Steve J. Rogers

Now THATS hard to do in a movie production. What was the reason? Were they too cheap not to reshoot the scenes the way 99.9% of other movie productions are done? Steve

I've been saying that for 42 (well the last 17 of them) years! About the Met-Astro rival. Something about Expansion Siblings...

I don't mean stupid one minute fluff stuff from award show/entertainment shows/ect interviewers I mean actual sit downs on talk shows and such (Stern, Imus, Leno, ect) Mostly I'm looking for innaccuracies, misrepresentations, and general lack of preparedness by the interviewer Well the best one I can come up with is Magic Johnson on Later when the Lakers were playing the Pacers in the 2000 NBA Finals (that exact week) and this woman was hosting (I forget who but she was being hyped as a "next big thing in late night" or something) Anyway what got me laughing was when she was talking to Magjc (who still is involved with the Laker front office) about Michael Jordan talking about becoming a front office guy with a team (I don't think he started talking to the Wizzards at that point) and how great it would be to see Magic vs Michael all over again as if Jordan was Magic's greatest rival. Well it was funny considering who was coaching the Pacers and if ANYONE knows anything about Earvin Johnson its that the man that he is forever intertwinned with was the coach of the Pacers at the time, Mr. Larry Bird and she never brought Larry into the conversation, it was all about Michael Jordan! I swear it was like watching a Jimminy Glick interview, only it wasn't an act! Steve

Right, but if he had blabbed about it throughout the three movies people would have complained to no end. As it was, you could see pretty big hints to it at the beginning of FotR. Also, in the book Sam (as well as both Merry and Pippen) is MUCH, MUCH younger than Frodo, in other words Frodo-Sam is more like Bruce Wayne-Dick Grayson style relationship (Middle age guy and youthfull ward) They severly collapsed the time Gandalf spent researching about The Ring before returning to send Frodo off to Rivendale and probably made Frodo and Sam close to the same age as so not to bring up a Batman and Robin kind of controversy (the characters, not the awful movie) Steve

Was listening to this story on the Jim Rome show last week, at first he read it, made the usual wise cracks about it (i.e. how long the band geek would last) but then some time later he said that either Purdue called or his staff got in touch with Purdue and was told that the story was unequivically untrue. To the point where it was stated that there is no Indiana HS prospect with the name "Jason P. Smith" Looks like a prank goof that got more attention than it deserved from this website: http://hoosiergazette.com/Sports/sports003.htm Note the website's slogan: Indiana's First Source for Inaccurate News and Commentary Since 2003! Steve

I actually have a 62 year old uncle who is still to this day pretty bitter about never getting a chance to try pro baseball, even at a tryout stage. Recently he was bitching about how he saw three guys he played with in High School (last level he played) played in the majors listed in a baseball encylopedia, granted none for more than a cup of coffee but they had their moment in "The Show" and my uncle not only insists that he was much better than those guys, that he was better than the majority of guys in the game today! Personally, I think it depends on what you make of your life after you miss that shot. My uncle is a bitter fellow who has a severe gambling problem and hardly any skills beyond whats needed to survive (i.e. he can buy food but can't cook) so obviously he'd be bitter about never having that chance. That being said, he'd probably piss all that money on gambling debts... Steve

This one from McDonalds that they were pimping during the two weeks before the Super Bowl in Jan of 1990 (49ners vs Broncos) Basically they were saying that one, thats ONE sandwich would be specially priced after which ever team won (Sure Big Mac had to be one, I forget the other) and they did these cheezy comericals featuring some Alaskian town that never heard of football where all the residents were split down the middle over which team/sandwich they wanted to win Okay, decent promotion, cheezy but funny ad campaign, nice so far. Well untill the final ad came out at the end of the game and it turns out old Mickey D's pulled a major swerve. Turns out BOTH sandwiches would be marked down for the limited time. Thats okay, I guess, its possible franchises balked at the idea especially thinking that there might be a delluge of late night snackers that night after the game looking to celebrate with the winning sandwich and decided to avoid confusion (Goodness knows some McDonalds employees aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the world and may end up marking down the wrong sandwich) But here is the stupid part, the final ad was the one that they would have played had the 49ners won, and it had one of the "Bronco Fans" say "But they tried their hardest!" Okay, I understand the ad was pre-recorded months in advance, but it just looked pretty dumb hearing that remark after the Broncos had just been drubbed in what was at the time the worst defeat in Super Bowl history! Sure you can say, "well what would you have them say?" Good question, maybe not mention the effort of the losing team, maybe "But the they aren't going away empty handed" maybe "But they had a great season anyway" Un freaking believable! Steve

This has to do with the same Best Buy, Last fall I go to look for Summer Slam and its not there, so I ask a clerk A) if its in stock or B) when does it look like they are getting some more old stuff from their supplier and the guy says "Didn't it just happen? We won't be getting that untill next year some time" Obviously under the impression that I was talking about the Survivor Series that had aired a week or so earlier. I replied, "No, it should have been out by now" to which the clerk just said "Well we don't have it" And yesterday I'm looking for a Star Trek DVD set that was released earlier in Dec (first week to be exact) and asking about it, first the guy said it wasn't released to which I said that I saw it on a website (tvshowsondvd.com) as being released in early December. When he said "Look what we have is out there" I asked if he could check the computer to see when it would be coming Well he typed "Star Trek Deep Space Nine" which first popped up pages of the old VHS tapes that have been released and said "We don't have any DVDs" so I asked if I could try typing something in because sometimes you have to type things in differently, (like maybe its under Deep Space Nine Season 7) to which he kept saying "We don't have it! Look I'll do it again" and typed in the same thing I swear some days I wonder why I still go to stores this time of year

Yes, yes you are. Not neccessarilly, Mark could be wearing lifts today or other techniques to make him look taller. Could also be a visual thing as well, the real old school look (with the tie, bowler hat, ect) had a more compact look than the Prince of Darkness Taker and all of his incarnations since In other words, his features are more pronounced, therefore he looks a bit taller Steve

Kevin (Ares on Xena) Smith died after a fall on a scene he was filming... This site has a list of many performers to have died while "on stage" including Owen Hart http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/onstage.htm

The day after that was announced, I heard a prominent sports network head honcho (HBO Sports) speculate about how much Jason Kidd actually won by considering how much the NBA was pimping Grant Hill as the "Next Big Thing" at the time Steve

The Kliq was simply Shawn's name for his fans. The Clique was the backstage group. I remember the commentators calling Shawn/Hunter/Chyna/Rude the Clique before the D-X name was coined. And I already knew the Kliq/Clique thing. Possibly that was a dig at Hall/Nash/Syxx Or some Vince Russoesque inside reference D-X did alot of inside references during their early days with signs and they even aired the MSG footage complete with Shawn asking Hunter "Wait! How can that be, weren't you a bad guy and wasn't I a good guy?"

WM of that year, the Raw after the Rumble HHH challanged The Rock to a "I Quit" match for the championship, HHH had Rocky seconds away from saying "I Quit" when Rock's Corporation teamates Kane, Shamrock and Bossman had Chyna ready for a chokeslam and were going to do it if HHH didn't say "I Quit" and he did, then Chyna turned on him Flash forward to WM, HHH vs Kane and the Russoific swerves begin. Chyna turns on Kane (whom she had been working with as a second) and joins HHH. Later X-Pac faced Shane McMahon for the Euro title and it was during this match that HHH turned on X-Pac given Shane the win and the title. Essentially turning HHH and Chyna into members of the Corporation and kicking Kane out of the Corporation X-Pac and Kane would soon join forces and sometime around May Road Dogg and Billy Gunn split up so occasionally X-Pac and Road Dogg would tag as well Actually D-X v3.0 came out in the fall when the new champion, Triple H, needed a posse. The Outlaws reuinited, X-Pac rejoined and turned on Kane and Chyna was pretty much phased out as she would be showing up as a face as a singles wrestler in a fued against Jeff Jarrett and later Chris Jericho so enter Stephanie McMahon, soon to be Stephaine McMahon-Helmsley in November of 1999 That version of D-X was pretty much dispersed with no real final breakup moment. Gunn got hurt, Road Dogg got canned and X-Pac started X-Factor Then there was the 5 second HHH-HBK reuion... Steve

I'll tell you one thing though, somtimes someone who collects them might try to schmooze there way to completing the set. This year NYC's McDonalds did a Yankee card promotion where you get one card per order. Not wanting to pay for 24 Chicken Strips or Chicken Nugget meals over the course of the promotion (not counting all the multiples of Al Osuna or Enrique Wilsons I would get) I always asked if I could just get a hand full of the cards and I promised I would go through them off to the side so I wouldn't tie up a line Of course A) clerks would say that ALL the cards they had were the same one because the promo game card in the pack was more visable than the back of the player card and B) You get sticklers for the "NO ONE CARD PER ORDER YOU STUPID FUCK!" rule even if I'm being nice about it and not at all being a jerk about it So I ended up paying 10 bucks for a complete set on eBay. Come to think about it, it was probably cheaper if I waited for them to appear on eBay!

I honestly think its more about the age of the person, and how much "knowledge" of music, pop culture and social history they have. If someone does know/care about how an artist tranceends their output (the songs/albums/whatever else they've done) then all they see is just their body of work. I wouldn't knock anyone for saying Dylan is overrated, hell I think Elvis is the most overrated artist of all time (topic for another day) but no one can deny that Elvis wasn't one of, if not THE most influential aritist to ever grace a stage. But to someone who just hears the music and just doesn't like it or is neutral about it (whatever degree you want to use) and doesn't know (or care) what Elvis Presley did for rock, country, r&b, pop culture as a whole, ect then they'd be all "What was the fuss about this guy?" Steve

So guys that may do a smattering of "Legends Return" matches on indy cards like a Bruno or Thez don't count. Also this list is about the "biggest names" and mostly just in the US scene so no Japanese greats or other international stars, as I really don't have a way of gauging how big those names would be here in the states. Okay, I'm thinking guys like Abby, I don't think Dory Funk Jr ever made it to the WWE, Sandman, Brusier Brody... I'll have to check the match participant lists for the hardcore matches to see if Tommy Dreamer qualifies Steve

Actually she did some sort of memory spell with her professors and went back to her normal track

You know, its very weird that they completely dropped the whole UC Sunnydale stuff in terms of being a backdrop for the final 3 seasons. Everyone kind of moved into Casa Summers after Joyce's death and the reserection of Buffy yeah I know someone had to care for Dawn but that gave them an easy way to never appear on college ever again I mean we never did get to see Willow, the sole survivor of Sunnydale High's graduating class make it to her college graduation. Not that there was any "need" for it, but considering she was the last one still in, it would have been nice to even mention it, unless Sunnydale went bye-bye before the school year ended Steve

I'm pretty sure the Sabbath thing is more tied to Ozzy's insistance that they don't get in. Maybe after Ozzy dies they'll let them in who knows. They want a live performance at their ceremony and they aren't going to take "And now we induct Black Sabbath..." and nothing else because Ozzy and others are boycotting their own induction Steve

Funny sidebar, Sinatra said "Something" was his favortie Lennon-McCartney penned tune. One problem, it was written by George Harrison No one said The Chairman knew everything about the business! Steve

I totally agree with Ozzy, meaningless unless it's an open fan vote. Just the small sampling of responses to who was voted in this year on this board shows how meaningless it is. BTW you think maybe THAT has something to do with them not getting inducted all these years? Gee you don't want us, well we don't want you! Waylon Jennings did that to the Country Hall of Fame for years and didn't even show up when he finally got inducted (he was still alive at that point, last year of his life actually) And one other note, I don't think small responses on a board on a site who's main topic is pro-wrestling is a sign of wheither something is meaningfull. Maybe there just aren't enough fans of the inductees and their genres that are regular posting members in this folder Steve

I totally agree with Ozzy, meaningless unless it's an open fan vote. Just the small sampling of responses to who was voted in this year on this board shows how meaningless it is. But here is the problem with that. A) There are just as many fans who think certain groups/artists suck but don't realize their place in pop music history (good case in point would be anyone one today questioning why the Beatles are getting so much attention, or Elvis) and would vote for whoever they liked B) That being said, A) how are these ballots to be sent? via radio stations? Websites? VH1? Plus for the most part most of the audiences there are skewered to the younger demos. Put a ballot of all those eligable and the majority will be like "Ugh! Who cares about these people they are SOOOOOOOOOO 25 years ago!" I get why the multitude of award shows are meaningless, but the Hall is supposed to honor history and shaping the culture rather than just a Grammy or whatever Steve

Don't know off hand who wrote it, but Garth Brooks sings it: "Lord I'm much too young to feel this damn old!" Another classic Garth Brooks tune: "And now. I'm glad I didn't know The way it would end the way it would go Our lives Their better left to chance I could have missed the pain But I'd have to miss the dance"

"Everything dies Baby thats a fact And maybe every thing that dies some day comes back Put your make up on. Your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City" "Think I'm going to the well tonight and I'm drink till I get my fill And I hope when I get older I wont sit around thinking bout em But I probably will. Just sitting back, trying to recaputre the glory of Well times slips away, leaves you with nothing Mister but boring stories of Glory Days!" "At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a frieght train running through the middle of my head Only you can cool my desire Oh oh I'm on fire" -Bruce Springsteen

"When I was just a baby My Momma told me 'Son Always be a good boy Don't ever play with guns' But I shot a man in Reno Just to watch him die..." -Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues" Cash once said he was thinking of the worse act a man could do to another as a reason for the singer to be in prison, and that was it. Just about ever word to "You've Never Been This Far Before" by Conway Twitty is classic "I don't know what I'm saying as my trembling fingers touch forbidden places...bum bump buah..." "I don't know and I don't care what made you tell him you don't love him any more" "And you're wondering if tommorow I'll still love ya like I'm loving ya tonight. Huh huh huh! It has no way of knowing but tonight will make me love you more. And I hope that you'll believe me, cause I know you never been this far before." Another good Twitty line thats spoken, not sung: "I really thought that I loved you..." from "The Phone Song" Back to The Man In Black, probably the entire song "Man In Black"