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jeffersonlives posted:There's an awesome scene from How I Met Your Mother involving this same misusage by Robin, unfortunately it's not on Youtube or Hulu though. "Don't they teach grammar in Canada?" "They don't. They literally don't."
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FishBulb posted:Its not like this is limited to wrestling announcers, pretty much 80% of the population does this.
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Aug 6, 2009 07:58
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LividLiquid posted:80% of the population aren't in broadcasting. It's inexcusable. Would you say it's literally inexcusable?
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TL posted:External occipital protuberance! I used this in conversation once when I was like 10 and my parents thought I was a loving genius.
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Aug 6, 2009 14:01
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Batmanuel posted:JR taught me what a sternum was, so he is the greatest. All right, then where on the human form is the bread basket?
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Aug 6, 2009 14:29
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So is Beth Phoenix actually pregnant or not because I have no idea anymore.
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Aug 6, 2009 14:37
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Karmine posted:So is Beth Phoenix actually pregnant or not because I have no idea anymore. She is not pregnant.
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Aug 6, 2009 14:39
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Writer Cath posted:All right, then where on the human form is the bread basket? It's the abdomen or "tummy" area 
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Aug 6, 2009 14:45
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They need to get Dusty back to the announcers table. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvF_6c5wiY and also Brain.
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Aug 6, 2009 15:34
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Karmine posted:So is Beth Phoenix actually pregnant or not because I have no idea anymore. Dave hinted in the Observer that her vacation was wellness-related without saying it, as he is occasionally wont to do, but the official line was that they just didn't have anything for her for a month.
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Aug 6, 2009 16:01
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What was the last update on Bobby Heenan? Last I heard he was recovering from throat surgery. Did he pull through? Can he talk?
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Captain Strange posted:What was the last update on Bobby Heenan? Last I heard he was recovering from throat surgery. Did he pull through? Can he talk? He can talk but he still kinda slurs his words and his voice has gotten really high pitched. He's also really skinny now. But he is getting better.
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Aug 6, 2009 17:54
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jeffersonlives posted:Dave hinted in the Observer that her vacation was wellness-related without saying it, as he is occasionally wont to do, but the official line was that they just didn't have anything for her for a month. I never understood the tendency some of the more legit dirtsheets have to hint at Wellness cover-ups when it's completely unrealistic. Until half the company starts failing, the WWE suspending violators is good PR for them. If they would have covered up anyone's failure, it would have been Batista's, but no one has surgery to cover-up a drug test failure. Why would the WWE want to keep Beth Phoenix's potential wellness failure under wraps?
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Aug 6, 2009 18:04
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Free Market Gravy posted:I never understood the tendency some of the more legit dirtsheets have to hint at Wellness cover-ups when it's completely unrealistic. Until half the company starts failing, the WWE suspending violators is good PR for them. If they would have covered up anyone's failure, it would have been Batista's, but no one has surgery to cover-up a drug test failure. On top of that, if something crazy happened, like Batista died of a drug OD, and it came out that they hid a Wellness Violation, Vince would be skewered more than he ever had been in the past. It really isn't worth it for them to hide a violation.
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Aug 6, 2009 18:15
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Rusty Shackelford posted:On top of that, if something crazy happened, like Batista died of a drug OD, and it came out that they hid a Wellness Violation, Vince would be skewered more than he ever had been in the past. It really isn't worth it for them to hide a violation. It's true. That's why they just don't bother testing Triple H, Batista and Cena.
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Aug 6, 2009 18:23
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Scott Stiner supposedly said that the WWE wanted to give him a drug test when he was there around 2003-2004ish. He said he'd gladly take a drug test if Triple H took one with him. The issue was dropped.
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Aug 6, 2009 18:36
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:Scott Stiner supposedly said that the WWE wanted to give him a drug test when he was there around 2003-2004ish. He said he'd gladly take a drug test if Triple H took one with him. That's one of the more infamous stories in WWE backstage lore. I almost don't believe it because it's in the same vein of the "movie-line style stuff people don't say in real life" poo poo like CM Punk's cop story, but then it's Scott Steiner who supposedly said it, so I find it easier to believe.
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Aug 6, 2009 18:40
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:Scott Stiner supposedly said that the WWE wanted to give him a drug test when he was there around 2003-2004ish. He said he'd gladly take a drug test if Triple H took one with him. You see, in a normal drug test - you have a 50/50 chance of failing. But since its Scott Steiner, that percentage goes up to 75%. And then Triple H knows he will fail, so he won't even try.. so we have a 50/50 chance, plus 66 and 2/3, plus....
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Aug 6, 2009 18:48
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Free Market Gravy posted:I never understood the tendency some of the more legit dirtsheets have to hint at Wellness cover-ups when it's completely unrealistic. Until half the company starts failing, the WWE suspending violators is good PR for them. If they would have covered up anyone's failure, it would have been Batista's, but no one has surgery to cover-up a drug test failure. It makes sense if you consider that most of their information probably comes from the workers who are lower on the food chain. Experience has shown us that pro wrestlers tend to be lying/paranoid/backstabbing/jealous/full of poo poo/all of the above. Guys who are mid-card or lower probably feel the most pressure with the wellness program (they probably feel like they have the most to lose if they don't have a good look or spend too much time on the shelf for injuries) and so they come up with these theories, report them to their sources at the dirt sheets, and the dirt sheets run with the stories because they come from an inside source and are kind of juicy and scandalous.
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Aug 6, 2009 19:06
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I looked again at the Observer in question and the exact quote was "Phoenix (back after 28 days of being gone with no explanation)" which is Meltzerspeak for something fishy going on that he doesn't have enough confirmation to print.
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Aug 6, 2009 19:20
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jeffersonlives posted:I looked again at the Observer in question and the exact quote was "Phoenix (back after 28 days of being gone with no explanation)" which is Meltzerspeak for something fishy going on that he doesn't have enough confirmation to print. I don't speak Meltzer, but that reads, to me, as "this wrestler who is loved/respected by the Holy Cabal of the Internet Wrestling Community returned after being a part of TV shows on weekly basis and then suddenly not being written into the shows." It definitely is written to spark interest in WHY she was gone, but like I said, it seems weird that Meltzer, generally regarded as one of the more reputable dirtsheet writers, would encourage speculation about something so absurd as the WWE covering up and thus balancing the legitimacy of their Wellness program on Beth Phoenix.
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Aug 6, 2009 19:51
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It's hard to explain without being a regular Observer reader, but Dave drops cryptic hints all the time in that sort of format. Now I'm curious, so I sent a question in for the next radio mailbag asking for elaboration.
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Aug 6, 2009 20:08
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Karmine posted:It's true. That's why they just don't bother testing Triple H, Batista and Cena. I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Triple H had some sort of job title that exempts him from being tested. Like since he sits in on the booking meetings, he's officially considered part of the "creative team", and therefore doesn't have to be tested.
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Aug 6, 2009 21:52
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Davros1 posted:I wouldn't be surprised if someone like Triple H had some sort of job title that exempts him from being tested. Like since he sits in on the booking meetings, he's officially considered part of the "creative team", and therefore doesn't have to be tested. Someone posted before that residents of Connecticut are not allowed by law to be drug tested for a job or something, I don't know if thats true or why if it is true, other people wouldn't declare residency in that state or what, but someone said that once.
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Aug 6, 2009 21:54
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FishBulb posted:Someone posted before that residents of Connecticut are not allowed by law to be drug tested for a job or something, I don't know if thats true or why if it is true, other people wouldn't declare residency in that state or what, but someone said that once. It is false. I live in Connecticut and I've been drug tested a bunch of times.
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Aug 6, 2009 21:55
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Karmine posted:It is false. I live in Connecticut and I've been drug tested a bunch of times. Then whoever said that is a dick.
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Aug 6, 2009 21:56
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:Scott Stiner supposedly said that the WWE wanted to give him a drug test when he was there around 2003-2004ish. He said he'd gladly take a drug test if Triple H took one with him. I love this story because Steiner thinks it makes him sound like a loving genius and a hero when what it essentially says is,"Yeah I was cheating like gently caress and practically breathing steroids with every breath and sleeping in a big pool of liquid steroids and having sex with steroids but I found a way to get away with being a big loving cheating gently caress!"
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Jerusalem posted:I love this story because Steiner thinks it makes him sound like a loving genius and a hero when what it essentially says is,"Yeah I was cheating like gently caress and practically breathing steroids with every breath and sleeping in a big pool of liquid steroids and having sex with steroids but I found a way to get away with being a big loving cheating gently caress!" Well, it was at the very least an effective way of illustrating a double standard. Although was WWE even doing drug tests in 03-04? Cause that was pre-wellness.
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Karmine posted:Well, it was at the very least an effective way of illustrating a double standard. Except it's the equivalent of an officer manager getting a phone-call from head office saying,"We need to send in an accountant to audit your department's books, there are some troubling things in your latest profit report we want to investigate further," and the manager replies,"Heh.... sure thing, you can do that...... so long as you audit the Executive Vice President at the same time!  "
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Aug 6, 2009 23:24
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Jerusalem posted:Except it's the equivalent of an officer manager getting a phone-call from head office saying,"We need to send in an accountant to audit your department's books, there are some troubling things in your latest profit report we want to investigate further," and the manager replies,"Heh.... sure thing, you can do that...... so long as you audit the Executive Vice President at the same time! If that Executive Vice President turned up for work every morning driving a Ferrari, wearing a huge fur coat and trailing dusty white bank notes down the corridor, yeah.
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Umbra Dubium posted:If that Executive Vice President turned up for work every morning driving a Ferrari, wearing a huge fur coat and trailing dusty white bank notes down the corridor, yeah. Yeah except it isn't the job of the Scranton, PA Office Manager to dictate terms of when and under what conditions HE will allow his financial records to be gone over by head office. And since we're comparing Steiner/HHH, Triple H would be showing up to work in a pretty drat nice looking cadillac wearing an Italian leather coat and would be dropping $50 bills as he walked down the corrider. Steiner would be showing up to work in the world's only ferrargini, with 30 inch gold plated rims, the car painted bright pink with the words,"PIMP DADDY!" in day-glo lime on the hood. His coat would be made from the feathers of Dodos and he would toss $100 bills about him and smile wide to show off his diamond-plated grill as he screamed,"FINANCIAL MALFEASANCE IS THE BOMB, YO!"
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah except it isn't the job of the Scranton, PA Office Manager to dictate terms of when and under what conditions HE will allow his financial records to be gone over by head office. And since we're comparing Steiner/HHH, Triple H would be showing up to work in a pretty drat nice looking cadillac wearing an Italian leather coat and would be dropping $50 bills as he walked down the corrider. Steiner would be showing up to work in the world's only ferrargini, with 30 inch gold plated rims, the car painted bright pink with the words,"PIMP DADDY!" in day-glo lime on the hood. His coat would be made from the feathers of Dodos and he would toss $100 bills about him and smile wide to show off his diamond-plated grill as he screamed,"FINANCIAL MALFEASANCE IS THE BOMB, YO!" And the fact that Steiner didn't do this, on TV, is why he failed in WWE.
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah except it isn't the job of the Scranton, PA Office Manager to dictate terms of when and under what conditions HE will allow his financial records to be gone over by head office. And since we're comparing Steiner/HHH, Triple H would be showing up to work in a pretty drat nice looking cadillac wearing an Italian leather coat and would be dropping $50 bills as he walked down the corrider. Steiner would be showing up to work in the world's only ferrargini, with 30 inch gold plated rims, the car painted bright pink with the words,"PIMP DADDY!" in day-glo lime on the hood. His coat would be made from the feathers of Dodos and he would toss $100 bills about him and smile wide to show off his diamond-plated grill as he screamed,"FINANCIAL MALFEASANCE IS THE BOMB, YO!" Look you are just going to have to accept that Triple H is the devil and some people will love any time he is even partially made to look bad and if you are not down with that I have two words for you shut up
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Umbra Dubium posted:If that Executive Vice President turned up for work every morning driving a Ferrari, wearing a huge fur coat and trailing dusty white bank notes down the corridor, yeah. So what you're saying is that you work for Dr Ken?
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Aug 7, 2009 01:26
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Is it true that Batista cheated on his wife while she had cancer? (I aplogize if question has been posted already)
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Aug 7, 2009 01:32
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JavyOO7 posted:Is it true that Batista cheated on his wife while she had cancer? I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Batista's "auto"biography said that he was nailing Melina while his wife was dying (if not before).
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I thought that whole thing was made up, or was it just one specific quote that was made up, I don't remember but I remember something being made up.
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FishBulb posted:I thought that whole thing was made up, or was it just one specific quote that was made up, I don't remember but I remember something being made up. I remember this as well. It was a faked excerpt leaked before the book came out.
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Moose Bigelow posted:I remember this as well. It was a faked excerpt leaked before the book came out. My understanding was that it was someone posting a "quote" that was based on things that actually WERE in the biography, but put together in such a way to make it look as bad for Batista as possible.
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