sydneybrown

So you basically started this thread only to hear us say "You're right," "I agree," "It sure is," and "Damn straight!" Too many episodes relied on the plotline of "Peggy/Bobby/LuAnne makes some lifestyle decision that Hank strongly disapproves of but he slowly comes to accept." I will say without spoiling it, it does feature the greatest voiceover by a wrestler ever. Never heard it coming when it happened.

Costello?

I found the whole thing a little sad. In my younger days, I would make damn sure I was at RAW when it came to OKC in the best possible seats I could get. Now, I get home from work, and didn't remember they were even here until two minutes into the show. I kept waiting for something to happen to make me regret not being there live, but it just never did. The Shield were great, and I loved the finish, but everything else was so forgettable. Aside from Cole's weird heeling on Oklahoma for no reason. Considering you call every Rhodes/Shield match the greatest match in wrestling history, I just think you're a big fan of hyperbole.

At least everyone stopped talking about Benoit's kid. David Benoit would be Julian Lennon. There. Full circle.

Replace Harley Race with Rob Van Dam and that's my story. Was going to the concession stand at the Terry Funk Amarillo Retirement show in 1997 and wasn't paying attention and smacked right into him. I apologized, he said "It's cool" and that was it. And I met Jonathan Coachman at a strip club after a RAW that was in our town. The strippers were lining up to be around him (as were my drunken friends.)

Except Matt Borne was still Big Josh in WCW as late as August 1992. He didn't come into the WWF until after Hawk was gone. I don't think Pritchard made the story up, but I do think he might be confused with the actual talent involved. Flair said he was in the locker room in Puerto Rico when Bruiser Brody was murdered which was an absolute lie. It's been proven he was in a WarGames match in Greensboro that night.

The stories would be even greater if you weren't aware that some of them were probably complete bullshit. I loved the Flair interview, but once he starts talking about being at events that history has proven he wasn't at, you have to wonder what else are complete fabrications too. And I just finished the Pritchard interviews. What's the deal with him saying Hawk came up with the Doink gimmick? Hawk was long gone by the time Matt Borne came in. Hawk went AWOL after SummerSlam 92, Matt Borne was brought in for dark matches a month after, and the Doink angle started in October.

I really hope we get Warriors-Thunder in the playoffs. A few weeks after Iguodala hits a buzzer beater to win it, Westbrook jacks up a desperation 3 to win it tonight with .1 left. Ridiculous finish.

You're going to take the word of the same people who type out "Brett Hart," "Rick Flair," and Ravishing "Rick" Rude? The odds of your spelling being right and it being a fuck-up are a legit coin flip.

Speak for yourself. As someone who hasn't watched for years I can fully experience the joy of laughing at pictures Raw's idiocy without any feelings of guilt or hypocrisy. Your username... intrigues me. Surely you're not serious? Ugh. Amateurs. The correct answer is always: I am serious. And don't call me Surely.

This is going to be an obscure one, but I finally broke out the Steve Martin: The Television Years box set I bought last Black Friday and was shocked to discover that one of the "backstage crew members" that looked like Phillip Baker Hall really was Phillip Baker Hall. And he looked about 50 back in 1978 too. Also was surprised to see that the Jack Handey of "Deep Thoughts" fame was one of Martin's writers too.

That was the cold open. I was focusing on the main plot.

You should show up at the wedding. With a snake. Don't listen to him. You might be the center of her world for a little while, but you'll only end up getting your ass kicked by her husband, forgotten, then roaming around a hopeless alcoholic waiting to be saved by DDP Yoga.

That would be the worst show in the history of television: Chris: Hey. Walt: Hey. Chris: What do you want to do? Walt: I don't know. What do you want to do? Chris: Um, I don't know. Do you want to see what Dana is up to? Walt: No. Chris: Okay. Let's watch TV. Walt: Okay. Chris and Walt watch TV for 41 minutes.

Junkyard Dog vs. Moondog Spot. The referee fails to show up so Dog just counts his own pin and it STANDS. Bell rings, Finkel announces the winner and that's it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARoK2yItrSs

That's pretty pathetic. I look forward to Kidd's next ploy where he stops a run without calling a TO by having a plant hit him in the face with a pie.

I'm so torn on it. I simultaneously love it and hate it. It's annoying as fuck but as someone who makes commercials for a living (and did a similar post-production trick once upon a time), it's memorable and gets your attention, and while I'll never go to Kmart because of it, it's still the one Black Friday spot that I'm going to remember this year.

What About Bob? is a better movie after finding out Richard Dreyfuss really isn't acting, disliked Bill Murray for real, and Murray apparently played off of that animosity.

You better pray the Thunder suddenly get shitty. That's the only way I ever see Durant going anywhere. Westbrook on the other hand...

The Punisher was an early gimmick for the Undertaker. That's all I got.

The only positive I'm taking from this is that it hopefully means he's killing it in practices, because there's no way he's worth that if he's anything less than 100%. Not incredibly pleased with that dollar amount. Lakers need the money for fresh blood. And yeah, I'm guessing they let Gasol walk.

I don't know if I quite buy the "more content" idea. Considering how much of a dud Classics was for them, I have a bad feeling the TV lineup will look nothing like it. We're more likely to get constant re-airings of RAW, Smackdown, The Chaperone, Knucklehead, and older WWE DVD docs than stuff from the 80s and 90s.

I've been pleased so far. They're getting destroyed more than I'd like, but they're beating the teams that matter (Clippers, Houston, GS). And they rolled the dice on some younger players instead of relying on veterans on the way out (cough, Kamen, cough.) I was saying at the beginning of the season that if LA can stay at .500 until Kobe gets back, they should be okay. And barring a Kobe setback or a long losing streak, that's about where they'll be. Now if they can just get some confidence on the road.

I wish Dwight no ill-will either. He brings enough ill-will on himself as it is.

LBJ was inaugurated as President on January 20, 1965. I don't know what that has to do with the numbers, but maybe it will help somebody else out. Or maybe it has nothing to do with anything, Or he was inauguarated at 8:51am....