erik316wttn
Samurai Cop
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Post by erik316wttn on Jul 1, 2010 19:20:32 GMT -5
WWE is going all out on this Nexus angle. From www.pwpix.net/pwpixnews/headlines/279985374.php
WWE officials have told the members of Nexus to play the heel role while in public in front of fans. They're not allowed to pose for photos or sign autographs and are wearing the 'N' armbands while out. Thoughts? |
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officedepot6905
Team Rocket
He's gonna take you back to the past
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Post by officedepot6905 on Jul 1, 2010 19:22:00 GMT -5
Love it...make it as real as possible
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Post by I *still* ✡ Johnny on Jul 1, 2010 19:24:40 GMT -5
I wanted a Tarver photo and autograph! D:
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Dean-o
Grimlock
Haha we're having fun Maggle!
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Post by Dean-o on Jul 1, 2010 19:46:21 GMT -5
Makes sense considering they are really going after the younger crowd again.
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Jul 1, 2010 19:46:04 GMT -5
Eh, they've done stuff like this before. John Cena and 'Taker are supposed to be exempt from WWE's clothing rules to better fit with their "characters," for example.
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FinalGwen
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Particularly fond of muffins.
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Post by FinalGwen on Jul 1, 2010 19:48:52 GMT -5
Also explains why they're no longer active on Twitter.
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Post by funkycoldmadina on Jul 1, 2010 19:50:14 GMT -5
Eh, they've done stuff like this before. John Cena and 'Taker are supposed to be exempt from WWE's clothing rules to better fit with their "characters," for example. What clothing rules? |
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Post by foreveryoung on Jul 1, 2010 19:57:02 GMT -5
Umm.. it was destroyed years ago. They are trying to re institute something that people KNOW is predetermined and staged?
There will never be Kayfabe again.. May as well not even go there. Everyone knows EVERY damn thing about this business.
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Post by abenja1 on Jul 1, 2010 20:28:24 GMT -5
Oh boy. They better be careful with this. This is asking for a lawsuit. To me, they should like heels in the ring, but outside, put their characters aside. What happens if a little kid comes up for an autograph or picture? They turn him down, he cries, parents sue. That's bound to happen.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jul 1, 2010 20:38:10 GMT -5
Oh boy. They better be careful with this. This is asking for a lawsuit. To me, they should like heels in the ring, but outside, put their characters aside. What happens if a little kid comes up for an autograph or picture? They turn him down, he cries, parents sue. That's bound to happen. .........I don't think there's a lawyer in the world that would try to sue somebody for not posing for a photo with a stranger. |
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Post by James McCloud IS John Godot on Jul 1, 2010 20:41:17 GMT -5
Eh, they've done stuff like this before. John Cena and 'Taker are supposed to be exempt from WWE's clothing rules to better fit with their "characters," for example. What clothing rules? WWE employees, including wrestlers, have a strict dress code when on the job, which includes when traveling. Buttoned up shirts and the like. Some are exempt as it doesn't match their character. Undead zombie biker the Undertaker and street-wise marine patriot John Cena are two. |
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Post by The poster with no name on Jul 1, 2010 20:44:30 GMT -5
WWE employees, including wrestlers, have a strict dress code when on the job, which includes when traveling. Buttoned up shirts and the like. Some are exempt as it doesn't match their character. Undead zombie biker the Undertaker and street-wise marine patriot John Cena are two. Stone Cold was also one. |
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Post by oafman on Jul 1, 2010 20:49:32 GMT -5
WWE employees, including wrestlers, have a strict dress code when on the job, which includes when traveling. Buttoned up shirts and the like. Some are exempt as it doesn't match their character. Undead zombie biker the Undertaker and street-wise marine patriot John Cena are two. I think CM Punk fits this too... |
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Post by abenja1 on Jul 1, 2010 20:51:39 GMT -5
Oh boy. They better be careful with this. This is asking for a lawsuit. To me, they should like heels in the ring, but outside, put their characters aside. What happens if a little kid comes up for an autograph or picture? They turn him down, he cries, parents sue. That's bound to happen. .........I don't think there's a lawyer in the world that would try to sue somebody for not posing for a photo with a stranger. If a woman can sue McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on herself while putting on her makeup anything is possible in the world of lawsuits. |
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Post by Alex Shelley on Jul 1, 2010 20:57:53 GMT -5
.........I don't think there's a lawyer in the world that would try to sue somebody for not posing for a photo with a stranger. If a woman can sue McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on herself while putting on her makeup anything is possible in the world of lawsuits. I hate to be that guy, but the fact that people keep quoting that lawsuit when they clearly know nothing about it really pisses me off. She sued (and won) because the coffee was excessively hot and gave her third degree burns all over her groin that required skin grafting and two years of medical treatment. Further, she wasn't putting on makeup. She was putting sugar in the coffee. |
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Post by abenja1 on Jul 1, 2010 21:11:51 GMT -5
If a woman can sue McDonalds for spilling hot coffee on herself while putting on her makeup anything is possible in the world of lawsuits. I hate to be that guy, but the fact that people keep quoting that lawsuit when they clearly know nothing about it really pisses me off. She sued (and won) because the coffee was excessively hot and gave her third degree burns all over her groin that required skin grafting and two years of medical treatment. Further, she wasn't putting on makeup. She was putting sugar in the coffee. My bad on my part. Admittedly though whenever I hear about "frivolous" lawsuits, that's the one always brought up. My main point is that people will sue over anything regardless of liability and any lawyer will jump on it if they think they can make a buck. |
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Jul 1, 2010 21:37:52 GMT -5
I hate to be that guy, but the fact that people keep quoting that lawsuit when they clearly know nothing about it really pisses me off. She sued (and won) because the coffee was excessively hot and gave her third degree burns all over her groin that required skin grafting and two years of medical treatment. Further, she wasn't putting on makeup. She was putting sugar in the coffee. My bad on my part. Admittedly though whenever I hear about "frivolous" lawsuits, that's the one always brought up. My main point is that people will sue over anything regardless of liability and any lawyer will jump on it if they think they can make a buck. Eh, it happens. People do bring it up all the time, and more often than not, they get straightened out. The facts of the case didn't get as much attention.  |
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H-Fist
Hank Scorpio
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Post by H-Fist on Jul 1, 2010 22:08:00 GMT -5
My bad on my part. Admittedly though whenever I hear about "frivolous" lawsuits, that's the one always brought up. My main point is that people will sue over anything regardless of liability and any lawyer will jump on it if they think they can make a buck. Eh, it happens. People do bring it up all the time, and more often than not, they get straightened out. The facts of the case didn't get as much attention. It's always easy to ignore them when the story gets treated like a joke in the mainstream. Myself being a food service veteran, I work with steam tables where the food in the metal pans has to be above 140F and the water underneath has to be at about 195F. The 195 creates enough steam to maintain the temperature without itself evaporating or causing, say, marinara sauce to heat up to 185F. 160F is what I want. But no one wants to bite into a meatball sandwich with 200 degree tomato sauce. And serving that to someone would be irresponsible and, likely, negligent on my part and that of my manager and the store's ownership. ----------------- And kayfabe is only gone in the sense of the business being open about its being predetermined. But we all know how useful the internet is in passing around falsehoods and half-truths. Kayfabe is any means by which they are using their characters/toying with the audience outside of company programming time. In a sense, it still is very much alive in that we consume it anyway. So this idea of kayfabe returning is more a matter of finding ways to bring back the real kayfabe, not the kayfabe that never really was. You know, like the nostalgia a certain generation of certain Americans feel for the "perfect" post-WW2 decade that wasn't exactly that. Kayfabe protected the business. You didn't go around talking about it being fake as a part of it. But the most important aspect of kayfabe was, by virtue of them going through those motions of keeping up the image of it being real, they could occasionally strike emotional gold. Every so often, an angle would come up where the guys involved would sell everything in and out of the ring so perfectly that even the most jaded fan would say, "I know all of this is bullshit, but man, that match...those guys must really hate each other, 'cuz they were laying it in. That one was real, or something." I remember how viscerally pissed at The Miz I was during the first couple weeks of NXT season 1. He and Bryan played their roles perfectly. I hated that reality show d-bag's guts and wanted Dragon to kick his bleeping head in. It was real for a little while. And little things like putting the young guys in a position of needing to act like they're hated and that they hate everyone...that can only help them. Sure, it's all just TV bs...but man, they must really love getting a chance to lay into those guys... |
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officedepot6905
Team Rocket
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Post by officedepot6905 on Jul 1, 2010 22:09:50 GMT -5
another example is when my good friend cosmo kramer spilled hot coffee on his lap sneaking it into the theatres...
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Dave at the Movies
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
VINTAGE D-DAY DAVE! Always cranking dat thing.
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Jul 1, 2010 22:09:57 GMT -5
Kayfabe was so overrated. I mean he didn't even know a wristlock from a wrist watch!!  |
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