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(...) Thanks for pointing out that important distinction! Or is it? I didn't think that rigging implied that, I had always thought it was just a less polite way of saying predetermined. :-) Honest question, NOT flame bait. (...) Larry Pieniazek - (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ???!!! $1,000,000 of legal bets are placed on the NFL each week, and you're saying "so what, it's rigged"?? Last time I checked that was illegal. (...) But that's exactly my point! NO ONE will debate the point that the Bucs were flat out (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'll buy that. My question was only a little serious, in any case! 8^) Dave! (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I suspect it's not the scripting that is the problem, it's that in wrestling, somebody knows who is going to win and tells the athletes that information. In your examples, while probably much more heavily scripted than the average wrestling (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) For that matter, why is pro-wrestling denied the status of "sport" on the grounds that it's scripted, while Figure Skating and Gymnastics, which use highly-coreographed routines, are applauded for the same thing?! Dave! (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Larry, (...) Hmm... I don't know, Larry, I get crispy every now and then. :) Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The WWF (and wrestling in general) isn't rigged, it's predetermined. There's a difference. Rigged implies that it was done immorally or illegally. Wrestling matches are predetermined so that the storyline is followed, just like any other (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, ya, it's rigged. But so what? Look, even the WWF is rigged, but it is still true that: - being a WWF participant requires a great deal of skill. Falling HURTS if you don't do it right. - it's a gateway to even MORE rigged things. Name me (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My original point, which I think you have partially and inadvertently backed up, is that kids lack the maturity to use profanity wisely. Armed with the "F- bomb" as it is so tactfully put, a kid is just as likely to waltz up to the Queen and (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I found it comforting that a local radio personality thought the same thing I did that something nefarious was/is going on-- I can't believe nobody is taking my troll bait! -John (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've read two of the books, and thought they were amusing, but the plot was identical in both books. The first book might have had some originality, but with seven planned, they're bound to get dull real fast. (IMO, of course) Please FUT (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) HaH? You got a PROBLEM wid' dat? You got a freekin' PROBLEM? I noticed this as well, coming from MI (rather than MO) to NJ. I occasionally get looked at funny when I say "excuse me?" when they use profanity freely (but the elderly have (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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To All, Thanks for the responses, I don't know why this perplexed me so much, now I have a better understanding of it. My fiancee got motion sickness from this film, and I just got frustrated. The website does seem to have a lot more information, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wait. The first part of your note sounded like it was about calm civility. How is it more civil to "insult, flame, or denigrate" someone just because the F-bomb isn't used? So is it about being decent to one another in this forum and trying to (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, I didn't mean it like that, I meant it like this: Where are we going from there? As a member (sort of) of the side (sort of) opposite (sort of) yours, I'm willing to accept that corporations have the power to hurt people inappropriately. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The official web site had the interviews as they were filmed (not edited like in the movie), so if anyone needs a refresher, I'd go there. I'd have to agree that the fishermen were the worst actors in the movie. They weren't SUPPOSED to be (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't think it's a big deal, but just in case.... SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! SPOILER!!!! (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes: <snip> (...) I think this is the heart of the "profanity in newsgroups" debate. I can fully understand profanity in the heat of the moment, in a spoken conversation. It is extremely easy to let a (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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What was the slip up? I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and did not notice anything? (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) cost (...) ???????? (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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