I think you're overreacting to fears that people will accidentally type it as "STD." First off, I know shortcuts are all the rage in instant messaging, but what's wrong with actually typing "Spike TV"? That's not that much longer. It reminds me of Yahoo! Games, where people type "n" to say that they're "in" on the next hand. Wow, what savings!
And I'd be more worried about d in place of v if the d was where the f is. You use a different finger to type a v than you do for a d. And if you're hunting-and-pecking, I still don't see you going from v to d accidentally.
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Yeah! Spike TV! It's so manly, it screams it! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! SPIKE TV!!! SPIKES!!! What red blooded man DOESNT like spikes? Spikes F'N ROCK man! Their sharp, pointy, you can open up juice boxes with them, and women love em too! Cause their spikes! You can do a lot of things with spikes like stab people or lay em on the road to flaten tires or catch the road runner and stuff.....SPIKES RULE!! GRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Spike Tv: It SOUNDS like a gay pay-per-view channel, but it's not because it has spikes!
Flair: "Tonight, it's gonna be Austin, Bradshaw, taking on the NWO!
(Next Monday...)
Flair: I'm not trying to screw you Austin. Tonight, to show that I'm legit, I'll referre your match tonight when you and bradshaw take on the n..w..o!
(Next monday...)
Flair: You thought that was funny Austin? No one screws with the nature boy! tonight, it's gonna be you and bradshaw taking on X-pac and Big Show!
(Next Monday...)
Flair:That's it, you have pissed of the nature boy WHOOO for the very last time Austin!! Tonight I throwing your ass in a special tag match against the NWO. And your partner is gonna be.........Bradshaw!
These Viacom executives must have a thing for Little Spike Dudley. First, they make him the commissioner to battle the evil `network' back in the ECW says. Then he gets a job on Raw a few years later. When the guy is finally de-pushed enough to wrestle almost exclusively on Heat... TNN picks it up. Now, they're changing their name so that he can effectively be their spokesman.
I can only be thankful that, back in the day, those same execs weren't nearly as enamoured with Balls Mahoney...
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Your Official Sunday, April 13, 2003 Randomly Selected Wiener Of The Day Champion says....
I wonder if those two TNN guys are out of a job yet. You know the two guys who tried to figure out a way to promote TNN more. What were their names?
Research guy and the intern could be reused... just hopefully not.
I don't see the whole bitch and moan about this -- there's already what -- three channels for women? (We, O! and Lifetime for Women) Don't get your panties into a bunch over this. Like Nag said -- this is narrowcasting, and it might work.
As long as they bring back the Slam Dunk competition on SlamBall, I'm there.
Your Official Sunday, April 13, 2003 Randomly Selected Wiener Of The Day Champion says....
Originally posted by Teppan-YakiResearch guy and the intern could be reused... just hopefully not.
I don't see the whole bitch and moan about this -- there's already what -- three channels for women? (We, O! and Lifetime for Women) Don't get your panties into a bunch over this. Like Nag said -- this is narrowcasting, and it might work.
As long as they bring back the Slam Dunk competition on SlamBall, I'm there.
I don't think its a problem of them wanting to make an all male channel. By the name, SPike TV is what is wierd about it.
Originally posted by MoneyInkIf they really wanted to make money, it should be a station geared towards kids. Rugrats and now Spongebob Square Pants are consistantly the highest rated shows on cable, even up there during the WWF's prime with ratings.
Strangely, Viacom already owns a station geared toward kids that shows lots of Sponge Bob and Rugrats. They call it Nickelodeon.
Originally posted by Austin Bradshaw vs NWO 59Yeah! Spike TV! It's so manly, it screams it! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! SPIKE TV!!! SPIKES!!! What red blooded man DOESNT like spikes? Spikes F'N ROCK man! Their sharp, pointy, you can open up juice boxes with them, and women love em too! Cause [they're] spikes! You can do a lot of things with spikes like stab people or lay em on the road to [flatten] tires or catch the road runner and stuff.....SPIKES RULE!! GRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Spike Tv: It SOUNDS like a gay pay-per-view channel, but it's not because it has spikes!
Rejected new names for The New TNN:
Rod TV Pole TV Wang TV Sausage TV Pitch-a-tent TV
The best they can come up with was "Spike TV?" What a BONER
Oh, great God above help us all. Why in the darkest crevases of earth are you calling your cable channel SpikeTV?!? Viacom, pointing gun towards foot and pulling the trigger sounds like what is about to happen. Lets look up the definition...
Main Entry: 1spike Pronunciation: 'spIk Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, probably from Middle Dutch; akin to Middle High German spIcher spike Date: 13th century 1 : a very large nail 2 a : one of a row of pointed irons placed (as on the top of a wall) to prevent passage b (1) : one of several metal projections set in the sole and heel of a shoe to improve traction (2) plural : a pair of shoes having spikes attached to the soles or soles and heels c : SPINDLE 1e 3 : something resembling a spike: as a : a young mackerel not over six inches (15.2 centimeters) long b : an unbranched antler of a young deer 4 plural : shoes with spike heels 5 : the act or an instance of spiking (as in volleyball) 6 a : a pointed element in a graph or tracing b : an unusually high and sharply defined maximum (as of amplitude in a wave train) 7 slang : HYPODERMIC NEEDLE 8 : a momentary sharp increase and fall in the record of an electric potential; also : ACTION POTENTIAL 9 : an abrupt sharp increase in prices or rates
The closest thing I can see anything even relating to the channel might be "ACTION POTENTIAL". I'd love to meet the guy who said, "I've got it! Lets call it Spike TV!" Idiot! This makes for new unique slogans now. "Now when your watching football you see the player Spike the ball, think Spike TV!!!!"
Shesh, that's it I'm going to go jump off the top of highest building I can find because I think I've seen ALL!
Oxygen rocks for two reasons. The nearly constant Xena reruns, and when those aren't on they're showing the criminally underrated La Femme Nikita. So you've got a channel which gives me Lucy Lawless or Peta Wilson seemingly 18 out of 24 hours each day. It reminds me of the old joke about magazines. Men's magazines are filled with pictures of naked women, and women's magazines are filled with...pictures of naked women. Well in this case the woman's channel keeps a man very happy if he knows how to look at it ;)
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Originally posted by Austin Bradshaw vs NWO 59br>Spike Tv: It SOUNDS like a gay pay-per-view channel, but it's not because it has spikes!
Well, they are already developing the Clique love-fest, so the WWF/E is already getting a jump on the gay porn channel name.
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Originally posted by spf2119Oxygen rocks for two reasons. The nearly constant Xena reruns, and when those aren't on they're showing the criminally underrated La Femme Nikita. So you've got a channel which gives me Lucy Lawless or Peta Wilson seemingly 18 out of 24 hours each day. It reminds me of the old joke about magazines. Men's magazines are filled with pictures of naked women, and women's magazines are filled with...pictures of naked women. Well in this case the woman's channel keeps a man very happy if he knows how to look at it ;)
I'd be ROTFL if it weren't so true! :-) But what's a girl to do???
Originally posted by MoneyInkIf they really wanted to make money, it should be a station geared towards kids. Rugrats and now Spongebob Square Pants are consistantly the highest rated shows on cable, even up there during the WWF's prime with ratings.
Strangely, Viacom already owns a station geared toward kids that shows lots of Sponge Bob and Rugrats. They call it Nickelodeon.
Damn you, you beat me to it.
While we're at it, someone needs to make an 24-Hour News channel. I mean, all those shows like Larry King and The O'Reilly Factor are really picking up ratings.
7:00 to 7:30 am: Classic Cartoon Violence Looney Toons with all the payoff scenes put back in.
7:30 to 8:00 am: Classic Live Action Violence All of The Three Stooges classics!
8:00 to 8:30 am: The Itchy And Scratchy Show You loved their 30 second vignettes on The Simpsons, imagine 30 minutes uninterupted by commercials (The Violence Channel does not show commercials during children's programming).