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Matt Hardy vs Evander Holyfield in a boxing match at SNME per WWE.com

QUOTE(The Critic @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 11:52 AM) I don't blame him one bit for marking time til he can leave them. Do you think he works Ring Of Honor for a while again, or does Vince try to snap him up? I don't think Joe's "HOSS" enough for Vince, but he's pretty over with the TNA audience and the "internet crowd" so that may sway Vince to try to sign him. I'd like to see him work ROH/Japan but he's pretty much done almost everything there that there is to do. If he did get hired by the E, he could be put in a good program. Hell, just go with his old gimmick from ROH -- he was the hired assassin from the Prophecy stable.

Another death. Bryan 'Crush' Adams found dead today according to WWE.com /tears for Demolition And Sylvain has been fired.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 03:42 AM) Wow. It's been pretty well-documented that I am NO mark for Joe, but TNA has completely and totally misused him. There have been so many times that I've thought "okay, here's where they begin the Joe Era", and then they job him out to anyone and everyone. It's to the point now that if and when he's finally given the strap, it's going to mean nothing - it's gone into that "blind squirrel" territory by now. There is a reason that he didn't sign a contract extension with TNA when given the opportunity.

Samoa Joe does the Samoan Job to Angle. Angle's wife gives Angle the chair in a swerve at the end (she was supposedly having a boyfriend etc.) and he clocked Joe with it FTW. Kurt Angle is now IGF Third Belt Champ, X Division Champ, TNA World Champ and TNA Tag Team Champ.

TNA results: Machismo and Dutt d. XXX and Motor City Machine Guns after Machismo's quick schoolboy. Kaz d. Raven with a running big boot to the face. James Storm d. Rhino with the beer bottle to the head. LAX d. VKM with Homicide's quick schoolboy of Kip James after the match was re-started when VKM used powder. (totally set up the easy crackhead VKM joke too, however inadvertently) Robert Roode d. Eric Young with a shot from a set of brass knuckles. Chris Harris d. Dustin Rhodes by DQ when Rhodes handcuffed him to the ropes, hit him and then nailed him in the head off the top with a scepter that has a spike on the end. Steiners d. 3D after D-Von gets hit with the Doomsday Bulldog and pinned. Abyss/Sting/Test d. Christian Coalition after AJ got Black Hole Slammed onto broken glass by Abyss. Angle/Joe is now on.

QUOTE(Brian @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 04:22 PM) There's a TNA PPV tonight? Shows how much I follow it. Saw that TNA sent Hoyt and Hemme home. Maybe gone. Interesting. TNA invested a lot in Hemme as their top sex symbol. Huh? Heh? I'm hungry! /ends Steiner But really, there is a rumor that this is from budget cuts. Here's an idea TNA -- Stop signing every low rent, horse faced, steroid abusing wrassler that is cut by WWE. When your own homegrown talent is refusing to sign extensions and others are demanding their releases, your organization is sucking hard. Winner Takes All: -Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe Hooray another match where Joe is denied the World Title and is a match to further devalue the already near worthless TNA titles! Chamber Of Blood: -Sting, Abyss & Test vs. Christian, AJ Styles & Tomko Whatever happened to regular matches? Why the gimmick matches, TNA? You already overused the thumbtack spot so much that the workers have been forced to go for broken glass (safety glass) to get further shocks out of the fans. Tag Dream Match: -Steiner Brothers vs. Team 3-D This would have been great about 8-10 years ago. Bar Room Brawl: -Rhino vs. James Storm Who cares? Humiliation Match: -Eric Young vs. Robert Roode Why is this feud still happening? Eric sucks and Roode needs to move on. Tag-Match: -LAX vs. VKM A face LAX? WTF? Singles Match: -Dustin Rhodes vs. Chris Harris Another WWE castoff set to get a major push and go over some homegrown talent. Tag-Match: -Triple X vs. Motorcity Machine Guns vs. Dutt & B. Machismo Who needs continuity! Sure XXX should never be able to tag again but who cares about that.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 10, 2007 -> 10:41 AM) lol, i saw this vide last week. I also thought it was hilarious. Valuable lessons/advice: Brush yo teef, brush yo teef Use deodarant (it's cheap!) We don't like dem spinners My favorite part is the R-E-A-D-A-B-O (Lil John voice) O-K!

NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN2VqFPNS8w This is hilarious. But some people are saying it is offensive.

QUOTE(WhiteSoxFan1 @ Aug 9, 2007 -> 10:35 AM) turns out this girl doesnt respond to anyone ever. I talked to her cousin for an hour or so yesterday through instant message and I asked her why (the girl im after) is so picky and choosy on what she replies to, and why she sometimes doesnt reply at all? Her response was pretty much "its because shes a dumbass. she doesnt reply to anything or anyone, by phone, email, computer or anything and I have no clue why. I tried texting her 3 times today telling her to call me and I never heard from her. She even did this in high school, and I dont know why shes like this, but she is. Id say the best bet is to just ignore her when she texts so she knows how it feels, but ive tried that and it doesnt even faze her.I guess just dont take it personal. I wish I could help more, but ive known her my whole life and still cant figure out the answer to this question." After that, I tried calling her yesterday. Got her voice mail of course and asked her if she was free tonight and wanted to hang out. She texted back hours later saying "yes i want to hang out, but i do have soccer practice. So hopefully after?" So I tried replying back saying that after her practice would be good and if she wanted to see a movie (since its gonna be sort of late) and I never heard anything back. So ehh I dunno wtf to expect outta this one. I dont want to give up on it yet though. Take the goddamn hint already and go find a new girl. Jesus H. Motherf***ing Christ, for the love of God and all that is holy -- this is getting ridiculous. She's trying to give you plenty of hints that she's not worth dating and here you are still fawning over it. This is like eating a bowl of cereal with spoiled milk. Instead of throwing that s*** away, you're slurping away with spoonfuls "Oh man, it tastes like s*** but I just can't stop eating!"

I just took a picture of me after reading this thread...

QUOTE(MHizzle85 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 08:36 PM) Wasn't this a move by Heyman when he was working down in OVW? Yeah, it was brilliant booking. Watch this one first to understand Kennedy's promo Then Kennedy's promo

QUOTE(MHizzle85 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 03:25 PM) If thats the case, i'd like props on calling it first. Well, he did change his name from Anderson to Kennedy in honor of VKM's middle name in an episode of OVW. It was a pretty good heel promo -- he was ribbing the face announcer who snapped on Johnny Jeter the week before and told him off.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 06:21 PM) I'm a journalism major. I'm going into history with a teaching certification Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

Screw txt'ing. Just get on the damn phone already and call her instead of all this dramatic foreplay. Seriously, take responsibility for yourself instead of having a bunch of random message board posters (many of whom you don't know in person) to tell you romantic 'advice'. Asking us for advice was not only odd but meaningless because your actions show you had no intent of actually using it. There is an excellent book that most of you should go out and get your grubby little meat-handles on right now. It is called "Sit Down and Shut Up" by Brad Warner. He is a former punk bassist and is also an ordained Zen priest. A part of his work is excerpted here with my own commentary (which is in bold). A few hundred years ago a dude named Gensa, who later went on to be one of the great Buddhist teachers, was still a young monk. One day he gets fed up with the temple where he's studying. He ?gures he'd be better off getting out and seeing what the rest of the world has to offer. Maybe another temple will have whatever it is he's been looking for. Or maybe he'll just give up on temples altogether. As he's heading out the gate, he stubs his toe on a big ol' rock. He's hopping around in terrible pain, bleeding from under his toenail, going, "Ow! Ow! s***! Piss! Damn!" And he thinks, "I've heard that the body is an illusion. So where the hell did all this pain come from?" All at once he gets it. Later on, his teacher, a guy named Seppo Gisan, asks him what's up, and he says, "I just can't be deceived by others." Seppo really gets off on this statement. "Is there anyone who doesn't have these words?" he says. "But who else can speak them?" There you have the key to understanding Buddhism. That one sentence, "I can't be deceived," says all you need to know. Okay...you're probably thinking "Dogen? Zen philosophy? A toe stubbing leading to a substantive mental belief structure change? What the bloody Hades is Neil suggesting here?" I know, but keep going. When people say stuff like "I can't be deceived," the emphasis is usually on "I." They're usually saying something like, "Maybe all those other people out there can be deceived, but nobody can make a fool out of me!" But that's not what Gensa means here. "I" here is absolutely universal. It refers just as much to you and me as it does to Gensa himself. He's not bragging. He might even be a little bit sad when he says, "I can't be deceived." You're probably thinking, Why would he be sad about that? I mean, he's enlightened, right? And enlightenment is supposed to be the happiest thing that can ever happen to a person — just like Disneyland is the Happiest Place on Earth — right? Otherwise why strive for it? But think about it for a sec. Imagine a situation in which you suddenly realize with absolute certainty that you can never blame anyone else for anything that happens to you. You can't even blame your circumstances since you know those, too, are of your own making. You can no longer tell yourself that if only this or that happened, then you'd ?nd perfect happiness. Your future has entirely vanished, along with your past. It must be just a little sad. But it's sad in a different way from usual sadness. It's a sadness that knows what sadness really is. It knows that there is no merit in taking hold of sadness, so it lets the sadness drift by. Still, it's not as if sadness isn't part of the equation. Take a moment and think about that. You can never blame anyone else for anything that happens to you. You can't even blame your circumstances because they are also of your own making. You can no longer tell yourself that other things may bring happiness. You have to live within the moment and seizing the moment in all of its purity and clarity. The idea that we can be deceived is an illusion created by our amazing ability to think. Real deception never happens. We pretend to be deceived. We even fool ourselves into actually thinking we believe we've been had. But it just doesn't happen. When Gensa stubbed his toe on that rock — in other words, when he suddenly came face-to-face with the undeniable fact that he was living in this world and not in the world he created in his mind, in which the body is an illusion* — he understood that he could not be deceived. This was not some unique, miraculous event, something that could only happen to an advanced student like Gensa, either. As his teacher says, "Is there anyone who does not have these words?" Is there anyone, anywhere in the world who does not come face-to-face with the real facts of the real world every moment of every day? But, says Gensa's teacher, who else but Gensa can speak them? In other words, why, oh why, do we keep insisting that we live in some other reality far removed from the one we encounter all the time? Why is it that any time someone says something true, we act like he or she has some magical supernatural power far beyond that of ordinary human beings? There's a very good, very practical reason people want to believe that they can be deceived by others. See, when you've been deceived, nothing you do is really your fault. Just like the Nazis, you can plead, "I was only following orders." Maybe folks will even believe you. I won't. But that's just me. As far as I'm concerned, pretending you've been deceived — making believe that reality hit you smack in the face and you still didn't notice it — is nothing more than a way of abdicating all responsibility. You might get away with it because this world is run by people who also want to be able to use that excuse themselves if it ever comes down to it. People like you. People like me. Is the Gensa, Dogen talk making sense now? We live in a world of reality, not a world constructed inside our very powerful brains. There is no such thing as being deluded. It is merely giving up your all important responsibility. But it's a lame excuse. No decent Zen teacher would ever accept it. I used to come to my teachers with variations of that one all the time. "I was deceived! I'm in delusion! Please help me. Please tell me what's really true!" It was just another way of saying, "Please take responsibility for me." "Nobody's tricked you, you moron," they'd say. "You know what the truth is. Stop being such a bonehead, and take an honest look at yourself." Gensa didn't need a Learned Zen Master to tell him he was in pain when he stubbed his toe that day. And you don't need anyone to tell you what your life really is either. You sure as heck don't need me. I cannot possibly tell you anything you don't already know. You probably agree, since, if you're like most people, you think I'm an idiot. But you probably also think that somewhere out there in the land where books are written is someone way cooler and tons more spiritually advanced than me who can tell you something you don't already know. Keep right on looking. The publishing industry loves you. I just wanted to share this because it has very much impacted me. Take responsibility for yourself and find yourself fully experiencing the clarity of each individual moment you find yourself in each day. Take a look at your life and reality to see if they sync up. If they don't, you know who to blame and what you've got to do.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Aug 8, 2007 -> 08:00 AM) Trips going a little too fast for his opponent (pretty sure that Shawn Micheals) giving him the finisher http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/7603/ It's a random jobber (Marty Garner) and the jobber jumped too high not knowing how to take the move's bump.

Teaching five courses of US History: Early Cultures to Start of Reconstruction.

Moved in to my apartment July 30. Still unpacking. Last week in old place sucked. AC was pooling water on my floor. I told my landlord on the weekend and got a response that it was the weekend (as if I should not be bothering them) so the last days of packing and moving in the old apartment were made in a sweatbox with no air circulation. The previous apt. was a really bad experience. Hooray new apartment that is 3x bigger, with a parking space and cheaper than the previous apt. And oh yeah, a working air conditioner.

Small thing. But back when they did the limo bit, London got a talking to by Vince when he was smiling during the serious catatonic Vince scene walking the halls. Small thing but tonight when Vince walked through, he told London "Keep that smile on your face." Colt Cabana for the illegitimate child of Vince!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 6, 2007 -> 08:03 AM) Everything Gleason said. Plus, Aikido is where many of Hapkido's forms originate from. Hapkido (Royal Korean martial art) is a hybrid of sorts. If you are looking for the sparring aspect, Aikido might not be the best choice. But for the building of physical and mental stamina and balance, and some cool stuff, its a great choice. It sounds pretty cool. I did a little reading on it and I loved the story about the creator of aikido being attacked by an armed assailant (had a sword) and he defeated the armed attacker simply by dodging every blow until the armed guy got too tired to continue. The philosophy of it is something that I really like. I also heard back from the dojo. I can try out a class before going into the introductory adult program and gave me a lot of information about appropriate attire for the intro program, etc. Seems like it could be a pretty intriguing thing to work with.

Found an aikido dojo in downtown Urbana. They offer two month introductory adult classes basic techniques, etiquette and safety for $50. If the instructor consents after the two month session, then you can join the dojo as a member ($45 a month and $20 a year to the US Aikido Foundation). After I complete my move, I am going to go see if I can sit in on a class to see if I'd like it and then if I do, go for the introductory classes. (And damn, I am tired. I spent all day loading and unloading boxes and then cleaning my apartment a little bit. I've got more to do tomorrow too, haha.)

QUOTE(BearSox @ Aug 5, 2007 -> 12:03 AM) Look at his head. Your head doesn't increase in size like that unless you take steroids. ARod just grew into his body. His head has stayed the same size, or just about. Plus, his trainer was linked to steroids and such. Hey, he could have just drank some bad nerve tonic. And again, how is Bonds simply injecting steroids going to turn him into a monster player? Numerous pitchers and other hitters were using them when nobody freaking cared and most everybody just enjoyed watching 500 foot bombs fly over their heads in dumb, awestruck amazement. We didn't care how it got done, just as long as we could see them. This whole pseudo-outrage and hypocricy -- It is like sleeping with hookers and then trying to be the Bible toting evangelical after he gets busted with the expose pictures.

QUOTE(Purdue129 @ Aug 4, 2007 -> 10:52 PM) Alright, this is getting pretty good. I'm excited to see what happens. http://www.project161.com/ http://projectonesixone.blogspot.com/ Looks like we may get some answers at the 8.11 show in Philly.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Aug 4, 2007 -> 10:16 PM) A bunch were on steroids. Few as blatantly and defiantly as Bonds, but no -- Bonds isn't a greater hitter than Ruth, Gehrig, Williams, DiMaggio, Mays...you know why? He may be better -- and even that is dubious, in my opinion -- but he isn't greater. You can't be great being a cheat. The HOF is filled with guys who used spitballs, sandpaper on the balls, played dirty, slid with the spikes up, used corked/superballed bats, emery boards on the balls, etc. Yet many of these people are honored, revered and given spots within the hallowed Hall. I like soda and a hot dog at the ball park without too much idealistic sanctimony and hand-wringing. If we have this utopian idea of what sportsmanship should be, then should we remove all these 'cheaters' from the Hall as well? As much as I find it reprehensible that Bonds is going to break this record because he's a really big douchebag off the field and has refused to help teammates in need, I don't want that to tarnish what he does between the chalk lines. We haven't excluded some others in the HoF because of their off the field antics of being an asshat to other people. He finished the 1998 season, at age 34, with outstanding numbers. Pre-juice, he had nearly as many walks as Aaron did in his entire career 1357 vs. 1383, his slugging percentage was 2 points higher than Aaron's career slugging percentage, he had won 3 MVP Awards (by the way he wins 4 more) vs. Aaron's career total of 1. Barry Bonds had won 8 straight Gold Glove awards compared to Hammerin' Hank's 3. Heck, by the time Barry decided that "Chicks dig the long ball" and guys with an abnormally enlarged cranium, he had stolen 445 bases while Aaron stole 250 bases in his 23-year career. Extrapolate away as to how much the performance enhancing drugs impacted his numbers, but pre-juice and post-juice the numbers suggest a comparable hitter who stole more bases and was an outstanding outfielder. While Aaron will have more hits, triples, RBIs, total bases and a modestly higher batting average, the overall statistics, though tainted, seem to favor Bonds. Each generation has its differences -- more games for Maris, the lowered pitcher's mound for Aaron, the steroid era for our generation -- so to not allow Barry into the HOF is incomplete by simply alleging that he used steroids. Case in fact -- Armando Rios used steroids and he still sucked more cock than a gay guy high on meth in a bathroom stall at a rave. Steroids do not a good hitter make in and of themselves alone.

QUOTE(Purdue129 @ Aug 4, 2007 -> 10:08 AM) Between the AS/161 Flyers and Website (which seem to point at the Sept. PPV as their "debut"), Jimmy Jacob's imminent return, the weird thread from Gabe regarding people harassing his family and now the Rave situation.... I have a feeling the SUPER ELABORATE work rumor is true. Jimmy and Jimmy coming back as the Abused Society and destroying people would be cool. They both could benefit from that. If this is an elaborate work, it'd be cool. At least its something somewhat new. Jimmy, Jimmy, Pearce, BJ Whitmer and it even gives Hagadorn a chance to rebrand himself as a badass as well rather than the lackey 'man-servant' heel which has gotten played out. It's almost like a new, more sinister version of the Prophecy which would be great if they had a dark, heel Daniels to lead (wishing and hoping and praying...)