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Young Fan: Mr. Flair, could you also sign a card for my mom? She's sick and couldn't come here today; she's an even bigger fan than I am. Flair: No Problem kid, what's her name? Young Fan: Kay... Flair: K-A-Y? Young Fan: Yeah. Flair: Ok, and a last name. Young Fan: F-A-B-E- Flair: Wait, just a sec kid. I'm gettin on in years, just gimmie a sec. K-A-Y F-A-B-E..? .. Wait a second...

Fan: Flair sir, could you sign my shoe. Flair: Where on the shoe do you want it, son? ...

And not only that, it's flair, who has the spine of a jellyfish.

http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=19558 Here's the Angel Season 4 thread. It's fun.

Wow. Just... I won't even get into the whole green screening thing, but SPENDING $20,000 (per show?) for fans to come in and cheer - which goes against the business model wrestling has been based on for a century (that is, the gate) - is absolutely, postively, without-a-doubt, fucking, brilliant! I mean, MY idea had the BATTLEZONE ZERO stage on a boat so it could move around from port-to-port and put on shows, but this idea... THIS IDEA... is so fresh and original and savvy that it can't fail.

This "no fans" approach has captured my interest. When I think about it, if there are no fans to watch it, then they could just insert their own cheers and chants and make every show an off-the-charts event. Hell, they don't even have to have actual wrestlers in there! CGI those bastards up and have them go at it in BATTLEZONE ZERO. Think of it, if the wrestlers aren't real, then there are no salaries, no injuries, no drug addictions, no quitting... well, I mean, they'd have to provide voices/grunts/trash talking, and do live promos, but other than that, it might cut down on expenses. Why, they could just loop the Ric Flair program over and over again and no one will be the wiser!

Ok, here's what I'm thinkin. THUNDERDOME shell on the outside; complete with announcers, fans, wrestlers etc, hanging off of it, BLOODSPORT-style curved mat in the center; along with a throne for McMahon & Co to sit on. The mat is surrounded by trampolines and explosives... which may or may not be covered in barbedwire and thumbtacks. There will also be bungee chords, where the opponents can hook themselves up and go at it American Gladiator style. This whole "ring" (AKA "BATTLEZONE ZERO!") will be floating on a body of water.

In the same vein, do they really need the ring there? I mean, jeezuz, they've been doing that whole "ropes" and "turnbuckle" and "mat" thing FOREVER.

JR-("King, I'm not a")-Professional Wrestler

Typical WWE Tag Match: *Face gets best of Heel* *Heel brings face into corner and/or cheats to get the advantage* *Face comes back a bit and makes the semi-hot tag* *Face #2 gets on a semi-hot streak before Heels cheat (again) and start working a bodypart/headlock which goes NOWHERE* *Faces pander to the crowd for the hot tag* *Wrestlers tease a hot tag but then gets cut off* *repeat as many times as necessary* *Hot tag* *Clean House* *Finishing Sequence*

I don't believe HHH and Shawn hate each other. They've been fighting off-and-on for 2 years and I have NEVER believed they hated each other. After all the blood they've cut out of themselves, after all the shitty punches and brawling, after all the gimmicks; I've still seen more hate coming out of a Pepsi commercial. HHH needs to bring out pictures of him fucking Shawns wife and threaten to show the world her nudie pictures. Or maybe ~SHOOT~ and call Shawn a fake Christian... and Shawn ~SHOOTS~ and tells HHH he's gone too far and that they wanted to have a steamboat/flair feud and go down in history together as the best rivals and friends, but he took it too far and Shawn has to reclaim his dignity. ... that's what Vince Russo would do.

Or they could do Tag Squashes and actually build the division rather than invest in teams that have a 2 month shelf life. Or just have the _Face team_ dominate the _heel team_ because usually the face team is _better_ than the heel team so it would make more sense for _them_ to dominate. But that might mean that the heel team might get heat on them! OH NO~! Can't risk that! That might mean the WWE has faith in their face team! Why, that would also mean the fans would choose who to cheer rather than drool over themselves when McMavlov rings his bells. But the 1 super-duper-tag match (either between the champions and challengers, or between two challenging teams looking for #1 contendership) would not drive me insane. Watching 2 identical matches (sometimes 3) gets annoying.

That's a bit of a circular argument, though. They never gave Kane and Benoit a chance to make money, but HHH/Shawn, who aren't exactly proven draws together (Armageddon anyone?) get all the time in the world. Saying "Kane and Benoit won't draw money" and not give them a chance to draw money, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why did HHH and HBK cost each other their title matches?

THEY DO IT IN EVERY MATCH! EVERY SINGLE MATCH! And they have like 2 tag matches a night. Jesus fucking Christ, it gets BORING. It's not hard to change it up, but they keep falling back on it, and if they overuse it and the fans stop popping for it, it won't be there for them to fall back on.

BUFFY I have all this power. I didn't ask for it. I don't deserve it. It's like... I wanted to be punished. I wanted to hurt like I thought I deserved. I sorta think—you know, this is, um, complicated. If you'd rather just fight... HOLDEN (leans back) Tell me. BUFFY I feel like I'm worse than anyone. Honestly, I'm beneath them. My friends, my boyfriends. I feel like I'm not worthy of their love. 'Cause even though they love me, it doesn't mean anything 'cause their opinions don't matter. They don't know. They haven't been through what I've been through. They're not the slayer. I am. Sometimes I feel—(sighs) this is awful—I feel like I'm better than them. Superior. HOLDEN Until you can't win. And I thought I was diabolical—or, at least I plan to be. You do have a superiority complex. And you've got an inferiority complex about it. (laughs) Kudos. BUFFY It doesn't make any sense. HOLDEN (sits forward) Oh, it makes every kind of sense. And it all adds up to you feeling alone. But, Buffy, everybody feels alone. Everybody is, until you die. Speaking of...(stands) you ready for our little death match? BUFFY I suppose. (stands) Thanks, for listening.

You disgust me... Brent: I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the cleaning form idea -- but, ya know, Lacey co-owns the bathrooms and she hates change. Lacey: Ah, do whatever you want -- I don't care. Brent: Hmm, seems to contradict the last thing I just said.

Would it kill them not to do a hot tag in every single fucking match? They all blend together now. It's getting really old, IMO. I LOVE the fact that they have so many guys to use, but jesus christ, all these tag matches and it's not doing a THING for the tag division. Let's get more creative here, mmmkay?

I just don't like the fact that they spent THE WHOLE SHOW getting over this "they hate each other!" "it cannot be contained!" and not say why they hate each other in the first place.

Are you saying that Dames was in the CIA?

Why not? And I don't mean in the "What is Normal" kinda way, I mean, I don't think Buffy will be sacrificing herself for the world any more.

Yeah, but just because she accepted the slayer life, doesn't mean she didn't want a normal life.

Corner Gas is the superior show. ... it had to be said.

You know "they seceretly love one another, so the sight of eachother reminds them of their repressed homosexual urges - so the only way to stop this insecurity is to kill the other guy... or have sex and get it over with... which is what they've basically been doing for the past 2 years... just in the ring... " It's a lot easier than "HHH still can't get over being DX's bitch-boy, blah blah blah blah blah"... cause really... you'd think there would be other things in life that anger him more. ...and I thought HHH kicked out Shawn because he "dropped the ball".

For two guys who hate each other, I'm still not sure why.

I was pissed they chose Smile Time as the best Angel episode ever, so I basically protested the Space Victoria Day Angel Marathon... yeah, that's it RRR: Coveting DVD's.