It's not the 25th anniversary of Wrestlemania
 

That's next year. This is really bothering me.... to the point where I have to complain about it on the internet.

I know.

This is bad news for all those people who are so happy that they were the first ones to prepare their WrestleMania 25th anniversary party for '09.

Whilst here I am, with the hotel already booked for the real party in '10. Who's laughing now???!!!???!!!

Definition of Anniversary-
the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)

You could take the first Mania to be a celebration of Wrestling... So technically it could be considered an anniversary, but when it comes to Mania itself, you have a valid point.

I bet it was Michael Cole's Idea.

Whatever, it's still the 25th one, and that a big deal.

ROCK BOTTOM INTO THE DOG POOP!

Wow...You just done owned them newbs.

It is the 25th edition, though if you go by calender years, Wrestlemania has only existed for 24 years. Lol whatever.

I"m sure they're aware of this too. It's simply because it's easier to call the 25th one the 25th anniversary. Doesn't really matter.

Or Vince is too old and stubborn to admit it's not right.

Oh, old people.

I wonder how many people backstage have brought this up.

I'm sure the only people that actually care are on the internet.

How do you know that WrestleMania's plans weren't already in motion in March of 1984? If that's true, it's technically correct.

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25 years is a silver anniversary. No one gives a shit about the number 26, so no one cares about the scientific definition of the 25th anniversary. It is the the 25th one, and it is an anniversary.

Wasn't 2001 meant to be the technical new millenium? Yeah, people gave a massive shit about that.

No, it couldn't. Because Mani 1 was the first one, not the first annual. There was no Mania 0. Mania 2 was the first anniversary.

Your wedding isn't the first anniversary of being in love. But your first anniversary is your first anniversary, because you've then been married for a year.

If you can't tell, this has been irritating me, too.

This is a common usage of the word anyway.

For fucks' sake, I knew the IWC was finicky, but this is ridiculous.

Exactly. Sometimes things just take on a meaning of their own.

Did you know that Chairman doesn't designate itself to a male? The "man" in "Chairman" represents "manual." That doesn't mean Stephanie McMahon is going to come out announced as "Chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment" when she takes over.

What the hell is a Chairmanual? :?:

Speaking of Wrestlemania, which 'Mania did Michael Jackson wrestle in????

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He wrestled in no WrestleMania?

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WrestleMania x ?

You'd better go tell all the old people celebrating their 50th wedding anniversaries that they're gonna need to make sure to make sure to take their Metamucil in order to see their actual 50th anniversary.

It's not Chairmanual. That is why they made it "Chairman." "Chairmanual" sounds stupid. It is someone in the chair who manually operates a meeting. It stems from tenth century England, when someone would be the only one seated in a chair, while everyone else had benches. This chair represented authority.

I've also heard that it is someone who "manages" the chair. Either way, it's not inherently meant to be a gender-specific term. But still, people take it as such. The point it that people give their own meaning to things. By all laws and logic, "LOL" shouldn't mean a damn thing, but pretty soon it'll be in the dictionary (if it's already not).

I pretty sure you just made that all up.

Maybe the gender-bias is in the word "manage."

How do you "manage" a chair anyway????

If anyone could do it, it's Bobby Heenan.

Just the people who could count.

Again, so pointless. The new millenium technically began in 2001, but you didn't see the whole world complaining. Sometimes it's just easier to celebrate things at certain times. Celebrating the 25th anniversary at the 25th wrestlemania just makes sense, even if it's only the 24th.
It's more lame sounding to celebrate the 25th anniversary at Wrestlemania 26.

The only meaning it holds is that which the fans and company place on it. It doesn't have to be science.

You ever celebrate a birthday on a friday, or on the same day as another friends, just because it makes sense and it's easier?

His head hasn't been right ever since Orton punted him in the head... Poor Man.

I know plenty of people that can count. I can't count them, but I know they didn't give a shit about it.

You don't manage a chair. You manage from it.

Exactly. Besides, just don't link 25th and anniversary together so rigidly. Make WrestleMania the subject, and not the anniversary. Every subsequent WrestleMania of the first is going to be an anniversary, and it is the 25th WrestleMania. Both "25th" and "anniversary" apply to WrestleMania. They're just buzz words thrown out to promote the event.

It's kind of like getting pissed off about Wrestlemania 16 being referred to as Wrestlemania 2000.

I personally don't get the big hubbub there. It was the WrestleMania that took place in the double-0 year of "2000." It's WrestleMania 2000. What else could they advertise it as? "WrestleMania could legally fuck if it were living in most states of Australia?"

2000 seems much more interesting to me than "16." Or "XVI."

I think Legend Killer was agreeing with you Noid.

I know. I was agreeing with him. ;)

And there's no reason to be upset about WrestleMania 2000. It was WrestleMania. It happened in 2000.

However, WrestleMania - 25th Anniversary is occuring on the 24th anniversary. Now, if they were calling this the 25th WrestleMania or - probably more appropriately - Wrestlemania 25, no one would have a problem with it. Or, hell, call it the Silver Anniversary, since silver was just sort of arbitrarily assigned the number 25 with no actual numerical significance. There is any number of ways they can utilize the fact that 25 is a significant number without looking like retards who don't know the meaning of the word "anniversary."

No one has a problem with it except you tards that are making a big deal out of something meaningless.

It is a big deal. Words have meanings. There's actually a big ol' book full of them. Let's try using them correctly, shall we?

Just seems like a silly thing to get hung up on. Next you'll be getting mad that there is no E on the WWE logo.

Nah. It's just a logo. There's no C, B, or S on the CBS eye. But remind me to tell my girlfriend that I don't need to get her anything for our six month anniversary, because we already had it five months to the day after we started dating.

I don't think you'll have a problem as long as WWE doesn't book your anniversary.

I thought you said words have meanings anniversary takes its meaning from the word annual which means yearly. Therefore celebrating a six month anniversary is a farce. You can't have an anniversary one something that isn't occuring yearly or annually.

Doesn't that sound unreasonably stupid to you?

Of course you should spend some good time and make your six months with your girlfriend be special. And even more who cares if you call it your six month anniversary even though based on semantics saying that is incorrect.

Therefore calling Wrestlemania 25 the 25th Anniversary is an equally stupid battle of semantics.

Ouch. But still, people call those little things "anniversaries," too. It's not a big deal. Sure, the word has a technical meaning, but popular culture breathes its ugly little head into them, and gives them a new life, leaving the true meaning as trivia.

Besides, anyone I've met celebrates their "sixth month anniversary" when they reach six months. They don't do it on the seventh month, because you're celebrating a month, so a sixth month celebration of a month should technically take place on the seventh.

are you fucking serious

this is bugging you?

i wish my problems were this mundane

these definitions must come from the Aussie dictionary. ;)

From the guy who thought Mania was ruined when someone mentioned Austin was showing up (as advertised, no less). :p

In other news I heard that Austin was going to me at WrestleMania :shifty:

heh i actually forgot about that

man that was a while ago, oh how i've changed :(

You have boobs now.