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Hard to imagine those two eliciting anything more than a yawn, honestly.

Let me be Smug Linux Guy for a moment and point out that this is only a problem if you actually use Windows.:) When I bought a new PC a few years ago, I gave up years of dual-booting and went Ubuntu-only. I haven't missed anything. The only hiccup is that I now need to bring my work laptop home if I want to play Magic Online, but that's hardly a major issue.

...just how magic are these dancing powers?

I don't disagree, but then why give him three big title wins?

I'm sure I've seen refs lay a ten-count on a wrestler who's on the top rope waiting to dive off. On the top rope is not inside the ring.

Yeah, Ahmed really did eliminate himself like a moron. Mascaras did not. And rewatching it reminded me that because of the booking at the end, every other competitor in the thing did in fact get thrown over the top rope. Mil Mascaras is the rightful 1997 Royal Rumble winner!

I tried Googling "Tacoma" to find out how big that actually is. Tacoma, Washington didn't even make the first page of results. (Closest thing was a Wikipedia disambiguation page.)

I rewatched the 1997 Royal Rumble to make sure I wasn't crazy about Mil Mascaras. Actually, Raw may have already been over when I put the Rumble on. I haven't paid attention to when Raw airs in years.

Yeah, that's what I asked in my first post. It's certainly consistent with what I've heard of Mascaras's reputation. True, but somewhat beside the point, seeing how Mascaras, you know, never went over the top rope.

So it really was just a screw-up on the part of the ref(s)? He wasn't booked to go out that way?

I actually really enjoyed that up to the hilarious finish (which I also really enjoyed on a different level). That's probably more to do with my missing that style than this being a particularly noteworthy example of it.

Speaking of that Rumble - was Mil Mascaras eliminated by screwjob because he refused to let anybody throw him over the top?

...I'm not clear on how that's a "What if". Are you asking what if wrestling had even more missile dropkicks?

I was pretty old when I learned that "Newark" wasn't just "New York" pronounced sloppily.

Yeah, but did the Harts ever explain why they were hanging out with a Beverly Brother?:) Seriously though, great story.

Agree with this. Nia's best matches are a lot better than anything I've seen involving Jinder, but she also looks really awful at times, while Jinder is consistently sort of blandly competent. Did they really? I don't recall his being involved in anything interesting that would explain that.

Is Liv actually terrible? I don't think I've ever seen her do enough to make a fair judgement.

The text adventure Trinity uses "pram". Examining the pram only told you it was a "perambulator", which wasn't helpful for anybody ignorant of British English.

I haven't watched the video, but how could you not respect a dinosaur who knows lucha libre?

Thank you.:) Was it, in fact, Master Pandemonium from West Coast Avengers?

Is this Master Pandemonium from West Coast Avengers or some other character?

If we require wrestlers to do a move better than Andrade Almas before they can use it as a finisher, there's going to be a lot of people without finishers.

Of course - those are arts/humanities degrees. I've never heard of a science student whose love of the thing they were studying wasn't deepened by their study.

I thought SMW was successful for a while. Wasn't it?

Huh? Why would he omit the "s" sound? The "c" in French "grace" is not silent. (Unless he's pronouncing it like "grawsses", which would be annoying.)