WWF Choice Meat
~*Chat Diva*~ & Company

After the usual few of us gathered to watch Monday Night RAW we Decided to point out a little GRADE A Choice to the rest of you. (Excuse me if the spelling isn't exactly correct)

Best Eyes: Steve Austin
Best Ass: The One Billy Gunn
Biggest Ass: (Like it's not obvious) Rikishi
Most Annoying voice: Chynna
Worst Actor/Actress: (we didn't exactly agree here) Raven & Stephanie McMahon
Most Plastic Surgery: Chynna
Biggest Steroid Pumper: Eddie Guerrero
Worst Wrestling Apparel: Jerry Lawler & Rikishi
Best Smile: Tazz
Best Physique: Triple H
Worst Hair: Haku
Best Hair: (again we didn't agree) Triple H & Jeff Hardy
Best OOC Dresser: Billy Gunn (he looks just TOO yummy in his Levi's)
Fakest Looking Tits: Trish Stratus (AKA Bimbo)
Biggest Whiners: Stephanie McMahon & (her beau) Kurt Angle
Who I'd run from first in a bar fight: Taker
Who I'd run TO first in a bar fight: Steve Austin *screaming "just hold me"*(he can hold his liquor)
Most Likely to Succeed on a date with me: Triple H, Stone Cold, Billy Gunn, The Rock, Y2J, Edge, Test, Steve Blackman, (both) The Hardyz, Scotty 2 Hotty (after a haircut), Tazz, Bradshaw, Grand Master Sexay (we're sure we're forgetting someone- what can we say??)
Least Likely to Succeed on a date with me: Everyone else.
Worst Storyline: RTC & RTN!!!!!
Best Storyline: Triple H & Rikishi running down Steve Austin in Detroit to cover up Austins neck surgery.
Worst Couple: The Dudleyz
Best Couple: Matt Hardy & Lita!!!
Most Missed: Mick Foley!!!!
Biggest Waste of Space: Kaientai
Most Deserving of the Belts: Billy Gunn (Intercontental), Lita (Womans *DUH*), The Hardy Boyz or APA (Tag), Test (Eurpoean- he gets to keep his belt), Steve Blackman (Hardcore), Chynna (Light-Heavy Weight). **major disagreement** After discussing it like adults we almost had to go out and wrestle in the snow because we didn't agree on who should get the Heavyweight Belt! They say Triple H - I say Stone Cold or the Rock keeps it!
Least Deserving of their Belts: Ivory, Big Show, Dean Malenko
Best Entrance Song: Triple H
Worst Gimmicks and quotes: The Rock talking in third person, McMahon- "in the interest of fairness", McMahon- "I'll take it under advisement", the whole "daddy's little girl" episode, Angle- "it's true, it's true", Angles three I's, the "dominate female" thing, Benoit- "prove me wrong", the whole RTC & RTN thing
Best Gimmicks and Quotes: Stone Cold- "and that's the bottom line cuz Stone Cold said so", Triple H- "I am the Game", The Rocks tongue action, Stone Cold- "I guaran-damn-tee it!", Edge & Christians glasses, "Game Over", Triple H entrance- water spit and flex (with THAT look)
Raven's Masked Bimbo: Tori
Who'd I'd most like to be pinned by (or pin): Triple H, Stone Cold, Jeff/ Matt Hardy, Billy Gunn, The Rock
Best Vocabulary: Edge & Christian
Best WCW Wrestler: Who Cares????

The Chathouse
~Chat Dominatrix~

Lets Chat

Due to numerous emails from Ezine readers who aren't from the Chathouse, requesting information on chatting. This article will be focused on the topic of Chatting at The Chathouse.

Now before you regs stop reading any further, to the emails I've seen, whether they are complaints or questions, and from the comments I've seen both in the rooms and the forums. You might find some of the comments here not only useful but directed at you!

The Chathouse
www.chathouse.com  It doesn't get much easier then that! And thats about all you need to remember! The Chathouse provides links for just about anything else you may need to know.

New Chatters
Everything and anything you will need to know about this Chathouse or about chatting in it, can be found within this link.........                  New Visitors

The Links
The links I speak about further down, may be found in various places throughout the Chathouse. On the Left side of the page on the Main Page. On the left side of the page in every forum. At the top of every Who's On Page, and at the top of every page you see in while chatting.

Now here is where some regular chatters may be a little  misguided.  They bookmark there regular chatroom, and because they've chatted within the Chathouse for so long, they either forget to or don't think they need to, step outside of that room and take a look around the rest of the house every so often.

I've talked with many chatters who never realized that, not only do we have the feature Anon-E-Mail in the Message Center. But they didn't realize that there even was a Message Center.

I have even found some new chatters who knew of all the features offered under the Features link, as I watched some regulars say, " I never knew we had that."!

How many of you know there is a News Page in the Chathouse? The place where the Chathouse announces all the new features as they are added. A page where not only  chatters can read about room and floor updates. But a page where I think the regulars of the rooms should be writing into at least once a month to announce updates within their room or their floor. If you'd like to write in for your room and/or floor, simply send your comments to news@chathouse.com.

Another problem is that alot of the Chathouse regulars see the "help" Link and think it's only for newbies. This link is for all the chatters of the house, not just the newbies. It supplies you with images help, error explanations, profile editing help, and email addy's to use for certain problems.
In other words, it has alot of the answers to the questions I see so many of you emailing in about!
I would like to ask the regulars of the Chathouse, to please take a look at this link, and if there are questions not addressed in here that you see alot of new chatters asking, I would like to hear from you! I would like to hear those questions, and what you think the best answers are, and please included your handle if you don't mind it being posted!
                                  Chatdominatrix@chathouse.com 

Forums
It's amazing how such a simple and fun idea can to lead to being such a chaotic pain in the ass for so many! 
Let me start by saying under the forums link there are two choices you have to choose from. 

Forums By Floor
This is simply all the room forums listed by which floor they are on.

General Chathouse Topics     
Here you'll find forums that aren't directly attached to or having to do with any one particular room. But instead they are there for pretty much one specific Purpose. And though most you of can, or you should, be able to understand the purpose or topic of these forums, it seems there are many who can't. So I want to take a moment here to clarify a few of these forums that are listed.

The War Room
This room was started by My2CentsDealW/it and RantMaster for the purpose and hopes of getting conversations started on real life issues outside of the chathouse. So it would be a pretty safe bet that if you had something about the Chathouse to Bitch about. This is not the place for it! 
This would also mean, if you have gotten banned, this is not the place for your Bitching or whining about it! If you have any Chathouse complaints, this is not the place for it! If My2Cents or RantMaster pisses you off, again this is not the place for it! For the chatter who made this childish post and to anyone else thinking the same as him, that this is some kind of a "feuding fools" forum, again this is not the place! There is more then enough of that pettiness in the room forums!
Please note that I will be asking RantMaster and My2Cents to add their email addy's to either their posts or somewhere within the forum. So those of you that they do piss off can address them in email where you better your chances of getting a reply from them.

Complaints Forum
And can anyone guess what this forum is for!?
You guessed it! Complaints!! Imagine, a place were not only are you allowed to just post complaint after complaint without pissing off the room you chat in, but where you are expected to! 
This is wanted so that when a chatter posts a complaint, hopefully the answer that is given can also help other chatters with similar complaints. Now understand that because a complaint doesn't get answered right away, does not mean it isn't being looked into. And please remember there is a fine line between complaining and whining. If you want you and your complaint to be taken seriously look for that line before posting! 

Ezine Forum
This forum, as one might guess, is for Ezine topics. Though the postings made in there last week were chatters bitching about the bitching ((my article I assume)). It's the whole purpose of that forum! For us to hear from you, whether we like what you say or not! The Ezine is for the readers, so it needs to put out what the readers want. You speaking up is the only way that gets known! So keep the posts coming! Though please do keep in my mind, that just because articles are done on topics you haven't asked for, doesn't mean that others haven't! ~S~

There are 3 other forums, listed under General Forums, and I'm hoping that just by the title of these that it is more then obvious what they are for. Remember if you want what you are saying to be heard by the right people, you need to post it in the right place! ~S~
If there is a new forum you would like to see started please feel free to email in your ideas.

I was going to talk a little about complaints and banning, but I think this article is passing it's limit in length and most readers must be asleep at this point! ~L~
So if you have comments or questions about banning and/or complaints mail them in this week and I'll address them in the next article.                                  

Chathouse News

The Ladies Room Janitor
This is the last week that applications will be accepted.
After March 1st ((Thursday)) they will post a voting page, where you can cast your vote for your favorite soon to be janitor!
(( This is an adult only room! You must be 18 or older to apply&vote! ))
                                       The Application!

What's Next
Now that the Ladies Room hunt for a janitor is coming to an end, I'm left looking to the other rooms and asking.....What's Next!?
Do you have an idea for your room or floor you would like to do? Email in, and lets see what we can make happen!

Added  Quote
Two winners were chosen again this week to be added to the Random Quotes. The first one was sent in by - Sally Brown
and the second one was sent in - Anonymously.

*Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbian -- Pat Robertson at the 1992 GOP Presidential

*Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" till you can find a rock.

To submit your favorite quote, joke, bumper sticker or motto for a chance to win and be added to the Random Quotes, email it in, along with your handle to,
quotes@chathouse.com

 
New Visitors

RantMaster's Theater      The News Page      

chatdominatrix@chathouse.com

My Two Cents

by My2CentsDealW/it!

Dear2c@hotmail.com

My Two Cents
on Internet/Chat Safety

This is a subject that I have been hesitant to cover for some time now. There is alot of truth in the saying that "Ignorance is bliss", but in this case it is also dangerous. The source of my hesitation has been two-fold. On one side I have to consider the chatters and the fact that some people just can't handle the truth. If they truly new all the dangers they might very well give up the internet and chat altogether. Which brings me to the other side, that being the Chathouse itself. I have to weigh the possibility of costing them chatters and revenue, not to mention the fact that some of my opinions on this subject are not entirely flattering for the Chathouse.

This finally came to a head for me when I received an email talking about a story posted in one of the Chathouse Forums about a 14 yr. old boy in the U.K. that frequented a "gay chat" chatroom, met someone in there, met in real life and was sexually assaulted. The parents of the boy then began lobbying the government to pass legislation to "ban chat rooms". I was unable to verify this story, but in looking into it I found several similar cases that I could corroborate. You can see the beginning of this in the War Room: Chat at your own risk post, as well as some of the subsequent responses. The response of the parents in this case irritates me to no end, much the same as the anti-gun fanatics, they blame an inanimate object for their failure as parents. However, I am getting ahead of myself here, my intent here is not to bash the parents, but to give everyone a much needed Rude Awakening!

First and foremost, let me say that the slime that lure people into situations like this are without a doubt the responsible and guilty parties here. They initiate and carry out the criminal acts and they bear the lion's share of the "blame". With that being said however, there are several 'accomplices' in a situation like this as well. The internet is still in it's infancy and to many it is still a "new toy" that didn't come with any warning labels. Too many people are too trusting, too naive and sometimes just too plain stupid for their own good. I'm not just talking about kids, but they are the most vulnerable and prime targets, but I found examples of college students and even "mature adults" getting scammed, hurt and killed just the same.

By far it seems that chat and online personals are the most dangerous places to be on the internet. Chat and personals are frequented in large part by people who are lonely and looking for friendship, companionship and even love. Many of these people may not even realize that is why they chat until they meet someone online that says the things that they have been needing to hear. Loneliness, whether it's due to geographical isolation, physical appearance or just being shy, is a powerful emotion and a very vulnerable one as well. It shouldn't be too surprising then to find out that chat rooms and online personals are also the new frontier for scam artists, con men/women, pedophiles, rapists and murderers. I mean, WAKE UP PEOPLE, if you wanted to scam somebody or hurt somebody would you go sneaking around in dark cold alleys in this day and age or would you go hang out online and wait in the comfort of your own home for some poor lonely slob to come crying on your shoulder? People do it everyday, not even knowing who's shoulder it is they are crying on or to whom they are bearing their soul.

As I have said many times before, and I'm sure I'll say it many more times to come...
"Common Sense ain't as common as you might think."

Just like the 14 yr. old and the man from the "gay chat" room, the 13 yr. old girl in England that shared a similar fate, the 20 yr. old college student from Texas that went to meet his online "girlfriend" for the first time at a motel and met a middle-aged man instead who killed him. Sexual assault, rape, murder, but Hey, you're too smart to get yourself into a situation like that, right? You would be amazed at how many "smart people" get taken everyday by con artists and "players" online. The question is: Who do we point our collective finger at in blame and say "Hey! This is all your fault!"?

The truth is that anyone who gets online is responsible for their own fate. The "bad people" are to blame for being bad people, but the victims have the ability to protect themselves and don't do it. Are chat sites and the internet itself to blame? You might be surprised to hear me say this, but Yes they are to blame as well. The Chathouse has taken great pains to make it as safe as possible, but the very fact that they have free, public, unmonitored chat rooms is in itself an invitation to those with evil intentions. The bad people don't want to have to register and give information about themselves to the administration that may be used to identify them later. The registered rooms are a little better in that regard, but they are also where much of the more sexually explicit chats are likely to take place. To give credit where credit is due, however, the Chathouse does provide many safeguards for it's chatters. The question is, do you want to have to give your social security number, credit card info and mothers maiden name just to get into chat or is it more realistic to expect people to take a little responsibility for themselves, their actions and their own protection?

In the case of minors, the answer it straight forward. Parents have to take control! Kids will be kids, but parents must be parents, too. There are any number of ways for parents to protect their kids online. First and foremost is to NOT let them on unattended, use the password protection capability of your computer, learn how to check the history and see what they have done, when, where and most importantly WITH WHOM! In the case of older kids you may need to be a little more flexible, but you better know how to go back behind them and see what's going on. The problem is that too many parents view the computer like parents of the past have viewed the television, "It keeps them quiet and out of my hair, that's all that matters.". Do these parents deserve to loose their kids? YES! Do the kids deserve it? NO! Those are the facts of life. We cannot legislate to protect the idiots without creating more idiots dependant on "Big Brother" for protection. What we can do is EDUCATE! 

In that spirit, I have collected a few good sites to get you started in your Internet Safety Education. I know, I know, YOU don't need it, you are too smart, you're not some homely, lonely wall flower, but I can guarantee you that you will more than likely learn more than you wanted to know about just how smart you AREN'T!

Do you let your kids chat unsupervised or are you a minor who chats and/or emails with "friends"? Check This Out! http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech043.shtml

Do you enjoy making friends online, hope to make a love connection, like "cybersex"? Well then this is a site that you should see! Even if you don't fall into those categories, you'll still find it interesting. Click Here for SaferDating.com http://www.saferdating.com

Want to know where to go to find out more? Want to know what YOU can do?

CyberAngels.org- The Largest Internet Safety Organization Since 1995

So, what have you got to say?

Let me know and I'll tell you if it's worth 2 cents!

Dear2c@hotmail.com

*note: all names and handles will be changed or removed to protect the pathetic*