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It's weird you'd say that about Cena, because in my corner of the internet it's never even been up for discussion whether or not he's holding people down. In fact, it's been suggested that he's the reason the WWE is so high on Danielson right now.

Doesn't that seem just a little bit insane to you? Accepting that everyone does it and then firing whoever doesn't know the urine test secret handshake is an awful way to prevent any sort of substance abuse in a locker room.

Kendrick came up positive for pot something like six times in a row, and rather than quitting he just paid the fine each time. It killed his push and probably led to his firing. Personally, I'm of the mind that there are about a dozen more important things the WWE should be testing the talent for and obviously aren't.

Well, yeah, it wouldn't have been a big deal with the buildup they got. But we know the two are pretty great on the mic, are fantastic workers, and had the looks to draw in a female audience. It seems to me that it wouldn't have taken too much work to turn Kendrick and London into stars.

Benoit was right, too. If the WWE had done things right, Kendrick/London could have been a huge feud.

I love the Highspots interview with London and Kendrick. Kendrick: "I got on a plane in LA and Boner was missing. Now I'm here in North Carolina and he's dead. Things just got heavy." Interviewer: "Is now a bad time to ask about Benoit?"

People who don't know the difference between wit and quoting South Park.

When Kurt was under WWE contract, they had him under an unofficial suicide watch.

People older than twelve who don't grasp proper use of apostrophes. You don't throw in an apostrophe every time a word ends with an s.

India and some gigantic chunks of Africa would disagree. British colonialism wasn't really brought to an end until... 1965? -ish? At the earliest.

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Neat.

As one of those people who overrated him at the time, I agree with you. Like any politician, Obama wasn't quite the guy he seemed to be in the lead up to Election Day, but going off of his first year in office I'd probably rate him a solid six out of ten. Not quite the eight and a half I was hoping for, but he's done pretty well so far with the hand he's been dealt and, this far in, the country has not yet caught fire.

It is, however, delicious. Fun fact: Those gravy packets you buy at the grocery store are a healthier drink than Coca-Cola.

I like you. Let's be friends.

This is a lack of understanding of vocabulary. "Private" means "owned by that guy over there." "Public" means "we all paid into it, so we all own a piece of it." "Government school" is a term used by bad, bad men who want to scare you.

I won't spend much time on this, given the outcome of our last discussion post-election, but the fact of the matter is that as union membership shrinks, so does the middle class. As union membership shrinks, worker's rights violations become more common. Like many other topics, this is more complicated than you're making it out to be, and I'd encourage anyone reading the thread to research the topic themselves using unbiased sources.

Um, guys? I'm, like, an anti-fan of South Park, but the censoring of Muhammad is the joke. They didn't start doing it until that whole Danish cartoon controversy. Having your gears ground over a censored Muhammad is sort of like watching a Looney Tunes cartoon and shouting "Daffy Duck isn't wearing pants! Why isn't he wearing pants?"

This is my one politically-minded post to this thread. Unions are the reason we have a forty hour work week. Unions are the reason overtime exists as a concept. Unions are the reason you were in school at the age of ten instead of working in a mill. Unions are the reason the place you work has windows and fire exits. Unions are the reason clean and safe working environments exist. Unions brought about the end of the Gilded Age and helped to usher America into its most prosperous decades of existence. It's possible to argue that certain unions have too much power, or that reform is needed to prevent them from combating necessary change. But when you use the word "parasite" to disparage every union worker, you disrespect the hard-working men and women responsible for your quality of life today, and whose existence insulates you from having those freedoms taken away. The last thing I ask you to consider is those who have been the opponents of labor unions throughout history. I, for one, would not want to be associated with the jackboot or the burning cross. I have a feeling you don't want to either.

Maybe it's because finals are coming, but I've seen a ton of insane rants on message boards tonight.

Unless we're playing Mortal Kombat.

It is a strange thing. It's almost like they're making an active attempt to destroy the ability of trademark matches to draw money.

When TEW 2010 comes out, I promise you I will most certainly find a use for it. There's already an idea developing in my head for a promotion, with the gorilla representing lucha libre, the shark representing England, and the T-Rex being awesome.

This is the greatest thing ever made.

I've read reports that Undertaker was indirectly responsible for Vince taking a punch in the face from Bret. At Survivor Series he explained to Vince that the locker room was near the point of mutiny and that Vince should go confront Bret to try and make things right.