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To be fair, Vince isn't exactly thinking clearly tonight anyway, so he probably figured a triple threat would be enough.

Surgically implanted steel plate. Duh. That or a small cast for his broken big toe.

Orton should keep the dark circles under the eyes, it works for him.

I'm hoping for an X-Pac cameo with the Light Heavyweight Title, only to be quickly hired and stuck in a match with Viscera.

I imagine in kayfabe there were no matches and the talent assumed Vince would be insane and stick them in something.

That voice just cemented my love of crazy Vince.

This is reminiscent of his post Royal Rumble 2002 days, when he went crazy and believed Flair was out to get him.

So, MNKen?

Wrestlemania X8 sucked ass, but a great custom theme song that I wish had in mp3 form.

Narrator: ... Directly to refridgerated railroad car where it is loaded immediately. Servo: Then sent back to the farm and put back into the ground, it actually makes no sense whatsoever! Narrator: Some carrots are frozen. Crow: Some carrots are humiliated... publicly.

It's funny how well liked that interpretation of the Undertaker is, when it was the shortest of his gimmicks, and one that I heard he himself didn't particularly care for.

People don't want to have a reason to watch ECW, hence the movements of the likes of Burke, and Punk. I've see similar sentiments in regards to Raw on this and other boards actually.

Non-fiction, but Imperial Life Inside the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a great look at the CPA in post-war Iraq, and is a solid history lesson in regards to understanding how the country changed from before the invasion to present day.

HHH and Stephanie got together roughly late 2000, I believe. Test and Steph in kayfabe, broke up at Armageddon, officially on the next Raw where DX beat him up. They were never together in real life.

I was listening to a shoot by Kevin Kelly the other day. Pretty interesting stuff, some of it confirming what Russo has stated earlier (Austin growing very paranoid the more his run went on, Vince being great at editing storylines and not actually creating ones). One thing that stuck out to me was that according to him it was he (with is wife's help) that pitched the HHH/Stephanie marrige angle via e-mail. The original context being was that Stephanie suffered another head injury, and that she and Test were then announced to be married backstage, only for the groom to turn around and have it be Hunter. The payoff eventually comes at the Rumble where HHH, Test, and Vince are all trying to pull her in three different directions, before she announces she doesn't want anything to do with any of them, and walks off, in his words creating a strong, independent female character. Vince and Shane loved the idea, but obviously changed the actual event. I'm not completely sure if it's totally 100% true, and if anyone has a conflicting account of the angle's source, feel free to correct me. If it is true, then oddly enough it can be said that Kevin Kelly of all people may have dramatically affected the whole future of the company.

I've had a similar experience as well, as I'm a quasi-new guy with almost every other wrestling board except this one.

Good finish.

I do recall liking Shane in the Survivor Series main event, breaking up every pinfall the WWF team attempted.

I miss the days of X-Pac fued era Shane, who had to use every dirty heel trick just to survive, let alone score offense.

In kayfabe, Umaga's not thinking as straight without Estrada.

Umaga's look progressively less threatening ever since he got paired with Vince.

Odd that a two and half years ago, you had Michaels cradling Orton's head during the latter's concussion days.

I would love for Nowinski to show up and express sympathy for Michaels then to heel it up and call HBK a pussy.

I'm still not getting that music. Is Raw a mystery thriller now?

Sin City, this is not.