Jobber of the Week

No mess for approximately 40 years, pal. Perhaps we should see if the economic climate changes over the next couple of decades before we go fixing things. Education was mostly a mess on the state level until NCLB, then all the schools started teaching for the test. A combination of the electoral college and Diebold voting machines that have no paper trail? "Republicans are the Party of Bad Ideas. Democrats are the Party of No Ideas. The Republican stands up and says, "I got a really bad idea!" Then the Democrat stands and says, "And I can make it even shittier!" --Lewis Black

Even if it was intentional, it's well known that occasionally sometimes people get hurt in this fixed sport, and that and the fact that the ring was absolutely full of guys means that the "Whoops, it just happened" defese is pretty much airtight. Especially since I doubt they'd put Meanie on the show without signing to some form of paper that basically says "accepting this proposal means you could get the crap beat out of you and by signing below you agree to not hold us responsible."

Is it a good decision? Not really. Those of you who think that just because you own a home that you always have the right to do whatever you want with it need to go look up "homeowners association" in your favorite dictionary, search engine, whatever.

Weeks ago, I asked y'all to click on a little "Ignore C-Bacon" link hidden as a masked URL to make shit like this go away. While some of you clicked it (I know because I actuallyreceived PMs of appreciation for it) obviously some of you didn't or are gluttons for punishment or something, because I still keep seeing bullshit arguements that run around in circles. PS: Fuck Saudi Arabia.

Ah, thanks for that. Anyway, the card seems entertaining enough to me. I don't think Cena's reign is really doing as well as everyone thought it would be, but I can't imagine him doing the job. A screwover switch seems possible to me, although obviously others disagree. Angle/Shawn, regardless of predictability, should be a good match. The HIAC interests me in seeing who takes the big bump. The show doesn't seem THAT thrilling to me, but it's a PPV with an Angle match and I just happened to move into town this week, so I'm going anyway.

Since we're talking about people being sent to wherever, how long does the draft go on for? I thought it was a month, but I haven't really been able to pay attention much because my personal life has been real busy as of late.

Hahaha, what? They always say that pictures you take at events are yours to do what you will as long as you don't sell them for money. I'm going to guess they're just making an obligatory grab at keeping copyright, and can't really swallow all this until I start hearing them announce at events to keep your photos offline.

Why is that? You only happen to OWN ALL THE UMD BURNERS IN THE WORLD. If you didn't really like, these people would be stuck selling Memory Sticks packed with titties.

I'm going to say fake because Vince is dead on garbage wrestling and has been for a while.

Every change in marriage thus far has happened at a federal level. Not all of them liked it (i.e. marraiges that involve black people marrying white people or even marrying each other.) Sometimes the culturally conservative who are slow to change with the times must be pulled kicking and screaming into the modern day. I think that the Republicans are beginning to pull it together now that a fraction of them has woken up and begun to realize just what kind of element they've let take command of the party over the past five years. Now that both parties have shades of gray, things will get better off for all of us, I think.

Well, I guess the question then is whether Austin really thinks he stands to make any kind of a comeback in the ring. If the pain is too overwhelming to think about a regular road schedule again, then he might as well go out on his back and enjoy retirement as a legend. Much better wrestlers have done so.

I agree with the person who says it's the people's promotion. There was no cockteasing or pussyfooting around when it came to matches. Paul simply gave people what they would pay to see. The thing about it is that the people that were paying Paul were indeed off-mainstream and unappealing to a lot of fans of wrestling in general. Did Vince outright steal the concept? Maybe, but that wouldn't have been enough, he was smart enough to fine-tune the formula to the people who were watching and going to the shows. The characters were offensive in a rather trendy kind of way that didn't make them too menacing, garbage matches were more for comedic effect. There was only one or two guys who would push their threshold of pain as far as they could go, and one used it as his gimmick (Foley) and the other one was just some guy who could have stayed backstage trying to justify his TV time (Shane.)

This is all really weird. I thought the whole thing was "Lita and I can't be in a relationship anymore, but we're trying to get through this as people?" Because that was what they were saying when someone came up with pictures of the both of them at a concert. Either he's just being an attention whore now or this is all a work.

Guys I don't like (Edge, Orton) are thinning the ranks of no-name Divas? Well, I guess their stock is back up to a Push in my book.

Not if he isn't booked to? I mean, Austin, I think, is willing to effecively job for the right guy at this point in his career as long as it doesn't hurt him anymore and provided that it actually means something in the long run. Foley's series with HHH is still mentioned all the time today when they want to put him over through the announcers or a promo, and I think provided it was one of those grand exits to the right player he'd do it. Undertaker, no. Not unless it was the third match in a feud where UT was first DQed, then got screwed over because of the other guy's cheating, or something stupid like that. And HHH? Hehe, he wants to be Flair 2.0, which means he'll be eating up TV time until he's 62.

Only interested if they bring the kind of over-the-top stage effects like they used to.

Austin has a potential use yet on TV but he needs someone to be booked as a threat. Remember when Batista was a heel and mouthing off to Austin? He was the only guy on the show who wasn't afraid of Austin, except maybe HHH but Hunter would get beat down by Austin's now-rusty offense anyways. The problem is that he's booked stronger than Hulk Hogan in his prime. He went over the entire SmackDown roster prior to WMXX because the whole group of something like 30 guys didn't want to mess with him. At the ECW show he ordered a whole bunch of upper and ME level guys including Angle and Edge and JBL to come to the ring or else he'd go up there and beat them all up by himself. Austin needs to get punked out big time and THEN, and only then, get off TV. I don't care if there's no official match because he's too injured to take any wrestling moves, they can just have a prop-heavy beatdown segment instead. I think it'd be alright if, one night on Raw, a younger wrestler challenges Austin, takes the opening smacks and kicks and stomps into the corner, then comes back and just starts annihilating him. They can do prop object bumps and slamming him into the post/stairs or whatever since I know he can't take a chairshot or anything. Have him blade himself open like a mess and be left in the ring for dead with blood all over the mat to end the show. The next week, say he was taken to the hospital and then never mention him ever again, except maybe the occasional Lonely Road style history video. I don't expect that to happen, but if Austin went out like that, I'd applaud the guy for doing the right thing, finally.

Normally Phelps is just hated by your ordinary good natured folks, but then this: Is beyond the beyond. He's not just bringing his usual brand of hate, but inciting the ultra-patriotic crowd to come after him, and that's a crew that WILL fuck you up for disrespecting soldiers like this. I would hate (HATE! ) to see, say, Marney and a bunch of like-minded folks come visit this guy's protest. To put it lightly, the mortuary would be holding additional funerals later that day.

No you didn't. Moore said all of those things in court. It's why the court found that he should have to remove the monument. Because he didn't include it for any artistic or historical value, but for it's religious value.

O'Connor was appointed by Reagan but then shortly afterwards upheld Roe v Wade. Amusingly, the bible-thumpers had a knee jerk reaction that Ronnie was some kind of a traitor for this. I don't really have a lot of contempt for her because she seems to not really be as beholden to ideology as one would assume. Scalia, on the other hand, is... Gah.

Even Bill O'Reilly disagrees with Roy Moore. I don't know why you bumped this thread, Robot, because usually you're not the kind of guy I'd expect to do that, although it did give me the enjoyment of seeing "You have chosen to ignore MikeSC." A statement that I've longed to see on this board for some time, almost a pity he blipped out of existance first.

And now it's time for good Stone Cold offensive, bad Stone Cold offensive. Good Stone Cold offensive: "If you want to see this man's ass get whipped, then gimme a hell yeah!" Bad Stone Cold offensive: "Booker T, you say you wanna 'axe' me something, but let me tell you son, an axe is something you use to chop a tree down with!" The end.

Fuck that. Rock's character began to lose it's shine when he lost his gimmick wear. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MILLION DOLLAR SHIRTS!?

Remember Hogan? Nostalgia or history as a one-shot event can be a huge draw of people who believe they're watching something special, but it doesn't guarantee continued success. Still, couldn't blame them for striking when the iron is hot, but ECW pulled about 1.0 on TNN.

WM is a much more important event, especially since WCW faded, since it gauges the heartbeat of the entire industry. If WM doesn't sell well, you can safely say the entire business is slumping. This, however, will just tell how well the ECW experiment worked, which is why I'm skeptical of numbers this early.