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9 minutes ago, Wyld Samurai said:
Whatever happened to Blitzkrieg? He was fun.
He retired and went beck to his full time IT job, which was @OSJ's joke meant
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On 7/16/2018 at 11:25 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:
the timeless art of seduction
I'm legit surprised you didn't go with:
“I sense great vulnerability. A man-child crying out for love. An innocent orphan in the post-modern world.”
“I see a parasite. A sexually depraved miscreant who is seeking only to gratify his basest and most immediate urges.”
“His struggle is man's struggle. He lifts my spirit.”
“He is a loathsome, offensive brute. Yet I can’t look away.”
“He transcends time and space.”
“He sickens me.”
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Racism aside, hey guys, remember when Hulk's son Nick did some drunken joyriding that ended up with Nick''s best friend's forehead literally caved in and the dude ended up pretty much braindead? And Hulk tried to make Nick feel better by theorizing that the friend probably did something bad in his life and having his skull look like a softball hit it at 150mph was probably just karmic revenge/just desserts? Because that shit happened and fuck Hulk Hogan.
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14 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Yeah, tasteful. From the same company bringing back Hogan.
Well they did show restraint to do a tasteful storyline about the plight of Middle Easterners in post-9/11 America.
I mean they actually held out for a week or two before turning both into The Screamin' Shiek.
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On 6/28/2018 at 11:04 PM, username said:
I mostly avoid Hall of Fame talk, particularly Observer Hall of Fame talk, but I think there is a flaw in asking the same questions of wrestlers in different eras. This is probably sacrilege but I almost think the drawing ability question is overstated now that there is one major US promotion that is a juggernaut. Unless you are John Cena a huge portion of the biggest names in the industry will get no credit for drawing anything and will have it held against them because they happen to work for the biggest promotion the industry has ever seen as opposed to a much smaller one. We could adapt it to focus on merch more but that feels like a flawed metric to over-rely on (it is probably worth noting as a supporting consideration in a few cases).
Basically if the way both the industry and the hall of fame are currently organized means that working in the top promotion does more to hurt your candidacy than help it that feels like a situation where reality is not being properly reflected. If you want to rely on drawing power when looking at people who wrestled in a given era than so be it, but I think for this millennia once WCW and I guess ECW went under it feels less relevant for those working in the US.
This is the way I've felt reading this thread. Is the Gordy list even relevant anymore, at least in the US? There are no more draws and everyone being forced to work the same style might mean that arguing talent becomes tougher. WWE reminds me of the Vonnegut story "Harrison Bergeron." They're succeeding in making all wrestlers equal. Boringly, unremarkably equal.
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Just a friendly reminder that the same people who ostracized Big Cass for being an out and proud Trump supporter cheered and hugged Hulk Hogan, out and proud racist (and the Venn diagram between those two is a perfect circle).
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13 hours ago, Betsy Zeidler said:
Would the Women's PPV be slotted into the open space in October (I think?) where the Australian shows are the only "PPV" in the month?
Well with October being breast cancer awareness month and WWE having such a snug relationship with the carnies at Komen, I'm not sure I could deal with all the self-congratulation
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Or Bret's favorite, The Summerslam
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No LU for me going on two weeks now because of the Dish (& Sling) vs Univision dispute.
I did see Babynuts playing a sicario on Queen of the South, though. He had like two scenes and got a bunch of scrap metal dropped on him.
EDIT: holy shit @ Univision's announcements quoted in that article. Essentially, "we're not going to call Dish a bunch of racists, but..."
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16 hours ago, Phantom Lord said:
I watched the clip a couple days ago and the best I could decipher was Cass was too out with being a Trump supporter.
I mean, Cass is probably a dick and likely deserved what happened to him, but to go after the guy for being a Trump supporter while working for the people who posed for this photo days after Orange Fuhrer was elected is some willful cognitive dissonance of the highest order.
I'm not saying the wrestlers should quit or anything, but for fuck's sake is it hypocritical and shitty and pretty-much bully behavior to go after a low-on-the-totem-pole guy for the same shit you'd never confront your boss about. It's like going home and kicking your dog after a bad day at work.
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On 6/23/2018 at 4:26 PM, BNosanchuk said:
So the Reno Scum vs. Thatcher & that Walter guy tag was last night. I dunno, I guess Walter was ok, but having seen other big men like a Keith Lee live (and even Uhaa Nation before NXT), Lee does the big man thing to a much better degree. There was clearly a moment watching them and thinking, "Ok, I can see what the hype and praise is for." I can't say I felt that watching Walter live. I guess he's known for his chops. They were ok, but didn't seem to be the needle mover they were built up as. He was a bigger version of Tim Thatcher, which is cool, but when you're already teaming with Thatcher, one Thatcher is enough for any team.
On 7/8/2018 at 4:20 AM, Wyld Samurai said:I've seen a little bit of Walter... But best big man in wrestling? I gotta go with Big Damo.
I've seen Walter on some PWG DVDs (just finished Neon Knights, still catching up to current) and I'm not really impressed. So far, all I've seen is a big dude with not much of a look and not much in the way of offense. But hey he chops the shit out of people for real until their chests bleed and I guess that's supposed to be cool? I always thought it was supposed to be a work but YMMV I guess.
I'll keep an open mind, though. I used to dislike Sabre but somewhere in Japan the dude learned how to work and he's pretty great now, so who knows?
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I just read Fox cancelled The Exorcist. I enjoyed the show a lot...season 1 was a fun callback to the original film, while season 2 set out on its own in a fun way.
I really need to learn to not get into any horror or sci-fi on broadcast networks.
In other "genre fiction" news, USA cancelled Falling Water, which I absolutely expected. I didn't expect it to be renewed the first time.
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4 minutes ago, (BP) said:
They were booking Kennedy like he was getting the keys to the castle until his injury and aborted return.
I was wondering if anyone had a comparable downfall, and Kennedy was the name on the tip of my tongue I just couldn't remember. Got MitB and a yearlong program penciled in, overreacted to a fucking bruise and gave up the briefcase, was booked to be Vince's illegitimate child but then got suspended for 'roids, came back, got hurt for real this time, came back, almost hurt Randy Orton, fired.
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1 minute ago, Captain Kronos said:
I downloaded a comp that is mostly Enzo/Cass (and sometimes Carmella) entrances, as well as backstage videos the three of them made in NXT. It's good stuff, and they were super over with the crowds. (2014?)
I hate to quote Bruce Prichard, but it's appropriate here.
"And then the bell had to ring."
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Wow, it's almost as if signing guys based solely on size doesn't work anymore.
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22 hours ago, J.T. said:
As long as there are repeats of Cyberwar on Viceland, they will have a semi regular viewer in me.
Exactly. Such a great show, and pretty much all I like to watch on Viceland. I watched "Abandoned" for a while but it's so depressing.
Every other show is just some other successful show format combined with pot and/or hipsters. Is there a stoner house flipping show on Viceland yet?
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I've never seen that clip. It's amazing. I remember the type of car commercials it spoofed and I grew up in Baltimore around the time these types of TV spots were in their heyday. Here's the story behind the spoof:
QuoteThis highly over the top commercial was originally produced as a joke in 1990 for a faux award show put on be the Advertising Association of Baltimore called The Ad Follies. The AAB searched for agencies willing to produce ad spoofs mocking the top agencies in the city despite the impending threat that people working on these spoofs may place their jobs in jeopardy for doing so. The production was conducted at television studio WBFF and all of the footage originates from car manufacturer promotional videos and generic stock footage. The writer and narrator of the copy are still both unknown.
The video was never intended to be shown outside of The Ad Follies show because of the vulgarity and the possibilities of being viewed by the mocked. Copies were only distributed to people who worked on production and to WBFF employees following the screening.
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YouTube user unusualsuspectmm, who uploaded the "F You Baltimore" version to YouTube, came across the tape while working at a video production facility. A customer brought in the commercial on a VHS tape wanting it transferred to DVD and he encouraged the employees to make a copies for themselves.
On a trivia note, WBFF TV was the first station owned by the group that would later become Sinclair Broadcasting.
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43 now, 44 soon. I still remember the original green board that didn't even require a login.
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On 6/16/2018 at 3:02 PM, Infinit said:
Remember when Vince thought that 43 year old "Huckster" and 44 year old "Nacho Man" were old and decrepit?? Lol
Shit, he took Savage out of the ring and made him a commentator at 39.
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Really good episode. Hilarious that it aired on Father's Day.
Also, once I tell you that Elsie looks like Big Head from Silicon Valley, you'll never unsee it.
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On 6/15/2018 at 9:06 AM, J.T. said:
First you post the trailer for The Nun in the Upcoming Movies thread instead of here and then you come to the Horror Movie Thread to talk about power washing.
Why do you hate the Horror Movie Thread?
LOL! To bring it back on topic, I'm really disappointed that, during the 80s spate of Texas Chainsaw Massacre ripoffs, we didn't get a killer who dispatched teens with a power washer. I guess the logistics would be a little rough, but I'd give it a shot!
On 6/15/2018 at 9:54 AM, J.T. said:I have enjoyed both of the Conjuring movies despite my misgivings about financing the Warrens' alleged chicanery and the most recent Annabelle joint was also quite good.
I will go into this one with low expectations and hope to be pleasantly surprised.
Same. The last Annabelle was a pleasant surprise, especially after how meh the first one was.
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14 hours ago, Pete said:
Reminds me of this.
Cindy actually yelled "JESUS!" when I told her Doc was 52.
Thank you! I knew I pulled that joke from somewhere.
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LOL that second pic of Jericho looks like when dad is trying to get back into dating after the divorce
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JULY 2018 WRESTLING DISCUSSION.
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Yeah, a lot of stuff we enjoyed as kids wouldn't pass muster today. Despite the fact that we now have out and proud Nazis in America, we're definitely a little more "woke" today on the whole. As an example, I heard "Funky Cold Medina" on the radio a few weeks ago and thought, "holy shit! There's no way this would be released today." The song is essentially about roofies, with a side of transphobia thrown in.