“WWF strongly condemns this offensive and tasteless ad and did not authorize its production or publication. It is our understanding that it was a concept offered by an outside advertising agency in Brazil. The concept was summarily rejected by WWF and should never have seen the light of day. It is an unauthorized use of our logo and we are aggressively pursuing action to have it removed from websites where it is being currently featured. We strongly condemn the messages and the images portrayed in this ad. On behalf of WWF, here in the US and around the world, we can promise you this ad does not in any way reflect the thoughts and feelings of the people of our organization.” http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2009/WWFPresitem13540.html

but apparently, the Brazilian arm of the organisation might have authorised it (at least the picture) after all http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/03/wwf-911-tsunami-ad

hmm i dunno, either way it's a terrible advertisement.

>> ^Trancecoach:
This tete-a-tete interface between various media figures (Olbermann, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Sanchez, etc.) is beginning to smack of a sort of WWF kind of "threat-down" when wrestlers used to taunt their opponents before a match with Mean Gene Okerlund. Anyone else?


I am sorry that it has taken me this long to respond to you and tell you that your "threat-down" remark is such a complete display of internet awesomeness. It really points to the absolute theatrics of these cable news figures today.

>> ^jwray:
This is definitely fake like WWF.


Yeah, it's not real. Like say, oh I don't know, MOVIES!

I still don't get why people have such a negative reaction to pro wrestling because it's fake, but somehow movies are a perfectly OK form of entertainment even though they are just as scripted and fake.

They are both forms of entertainment. I know, you know, and anyone with have a brain knows they are fake. But no-one seems to be compelled to point out the fact that movies are fake every time a movie clip is posted here.

This is definitely fake like WWF.

This tete-a-tete interface between various media figures (Olbermann, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Sanchez, etc.) is beginning to smack of a sort of WWF kind of "threat-down" when wrestlers used to taunt their opponents before a match with Mean Gene Okerlund. Anyone else?

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Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

reagan made uz feeel good about uh... america.
and WWF was all cool and stuff.

so i heard.

He does ask the security guards to do their job. They should not have let the crowd get so close. The crowd does seem out for blood. When I was a kid I went to a few wrestling matches. It was Stampede wrestling in Calgary. The crowds (including myself) went crazy. There were a lot of fights afterwards.

After one show some friends and I went to the back of the arena to see the wrestlers. There were "good" guy wrestlers and "bad" guy wrestlers hanging around. I saw a guy called Honky Tonk Wayne, he was a "bad" guy. (he went on to the WWF as The Honky Tonk Man and did quite well) He looked like Las Vegas Elvis with attitude. As a joke I went up to him for an autograph.

"Hey Honky Tonk, can I get an autograph?"

"FUCK OFF KID!" he snarled

"Honky Tonk, didn't you used to charge kids for your autograph?" asked his buddy

"I did, but the little fuckers wouldn't pay a buck!" was his reply

My eyes wide open and my jaw dropped, I slunk back to my friends.

I'll admit it took me a few years before I realized he was one of the greatest show men on earth. He never broke character. He played the bad ass right to the end.

My point being, both the wrestler and the audience participate in the play. Some of the wrestlers are more "method" actors. And like I said before, I don't follow wrestling now so I don't know what Chris Jericho's character is.

Is a great song by a great band. Takes me back to highschool, late 80s WWF wrestlers and listening to Queen music and the like... yeah I liked them a lot in high school

That thar cat is clearly playing: no tucked back ears, slapping but still giving time for the owner to move their hand. I've known cats like that, they're just very vocal and rough.. They're sort of the WWF wrestlers of the cat world.

Favourites

1) Season - Winter. Love the snow. The reflections of light off of it. The way it makes everything look new and clean again.
2) Place in the world - Alaska ^
3) Children's book - Curious George & The Electric Fence
4) TV Series - currently ... True Blood
5) Word -
6) Film - BraveHeart
7) Curse - fuckface
Creature - Border Collie's
9) Past time - rpg's
10)Person -

Which one?

11) Dog or cat - Dog
12) Sweet or savoury - savoury
13) Cereal or Toast - toast
14) Tan or pale - tan
15) Shoes or barefoot - barefoot
16) Desktop or laptop - desktop
17) Drive or walk - walk
18) Drama or comedy - comedy
19) Sex or food - sex
20) Futurama or Simpsons - futurama

The Sift

21) Your fave personal submission - The Americans
22) A great comment on one of your vids - We've boosted the Large Hadron Collider...
23) Most off the wall member -
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25) Your most used channel - comedy
26) Personal dumbass moment - most comments I make
27) Best avatar - schmawy's (all of them)
28) Partner in crime - none
29) Do people offline know of your sift problem - no
30) Idea for the site - No voting w/o comment window open or create a way to make dupes more apparent

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31) Where do you live - NY
32) Smoker/non-smoker - smoker
33) Left or right handed - right
34) Hair colour - black
35) Relationship status - committed
36) How tall - 5' 10"
37) Children - no
38) Ever had an operation - been put back together several times
39) Best feature - hazel eyes
40) Use four words to describe yourself - only four words? well...

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) Bring a famous person back from the dead - Tesla
42) Give 50 grand to any charity - WWF
43) Send someone on a one way ticket to the moon - Bush
44) Relive a moment in your life - Birth
45) Have a superpower - Invisibility
46) Find out one thing you've always wanted to know - What newspapers does Palin read?
47) Have the opposite gender deal with something you have to - Erections in public
48) Be president for one hour - End the war.
49) Delete a period in history - JFK Assassination
50) Achieve one thing - inner peace

Agreed, this is a brutal as WWF...and they didn't even break andy chairs in this one.

I wonder why he would do that. Maybe I have more faith in cops than the rest of you, but would he really have done a take-down on that guy without a reason? Those two cops standing in the middle of the street like that checking each passing biker almost seems like they were looking for someone or something specific. I don't agree with him just going all WWF on him without telling him to stop first, but I guess we can be thankful he didn't decide to just taser him off the bike as he went by, right?

Only just an upvote... because that guy was annoying as hell... and, like, skipped two numbers...

But WWF from the 80s, ahh, thems the memories.

http://www.videosift.com/video/WWF-ad-that-changes-througout-the-day-thanks-to-the-sun

*discard