 The Life and Times of Shane Helms Entry #43 Sunday, August 18th, 2002. First of all, I want to thank EVERYONE for all the great birthday wishes and gifts that I got! Man, my DVD collection received quite the boost this year, with Lord of the Rings being my favorite gift! :) It still surprises me that people that I don't even know would send me stuff! So, I guess the big news recently is that I'm teaming up with Shannon again. When first approached about the idea, I must admit that I was wary, after all I've been very successful on my own, a lot more so than I ever was with 3Count. LOL Not that that was anyone's fault, that's just the way it is. But Shannon and I are great friends and we do do some good stuff together in that ring, so I just figured, what the hell, let's give it another shot. But no dancing this time! Well maybe a little, but no singing! LOL Check out the pic of Shannon doing the Hurra-pose with me in the Gallery! Now here's a funny story (to you maybe, but not really to me) about my latest trip to Canada. Remember how I've spoken before about how the Canadian fans seem to love the Hurricane, well that doesn't apply to Canadian Customs Officers. Now in my opinion, if someone were trying to sneak something over the border or do something illegal like that, they would probably dress down as much as possible, try to be a little discreet maybe, and try not to draw too much attention to themselves right? Wrong! Because apparently a 6 ft guy with green hair is suspicious looking. LOL So this guy comes up and picks me out of the crowd in customs to search the hurra-luggage. No big deal, I'm a good boy. Just a waste of time, that's all. So anyway, the clothes bag is clean, the gear bag is clean, the laptop bag is clean, but then he comes to my gym bag. What does he find? A bottle of Xenadrine which is a fat burner that I take before I work out. Now Xenadrine contains an ingredient called Ephedrine, which is illegal in Canada, and apparently everyone else in the free world is just supposed to know that. But I damn sure didn't. After all, I bought the Xenadrine at a Wal-Mart! LOL So now this guy is telling me how the stuff is illegal, how I could get into all this trouble, this, that, and the other. And all I can keep thinking to say is, "But I bought it at Wal-Mart." That's it! That's my entire defense, that I bought it at Wal-Mart. Now he's in the office talking with other officers about what they should do to me. And I'm like this has got to be a joke right? I mean, think about it, I've spent my whole life being exposed to all kinds of drugs while being able to say no to them all and now I'm gonna get in trouble for a fat burner? A joke right? Oh on, this guy is gonna try and be all Deputy Dawg on me. Now he's looking up every single ingredient in my proteins shakes and my protein bars that I also have in my gym bag. Now I'm worried, to be honest, I don't know what the hell's in those things, I just eat em! And did I forgot to mention that the officer is weighing in at 250-270 lbs? And not good weight either! Now you know me, I got about a million one-liners running through my brain about the irony of this sloppy bastard taking away my fat burners! But I can't say nothing cuz I'm trying not to get in trouble. Well come to find out that there isn't enough effederine in the stuff to do anything to me, but now I do have to get searched every time I go through Canada for the next SEVEN F'N YEARS! LOL Whassup wit dat? So anyway, if any of you see me coming out of a Canadian airport walking funny, you'll know what happened! What a rib! Oh and here's another little tidbit to add to that story: Products containing Ephedrine can be made and produced in Canada! Yeah, you read that right. It's okay to make them there, you just can't have them there. Whatever! But anyway, enough about that let's talk about Australia! What I blast I had over there! After taking a very LOOOOOONG plane ride where we left on a Monday and landed on Wednesday (what happened to Tuesday? where'd it go?) ! went through Customs with ease (thank the Heaven's) and proceeded to head toward the buses that were to take us to the hotel. But before I could get on the bus I was approached by my first batch of Aussie Fans! I did as many autographs and pictures as I could, and I have to mention that I was given a cute little stuffed kangaroo that had a little Hurricane mask and cape on it. LOL Thank you Karen! The Fan Frenzy sessions that I did consisted of taking photo's with fans, which can be found at this link for as long as they are up. WWE Fan Frenzy. You've never seen so many hurra-poses in your life! :):) The show itself was a real thrill for me. Almost 57,000 fans, the biggest crowd that I've ever performed in front of. It was awesome! When you're in front of that many people, you almost can't even focus on them, like it's too much to absorb or something. But regardless of that, Noble and I proceeded to have one of our best matches to date. (A lot better, that our King of the Ring match, which while it had some good parts, as a whole I didn't like!) But I digress! At any rate, I'm sure the WWE will be going back to Australia and I can only hope that I'm on the next tour as well. And on that next tour, I hope to find that Crocodile Hunter guy and beat his ass! Damn, he's annoying! Speaking of which, has anyone seen those GreyHound Bus commercials with the talking dog? What is up with that? That is the freakish, ugliest dog I've ever seen. The other day, I was watching TV in my home, minding my own business when one of those commercials came on, I had to run into the kitchen! I had a very cool visit to the set of X-Men 2 last Monday in Vancouver! Met a lot of the cast, and seen a lot of the sets. From what I can tell by the visit, the movie is gonna be another blockbuster! Can't wait until it's finished! And while we are on the subject of movies, if you haven't already seen Signs . . . good! Keep it that way! The movie was great up until the ending! At which point, one of the worst fight scenes ever (and I mean EVER) in movie history took place! Man it was brutal. Then, the aliens weakness is . . . water. Yeah, you know that stuff that covers 3/4's of our entire planet? LOL Wow, great concept there! So basically, I could take a Super Soaker and wipe all their asses out! LOL And here's the even better part, (or should I say worse?) the aliens that are invading are naked! That's right! They are gonna try to invade our planet, and they aren't even gonna put on armor, shields, pajama's, nothing! They don't even have weapons! No guns, no knives, not even a damn laser beam! This was the lamest alien attack I've ever seen! Now Martin Runteldat on the other hand was great! One of the best stand-up routines I've ever seen! That dude is truly funny! Finally, the site. I mentioned in my last update that I might finally have to turn the site over to someone else to run it for me. Well, I was flooded with emails after that. There were some tempting offers from some very talented people (and you too Trish!) but alas, the majority, and I mean VAST majority of the mail that I got were fans stating that they like the fact that I do the site myself because of the personal feel that (I guess) my site has, and that they will put up with the delays if they must. Therefore, the people have spoken! I will do my best to keep the site the way you like it! Well, I think that is enough babbling for now, check out the rest of the updates, and I'll talk to ya later! Your SuperHero, Shane Helms |