Jobber of the Week

I'm an equal oppertunity mocker, so TheMikeSC, this one's for you:

When you're over 40, can I call you names for being interested in unattainable young women? Just curious. EDIT: How the hell did THIS wind up being my 6000th post?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...EDGT42MT171.DTL On a side note, I have no love for the organization ACORN mentioned in this article. Their backing to keep any national chains from entering my city has nearly driven local government into cutting police and fire services to pay the bills. On the other hand, I hate Wal-Mart even more.

I dunno about anybody else, but I got tired of Austin around the time he came back and started wrecking matches to stunner people. I knew they were building up a story there with a confrontation from Mick, but couldn't they have waited for the match to end then let Austin give a Stunner to the winner? So many matches were made to look unimportant at that time because Austin was running in and mugging for the camera.

It also varies on what you mean by "heels that were TRULY bad guys" and superhero faces, etc. If you mean heelds that really could work a crowd into hating them, that's still going on, the reason we have so many tweeners (a phrase that wasn't even coined until around the time Nash wanted to play both sides in WCW) is because of lazy booking. There's some guys who could be some seriously hated heels if the booking wasn't holding them back. See how Jericho can work a crowd but is booked to look like a weakling, and now he keeps appearing with Trish, which is pretty much a face pop magnet nowadays. If you mean characters who are always heels such as the Million Dollar Man, I'm not so sure it would work. Very few characters work so successfully that they can stay a face or heel for years. And if they can't, it just shortens their career. Also keep nostalgia's rose-colored glasses in mind. People point to Hogan/Andre as the ultimate money feud, but that whole angle started over something as simple as a guy giving Hulk a bigger trophy than Andre and jealousy a-brewin'. Today's midcard matches get more build.

Depends on how kayfabe is treated. Could they get audiences to believe that two guys hate each other, even in real life? Sure. Could they come up with a dramatic storyline, like one wrestler wants another wrestler's wife, and make it believable? Sure, as long as they keep it somewhat grounded in reality. Hell, there were people thinking that Jerry Springer was real for so many years. Could they make people believe that the Undertaker was a reanimated corpse? No.

Bah, I have a better description. Someone was bitching about this in the paper: The word metro has its roots in greek, meaning (literally) uterus. It is also used to represent maternal ideas too though. Assuming the Metro in metrosexual comes from metropolis (mother-city), I assume its used in that sense. So essentially the word means mother-sexuality. Whether this means the sexuality of the mother, or some kind of sexuality involving mothers, I don't know. The second half (sexual) is even worse since the word metrosexual has nothing to do with sexuality apparently, unless you count gross generalisations about the style of gay men. Essentially you are using an innaccurately-manufactured, overly complicated word to discuss something as simple as male vanity (and ancient - narcissus, anyone) as if its some exciting new 'wave' that people *need* to be paid to write about in style magazines.

SOUTHAVEN, Mississippi (CNN) -- A car rammed past a security perimeter Saturday and into a facility where President Bush had delivered a speech to campaign supporters just minutes earlier. Secret Service Spokeswoman Ann Lomax said the president was "never in any danger." White House Spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush had just got into his limousine. Bush had completed a speech to campaign supporters inside the DeSoto Civic Center at the time of the crash, according to Lomax. Witnesses said a woman and three children were in the car, a 4-door Toyota Camry with at least one flat tire. She drove down a street at high speed pursued by police and sheriff's deputies, they said. The car passed the presidential motorcade, took a sharp left, jumped a curb, and barreled across the grass outside the center before hitting the building near one of its entrances, witnesses said. Bush had just got into his limousine at the time of the crash, according to White House spokesman Trent Duffy. The president "was never in any danger," Lomax said. The car blew out some tires when it jumped the curb, according to Lomax. The car hit the building near its upper loading dock area, Lomax said. The president's motorcade was in the lower loading deck area, she said. Authorities surrounded the car, and no shots were fired, Lomax said. The woman was arrested immediately after the incident, which took place about 10:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. EST). The Secret Service is leading an investigation into the crash, according to Lomax. Video from the scene showed four officials moving the woman, with her arms behind her back, into a white unmarked car. Chief David Mitchell, spokesman for the Desoto County Sheriff's Department, would not say why the woman was being pursued. He said the children in the vehicle are with family members and "being well taken care of." Local and federal officials are conducting a joint investigation, Mitchell said. It will remain a joint investigation until any charges are filed, he said. Bush left the center shortly after the crash and headed to his next campaign stop in Paducah, Kentucky. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/01/....car/index.html

I see this a lot, particularly in the WWE forum. Images just replaced with "user posted image." Is this something intentional or just happens when a server barfs or what?

I had to stop here. WWE LOGIC ASTOUNDS ME.

I've tried and failed too many times to talk with Marney about Islam, so I'm not going to bite on that one, but I can't even figure out how it relates with this rant: Maybe not. It brings a whole new set of challenges, fears, and nervous situations. But shouldn't people be open to more or less choose their own path, rather than be persueded by culture? I wasn't a big fan of the Ally McBeal image that was appearing in the late 90s, but that's because I approve more of people making their own path. And I'm not sure how that's a bad thing. What? Where did this lesson come about? My guessing is that you're going to expand this into something about school shootings, but I don't think a slap on the wrist as a 5 year old would have stopped those.

What was the actual news in this article? The death tolls are nowhere near Vietnam. I thought we all knew this. Well, I doubt the Iraqi people are coming out in droves to celebrate some newfound sense of Democracy (look at the history of the middle east and you'll see that's not going to happen) or any of those other saccharine propaganda stories. It seems to me that while reactions are probably mixed in most of Iraq, but outside of the Sunni Triangle there's no violent resistance.

Still, the point remains that we've had wars started and people killed on both sides and he's still going on about how he knows God is on our side.

No scientifically sillier than George W's beliefs in God.

How about this? "Hey, remember the first couple of months in 2003, when everyone was concerned about the economy but George W Bush was going into overdrive in Iraq? Wouldn't it have been nice if he paid attention and took care of it THEN instead of waiting until NOW?"

You were the one who was telling me that eventually all the jobs of making stuff will go everywhere and the entire country will be employed in "service jobs." Which of course makes no sense, because that means a big piece of a community can go downhill when there's nothing that needs servicing, unless we all work at McDonald's or something.

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This is happening in the ShopZone thread, where I know offsite linking works. It also happens when linking to my image repository that's kept around for such reasons.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...1852EST0802.DTL

Funny. The guys I know like you two usually prefer Kucinich.

It seems to be a common theme: <Isolationist Conservative> Let's protect America first! Pull out of other countries! Let them pay for their own problems! <Other Conservatives> YEAH! <Liberal> Ok. Let's start with Israel. <All Conservatives> Uhm.... Never mind.

Sounds like I should skip this book, it sounds awfully hypocritical. I also thought it was sad when he talked about wanting to "do business" with guys when the only person he did business with was The Rock.

I thought RVD was a huge draw, he doesn't have anything in the top 10. Although "FOCK FEAR" is talking up half the list(!) so maybe he's just got bumped by all those different Austin combos.

Not unless that CD burner can also read DVD discs.

Always was fixed with a cache clear and a reset. That's one of several reasons I switched browsers, though.