Andrew? Andrew? Why do you always do this??!

I love that interview. The Sherdog Highlight Video of him is half promos... it's great.

Edna: Well, well, if it isn't Marge Simpson and her gangland cronies. Maude: Your goon squads certainly gave you the edge in the mobile snack business. But I'm afraid we've outdone you once again. Hiroshi, Yukio... [steps aside to reveal a group of armed Japanese] Perhaps you've heard of the Yakuza -- the Poison Fists of the Pacific Rim -- the Japanese mafia. Agnes: They'll kill ya five times before you hit the ground! *The two groups step forward, and soon the Simpsons field is the theater of punches and flying ninja stars.* Marge: Homie, maybe we should go inside. Homer: But, Marge, that little guy hasn't done anything yet. Look at him. [the man in white suit stands still amidst the fight] He's going to do something and you know it's going to be good. *Marge pulls him back into the house and shuts the door* *Inside, a loud ninja yell can be heard, followed by a thump* Homer: Aw... *Bodies fly outside the kitchen window while Homer and Marge have coffee. Homer apologizes for failing to help, but Marge tells him she loves him for he always try to. Sleepy kids step into the kitchen.* Lisa: [yawning] What's going on outside? Marge: Oh it's just a mob war. Go back to sleep, honey. *the "little guy" is tossed through the kitchen window* Man: [wiping glass from his suit and bowing] Forgive-a-ness, please! *runs out the backdoor to return to the fight*

It must be the line of work... he needs to get out of that boring and mundane life of fighting and into the wild and exciting field of accounts payable.

Well, aren't you... *mumbles* I've pimped Quintons site on here, right?? It won't hurt to do so again... http://www.rampagejackson.com/ My New T Shirt "Step Up n Get Slammed" $22.00 Order Here Support the Blackman!

Of all things to find educational... even with THIS in the article:

Big Daddy addressed this rumour on Sherdog, he's not in negotiations to fight. *NOW* there is a rumour about PAT SMITH vs. Frank Mir. MMAWeekly.com can confirm that Pat Smith has a contract in hand to sign to fight Frank Mir. Smith told MMAWeekly.com late Friday Night "I'm so excited to have a shot again in the UFC. It's great since it's their 10 year anniversary and everything." Smith said he expected to sign the dotted line on Saturday and said the timing is right as he is in the best condition of his life, as he just won a fight in Ring of Fire last weekend. MMAWeekly.com will have more on this story a little later.... (Via SherdogMB) ... Oh boy.

Here's a really good Rampage interview. Come to Papa Rampage Jackson: Savage brawler, loving father by Angie Driskell Photo by Jeanne Rice Quinton "Rampage" Jackson—mixed martial-arts maestro, No. 1 middleweight Pride Fighting contender, Costa Mesa resident—arrives in a fittingly beefy, black Ford Expedition with large, white letters spelling out Memphis across the windshield. He jumps from the driver’s seat, followed by a small entourage: his three-year-old son, D’Angelo, and a high school buddy, fighter Dave Roberts. At six feet tall and 205 pounds of what looks like pure muscle, Rampage, in a bright-red Unbreakable T-shirt that strains over the loaded canons that are his arms—arms that have pummeled and pounded his opponents—gently lowers his boy to the ground and helps him fold down two fingers to show his age without flipping you off. This docile father is the same titan who brawled it out in Japan Aug. 10 in Pride Fighting Championship’s "Total Elimination" grand prix-style tournament. His performance there allowed him to move on to the November tournament title fight with a $200,000 prize and bigwig status. Pride Fighting, Ultimate Fighting, King of the Cage, mixed martial arts—it’s all basically the same: two men expertly trained to beat and be beaten upon enter a cage, intent on knocking out or overpowering their opponents for a substantial amount of money and respect. Japan is absolutely gaga for the stuff, and Rampage is gaga for Japan. Early last month, he shocked all of Tokyo when he lifted their notorious Kazushi Sakuraba into the air cartoon-style—with one arm—carried him to the edge of the ring and nearly disposed of him over the side, not once but twice. He began his training on the streets of Memphis. "Growing up in Memphis was rough, man," he says. "On the street all night, gone for two or three days at a time. I never had a childhood, so that’s why now, when I fight, I act the way I do. ’Cause now, I want a childhood." He affectionately pats D’Angelo on the head as he recalls his own violent adolescence. "My family and I didn’t get along," he says. "My cousins named me Rampage when I was little because if things didn’t go my way, I would get so pissed that I would hyperventilate, go on a rampage, and destroy everything around me. They thought it was amusing, so they would continually torment me." When Rampage was 12, he and a cousin got caught in an unfamiliar neighborhood where they were accosted by drug dealers. Rampage fought off the two men alone. "I was holding my own until one of the guys pulled a gun," he remembers. "I hit him in the mouth, he dropped the gun, and I tried to get my cousin to grab it. But he was crying like a baby and wouldn’t pick it up. Luckily, some people came and broke it up." We’re sitting in a restaurant as he relates all this. A guy a few inches taller and wider than Rampage cautiously approaches the table to ask if it would be okay to get a picture with him. Rampage immediately stands to shake the guy’s hand. "Sure, man," he says. "You want me to grab the chain?" The brawler rushes to his car and grabs his trademark steel chain-link necklace. He models next to the fan in fighting position. He says there are things he can’t stomach because of his impoverished youth, things like "ghetto apples"—white onions—and sugar sandwiches. "From those days," he says, "there are things that I still don’t eat." The thing is those days are just four years ago. These days, he trains in Tustin and fights in Japan. But he’s no sushi connoisseur. "I eat American food [in Japan]. All of the other guys try and eat that damn Japanese shit. My opinion is that they eliminate taste from it," he says. "I just eat at the Wendy’s and the McDonald’s." "McDonald’s!" D’Angelo shouts. "Yeah!" Rampage says lovingly. "McDonald’s, huh?" Rampage took his talent for fighting into high school wrestling. After that, he says, "I was just looking to get back into athletics." Roberts introduced him to the world of mixed martial arts. "I’m like, man, I could fight and get paid and not go to jail? It’s like killing two birds with one stone!" Just two months into his jiujitsu training, Rampage won his first mixed martial-arts fight at the International Sport Combat Federation competition in Memphis. He moved to Orange County to train first with Brazilian jiujitsu expert Fabiano Iha and then with Collin Oyama. He’s hopelessly devoted to Oyama, saying that if Oyama retired, he would, too. "Team O-yem-ah. It means Big Mountain," he says. "Yeah! Big Mountain!" echoes D’Angelo. His regimen consists of rising at 9 a.m. to attend jiujitsu and wrestling training in Newport Beach with Brazilian black belts. At 1 p.m., he returns home for rest. At 7 p.m., he heads over to Punchout Gym in Tustin, where he runs a timed two miles and either spars, hits the bag or "does some drills." "I do that five days a week. And then Saturday is the hardest training of all," he says. "I’ve got to be at Tustin High at 10:30 a.m., so there’s no clubbin’ Friday night. Coach will either make us run for time, do sprints, jump the bleachers or carry people on our backs. It’s always something hard." Rampage insists he’s lazy. "I don’t like to train. But it’s my job. Most people train tough eight weeks before a fight. I pretty much train all year round. . . . I think that’s why I’m so lazy." He loves Japan. "There are some freaks over there, a whole country full of freaks," he says, a bit wide-eyed. "Trust me. I know. ’Cause I love them Asian women. When I go there, I am like a kid in a candy store, and they love chocolate men over there! One time, there were these two old ladies—they had to be 60—who wanted to take a picture with me. They were, like, ‘Jackson, Jackson.’ And then one of ’em grabbed my ass!" he says, shocked. "They also put stuff in the newspapers over there that would never be in the papers in the States. Like, they’ll have a picture of a fighter winning his match and another right next it of some guy getting a blowjob—they kind of black it out, but you can still tell." He stops. "I’ve got to watch my language in front of my boy," he says, looking down at D’Angelo. "He’s a parrot right now." (OCWeekly) http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/08/outdoor-driskell.php

And yes, it is a very cool looking move

A sambo suplex (at least, the one from the No Mercy games) *is* a uranage (in Japanese Pro Wrestling terms). Why it's called a sambo suplex, I'm not sure. I know they call the Russian Neck Drop after Alexandre Karelin, the Russian Hook Punch after Bas Rutten (since both Rutten and Karelins faces can be found in the CAW as well as in the japanese version), so Sambo suplex should belong to someone... but then again, Bas Rutten is from Holland, not Russia, so mistakes can be made.

But it does matter. Ignorance spreads. This "Uranage" thing is indicative of that.

Oh sweet papadaddy, just got finished watching the eps. where Darla turns back into a vamp by Dru... that eps. is all about the ladies. Let's see. -Kate > The tail end of her run, lookin fine. -Darla > Totally blazing a path for Lilah to follow -Lilah > When she was coming into her foxy days -Cordy > Hair cut, but still good lookin .... seriously, this has to be the hottest cast of lady characters in one season/show. Darla looks smokin throughout, and then she turns into a vampire and it's all downhill from there... Dru is hilarious, just fucking fabulous. Her and Darla made one sweetass team... what with darla bringing the foxy and dru bringing the crazy. Angel at the end... I remember watching it at the time and I was just freaked out... so cold, so cold. That whole eps. aside from the Dru/Darla vamp talkin focusin shittin fuckin crap, was awesome. Oh, and Buffy is starting re-runs of Season 5 again soon... *giggles like school girl*

The move was closer to a rock bottom than a uranage - even in wrestling terms. If you didn't know what to call it, then don't call it by any name (unless you want to make up your own) - that just leads to more confusion.

So that's what they mean by "insider"

That's a lot better than the current masochist gimmick.

Know what I'm thinkin? They should team Bob Holly up with Zach Gowen. 1. Zach needs to be in a tag team. As a singles competitor it just isn't believable for him to win, but in a Tag it's not just him. He also doesn't have to take all that wear-and-tear on his own. Plus he can do all of his spots and not seem so inept. 2. Bob Holly needs a tag team. Holly is a pretty basic wrestler with a nice dropkick. That doesn't make for an exciting performance. But under the tag team formula, with Zach as the Morton of the group, that blandness doesn't seem so bland. 3. It helps both characters. Bob Holly is TUFF, Zach Gowen is 'tough'. Bob Holly kicks ass and takes names and can take a beating and dish it out. Zach Gowen is a survivor. Similar, yet different, character traits. They are a good odd couple. Bob will initially hate teaming with Zach, cause he's a cripple. Bob will want to fight all the tag matches on his own, cause Zach's a cripple. After a while Holly can warm up to Zach, and Zach can toughen up. There is an actual meaning to this team. They can grow and evolve to where Zach earns Holly's respect. 4. Both of them need storylines. After Holly gets beaten by Brock he's in limbo with Zach. The Tag division could always use more teams and they don't have an unlikely duo (well, 2cool, but they both like to ~dance~).

He *was* on Drew Carey. *won't specify whether that is for #3 or #4 *

Yeah, Chris Jericho - WWE Superstar - vs. The Ring Bell - WWE Ring Bell. *Ding* *Ding* *Ding* It's a testiment to Jericho's carrying abilities, and a knock against the WWE for having Batista vs. Goldberg as a secondary main event, while Jericho does dick all in the mid card.

Why Spike isn't in the cruiserweight division on smackdown is beyond me. *remembers what the cruiserweight division is* Oh yeah, I guess he is.

And it's a helluva lot worse than Jericho vs. The Ring Bell. "C'mon you sonnofabitch!" *ding* "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, that's the way I want it.. COME ON BABY!" *ding* "Oh, oh, you wanna play it like that do you" *ding* "Dammit, stop playing games and fight with me" *ding* "Alright, you asked for it!" *Jericho does lionsault* *Ding* "Ah, AAAAH!" *Jericho sells injury like he's been shot* *ding* "Alright, Alright, you've won... you've won" *Jericho walks away* *Jericho turns and attacks the ring bell* "AHAHAHA, Now I've got you you assclown!" *ding* Meanwhile, Goldberg vs. Batista would be Goldberg: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Batista: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGH!!! Goldberg: HHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! Batista: GRAAAAAAAAAARWLLLLL!!! JR: What a monstrous, hard hitting, smashmouth style contest between these two behemoths.

YES! YES! MAKE THE DEATH SEQUENCE LONGER! YES! YEEEEEEESSSS~~~~!!!!

No need for buffy spoilers in here... I contend that Spike getting tortured by Glory is more touching/heroic than Spike sacrificing himself to save the world in Season 7.

I WILL NOT CALM DOWN! I WILL NOT! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER! I WILL NOT CALM DOWN! I WILL DO WHAT I WANT! THEY SCREWED US LIKE CHEAP PRISON BITCHES!!!! BWWWAAAAAAAAAH~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!! Ooooh, dip. Spoiler (Highlight to Read): The only reason that the first morphed into all those 'big bads' was because the writers wanted to make an impression. It had little to do with Spike (why would it turn into Warren?). They were playing with *us*. Here they go telling us that the First can be anyone it wants to be, and then the First ends up being Buffy for the majority of the fuckin season. I don't care what that symbolizes, they still jipped us.