Jobber of the Week

I don't understand the "dream match" appeal behind this one except that both guys were phenomenally popular inside the company. But this isn't exactly Hogan/Andre in terms of dream matches here. It's more like Rock/Goldberg, where you assume it has to be a dream match because people will be emotionally into it due to the popularity of the competitors, but there's really no history or shock to it. So you put both guys together in a match. Okay, it'll be a draw, though workrate it'll probably resemble the worst Austin/Taker matches. Why are they fighting, when both guys are well known for being babyfaces? The Hulk Hogan character doesn't work as a heel with his cartoon nature. You could turn Hulk into Hollywood sans nWo, but that doesn't hold the nostalgia value. So what do you do? My only guess is that Austin needs to return to his incredibly over original heel persona. Not the guy who puts his wrist to his ear and repeatedly says "WHAT?" I mean the guy who beats the shit out of backstage interviewers, wimpy jobbers, etc. Then have Hulk as the good boy babyface who wants to teach him a lesson. It's a stretch for a 50 year old Hogan to play the guy he was 20 years ago and look believable, but it could work. But you got one problem. Namely, Austin isn't going to turning into a tough-as-nails heel anytime soon while chasing around people in an ATV. So basically, yes, they could pry it in there at the very last minute if they wanted to. But it would be one of those hollow "could have been more" angles that everyone talks about excitedly for the next month afterward but promptly forgets about after that.

His approval rating has generally floated pretty close to his Dad's, sometime dipping below though that activity mostly stopped in December.

Mike, this is not the first time I've seen someone say something like that. I'm sure it's not for you either. You know that I actually live here and think that's as stupid as you think it is. And you and I don't often see eye to eye. Between this guy and Leland Yee, who wants to have government buildings organized to be conductive to feng shui.. Sheesh. Thank god the new Mayor is not a nut, if nothing else.

...... *scratches head*

Damn. I don't remember voting on that. I should go call my Leftist Indoctrination Camp immediately and inform them. Come on, people, let's get on the ball! They don't call it a DEMOCRATIC process for nothing now, do they? Ah, good, after 10 minutes of listening to hold music by Barbara Streisand and Moby, I'm talking to a very liberally-slanted political sciences teacher right now. He says he'll toss a ballot down from the ivory tower immediately. First letter kind of exemplifies why I'm not afraid of the Bush/Hitler comparison (although it's poor form when used, say, for a TV ad) but a lot of things the writer complains of is done by many leaders and countries. Namely, This stuff is nothing new. I see nothing wrong with honoring military service, myself. At the very least, it encourages enough people to volunteer that I don't have to worry about drafted. But more importantly it's the least to do for those who protect your way of life. People who complain about "the honoring of soldiers" are like the polar opposite of those who complain that if you don't agree with the President, you don't support the troops. These people believe, because they don't like the President, they shouldn't support the troops, and they shouldn't support the country. That's, well, just as stupid. The first and most prominent problem with the Bush/Hitler analogy is, of course, that Bush isn't cooking any Jews. The second is that while things like "free speech zones" and parts of the Patriot Act should be unconstitutional, they're not the most drastic violation of the Constitution we've seen. I mean, in an ideal America, it's a bad thing. But we're not talking Japanese-American internment camps. The biggest rights violations are going on at Gitmo, and it's pretty hard for most Americans to feel sorry for people who plotted to kill them. Which is why I don't really care for the Bush/Hitler equation. While some of the movements and rhetoric of Bush and the GOP bear a faint resemblance, to draw comparisons is like comparing the flame from a pocket lighter to last year's L.A. inferno. I more like the comparison to the red scare. Potential communists, like potential terrorists, could look like you, speak your langaugae, live next door. Like then, the government tells people to be on alert while remaining very secretive at the same time. Like then, there's a lot of namecalling and baseless accusations being flung around, but since we've learned to not accept that from our government, it's done by radio and TV personalities. The only difference was, there were a few Communists in the US, here and there (and, like now, the tactics used to discover them was quite suspect.) There's also some terrorists in the US right now, but Sean Hannity equating liberals with terrorists is not going to capture a single damn one of them. So no, I don't necessarily approve of the whole "Modern America = Nazi Germany" thing, but I see no reason why some won't say this thinking is shared by everyone left of center, the candidates, and others.

http://news.com.com/2010-1028-5146863.html

Actually, I was considering posting something offensive to compensate. I just don't want to totally throw a potentially funny thread off track. And how can you go wrong with this?

Yes, appearantly, I've chosen to exploit a national tragedy for humor, even though I said that, you know, I didn't and wouldn't have. However, since I am to please, I went to go look for more pictures of President Bush on the telephone. One looked like it was a campaign headquarters or school, but according to the Florida newspaper article it's attatched to, it's after his speech on 9/11. No can do. Then there's another Air Force One shot, but the caption says that it too is somehow related to terrorism. I guess there's something about terrorist attacks that causes photographers to take more pictures of the President using the phone line. Finally, I got one of him at his ranch or something and replaced it. FISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

You don't seem to understand. I did not go into my "Pictures of Politicians to Use in TSM Threads" folder, double click on the "9/11 Photos DO NOT USE FOR HUMOR PURPOSES THESE ARE NOT FUNNY" folder, and choose use a tragedy to further a gag. You seem to think that this is exactly what I did. Let me inform you of what I really did. I typed the following serach into Google Images: bush telephone Now, there's not really a whole ton of pictures of Bush and a phone. I found a picture of Bush talking on a telephone, staring at something bright. Either a window to the outside or a TV screen (I was creatively using it as the latter.) I didn't know what the picture was about, when it was took, where it was took, who he was talking to, or what he was talking about. I did not say "HA! I'll poke fun at 9/11! That'll generate a laugh!" I did not consider using pictures of people falling out of buildings. I wasn't attempting to piss on the families of dead people. I simply saw a picture of Bush on the telephone, and believed it looked innocent enough for inclusion in this gallery.

This is quite possibly the biggest spin I've seen in a long time. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGQ04JCK81.DTL Yes, that's right, he's genuinely DELIGHTED that his money trick was considered breaking the law.

Please. Call me when BustaMECHA is investigated for his "sovereign nation" bs. He used money tricks too to get around campaign finance limits, but when they were deemed illegal, he gave them to other political causes.... Who used the money to make ads...... Featuring him.

Oh, puh-lease. I used Google Image Search for all these things. There's only so many pictures of him using a phone. If you think it's a bad thing, then fine. But it was unintentional. 'Sides, I thought you'd be more offended by me bringing up his drinking, which is something I didn't think about until after I hit submit, actually.

When he turned on Tajiri. LOL. "Was it WRONG for me to turn on him, esse?" Overwhelming Crowd: NO!

It just reminds me of that skit where all the production and backstage guys were upset because Austin had been kicked out of the building, so Rocky went up to cheer them up via humiliation.

Ditto. It nearly sounds like a work to me.

True, true....

AAAAAA.... Hey, who's that? Hey, guys! WHASAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPP!!!!!! Yo! Yo! Who dat? I hear someone listenin! Hang up, you! Okay, okay, take it easy.... So man, what you doin? Not much. Watching the game, drinking a Bud.

Hello? Hey man. 'Sup? Nothin' much. Watching the game, havin' a Bud. WHASAAAAAAAAAP!!!!! WHASAAAAAAAA WHASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPP!! Heh, heh. Hey, where's Big D? I'll get 'em. D! D! Pick up the phone! IN AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION... Yo? WHASAAAAAAAAAA WHAZAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA

I've seen letters "signed" by Bill Clinton too when he was President, but it you looked for the paper indentation from the pen, you wouldn't see it. It's a machine facsimile. And the sad matter is that since the Truman administration, good help has become much harder (and more expensive) to find. I've seen letters from offices that will remain nameless where the letter that got fired back was obviously written by someone who did not know the gender of the intended recipient. "Unfortunately, he is very busy." He? That's quite a rack for a "he."

"I'm sorry, but I take offense at that. John Kerry was a Junior Cook. I was a four-star Iron Chef."

That's because it's pretty hard to argue with name calling. Uh, uhhh, I guess if you want to fall into the belief that all Democrats are in the camp of Dennis "Department Of Peace" Kucinich, then okay. But even then, you'd be a nut. I got nothin' to say but And Bush did so much more, protecting Crawford from the invading force of the Vietnamese! In other words, This will be a real stumbling block for Kerry. Especially since Bush was born into a poor family. Oh, wait! How does this woman not get sued for libel or defamation of character? This one is the King Of

Yeah, we can judge Kerry by form letters sent out by his office staffers. I'll agree with the Clark thing, though.

Oh, the ANTICIPATION~!

Disney still does SOME good things. Pirates Of The Carribean was quite good. This has interesting ramifications for Roy Disney's attempt to turn things around at the company (again.) He was pretty tight with John Lassiter (the other head honcho at Pixar besides Steve Jobs) and could use his ability to negotiate a new deal as a trump card to get shareholders and/or the Board of Directors to give Michael Eisner the boot.