Reverend BTY
Hank Scorpio
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Post by Reverend BTY on May 12, 2006 22:48:32 GMT -5
I'm used to it. I remember when they first changed it I was thinking "What the hell is this???" It was like randomly on RAW they're WWE. But it's been like 4 years since then. I'd hope people would be used to it.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 12, 2006 23:07:41 GMT -5
Yup- it's been what, three, four years?
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Post by Loki on May 13, 2006 12:28:30 GMT -5
I got used to WWE, but to me WWF and WWE are two different entities.
WWF (block logo) is the good ol' wrestling of my youth/mark days WWF (scratch logo) and WWE are the "degeneration" of said wrestling.
Not that I don't enjoy the "new" sports-entertainment taste, but it's just a different thing, that I enjoy at a different level.
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Post by tartsonawire on May 13, 2006 13:37:45 GMT -5
I still prefer to think WWF, and I sometimes say WWF when I'm around people who wouldn't know what I'm talking about if I said WWE. I still think its silly they had to change the name, anyway. I remember seeing a World Wildlife Federation sticker when I was a kid, and thinking "Why does that WWF sticker have a panda on it? That has nothing to do with wrestling!"
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Post by ajmortimer on May 13, 2006 13:48:52 GMT -5
[quote author=gomo board=WWE thread=1147483503 post=1147484525 ]I totally got used to it...I even refer to old pay per views as "WWE" events.
Gee....thanks a lot, Panda.[/quote] Me too. I'm gona go back to the habit of saying WWF.
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MiLB Fan
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by MiLB Fan on May 13, 2006 16:01:22 GMT -5
May 6, 2002. What a dark day for wrestling history. Yes, I actually remember the date. I recall the commercial they showed before RAW began: that woman trimming the old scratch logo into the topiary, cutting the "F" part off, then dousing it in gasoline and setting it on fire, to make it more scratch-like. I saw that and thought, "What the hell is going on here?"
I've gotten used to it, but part of me wishes Vince would cut some sort of deal with the panda folks.
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Post by willywonka666 on May 13, 2006 16:17:43 GMT -5
i got used to it really quick, i still refer to wwf days as wwf, the only think that i still get hung up on is calling it "THE wwe", technically using the word "THE" really doesnt make any sense when referring to WWEntertainment
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Post by royboy8 on May 13, 2006 16:33:38 GMT -5
It took a couple years but now I can say that I think of it as the E.
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Erik Majorwitz
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Post by Erik Majorwitz on May 13, 2006 16:45:21 GMT -5
Hard to call it WWE as most of the world is not enterained with their wrestling product as of late.
I also always thought that the word "Federation" on the marquee gave the company more credibility.
Semper Fi, Erik Majorwitz
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Post by The Reverend on May 13, 2006 16:49:32 GMT -5
When I watch wrestling, I temporarily go into mark-mode. Sometimes in this mode I will scream something at the TV like "JOHN CENA IS NOT MY WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION CHAMPION!"
Silly, I know, but World Wrestling Entertainment Champion doesn't have the same ring to it...
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Post by TripleMerc on May 13, 2006 17:26:44 GMT -5
When I watch wrestling, I temporarily go into mark-mode. Sometimes in this mode I will scream something at the TV like "JOHN CENA IS NOT MY WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION CHAMPION!" Silly, I know, but World Wrestling Entertainment Champion doesn't have the same ring to it... Me too. Weird... but I've gotten used to it. In fact, the second it changed, I'm like, aaight, WWE it is!
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flea
Hank Scorpio
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Post by flea on May 13, 2006 18:21:09 GMT -5
I'm used to it even though I don't want to be.
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Post by amsiraK on May 13, 2006 18:46:43 GMT -5
WWF always just rolled off the tongue, I thought. It was easy to remember and say fast.
Of course, let's not forget that even THEY screw it up, including Vince. They'd be better just calling it "The E" or "The Fed" or something easy to remember. Look how fast we went to calling TNN "Spike TV." Short, catchy and not so close to the original that you're gonna screw it up.
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Lancers
El Dandy
Oh you
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Post by Lancers on May 13, 2006 18:50:25 GMT -5
Yeah, it's hard to imagine that there was a time Spike TV has home to the Grand Ole Opry and reruns of Hee Haw. As you can clearly see, they've gone from being a network aimed for confederate apologists and now a network with a classier image with shows featuring Japanese men running into walls and the UFC.
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Post by mrobert21 on May 14, 2006 18:59:25 GMT -5
It's still WWF to me, DAMMIT!!!! Thank you for sayin what needed to be sayud!!! I don't never want to see another WWE!!! I'm pissed now !!! I don't know why people accept this WWE crap. I would not have booked the WWF or Stamp to become WWE. Who are all of you to doubt El Dandy or the WWF? Worst move ever was for McMahon to change the name to WWF. If he had to change the name it should have gone back to World Wide Wrestling Federation (branded WWWF for overseas use). As I have pointed out before, the crap court ruling which violated all known legal precedent affected WWF in the United Kingdom and possibly Europe only. McMahon gave in because he wanted to make his company a total crap entertainment property, not because the suit forced him too. If I was McMahon I just would not do business in those islands for a few years and cost them a couple hundred million dollars in tax money. Trade embargoes like that tend to fix little political difficulties quick. Even in America once in a blue moon a state messes with McMahon and he cuts them off until they come crawling back to him. I bet with our magnificent legion of WWF fans over seas we could get the message sent plenty quick to the panda lovers and their allies in the government that this nonsense is not acceptable. Really, all McMahon had to do was add the extra W to overseas broadcasts and he would not have even had to go that far. Right wing Christian nuts can not make me stop watching wrestling and left wing tree huggers can not make me stop saying WWF (I oppose all political extremists of any persuasion). The fact is the panda lovers are named the Wildlife Fund For Nature in America and every country except Britain and the abandoned the WWF trademark in the 1980's (I know all this crap from getting a Master's degree in Sports Management). The British court made the wrong ruling that because McMahon paid the tree huggers a little blood money in the early 1990's when he had worse legal troubles they had the right to jack McMahon up when he became successful again (an American court would have tossed the Panda gang out on their butts). I did not mean to be political or offend anybody, but on this topic it is tough to avoid. I oppose activist judicial systems in any nation for any reason. I oppose McMahon and this small time environmentalist fringe group for taking away my WWF. I will never stp calling it WWF though.
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Post by tardis99 on May 14, 2006 19:06:25 GMT -5
An American court would have done exactly the same thing because McMahon broke an agreement he signed with WWF over use of the initials.
Completely closing down overseas ventures would have been disasterous for WWE and it wouldnt have started a trade embargo because nobody gives a toss about wrestling in the grand scheme of things. It's like not broadcasting Ren & Stimpy to Australia. I hardly think John Howard would be making speeches in parliament on it.
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Eunös ✈
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Post by Eunös ✈ on May 14, 2006 19:06:28 GMT -5
Doesnt bother me anymore..
When it first became WWE i remember actually being really angry about it..
It took me awhile but now i just don't think about it anymore..
Youd be suprised actually how many people who lost interest before it became the E to this day are still unaware that's it's no Longer WWF..
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Post by G✇JI☈A on May 14, 2006 19:16:55 GMT -5
I used to calling it WWE now.
But I used to donate to the World Wildlife Fund but after the WWF v WWF thing I don't. Cause I think "is this money going towards helping Elephants or Tigers or fighting pointless lawsuits?". Thats what pissed me off the most about the whole thing. That my donations probably paid for their lawyers.
And Tardis I'm Impressed! You know the name of our Prime Minister.
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Post by tardis99 on May 14, 2006 19:18:57 GMT -5
I used to calling it WWE now. But I used to donate to the World Wildlife Fund but after the WWF v WWF thing I don't. Cause I think "is this money going towards helping Elephants or Tigers or fighting pointless lawsuits?". Thats what pissed me off the most about the whole thing. That my donations probably paid for their lawyers. And Tardis I'm Impressed! You know the name of our Prime Minister. I prefer it when he's dressed up as the Dame Edna character though ;D. The Steve Irwin costume is good too.
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Post by mrobert21 on May 14, 2006 19:27:49 GMT -5
An American court would have done exactly the same thing because McMahon broke an agreement he signed with WWF over use of the initials. Completely closing down overseas ventures would have been disasterous for WWE and it wouldnt have started a trade embargo because nobody gives a toss about wrestling in the grand scheme of things. It's like not broadcasting Ren & Stimpy to Australia. I hardly think John Howard would be making speeches in parliament on it. Really, an American court would do the same thing, then why was not McMahon sued in America? Answer is the case was flimsy in a Brittish court and did not exist in an American court. McMahon owned all trademarks on the initials WWF every place on Earth. The Wildlife Fund For Nature ceased to be the WWF in the early 1980's thus abandoning all claims to the WWF trademark. Speeches in parliaments are not how governments work. How they really work is behind the scenes one guy say to another I am not selling my stuff in your country any more so you do not get any kick backs and they come to an agreement. What makes me nuts is even after McMahon gave in to the panda gang they kept coming after him. Pure and simple, they were out for the cash. As I said, McMahon did not even have to go that far, he could just slap an extra W on his British stuff. But, he has his dumb dreams of a bimbo filled movie making rap music empire, so we get the E. I do not forgive McMahon or the panda gang (the only pandas worsr than Panda Energy). I will never surrender my WWF.
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