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On 7/25/2024 at 5:10 PM, Ramo2653 said:

Hmmm. Probably something similar to Bron Breakker's stats.

Evan (Elijah's brother) who decided to take up boxing is billed at 6'2" so he got the height of those two. Unfortunately, he's a bit rudderless after a rather exposing loss early in his pro career. So he might follow his brother in attempting to turn to pro wrestling soon enough.

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I don’t know how to post tweets but someone I follow tweeted yesterday that Bret mentioned in a recent virtual signing that Bob Backlund is dealing with early dementia and he’s living with his sister. Hope it’s not true.

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20 hours ago, Ramo2653 said:

Way back in the early 2000s when I was in college, I got to run the Friday night hip hop show on the campus radio station. My qualifications were that I was black on a majority white campus (there were 30 black students on a campus of 6,000) in the southwest corner of Wisconsin and I liked music. Me and the producer spent one Friday just playing the Macho Man album that we ended up editing ourselves because it was still over the air radio.

In the early 90s I was heavily involved with our tiny college radio station in Central PA. I also, after a couple of years of sharing a daily 30 minute “alternative” show and having a weekly 2-hour freeform show, I decided I wanted to start a hip-hop show. It had to be after 10 pm, because our interpretation of the FCC rules was that we could play profanity after that time (although they would ask me to save the truly dirty stuff until after midnight). It turned into a 4-hour show, 10 pm to 2 am on Wednesday. There are two state prisons in the town (which was 95% white, as was the college) and the prison population was 90% black, mostly from Philly. I started getting 20-30 letters a week with requests and shoutouts (I was on too late for phone time). It got to a point that my 4 hour show was all requests, so I started a second show on Monday night from 10-12 called The New School, where I played new releases and recent stuff (this was 91-93, so peak golden age of hip-hop). Two days before I graduated, I did a 6-hour show and almost lost my voice by the end.

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34 minutes ago, JLowe said:

In the early 90s I was heavily involved with our tiny college radio station in Central PA. I also, after a couple of years of sharing a daily 30 minute “alternative” show and having a weekly 2-hour freeform show, I decided I wanted to start a hip-hop show. It had to be after 10 pm, because our interpretation of the FCC rules was that we could play profanity after that time (although they would ask me to save the truly dirty stuff until after midnight). It turned into a 4-hour show, 10 pm to 2 am on Wednesday. There are two state prisons in the town (which was 95% white, as was the college) and the prison population was 90% black, mostly from Philly. I started getting 20-30 letters a week with requests and shoutouts (I was on too late for phone time). It got to a point that my 4 hour show was all requests, so I started a second show on Monday night from 10-12 called The New School, where I played new releases and recent stuff (this was 91-93, so peak golden age of hip-hop). Two days before I graduated, I did a 6-hour show and almost lost my voice by the end.

I'm envious. I've always wanted to be in with the 45-55 With No Possibility Of Parole demographic.

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This sounds like some weird Mayor of Kingstown plot, where inmates at one prison were communicating with inmates at the other, and maybe even inmates at both communication with the outside, using @JLowe to covertly set up criminal activities.  

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Bob having dementia is a pretty cruel twist for someone with his heel gimmick, and real-life eccentricities.

Also, just in case you think saying that is insensitive, my granddad died of it and it's terrible.

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6 hours ago, Technico Support said:

This sounds like some weird Mayor of Kingstown plot, where inmates at one prison were communicating with inmates at the other, and maybe even inmates at both communication with the outside, using @JLowe to covertly set up criminal activities.  

Honestly it wasn’t impossible. I was very clear that I wouldn’t say anything negative, threats, or gang names but I would shout out streets and neighborhoods.

I actually got to know one of the guards, who was one of the few black residents of Huntingdon. The one he worked at asked me to be a judge for their annual talent show. I went up there with him and did the judging with a couple other folks. Afterwards, they let me hang around for a while talking to people, ended up sitting at a huge table where dudes were pounding beats on the table and freestyling. I looked up at one point and there were no guards in the room!

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7 hours ago, Peck said:

I'm envious. I've always wanted to be in with the 45-55 With No Possibility Of Parole demographic.

One was medium security and one was maximum. The electric chair was in a prison about 90 minutes away. If you’re familiar with Mumia Abu-Jamal, he was at one of them.

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take your pick of early era Dustin Rhodes trios

  • Abdullah The Butcher, Dusty Rhodes Jr. & Joel Deaton
  • Dusty Rhodes Jr., Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy
  • Dustin Rhodes, Jeff Jarrett & Nightmare Freddy
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1 hour ago, Cobra Commander said:

take your pick of early era Dustin Rhodes trios

  • Abdullah The Butcher, Dusty Rhodes Jr. & Joel Deaton
  • Dusty Rhodes Jr., Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy
  • Dustin Rhodes, Jeff Jarrett & Nightmare Freddy

I'll take Dustin, Jeff, and Freddy just to hear "Do the Freddy" blasting. I'm a simple man who enjoys simple things.

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Dustin Rhodes/Jeff Jarrett could have been a 1998 WWF tag team where Jeff Jarrett sells his county musician gimmick to Goldust and then Dustin starts coming out dressed like a country star instead of the lameass babyface gimmick that they gave Dustin in mid-98 that went nowhere.

Or they mix up the genres and start referring to him as Solid Goldust instead of the obvious nickname of Country Goldust

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1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

Man, spangle-jacket, lookin-like-Porter-Wagoner Goldust keeping his makeup still would be pretty awesome. 

EDIT: DUDE. Have him drive up in a Nudie Mobile. 

The Car Pulls To The West: Nudie Cohn Customizes Cars In, 45% OFF

upon further reflection, I guess the closest 1998 WWF could have come to getting a Dolly for Goldust's Porter would have been Sunny (out of everybody in/around the 1998 WWF), and well, I suspect Vince Russo isn't a big Porter Wagoner show guy

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5 hours ago, Brandon-E said:

Outside of Hulk Hogan and CM Punk, who else do you think AEW has made Persona Non Grata?

Jimmy Havoc, Ivelisse.

Edit:
Perhaps also Ace Steel, Kevin Kelly, and Big Swole?

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6 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:

Jimmy Havoc, Ivelisse.

Edit:
Perhaps also Ace Steel, Kevin Kelly, and Big Swole?

I don't see The Boys coming back any time soon, either! Although, they weren't exactly a big enough deal to even become personae non gratis (I have no idea whatsoever what the correct plural of that is?)

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