Jobber of the Week

I'll cry if HHH retires Flair (unless it's another Flair/Funk "retirement.") Give it to Benoit or someone who at least has the technical skill that it makes sense that he beats Flair at his own game. Besides, I always thought Heel Benoit was much better than Face Benoit. If he adopted Flair's "dirtiest player in the game" bit and added some cheat moves to his list, he'd get more heat because his straight-up technical wrestling means squat to most WWE fans.

You didn't travel the approx hour to 15? *bonk*

If I go (and that's a big IF, because I've realized I've become such a slouch living at home since I left school that even I wouldn't hire me, so I might eBay some stuff to make the fare) it'd be the grueling flight from California's Bay Area. Add in that right after the show lets out I'm immediately getting a cab to the airport (since NY around midnight is not at all safe) and waiting to go home on another grueling flight and just imagine how blitzed and destroyed I'll be when I get home.

Wait until Shane McMahon injures guys like RVD does, then maybe he'll think twice about that move. It's so cliche'd though that I wish they'd drop it.

HHH hating was really only a smark thing at first. People thought it would be nice if HHH would lay down for Jericho at X8, but nobody really thought he would. The "smartest man in wrestling" bit was being used repeatedly already though. Going over Jericho AGAIN in the Hell In A Cell at Judgment Dayreally started the hating thing up though. It really hasn't let up from there. I think more people hopped on the HHH hating wagon when Bischoff named Hunter the guy he needed to win the Monday Night Wars, and by the time the Big Gold Belt was introduced the train was already going. Really, the hating has kind of tuckered out a bit, because there's so very few who had the energy to keep bitching all the way through that insane title reign.

The first guy to step up and say "Hey, we should have a union!" would get blackballed immediately, and there's no WCW to turn to (and even then, WCW would have blackballed him too for having the cajones to think of such an idea) At the same time, anyone who backed the guy would be blackballed because the idea will NOT have 100% support. Multiple people will see the scene as an oppertunity to back the boss and get a big pay raise for loyalty should things remain the way they are (and they will.)

I'd love something like an extended Gimmick Battle Royal, as that turned out not as bad as I thought, although it'd be scary to see the conditions of some guys today. You know there's going to be a cage of some sort, although it may not hang from the ceiling because for aesthetic reasons. They could always construct it during a music performance. So how about a WarGames, just because McMahon can use that one now? Also, I want one last cliche'd Hogan/Oakerlund promo where Gene asks Hogan a question and he shouts "WELL LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING MEAN GENE" and rambles on about crazy shit like Hulkamania and "going to the top of the mountain" and whatever else. And with all respect to Hendrix, he needs the right theme song for once.

STROKE VICTIM vs BROKEN NECK Smell the ratings!

That's hardly THE money feud for the company. Even Hogan/Austin would draw more, I bet. It's still THE reason to bring Goldberg in, but it hardly justifies his price tag.

XIX wasn't so bad really seeing that I only expected Angle/Lesnar when tix went out in January. Austin's last match (for now), Hogan's last match (for now, and we're counting "Mr. America" as another character for this because Hogan pseudo-characters never have the appeal and draw of his main one), and what may very well be Rock's last match of any importance (and no, a Goldberg insta-feud does not count) elevated that show above it's crappy booking. As for XX, they started by marketing it too early. Now it's incessant, to the point that the troops in the crowd are wearing XX gear. Cmon! You'll never be able to keep people from getting disappointment when you drill it into their heads that hard.

Bah. The sad thing is that exact arguement of Vyce's is my arguement against theocracies. This has been a really bad week for me in this forum. Oh well, they happen. Although I will take issue with the latter half. It was years between acts of terrorism.

A man launched paint-filled balloons with a catapault at the box. Blaine is now being charged for all the police watch required around his stunt.

CARLSON: OK. Well, on yesterday's program on telemarketing, some of you may have seen it. I jokingly gave out what I said was my home phone number. In fact, it was the main number of the Washington bureau of the Fox News Channel. (LAUGHTER) CARLSON: I thought it was funny. Fox did not think it was funny. (LAUGHTER) CARLSON: Apparently, many of our viewers called that number, hoping to speak to me. Instead, they reached a grouchy Fox switchboard operator. Well, to our viewers, I'm sorry I gave you that bad information, even in jest. Last night, Fox responded by posting on its Web site my unlisted home phone number, the phone number where my wife and four small children often answer the phone, as they did last night, during dinner, when the first of several hundred Fox viewers called to scream obscenities at them into the phone. Fox had every right to be annoyed by what I did, amusing as I thought it was. They had no right to invade my privacy or to enable their followers to threaten my family. (APPLAUSE) CARLSON: And you know what, James? (APPLAUSE) CARVILLE: I say this seriously. You have four children. One of your child is in the third grade, the same classroom as my child. And you know what my definition of an operation that would scare the dickens out of little children and a mother living at home and a lot of times you being out of town? This is a pond scum operation that would do that, that would terrify children, that would put something like that up there for the bunch of nuts that watch that thing to call and harass you. (APPLAUSE) CARVILLE: You pulled a joke. If they want to go adult-to-adult, person-to-person, that's fine. You're big enough to take it. They have no right to be scaring the dickens out of children, out of little children, when their daddy's out of town. And they ought to be ashamed of themselves. CARLSON: OK. CARVILLE: Ashamed of themselves for doing that. (APPLAUSE) CARLSON: Well, thank you, James. Incidentally, we have Roger Ailes' home phone number, but we're not going to give it to you. (CROSSTALK) CARVILLE: No, I wouldn't do that, because Roger Ailes has a small child. He showed me the picture of it. I think Roger Ailes is a good man. CARLSON: OK. CARVILLE: I don't think he was behind this. CARLSON: All right.

Eh, you live here too, so you know that they don't come to our neck of the wood very often. Hell, there's no show for the Bay Area or Sac-town for at least the rest of the year by what I've seen.

Bah. You missed the crazy-funny "Master TicketFuck" Gold FuckBerg

FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FATHER SHUT UP!

Carlson on Crossfire just bitched about this. Saying that maybe he wasn't very funny doing this although he personally thought he was, but his wife and four kids got FOXNEWSLOL@))% people calling them day and night yelling obscenities into the phone. Carville called them dispicable but called Roger Ailes "a good man" and assumed he wasn't responsible for this.

At this point you lose credibility for taking it too seriously. 'Tis a wrestling show. There's not even any guarantees it'll be a good one. O_o*

He is an Isabel-like source of hot air, that's for sure. But my thing is that he's a real social conservative and has bitched about Reupblicans that aren't the same. The minute Arnold comes on his show, he starts BUTT-kissing. Arnold told him over the phone he was Pro-Choice and Hannity hardly flinched, moving onto gay unions and stuff. I guess I'm used to the Carlsons and the Ben Steins of the world, both of which have bashed Arnold for not being Republican enough for them. Although I'm still planning to vote for Arnold and probably wouldn't if he pandered to those groups. It's just funny to hear Hannity go from a right-side loudmouth into more of a centerlike personality when in Arnold's presence.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98360,00.html FAUX NEWS LOL2028987900!!!!!

Sure. Even if you choose not to go, you have to be pretty foolish to not go AND lose money on it by not putting it for sale. Shit, someone here was using WM tickets like an ATM machine this year, ebaying several times, getting a platinum seat and still making profit.

What's up with all these fake SurSer sets? Can they not get an MSG entrance to work right? WrestleMania 2000 had doors that opened for your wrestler and everything. This makes me scared of what the WM XX set is going to look like in future games, whatever they do with it I'm sure it'll be the old school entrance.

He said that the booking of the PPV weeks away ruined the show he was watching right now:

Plenty of tech support centers and other calling-related jobs have moved to India and other countries. Nothing is stopping telemarketers either really. But if we had fair wage systems set up for countries we do business with none of this would be happening and people could work at call centers where customers call them and not the other way around. This is like when San Francisco voted over outlawing panhandling. The homeless, although they don't have much posessions of their own, shouldn't be allowed to just become the newest part of MY business and harass MY customers for their money. Similarly, do I want someone calling my home office line to harass me with their offers. Sure, all you have to do is walk past the homeless bums, but their peeing on the sidewalk isn't pretty and hell, it's my property they're camped out in front of. It doesn't make sense that I don't have the right to have them removed and blacklisted from visiting my establishment. WHICH IS, by the way, something that telemarketers do have individually. All this does is instead of blacklisting one homeless at a time, I can simply stick a "NO PANHANDLING" sign in my window and walk away. Do Not Call lists are perfectly legal, as they've been legally required for years. What's so unconstitutional about a blanket one? Think about it man. TheMikeSC, Marney, and JotW, three posters who barb one another as being misguided/wrong/stupid/etc, are banding together in unison to tell you what you're saying is dumb.

Oh, that's nice. Right after we've been getting along more often than not. Are you really Ann Coulter, because you have a habit of throwing nasty remarks like this at anyone who doesn't believe in some one true path when it comes to this administration and foreign policy. So at the same time you're trying to tell me that a terrorist act may not always be committed by who you think did it but criticising those who don't see a bin Laden connection. I don't know any of those people and firmly think bin Laden did it, but it's like you're black on one sentence and white on the next. I do want to save lives. In particular preventing the lives of troops (voluntary or not) from being needlessly thrown away. So you're telling me that nuclear deterrence is not an option? It's always been the final option, it's not one I approve of under most circumstances but in times of world crisis it should always be considered. And it's certainly, CERTAINLY a lot better than making itty bitty Vietnams everywhere you go, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Iran to Syria to North Korea and beyond. Who knows what happens then. Maybe everyone gets tired of this and by that time we've spread ourselves too thin. Then again, maybe you'll get international support with Iran since the UN discoveries if you strike while the iron is hot. I hope so. I don't know, maybe I'm just pissed off about how you guys choose to run off into the desert, saying you're 100% positive this is the right thing to do and it's all planned out, and then like clockwork you come back and say it's going to cost more or take longer than expected. Or maybe I'm just shocked, SHOCKED that this latest one hasn't turned up anything of what we're searching for. I'll be honest when I say that if even some sketchy details came in regarding WMD, I'd be inclined to believe them as the window for any possibly evidence planting has long passed. And yes, I know you played your cards close to your vest last time we talked about this issue, which I take as a hint that I should wait and see, but this interim CIA report doesn't instill confidence. Go ahead and use that one event to justify all the war you want, but it was a few men with box cutters for weapons. With all the glorifying that's been going on, few have realized that smarter security protocols at airports are doing at least 50% of as good a job as preventing another 9/11 than bombing every square inch of Afghanistan to hell. Which isn't to say I didn't support the efforts in Afghanistan, or that airport seucrity doesn't have holes (hardly, as the media keeps sneaking in stuff they shouldn't just to see if they can, and every few months a "We put weapons/explosive/etc through an airport checkpoint and nothing happened" report appears.) I haven't been able to get any sleep in 24 hours so I'm going to try. I know I'm going to regret opening this can of worms by the time I get back to the computer in 8-10 hours, but oh well. So it goes.