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Imagine a nuclear 747.

I'm already working on my pitch to Syfy.

Be sure to include sharks and tornadoes in your pitch as that seems to be what goes for SciFi at SyFy these days - sigh.

Oops! Forgot. And WWE - double sigh.

Aren't standards something the FCC is supposed to protect? Even better though an international organization should champion standards

I think the WWE would be better suited to take on those duties than the organizations you've mentioned.

Problem: Terms Of Service are subject to change. And who reads them anyway?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and figure that most people who watch the WWE or NASCAR pay-per-view programs aren't particularly well versed in contract law.

Monday mornings are brutal for me. I read the story title as:

UK To Train Pro-Wrestler Islamic Groups To Game Google

Seriously, that left me thinking, "Oh really? Wow. Islam must finally be mellowing out a little to be embracing pro-wrestling..."

Dude, Hornswaggle's a leprechaun not a human! Your post is totally off topic to the article which is about pygmy humans! Not leprechauns (everyone knows they exist) ;P

MOD THE TROLL DOWN!!!

You know they changed their name, right?

Video games need brains, sport needs brawn.

You underestimate the amount of thinking that goes into playing ball at the professional level. And are you calling top-rank chess not a sport?

Video games have storylines, art, soundtrack and skillful design, sport does not.

O rly? Even if you don't accept professional rasslin as a sport, there are plenty of art and soundtrack in televised ball, and there's still plenty of drama in (say) steroid scandals.

There are no WWF wrestlers anymore, unless they're wrestling pandas or something. The organization you're thinking of changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment.

But yeah, those stupid goddamn kids. Watching that video made me nauseated, and I don't know if it's from sympathetic pain or because I feel sick in the presence of all that stupid.

"They weren't exactly grunting fools 8,000-10,000 years ago."

perhaps not, but we are now. And now

Shaquille O'Neal. Born: March 6, 1972. Newark, NJ. Height: 7-1. Weight: 325 lbs.

Standing 7'4" and weighing between 475 and 540 pounds over the course of his career, he truly earned his nickname of "The Eighth Wonder of the World".

Robert Pershing Wadlow was born, educated and buried in Alton, Illinois. His height of 8' 11.1" qualifies him as the tallest person in history, as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. At the time of his death he weighed 490 pounds.

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it's WWE now, I think the World Wildlife Fund finally got pissed off and sued them a couple years ago, so they changed it. UnaBallmer, that's a good one.

Such as Mac Users who use Macs at home, often use Windows PCs at work? That they should not be accused of hypocracy? Why is it hardly ever the other way around, that PC Users who use Windows at home, use Macs at work?

How about we opt for ECW rules? I think that should make it interesting.

In all cases where I've set an alarm off like this, they've been satisfied with just going through the shopping bag. No insistence of searching my whole person.

Funny, no one's ever attempted to physically search me when I've set off the alarm. Maybe it's because I'm 6'2" 225# with a bald head and goatee and look like Steve Austin.

Not that that'd make a difference. No one's rummaging through my pockets except my wife or a cop and only after I'm in cuffs (either way)

So rather than having a turducken this Thanksgiving, have a nerdorkeek! Be sure to leave out the pencil-necks though...

Anyone else find this headline hilarious?

If you've seen Nintendo's ad campaign on WWE.com then you'll know the real reason. SuiciDegirlS turned them down on advertising the new Nintendo DS.

To be honest, are there any other shows on UPN other than soap-opera for nerds and soap-opera for rednecks?

Lets say that the state of California collectively wakes up and knows it should be strong like Schwarzenegger. Comparing the two methods:

• For selective breeding, the state would set up tax breaks and other incentives to get as many people to use as many WWE members as egg and sperm donors as possible, and also to pay non-strong people to move to Nevada. After a few generations of intense ad campaigns about how great it is to use fertility clinics and how sexy it is to bench-press Mini Coopers: voila- stronger Californians.
• For genetic engineering, we'd go out and find the different muscle gene that makes chimps 10x as strong as humans. Substitute that into all new CA embryos: voila- stronger Californians in one generation. Unless of course we accidentally spliced in multiple genes: dunno the results but hopefully they'd use Bonobo not troglodytes...

• Instead, for genetic engineering, we find the gene that makes tiger muscle much stronger than human muscle. We splice that into all new CA embryos: voila- stronger Californians in one generation. Unless of course we accidentally spliced in multiple genes: voila: a furry's dream of progressive, recycling, salad loving Kzin-people in one generation.

In this thought experiment- are selective breeding and genetic engineering the same? Stronger humans through ad campaigns are the same as stronger humans through splicing Carnivora genes into primates? That because humans have already done a wonderful job of SB through sexual selection [especially wonderful given the low genetic diversity our species has overall (compared to most other mammals- even the 40k chimps have more diversity than all 6 billion humans)], we're not doing anything new by splicing genes from elsewhere?

Sexual selection within humanity has resulted in both the !Kung and Watusi in the same geographic regions. If we really wanted to we could get all humans to looks far more !Kung or Watusi - using that massive ad campaign first developed in California- without any genetic engineering at all. But that's far different from bringing in genes from other orders/classes/phylums, isn't it? [Speaking of which, perhaps some rhodopsin could be nice for the days you want to work outside but you forgot your lunch. Any Genies (genetic engineers) out there wanting to give this a go?]

You're also the only one who still ... believes the WWF is real.

WWF is real. It's WWE that's fake.

That said, what would WWF say about a gene that could cause carp to go extinct worldwide should it somehow manage to be shipped out of Australia?

Then again, we should have a superhero called GoldMan (Gold Man)!

Spider-man versus Goldberg? My money's on Goldberg!

Most people can discriminate between a pro wrestler and a game character; the hypothetical "reasonable person" appealed to so often in court cases like this one certainly could.

You would think so, but people apparently cannot determine the difference between a buch of wrestlers and a bunch of pandas.

Lou Ferrigno is retired, but somebody else tall and muscular like Brock Lesnar would have made it much better. If necessary they could use the CGI to increase his size somewhat, while still maintaining natural movement.

But the way they did this one made it look like a stupid cartoon.

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Watach gonna do, when he, runs wild on you!

They chose him because he's big, and he won't need much extra fur.

WWE already webcasts their pay-per-views, and while NASCAR doesn't do webcasts, you can access telemetry from all the cars in the Winston Cup races, and see a ton of real-time data on the races while you watch it on FOX (or ABC later in the season) using their TrackPass site features.

I'm not particularly excited that MLB is doing it. It sounds to me like another desperate ploy to get fans back after they abused us with their "I deserve more money even though I have enough $100 bills lying around to wipe my ass with for the rest of my life" spoiled rich boy player strikes.

Forget baseball -- NASCAR is the new national pastime.

*cough* WWE *cough*, unless you are referring to the giant panda

In this case Scott "Big Papa Pump" Steiner (and a number of other wrestlers) just can't be human.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the return to Havard currently fits into his current plan/plans. Assuming this is the right guy, he could very well be an intelligent guy. Who am I to judge... I don't know him. However, the whole "professional wrestling" career path does make me wonder why he was _really_ at Harvard.

What's wrong with Bhuddists watching the World Wildlife Foundation? Oh, you must have meant WWE.

It's good to see that the people of Bhutan keep up with there budist nature and look after pandas and the wildlife...

didn't you mean WWE

*cough*...

WWF is not that same (or at least was but, not now) as WWE..

Are the Buddahists are worried about the "SMACKDOWN" being laid down to a Panda bear..
Nah.. /. Editors just forget little things like big corporate lawsuits...

Piece of advice: when writing a topic, know what the acronym actually refers to-it was the World Wrestling Federation. Sorry, I actually watch wrestling (if you can smell what I am cooking!). Now it is the WWE(World Wrestling Entertainment). It was only a few weeks ago that the World Wildlife Fund won its case to be the exclusive owner of the acronym WWF.

The World Wildlife Fund has been around since 1961. It is The largest privately supported international conservation organization in the world and directs its conservation efforts toward three global goals: protecting endangered spaces, saving endangered species and addressing global threats.

I have been reading a lot of comments on this article that basically brush off the claims of the article as reactionary and doomsdayish-without-basis-in-fact. Also there are the typical environmentalism as liberal propaganda posts. Maybe if we all had to see species on the verge of extinction or going extinct everyday the article might hit a little closer to home. It is easy to sit in front of the monitor all day and not feel any connection to the outer world (i sure know what that is like). But hey, even if they are totally wrong, how does it hurt any of us to do the little things like consuming less, recycling, and reusing that might make a differenct. I ride my bike everywhere and I don't miss having a car at all. Why not take a precautious approach, especially when it might mean a better life for our children and grand children.

Anyway, I guess it doesn't matter. What is going to happen is going to happen.

The WWF retains the right to choose from any of the wrestlers it will have in 2050. Some may be horrific and terrifying results of human cloning and tissue engineering experiments. Others may be the wrestlers you enjoy today, cryogenically preserved in giant buckets of ice water to deliver their maximal smackdown power in the distant future.

Who will deliver the smackdown is a mystery, and won't be revealed until July 4th 2050. What we do know is that Mother Nature is going down and she ain't coming back up. Triumph will be complete and eternal. Tickets available at Ticketron and local ticketing agencies. Mastercard, Visa and Discover accepted. All ticket sales are final and non-transferrable. Ensure your grandchildrens' participation in this historic event today!