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There's a story/theory that depending on where you read it is a case of: * Wouldn't it be funny if... * Oh god, I think it actually happened that... * It's hard to believe but this definitely happened... The story being that the people Trump asked to find a new press secretary actually chose/shortlisted Dana W White, a woman who used to be press secretary for the Pentagon and then became a right-wing talking head. Trump saw the list, assumed it was the UFC guy, and immediately posted online about it. And now everyone involved has to pretend he was the actual choice. ((0Edit: Trump now saying it was all just a joke and he was just kidding.)

Noam Dar has been in some form of developmental for 10 years. He hasn't been on a main roster show since 2017.

Last I heard, they own the rights to everything in the library except Bret Hart's matches.

Played Herd Mentality (at a non-gamer gathering). Extremely simple: you get a category/question ("what's the best dinosaur that isn't a t-rex", "what's the biggest fruit you can fit in your mouth", "would you rather be too hot or too cold"), everyone writes down an answer, and you get a point if you gave the most common answer. (*) First to 8 wins, with the catch that if you are ever the only person to give an answer that nobody else gave, you get a plastic cow in front of you and cannot win until somebody else has taken it off you. Fun little game that doesn't outstay its welcome and would probably work best with a group who knew each other well so you can get into the whole "I know what everyone would put if they answered for real, but what would they guess everyone else would put, and then what if they thought everybody else was approaching it in the same way" cycle. (* - There's a major flaw in the rules as it says "When all the answers have been revealed, count them up to find out which was the most common. If your answer was part of the majority, collect one cow as a reward", which a pedant would point out is mixing up plurality and majority.)

The change in card wasn't because of the change in venue (other than Smith getting the IC title match) - both were the same reason which was that house show business absolutely collapsed after WrestleMania (like down by a third overnight) through a combination of the scandals, Hogan being gone, and the matches not having much appeal (Savage had already got his revenge on Flair; people didn't want to watch Papa Shango). There was a lot of panic moves that summer trying different stuff: SummerSlam was "what if we had two big babyface-babyface" matches, then you had "what if the main events were 25-35 minutes with very little nonsense" and then they even went to "what if the refs actually enforced the rules". Then Vince decided to stop experimenting, saw Yokozuna in the corner and said "let's go back to the big lads."

Not exactly a classic card, but as far as I can tell this was never on WWE Network:

Played Hit Z Road. It's basically a combination of Zombie Dice and a bidding game. The theme is driving across the US during a zombie apocalypse trying to get to LA. As well as the basic "roll dice to fight zombies" mechanic, you have limited resources of bullets (give you a chance to take out zombies before having to fight them), fuel (you can escape some zombie fights by speeding away) and adrenaline (basically a second chance that either undoes a zombie bite or kills an extra zombie when you attack). The catch is that each round you lay out cards (which have various combos of resources to scavenge, events, and zombies to fight) in sets representing different roads, and you have to bid with resources to decide what order people choose which of the roads they'll go along. In theory the winner is the one with the most points (some zombie cards have points if you stay, fight and win, plus variable end game bonuses for most of a resource, most surviving groups members, etc), though that only matters if more than one person makes it to the end. As the cards get increasingly nastier along the way, that is definitely not guaranteed. A lot of fun, though a bit longer than you'd expect, quick to learn, and a nice balance of luck and strategy. (I also played Tunnel Rumble, which was a playtest of a game designed by one of our group, so I'm just noting it here for my own records.)

MyAEW has the last three Arena Coliseo CMLL show in Spanish and next week's is scheduled, so that seems to be an ongoing thing. It also has the October 9 Friday night Arena Mexico show, but it's not clear if that's a one-off or why it's there.

I think Rude and Steamboat were the first to do that spot in an Iron Man match. With the submissions, it's something I wish was played more into in 2/3 falls matches. You should really be more willing to tap quickly in the first fall to give yourself a chance of coming back, which in turn means you should be more likely to try submissions in the first fall. I'm not going to go back and watch to confirm, but I vaguely recall that when Benoit and Angle did an ultimate submissions match (30 minute Iron Man with only submissions allowed) they were tapping almost immediately rather than struggling in the hold for minutes on end.

Adding to the cinema demands, the BBFC rating screen should also tell you whether there are any in-credits/post-credits scenes.

(photographed/posted by "@designthinking.lol" on BlueSky)

That report completely misses out something which the BBC mentioned but took more than 20 paragraphs to get to: the incest ban won't cover most of the "stepmum" genre. If both characters are presented as adults (and are adults), it only covers blood relations. For "stepparents, stepsiblings and foster parents" it only applies if one of them is portrayed as under 18.