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This teacher had a really inventive way to teach apathetic Japanese high school students English using Penny Arcade... http://www.yukihime.com/comics/paremix/ Here's an example: I'm sure American high school students would come up with stuff just as bizarre if they had to re-dialog manga to learn Japanese!

Hello? Isn't pro wrestling and sports entertainment in itself fake? I know, I know, you meant her believability as a heel.

Actually, he looked really slow and sloppy with the limited stuff he did do which consisted of only 3 of his grand repetoire of moves which I will list: right punch left punch clothesline kick Stone Cold Stunner So to reiterate, he threw around ten right punches, then a kick to Lesnar's stomach.... hmmm, what usually follows after Austin kicks anyone in the stomach???... hmmm... OOOO OOOO!! A Stone Cold Stunner!! Oh, but he didn't land the stunner, so he scored a grand total of ten sloppy right punches. I'm glad I didn't miss the end of Smackdown.

LMAO!!! Funniest thing I've read in this forum for quite some time...

IMO, I think everytime Rock shows up it's a blessing. There aren't many wrestlers with his kind of charisma, and mic skills. And his wrestling always looks sharp. I know at least SOMETHING entertaining is going to happen when he's around. I can't say the same about HHH. When I watch the current crop of guys like Brock Lesnar, The Bashem Bros, or John Cena, I end up falling asleep. Brock Lesnar is just an overhyped Psycho Sid with about the same level of mic skills. John Cena is playing a bad rapper-wrestler based on an already bad rapper to begin with (Marky Mark). And these are the top tier new blood??? John Cena couldn't rhyme if his life depended on it. I mean, have you listened to his crap rap on that terrible Stinger drink commercial? He ends every rhyme with "man". Wow, that takes skill. I could get a 2nd grader out of Reading Comprehension class and have him read a nursery rhyme with better flow than he makes out on all of his interviews. The best match I have seen in ages out of WWE was the Ultimo Dragon/Mysterio/Kidman match last week against Tajiri and the two other guys. And I feel sorry for Goldberg... it always seems like Vince takes the best angles or talent that happened back in WCW and brings them over to WWE just to bury them and make them lose to WWE superstars just so he knows he killed the heat on them and won't have to worry about them going over to another promotion and making it big there, becoming a threat later on.

How do you know that Foley and Orton didn't plan for that stiff punch? Foley did it before with Rock during that great PPV where he told Rock to keep hitting him with the chair until it busted his head open. After that, I don't think Foley would be prissy over a black eye. Not to mention Foley will gladly take a shot if he feels that it will greatly advance the buy in of the fans on an angle.

Too original, I'm afraid. I hate most of the Z/ZZ designs, as well as all of the bug-eyed mechs from V. There's a reason I don't go beyond 0083. I'm all for variety, but there's a line between originality and ugly, and it seems that many designers cannot help but straddle the lines, garnering elements from both schools of thought. Some of the more esoteric designs were due to Mamoru Nagano of Five Star Stories fame. You can usually spot his designs since they are normally tall skinny and spindly looking. The Hyaku Shiki was his work, as well as the Zeta I think. Kunio "Mr. Boxy with no joints designer) Okawara did the Mark II. The Bound Doc is particularly a dumb dumb design. But the Psycho Gundam, Psycho Gundam II, and the Messala are pretty cool. I loved the designs from 0083. The Powered GM, the GP01 FB, the GPO3 Dendobrium Stamen, the Xamel, and Gato's mobile armor were some of the most beautiful designs. The GP03 is especially intimidating. Anything Hajime Katoki touches is gold.

In spite of my dislike of the character design in V Gundam, I love the V2 Gundam. I feel like it is the last truly UC-reminiscent old school Gundam design. The beam shield carries on the progression of beam technology from the Nu Gundam's funnels and the beam shields in F91. Gundam designs after V Gundam (TV Series-wise) have been more and more flashy. The Wing Gundam, the Gundam Double X, and Aegis Gundam feel like they go for more style before substance, while the original Gundam was remarkable due to its realism in approaching giant robots. Now, the more fins, lasers, and gadgets they can shoehorn into a Gundam, the better, which is probably due to pressure from Bandai on the anime creators to garner better toy sales. Although I do suspect the reason why the Zeta transformed at all was probably due to the same pressure to compete with Transformers at the time. While most of the Zanscar mobile suits looked bad, I liked them for one thing - they were ORIGINAL. I mean, it's 20 years later and we are still getting recycled Zakus with new names as villian mecha?? - like the Jinn in Gundam Seed. I know, it's a trademark of the series, but look at Zeta - it had a LOT of variety in the mobile suits and armors piloted by the Titans and Neo Zeon. Hell, I even was the rare person to like the Turn A and Turn X because they actually felt futuristic and fresh. Are the Gundams of today a big leap like the original was? IMO, they would to people of the 70s and 80s, but now they seem uninspired. Anyways, just my 2 cents...

Actually, Z Gundam had some great rivals other than Jerid, whose role was more of a high school jock prick kind of character. I mean, geez, you have Scirroco, Haman Khan, Jamitov Hyman, and Bask Om. How can you ignore them? They all had substantial effect on how things unfolded for the whole 0087 conflict. Hell, Jamitov and Bask even started their crap as far back as 0083 in Stardust Memories. Scirroco, while being the typical smooth suave anime villian character, was probably one of the more powerful Newtypes in the UC universe to date, with Haman Khan right up there. I'd say Jerid if anything is a lower tier a-hole rival. I also disagree about the whole not giving a rat's ass about the deaths in Zeta... remember Four Murasame and that girl that believed she was Camille's sister? Those were pretty sad deaths in my opinion due to them being brainwashed and having real affection for Camille. Katsu died a pretty sad death considering he was a moron most of the time and because of his infatuation with Sara Zarabriov (Titans pilot) only spurred him on to do more reckless stuff in spite of Char and Amuro's warnings. It reminds me of how Hathaway was with Quess in Char's Counterattack. Say what you will about Zeta, but at least most characters had depth and motivations for stuff they did as opposed to being cookie cutter characters with no other motivation other than being bad or good.