NoCalMike

I dunno, I mean a strawberry is natural vs "strawberry flavoring" but I am not sure if it has to necessarily be an organic strawberry to considered natural. I believe organic strictly has to do with the way the food is grown.

I think I would have been more mad if the series was still as good at that point as it was in it's first two seasons. By the time the series ended it had ran it's course and only had some random good moments throughout the final few seasons.

Redskins like to win 3 quarters of football. They like to have a small lead to not pad on, and let the other team come back and win in the closing seconds. They have had a halftime lead in just about every single one of their losses, besides the Pats game. So all I am going to predict is..... Redskins 17 Bears 10 going into the 4th quarter...........

Raven's backstage promos from ECW when he would just be sitting in a dark corner somewhere, and then he would start talking about fighting over Beulah at summercamp....GOLD. Taz's promo after his heel turn at November to Remember '95 was nice, as was his shoot at N2R 96 where he "spoiled" Heyman's announcement of a debut PPV show. I thought Bret Hart had a good one on Raw the nigh he got superkicked over the wheelchair. RVD's had some good ones when he played the cocky heel, before all the RVD 4:20 stuff came into play. Jake the Snake was great because he had you believing everything he said, literally.

So maybe the answer is to give X-division/Cruiserweights more then five minutes to have a match. If you watch Rey vs. Juvi at Big Ass Extreme Bash in 1996, the match started slowly, picked up speed, and then turned into a high-spot trading show for the last five minutes or so. Of course, that match was given the proper amount of time to build and climax properly. Of course, I am just a stupid IWF because my praise of this match would mean I feel Paul Heyman knew how to competently book a match... Well plus the fact that this article is about 5-8 years too late in it's criticisms. WWE ME'ers do plenty of non-selling, just because they wait more then 8 seconds to suddenly "kip-up" or "hulk-up" or "rise from the dead" and suddenly have the use of said body part that was worked over for ten minutes, doesn't mean they are doing a great job of selling. I would say the fact that the WWE and a company that can't settle on an identity, being the only viable free options is what is hurting the business. The internet sure didn't seem to hurt business at all in 1996-2002, when there were three companies big enough for the mainstream to watch on a weekly basis, and they all offered somewhat of a different vision for prowrestling. I can remember being in highschool in 96-98, and having all the "super secret suprises" ruined for me and my friends because of the internet and it didn't make one damn difference, we still couldn't wait to tune in because the product was compelling and fun to watch. If I knew someone was jumping ship ahead of time it wanted to make me watch that much more to see what they would do/say in their debut. It seems wrestlers can't make up their minds on whether the internet wrestling community is too "miniscule to matter" or if it is "hurting the business"

I wouldn't say signing "big-name" former WWE talent is the problem. I'd say the problem is when you sign them and don't use them to put over your own talent. This isn't 1994-2000 anymore, any star power that Hall/Nash/Booker T/Christian and possibly even Kurt Angle bring to the table is minimal at best. Sure, I might tune in to see what they are doing on the show for a week or two, but as a wrestling organization TNA would have to show me that their own home-grown talent is able to match former WWE employees in the ring. You have to build your own stars up or people are just going to view you as a ripoff an amateur version of the "big time" Why TNA "creative" fails to realize this I still don't know.

I missed the first half hour/forty-five minutes of the first episode. Got a question... As for the movie, it was decent, not great, but just as well, good enough to have me interested to watch part two.

Ok, so the console comes with the wiimote & nunchuck? Ok then, so I would just need to buy one more of each.....and then maybe another game.....

So I got a wii for the family Christmas present. It comes with wii sports and we bought Mario Galaxy. We get paid again before Christmas. Should I buy an additional wii-mote and a couple of nun-chuck-things? Do they make the gaming experience more fun? There is also the option of buying a more classic style remote. Is the wii-mote and nun-chuck only good for some games or what? I am quite the nintendo novice....well ever since Super Nintendo...lol.

The crowd I saw at the theater damn near gave a standing ovation when

Wow, the Redskins defense manages to look awful in a game where they don't give up a single TD.

Well my guess is that there is probably 200-500 more people arriving at the stores then there are "doorbuster" items, and the stores figure that if people waited in line that long, they aren't just going to go home, so they end up buying something labled "sale"

You're still missing it. They can use whatever they want as motivation: winning for winning's sake, lose and we're done, we've been withholding alcohol from ourselves till we have a good game, avenging death, whatever. I don't care. It doesn't matter what teams do to motivate themselves, and in the case of my Bears, I don't care as long as it yields wins. But for Mike to say that this death is going to be sublimated into a decisive victory is pretty dicey business. If the Redskins beat the Bills, it won't be because Sean Taylor was murdered and this inspired them, and if they lose, it won't be because Sean Taylor was murdered and they weren't focused. There are so many more immediate aspects to the outcome of the game than the pregame dangling carrots. It's like the "Rest vs. Rust" canard, but much more offensive to any rational person's football sensibilities. I guess you ignored the part where I said the Bills are starting a rookie QB against a good Redskins defense. I didn't say the Redskins will be lifted by Taylor's guardian angel wings into the throws of victory. Nor, did I say that would be the determining factor. I was just trying to say that it is possible that running on an emotional high could also be a factor. It might not make them play better perse, but I could definately see it making a team fight harder in the stretch. Everyone reacts differently to a close loss in their life, and I think it is a bit pretentious to act like you know for a fact that none of it translates to the playing field.

So I guess all the media claiming this was "Taylor's past coming back to haunt him" can really go fuck themselves.

I just saw it tonight. Good shit, and oh man what a fucked up ending.

I don't understand how the play was ruled dead when TO was still fighting to progress forward. Usually a play is not dead until forward progress stops or in the case of a running-back, they defense is driving him backwards. TO was fighting to move with the ball, and Al Harris simply reached in and grabbed the ball away....he definately wasn't stopped, and surely wasn't being driven backwards, and was also in bounds the entire time. Even with the bad calls made though, Favre did plenty to put his team in an uncessary early hole. Some of those throws he made were pretty damn inexcusable.

Well I already have an HD-TV I am happy with...I was mostly posting this for other people to take a look at.....read the thread and I would say it is a good buy.

Redskins defense should be pumped up and emotional, and I just read the Bills are starting their rookie at QB, his 1st NFL start...... Redskins 20 Bills 3

IMO, if two refs are arguing...why not let them review it for themselves. That ball stripping play should have been an INT Favre decided to put his team in a hole because he wanted to fling the ball all over the field, I mean the guy was making some of the stupidest fucking throws I have seen. Attacking Dallas downfield is the right way to go, but if someone is double-covered, at least look at your other potential targets on the field..... The last PI call was weak, not only was it not PI, but the ball is overthrown and uncatchable anyway....

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5006894 Seems like a good deal...

So in otherwords, the opposite philosophy of Post-WWII Germany. Conservatives out to prove their system is better?

Stopped reading.

I don't have a problem with the idea of you-tube debates, I actually think it is kind of neat, but after actually watching one for the first time last night, I think it is a waste of time if they are going to execute it the way they do. The questions are either the softiest-mcsoftballs or they are downright joke questions. I know there has to be a much better pool of questions being submitted. I guess I just don't like the idea of debates being about asking these open-ended questions where the candidate just goes off on a tangent and isn't challenged on their responses. For example, when the candidates keep using the 2004 Republican talking point of "following us home" there is no follow-up question or challenge to the generic response. I mean why not have the moderator challenge them a little and bring up the fact that Al Qaeda has only ever made up under 5% in it's peak, of attacks death in Iraq in the first place, and ask the candidates to clarify who exactly wants to follow us home, Al Qaeda which is not even based out of Iraq to begin with or Iraqis themselves who would seemingly be more anxious to do so as a result of our war/occupation of their country. Or when the candidates talk about the drop in violence/casualties, why not challenge them a bit on the way the statistics are recorded, and how it seems every six months or so there is a new type of casualty/death that doesn't eally count as a battlefield casualty anymore as far as statistics go. The moderator doesn't have to make the challenges as biased sounding as I just did, but it just kind of gets frustrating when cadidates can take a softball question and just blatantly ignore some of the facts on the ground and not even get called on it. Not that this is unique to the youtube debates alone.

The Best Buy closet to my house only gave out one door-buster item ticket per customer.

I read earlier in this thead about lockups. The game froze up on me twice befoe I beat it and both times were after I was beyond 50% through the game.