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Skinty McEdger posted:The first episode WWE NXT airs. Michael Cole heels it up and says some nasty things about internet fans. Obviously internet fans being smart to all the insider gossip Look at those marks all of them marks!
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I hope Josh Matthews is one of those comments. "GO ON THE INTERNET!"
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Skinty McEdger posted:The first episode WWE NXT airs. Michael Cole heels it up and says some nasty things about internet fans. Obviously internet fans being smart to all the insider gossip You bastard, I was just about to post these same quotes!
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Twitter is also fun tonight.quote:Who else is gonna download a bunch of indy matches tonight and print out pictures of Michael Cole and Vince McMahon and piss on them? #WWE
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| # ? Feb 24, 2010 05:06 |
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CM Punk doesn't like this show at all! For real!
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Skinty McEdger posted:Twitter is also fun tonight. Hahahaha "I am going to show my support for Independent Wrestling by pirating matches, so that these companies I claim to love see no actual financial gain"
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Skinty McEdger posted:The first episode WWE NXT airs. Michael Cole heels it up and says some nasty things about internet fans. Obviously internet fans being smart to all the insider gossip Anyone ever thought about submitting 411 to "The Weekly Web"? Or do we care about the front page at all?
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Excuse my ignorance, but would we classify the people making GBS threads all over Michael Cole's awesome heel turn as a smark or a mark? I've never actually been able to figure out what classifies one as a smark.
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car full of midgets posted:Excuse my ignorance, but would we call the people making GBS threads all over Michael Cole's awesome heel turn as a smark or a mark? I've never actually been able to figure out what classifies one as a smark. Smarks are people who give a poo poo about the announce team.
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car full of midgets posted:Excuse my ignorance, but would we classify the people making GBS threads all over Michael Cole's awesome heel turn as a smark or a mark? I've never actually been able to figure out what classifies one as a smark. Marks are people who take things at face value and react to them Smarks are people who assume things about whats going on backstage and react to them So Marks
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Smart Marks boo Brian Pillman when he tries to yank out his Johnson.
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Not sure where else to put it, but wikipedia is great sometimes.Alicia Fox's Wikipedia page posted:Alicia Fox is one of the taller divas in the WWE industry right now. She is also the only colored diva we have in Raw.
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car full of midgets posted:Excuse my ignorance, but would we classify the people making GBS threads all over Michael Cole's awesome heel turn as a smark or a mark? I've never actually been able to figure out what classifies one as a smark. A mark is someone that thinks wrestling is real. A smark (or smart mark) is someone that knows its fake and watches anyways. Thats all it means 
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FishBulb posted:A mark is someone that thinks wrestling is real. We need a third term really, because nowdays fans are: people who don't know it's fake people who know it's fake and don't give a poo poo people who know it's fake and like to study the backstage things, and the "sport" of wrestling
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Wazzu posted:We need a third term really, because nowdays fans are: There always was a third term - smart. A smart fits the third criteria, but people actually in the industry laugh at the idea of any consumer being considered a smart, which is why the term has kind of fallen to the side. Truthfully, if you spend even one dollar on wrestling, you're a mark. I would also argue that a mark is not necessarily someone that believes it's real, but someone that doesn't care that it's fake and just wants to see Hulk Hogan/Steve Austin/Goldberg/John Cena kick rear end and be entertained.
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Don't forget the people who know it's fake and think everybody who enjoys is must not.
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There's some nuances too, as exemplified by these morons we've been quoting from other places. They hurrrrr all lethe "fakeness" of a Cena promo but get all butthurt over a just-as-fake Cole promo calling the internet fans lame.
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While we're categorising people, which groups do you think the following case studies go into? I'll call the first one "The Anti-Cena" - When Cena won the WHC at WrestleMania 25 he stopped next to this guy in the front row who was hurling abuse at him, wearing an anti-Cena T-shirt he'd made himself. Cena just grinned at the camera with a  Hating the babyface means he's obviously some sort of smark, because it's cool to do so, I guess? The second is that guy on youtube with the hair, the "gently caress Phil Brooks!" guy who posted videos after Extreme Rules last year where he tearfully ranted about CM Punk not respecting what Jeff Hardy did for the business. Does that make him a mark? He hates the heel for acting heelishly towards a face, but calls him Phil Brooks because it's his "real" name, while forgetting that Phil is playing a character called CM Punk.
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Umbra Dubium posted:I'll call the first one "The Anti-Cena" - When Cena won the WHC at WrestleMania 25 he stopped next to this guy in the front row who was hurling abuse at him, wearing an anti-Cena T-shirt he'd made himself. Cena just grinned at the camera with a Thinks he's a smark but is actually a retard. quote:The second is that guy on youtube with the hair, the "gently caress Phil Brooks!" guy who posted videos after Extreme Rules last year where he tearfully ranted about CM Punk not respecting what Jeff Hardy did for the business. Dave Mustaine Kid cannot be confined to any labels. He is an atrocious mess all his own who can only be classified as "that kid with the hair who is a harbinger of faggotry"
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Umbra Dubium posted:I'll call the first one "The Anti-Cena" - When Cena won the WHC at WrestleMania 25 he stopped next to this guy in the front row who was hurling abuse at him, wearing an anti-Cena T-shirt he'd made himself. Cena just grinned at the camera with a He was at WM24 too. Same get up.
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HwoodNG posted:He was at WM24 too. Same get up. I've seen him a number of times, but it was hilarious when they were standing right next to each other and he's just screaming and ranting while Cena stands there with a huge grin on his face. There was a gif, but the link in the companion thread is dead. 
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Umbra Dubium posted:I've seen him a number of times, but it was hilarious when they were standing right next to each other and he's just screaming and ranting while Cena stands there with a huge grin on his face. Its maybe the best gif ever too. You can so tell it was these anti-cena dopes' dream come true to get that close to what they define themselves by, only to be laughed at.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Thinks he's a smark but is actually a retard. Fixed that for you.
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WWE is hosed.quote:FahCore @wwe sorry to say but I'm sure the @WWEUniverse is going to introduce RAW to their DVRs when @TNADixie moves to monday night quote:KathleenDream @TNADixie why did u susspend Bobby Lashley.....he isn't taking steroids.....I love TNA...and it isn't the same without Bobby Lashley..love u BURN. quote:MelissaMsChif If @TNADixie would listen to people like @theRealFK9 instead of hulkaFAILURE and BITCHoff maybe TNA wouldn't be dead in a matter of months.. UP NORTH! quote:nealffischer @TNADixie I see that company to the north let one of my favorite diva's got released. I hope Maria can fly south! quote:bdtoll1 @TNADixie Lockdown will be alwesome!! TNA will destory Monday Night Raw in the rating wars!!!
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I hope Lockdown will be alwesome as well.
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I can't even comprehend it. How can anyone think TNA is any kind of threat to WWE?
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BigRed0427 posted:I can't even comprehend it. The people who think that are dumb enough to watch TNA in the first place.
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Lance Storm has a new update on his site in which he answers questions he has received recently. Most of the questions are fairly short and Storm's answers are pretty short and to the point as well. One in question, however, is pretty lengthy, as is Storm's reply. Emphasis/bolding mine: Question posted:I've been watching wrestling since i was 6 yrs old, I’m sure you've heard this before, but i really believe that i have a passion your business, I TRULY understand what goes on behind the scenes and the work that people like yourself put into it. I believe I have a TON of things to offer to your business, but what concerns me is that a lot of people in the business make it seem like there is no room for people like me to be in the business, i am an athlete but i don't possess the physique you need to truly make it in your business as a performer, however i feel i can contribute in other ways, but it seems that people like me are honestly unwanted in your business. While I feel this isn't fair i understand life isn't either. My question is how am I supposed to show my passion for professional wrestling when there is no outlet for me to do so? Or should i just say to myself "tough poo poo" and continue to watch and wish? And Lance's answer: Lance Storm posted:To be honest your question and point of view annoys me a little. I hear from fans like you all the time. What exactly do you think you have to contribute? I can only assume you mean contribute as a booker or writer, because that is the only job that really doesn’t have a physical aspect to it. Like EVERY OTHER industry you have to have qualifications to get a job in our industry. Name one industry that is accepting of people with NO EXPERIENCE and No QUALIFICATIONS entering their business in an important role. Just watching or following an industry as a fan does not count. To be a Booker/Writer you either need extensive experience in the Wrestling Industry or a degree and experience as a professional writer. I read a lot of books, am friends with a ton of authors, and have a pretty good grasp of how the publishing industry works, but unless I have a degree, and some experience in the publishing industry, NO major publishing house is going to hire me just because I feel I have a passion for literature. Working in the wrestling industry, at the top level is a legitimate career that requires legitimate qualifications. If you want to work in the wrestling business and contribute to this industry in a creative fashion, go to University and study to get a degree of some kind in writing. Then pay your dues finding work as a writer. Once you’ve got experience writing in either TV or Film apply to WWE and try to get a job. It took me 10 years of hard work to make it to WWE once I decided I had a passion for this business. I didn’t sit home claiming to have a passion and put the blame on WWE not hiring people with no experience. I went out and did something about it. Goddamn do I love Lance Storm.
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That's awesome.
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Lance Storm is now aware of the Crucial Crew.
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I wonder what Cornette would say to that considering he is all about having to work your way up from cleaning toilets to being a booker
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Dylar Addict posted:I wonder what Cornette would say to that considering he is all about having to work your way up from cleaning toilets to being a booker He would say that whoever he works for now is awesome at whatever the issue at hand is and that the competition is not. e: and if he was unemployed, he would say everyone in business now sucks and talk about how he could save wrestling by recreating 1985 or something. sportsgenius86 fucked around with this message at Mar 1, 2010 around 15:16 |
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Yeah I'm sure Vince and Dixie only hire writers with college degrees In writing or Indy promotion turn away people willing to work for peanuts if they don't have a diploma. The second part is the only part that matters so Cornette is far more correct.
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FishBulb posted:Yeah I'm sure Vince and Dixie only hire writers with college degrees In writing or Indy promotion turn away people willing to work for peanuts if they don't have a diploma. Actually, you do have to have a college degree plus two-three years of experience working in the television industry to be considered for the WWE as a writer. Also, most of the guys in the broadcast booth who never came from wrestling have journalism backgrounds. As for Indies, all you have to do is be a volunteer long enough and eventually they will give you booking power. But then again, it fits Lance Storms opinion. You have to be doing something.
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Yeah I'm sure thats what they ask for when they post job openings. There have been plenty of people that have worked for Vince with no degrees in anything, and there will be plenty more in the future. It definitely seems like the most assured way to get into wrestling is to just go out and get into wrestling by getting involved in an indy and hoping you eventually move into something better, which of course is what he says at the end, I just think hes overstating the whole GO TO COLLEGE thing. Also, the more people that go to college the less valuable my degree becomes so STOP GOING TO COLLEGE EVERYONE
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FishBulb posted:I just think hes overstating the whole GO TO COLLEGE thing. I think this is the standard wrestler response because not everyone makes it and you have to have something to fall back on.
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Burrito posted:I think this is the standard wrestler response because not everyone makes it and you have to have something to fall back on. That is if they don't chuck your CV straight in the bin as soon as they see you've been in professional wrestling for the last five years.
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Ignore the "go to college!" bit if you like (although everyone should go!), the key point remains the same - you have to do SOMETHING, you can't just sit on your rear end at home complaining that WWE isn't hiring you even though you play a mean game of TEW.
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If you want to be involved with pro wrestling, start setting up and breaking down the ring for a local indy. If you want to write for the WWE, write for television. Every other tv show is so much more credible than wrestling on the entertainment industry pecking order, so there's your edge.
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But... guys... I know a writer! He told me I had potential! Edit: Just gonna point out that Wrestlehut would create the most terrible show ever. It would draw nothing but ire and I would love every second of it.
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