WWF was hurting WWE's credibility

[Guest LesnarLunatic]

via Fark.com:

 

"Tim Blair: This could give wrestling a bad name

 

July 11, 2002

THE international environmental movement faced a serious challenge last year. Former Greenpeace member Bjorn Lomborg's The Sceptical Environmentalist gained enormous publicity with its debunking of various green claims, including global warming and species depletion.

 

 

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How would the greenoids respond? Would they accept any of Lomborg's criticism? Would they re-examine their more extreme views? Not at all. Instead, environistas have switched to full-blown shrieking apocalyptic insanity mode.

 

This week, the World Wildlife Fund released a report claiming that humankind would be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if the Earth's natural resources continue to be consumed at the current rate. Martin Jenkins, who helped compile the report, told Britain's Observer: "It seems things are getting worse faster. We are entering uncharted territory."

 

We sure are. The World Wildlife Fund used to be one of the more sensible environmental advocacy groups, with a guiding philosophy of "Please don't hurt the cute little panda babies." Now they've turned lunatic. Let's see how they compare with that other crazy WWF, the World Wrestling Federation:

 

World Wrestling Federation: Appeal based on comically threatening entities named the Undertaker, the Rock, Latino Heat.

 

World Wildlife Fund: Appeal based on comically threatening entities named the Greenhouse Effect, Global Warming, Overpopulation, Kyoto Protocol.

 

World Wrestling Federation: Supporters mainly young, under-educated and gullible.

 

World Wildlife Fund: Supporters mainly young, over-educated and gullible.

 

World Wrestling Federation: Prone to issuing dire threats: "Tomorrow night I'm going to twist Edge's head off and eat it! You hear me, Edge? I'm calling you out!"

 

World Wildlife Fund: Prone to issuing dire threats: "Unless we change our priorities and embrace environmental concerns, humanity faces an unsustainable future."

 

World Wrestling Federation: Fans display nonsensical signs reading "Stone Cold Rules!", "Nothing Else Matters" and "Austin 3:16".

 

World Wildlife Fund: Fans display nonsensical signs reading "People Not Profits", "Save the Planet" and "Meat is Murder".

 

World Wrestling Federation: Bad guys become good when story-lines dictate.

 

World Wildlife Fund: Bad guys become good when multinationals donate sponsorship dollars.

 

The main difference between the two WWFs is that the wrestlers know it's all make-believe, while the panda people want you to take them seriously. The wrestling show this year changed its name to WWE – World Wrestling Entertainment. Good move. Any connection with the World Wildlife Fund would deliver a serious smackdown to wrestling's credibility."

 

 

'Tomorrow night I'm going to twist Edge's head off and eat it! You hear me, Edge? I'm calling you out!'

 

now.. that's a threat.

[Guest caboose]

DOH!

Double post, second one was better, i don't know how, but it was.

[Guest caboose]

That was pretty funny.

But did I sense some Hyperbole to emphasise the sarcasm of the article.

What the guy says about the WWFN(Pandas) is true. They are completely over the top with their claims of planet colonisation.

[Guest AM The Kid]

They called us uneducated.

[Guest HollywoodSpikeJenkins]

Nothing Else Matters 3:16 Says, Im going to twist your head off and Eat It

 

 

 

 

Fuck You Panda's

[Guest jimmy no nose]

Nah, it said mainly, they meant all except us.

[Guest HartFan86]

"World Wrestling Federation: Supporters mainly young, under-educated and gullible."

 

Meh reckon that makes n0 sense. Ya hear me? We wrasslin' fans, we smaaat.

[Guest LJSexay]

They said the supporters MAINLY are...

 

...we aren't the majority, smarks are in the clear on this one.

 

..........for now.

[Guest Nezbyte]

`World Wrestling Federation: Prone to issuing dire threats: "Tomorrow night I'm going to twist Edge's head off and eat it! You hear me, Edge? I'm calling you out!"`

 

Wow, i think Flair must've said that cause no one else is THAT good.

 

 

Seriously, though, good read.

[Guest HartFan86]

I think they called the wrestling fans uneducated who actually thought Mae Young really did give birth to a hand.

[Guest LesnarLunatic]

let's take our pitchforks and march to Austrilia so we can give them a piece of our minds!