Jobber of the Week

Giuliani can not win unless the Democrats nominate Ted Kennedy or Robert Byrd or something. He has even more scandals to dredge out of the mud than the Clintons do. His wife had to get a JUDGE to gain entry to the house when Rudy kicked her out so he could goof off with his woman on the side. Admittedly, though, Guiliani VS Hillary would be a humorously terrible debate. "Well, at least when MY husband decided to get kinky with the first slut that showed him any attention, he didn't lock me out of my home!" Uhh..... Hate to break it to you, but Dean hardly = United Socialist Workers Party or anything, nor Hillary. She's, well, very statist like the current neo-con crew. She got the government involved over a sex scene in a goddamned video game, and that's the kind of wackjob shit I expect out of the right's Bible thumpers. But neither would resemble socialism as much as Kucinich tried.

YOU STUPID BASTARD WHY DON'T YOU MAKE ANY MONEY! WHY DO I HAVE TO DO ALL THE WORK WHY WONT YOU GIVE ME ANY HELP? YOU MUTHAFUKAAAA! I HATE THIS SHIT! Mencia is one of the worst shows on TV to appear in some time. I just hope Adam Corolla's show is better and that Stella doesn't get canned as quickly as Distraction did.

I absolutely can't stand to vote for Hillary. And yet if a Republican wins in 08, we're truly fucked as the neo-conservatives will win their stupid culture war by filling the Supes with guys who think the government should detail out what you can do to yourself in your home. Anything other than Hillary could get support from traditional, small-government conservatives who are tired of statist policy.

It depends on the situation. If it was some kind of freakish huge guy with a knife, I'd understand, but if it was a stoned out of the mind teenager who can barely keep himself upright, or a woman carrying another baby, then they need to be careful. These are police. Their goal is supposed to be justice, not killing people for threatening behavior. Plus the drug war has gone out of control in this country, a few years ago there was a story about a DEA agent of all people shooting a drugged-out teenager who was so far gone that he was running naked in the street. You want people who are trained to kill at the first sight of something gone wrong? That's what MILITARY is for.

I keep maintaining that they should put together a babyface cruiser spotfest tag team ala Hardys, and I think MNM would be the perfect Midnight Express to my imaginary face team's RNR Express. MNM aren't big enough to be threatening to, say, HHH, but they're big enough to believably toss around cruisers and punishingly beat them down because they look pretty big next to Paul London. But WWE seems to continue to insist that cruisers exist in their own little universe fighting over a meaningless singles title, when WCW only managed to strike anything resembling gold when they got to 3Count VS Jung Dragons with a third team thrown into the rotation at times to keep you awake.

My problem with Colbert is that every segment of his is one joke of him doing something embarassing (or it could be an embarassing title, like 'Senior Child Pornography Analyst') and talking in that dry tone. Very often there isn't anything more than the humiliation joke and the "boy TV reporters sure sound funny when they talk like this, huh?" joke. Cordry does that sometimes, too ("COULD?! IT!? HAPPEN!? HERE!?") but not as much.

An angle that eventually leads up to Rey/London/Spanky VS Eddie/Juvi/SuperCrazy on PPV could rock the building down. As for Noble, I don't know what they'll do with him, although I wouldn't be suprised if he goes to Raw and gets involved with Chavo's dreams of becoming white trash.

Disagree with this, actually. It's more the other way around. Hogan would have looked LOST if he was placed in a supporting cast like today's. His cartoon character gig would have been rejected in a sea of ultra-serious heels and good-cause-they're-bad faces. Hogan's style requires a supporting cast of wrestling garbage men, hockey players, geniuses, barbers, etc that look as goofy as he is. Austin got over by squashing a lot of these goofy characters and then going onto more serious ones. That's why I've felt that the Heel Hogan character (NWO or no) has more gas left in it's tank than the face Hogan character. Sure, it looks like an old man trying to be cool. But that's what's really going on anyway. And it doesn't require a locker room full of stereotype heels like Shiek or DiBiase to fit in. And by the way, does anyone else feel that since Hogan came back, they've stopped bluring the face/heel line and completely re-drawn it again? The latest sign of it was Cena. Ooh, they're cheering him for being self-centered, cocky, and disrespectful. Let's make him SMILE a bit more, and maybe help an old lady across the street. That kind of thing has been every bit as responsible for killing the entertainment value of the company as HHH's Dusty Rhodes ego syndrome is.

I know that Austin has refused a number of jobs, and I can't stand him for it, but he hasn't sat and snuffed out stars the way Hogan has. Hogan probably cost promoters a lot of money with stunts like WM9 and umpteen feuds in WCW. Despite being booked as an unstoppable superman, Austin only really cost one star through political bickering, and that was Brock. And considering Austin's reasons (that they were giving him the world too soon,) one could be inclined to agree with his decision.

Comedy Central is swinging The Colbert Report into a full series of it's own, which will keep Colbert busy from Daily Show activities more often, I'd imagine. Fine by me. Colbert is nowhere near as funny as Rob Cordry.

This is what's nice about US police now being able to use tasers instead of deadly force. The downside is that they practically need another, less painful weapon since everything coming towards them is a taser suspect. The news last night reported something about police tasering a pregnant teenager who was coming after them with a knife. While I respect the police force's wish to be able to go home that night and see their family, aren't people who are trained in disarming someone doing stuff like this a little extreme?

There's a reason why Mick Foley and others encourage young aspiring wrestlers to keep going to college and not kill a "regular" life while seeking a career as a pro wrestler. It's because these sorts of things happen, and often times guys have to go to their backup career when it's over. As long Cornette was teaching the same philosophy in OVW, and whoever teaches there in the future does so, people's lives can avoid being totally ruined because they dropped out of college and then got saddled with a go-nowhere character. Again, the business uses people, but the people they use are smart to it now and are encouraged when starting out to have another career waiting in the wings just in case. Once you're securely "in," it turns into a loyalty game, but that's another discussion for another matter. I disagree, I think Angle is more a parody of cheap heat like Mick Foley pointing out his own cheap pops. However, even if it really is cheap heat, there's a reason why the crowd doesn't go silent when Angle puts away the mic and starts wrestling. It's because the guy can really go.

Version numbers are set by the devleoper, there's no standard for what they mean. I could make the most stable software in the world and name it version 0.0.0.0.0.1 and it doesn't mean shit. Lastly, because of how it works, if an open source project is abandoned by it's developer, someone may download the code, create their own custom version of the program, and continue on the legacy. Commercial programs are kind of dead once the company that makes it goes out of business, or if it gets sold it takes on some kind of mutant zombie "not quite dead" life (see also: WordPerfect.)

When they announced the plans for this character, I was against it, but I still thought it was pretty deep. The problem came when they hit the brakes on the "Hmm, you know, although he waves his ethnicity around like a heel, the things he's saying really make sense" angle and turned it into a "BOOO! USA! USA!" angle. This was not a character I wanted to boo, but at the same time they coerced you into booing him so much that I didn't really want to cheer him either. They made him another 2D charicature. Heck, I could cheer a guy who complains that America passes judgment on people based on ultimately meaningless factors like nationality. That's pretty true, actually. But then when you follow that up with "AND BECAUSE OF THAT YOU ARE ALL THE GREAT SATAN INFIDEL" then I have difficulty caring, because they're obviously going for cheap heat. This is the kind of guy that the "What?" chant was invented for. Too cheap to boo, too stupid to care about. I have to agree with MikeSC, a feud with Shelton would have been good for this guy. Plus you'd have the interesting angle development that he's feuding with another American minority. Kerwin White is more cheap heat, though. Wouldn't go that route.

No, Eugene is a comedy act. Does the guy even have his own finisher? No, he uses other people's. I'll admit the guy does his act very well, but not only do I personally find it offensive I can't see it having a worthwhile title run even when I look past my opinions.

That's a bullshit response, though, because then you could have a Disney game where Mickey and Minnie start fucking in bed if you enter a GameShark code and call it an easter egg. The reason DVDs go that route is either because it's a PG-13 movie and the director said "fuck" during the commentary, OR it has unreleased scenes which were never judged by MPAA. Neither of those two situations exist in a game. The guy from Penny Arcade put it better than I could: He's got a point. If Manhunt wasn't "prolonged scenes of intense violence" then I don't know what is.

The way I figure, Hebner must have done something really serious to get fired instead of fined or simply suspended. Guys like Undertaker and Hogan have enough to take care of themselves. The guys that Vince Sr told Jr to care for were guys who were either legendary and/or integral to the operation of the company, like Gorilla Monsoon. I could see JR filling in with that position. Fink seems pretty likely. Patterson too, just because Vince and Patterson have stood by each other when it's rained or poured (steroid trials, sexual harassment suits, etc.) Maybe one of the wrestlers turned writer/agent like Brother Love or Brawler, but not more than one. I would say that our Vince's list would be much shorter because he runs a much tighter ship and is very likely less loyal to his employees than his father was.

HHH has jobbed way more, even in the 2002-now period, than Hogan ever did in his prime. Hogan has so much power that he left the comapny AND dropped the title at the same time in a friggin' screwjob finish implies to marks that he probably still should have been champion. If that kind of exit isn't a serious display of political power, then I don't know what is. HHH's power mostly revolves around being able to waste TV time with his windbag promos. Sure, he tried pushing Orton & Batista along but those guys would have gotten over with Vince for their body styles anyway.

This post eaten by the Post Eating Monster. Burp.

Actually, the most commonly known method of taking out a target as quickly as possible is two shots into the chest (aka a double tap,) and then one into the head. If you want to see a movie where this method is used accurately, go see Collateral starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. Cruise's assassin character makes all his kills that way and it's so neat that they used guns realistically, that it negates the presence of Tom Cruise, who is worth something in the range of -2 Jamie Foxx's on screen.

Goes to figure, this was debunked in the local papers here the day before this thread: http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/200...s/26910334.html Norm Clarke is Las Vegas' gossip columnist. Most of the stuff in his columns are pretty dull, although when he comments on something like this it's usually right (he got Britney's first marriage before the official news media did.) I guess we'll just have to wait until they're making public statements to see what really happened.

Agreed with Ripper, which doesn't happen often. Plus, they gave the whole business a black eye and turned those who are trying to advance their political careers onto paying attention to this age-old "culture war" issue again. And this is an industry which doesn't have any lobbyists, so it just takes it's lumps and tries to make do with what there is. Take2 is reporting nearly $200 million in lost sales and will take a hit this quarter. You know SOMEBODY at RS North is fired. Lastly, all this bitchin' and moaning about God of War: The ESRB rating box on the back of GoW mentions Nudity and Sexual Themes. GTA:SA didn't have anything like this, because ESRB didn't know (the publisher sends a tape of the most objectionable elements, and RS seemed to take the position all along that this stuff was "gone" while still sneaking it in.) The back of the San Andreas box lists only Language, Drug Use, and Violence. So yes, ESRB was basically lied to, and did what they had to do to get the politicos off their back. Because of precedent, any future sequences like God of War may get AOs instead of Ms in the future after this whole publicity stunt. And if that's the case, then you can thank Rockstar AGAIN for lowering the tolerance of sex in M-rated games. These are no amateur programmers that just decided to print 15 million copies of secret code believing that nobody would ever see it. They don't have much sense, but they're not STUPID. They put it in there as an "easter egg" for the die-hard fans to find, and they didn't tell the ratings board and now everyone is getting bit in the ass. Thanks, ya dumbasses.

In one of those little "nobody would other read this except it needs to be acknowledged to be believed" categories, partisan conservative blogger at PowerLine thinks the Democrats are starting some kind of shadow propaganda campaign that claims that Roberts is gay because of the color of pants he wore in public one day. The evidence? Well, a lefty blog makes similar implications about it. And this, friends, is why Guys With Blogs will not replace the media, because they're wrong even MORE often than the media is.

Here we go again -- Sky

Mike, izzat you?