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Dolph Ziggler can't get onto Smackdown either? A show that features Zach Ryder and The Miz...with The Miz getting a clean pin. They couldn't give that to Dolph? He was World Heavyweight Champion, like, weeks ago.

This show needs to end. Its thread is a dangerous source of cynical strength for FSW. Every time the writers fuck up, he gets stronger.

Here's your October Nice and orderly.

Arsene will be combing French high schools tomorrow... sorry...les ecoles secondaires... Jim Apelle Piranesi. Je sooey une etudiant dance oon ecole!

You just metaphorically described his career. He's back with them again, for like the fourth time.

Favorite VEEP line off the top of my head: "We're at Defcon Fuck!"

Sort of. Andrea Carraciolo always did the bird flying thing and they would sort of flock behind him, and he was the only one who ever scored. Sadly, it's impossible to find gif of Brescia scoring, admittedly rare enough that a Yeti may be captured on film first. Searches yield only shots of 1) Ibra humiliating them and 2) way too many fetish sites devoted to italian calcio guys in their underwear...or just enough depending on your perspective on dudes' junk.

"So me and Brock...Bill? What's so funny? It'll be like a shoot fight....Bill????"

Shit. I dropped Brescia after they were (once again) relegated after putting no effort at all into staying up. I initially picked them because their uniforms and goal celebration were cool. Am I in trouble?

It could be great. If Orton punted and stretchered both Cena and Bryan. If they are willing to leave both off t.v. for a month while Orton runs over guys like Dolph or Sheamus or whoever. Bryan comes back first and takes his belt back form Orton. Then Bryan/Cena have the match they should have had to settle it all once and for all. It's a sequence that could last through the Rumble.

When I first started following EPL I instantly bought into the romatnic mystique that Arsenal are run by a bunch of bizarre inbred 17th-century Lords and Ladies who had fallen under the spell of an equally bizarre French Svengali...and that this concoction was more interesting to follow than another oil billionaire buying sharknados full of talent. How much is true and how much was "Arsenal way" PR to justify raking in money and never payng any out, I'm too much of a lazy dimwit to ever find out. But I don't care. I remain blissfully a mark for old-timey English shit and they seem pretty old-timey. ...although the very name "Cambridge United" mentioned upthread tugs at the dusty used-bookstore of my heart.

"Anyone want to play with me? You guys? No? You're doing your own thing? Cool. Hey...you guys need me to....no? Cool...I'll just be here if anyone is interested in doing, like, a sequence or...whatever you want...no? Yes?...someone?"

I would much rather Bryan's title reign came this way a few months down the road then by beating Cena now. It's a great way to get him away from the "I'm doing this to prove myself" thing and transition to something that maybe has longer legs?

I think that sounds exactly like what he'd want to do. Hasn't he said as much? Whoever said the only thing that matters is what Austin wants is probably right. I kind of get the vibe that Austin is sensitive enough about his "legacy" that he sees himself doing the opposite of whatever it is that Hogan would do. Am I wrong on that? In other words, he's a mark too to the extent that he wants to make sure everyone knows he's not like that...and he wants all the boys to respect his respect for their respect and their prescious stupid futures. Thus his mentioning Punk. Problem is, Punk doesn't really have a "next level" I don't think. What does Austin "elevate him" to? feuding with Cena? He did that for a good part of a year already. Cena's already juggling torches passed to him. Undertaker or HHH are who Hogan would want to be billed with. Or Brock. Hogan would want to beat Brock in an F5 competition. Bryan, no matter how great he's doing, always feels on the verge of being "little guyed" right back no nowhere. So he's the one who stands to gain the most from a feud with Austin. So clearly the answer is:

On Fandango: "If you get elminated twice does that mean you're not even invited to Summerslam?"

I'd like to see a GIF-progression of Heyman's "Holy shit, I'm alone with the babyface" faces. They keep getting bigger and crazier, like, every week at a startling exponential rate. Tonight, when he turned and saw Punk staring at him, it looked like his face was melting and I think he screamed "OH, GOD, NO!!!! PLEASE, GOD, NOOOOOO!!!!" ...which is pretty crazy all by itself.

I liked the idea that not slapping someone is more of an act of disdain than slapping them and gets in their head more.

He did okay given how it was laid out. Given that he had to stand there for the huge middle section of that while Cena did his most epic promo ever, I think Bryan did okay in getting anything back at all with the "you don't deserve it" bit and no-selling Cena's contact. Way better than the "stand there and stare and huffle-puffle" that Rock used to do on a Cena-wins-the-promo night

They have two huge deomgraphics tied up right in the title.

Let's wrap this whole thread in a neat little bow and declare now that whoever wins the March Madness pool gets a Ribera replica jacket.

Japan, Cena. Japan!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously did no one else see that guy casually and firmly destroy his son's happiest moment in life? Dude was the Anti-Cena in form and spirit.

When Cena said he fights "For that kid in the front row. For his dad" and pointed to a kid. The camera cut to some kid and dad in a Cena shirt and the kid was smiling, and the dad looks down at him and says: "It's not you." Fucking best dad in the world ammiright? That's that kids memories of his dad probably forever: "It's not you." Someone GIF that shit immediately.

We had a VEEP thread. VEEP is so great. But to really appreciate it you have to watch each new episode immediately after an episode of GAME OF THRONES. The dissonance along with the weird parallels are astounding.