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Post by Lance Uppercut on Sept 10, 2005 17:36:56 GMT -5
Even as young mark, there were things that had me scratching my head even though I was trying to suspend my belief for as long as a I could.
Mine was, why is it that when a wrestler would make a run in, when he wasn't wrestling on the actual televised program, he would run in with his full wrestling gear on, even though the announcers would claim that "he wasn't scheduled to be here tonite"? I can't believe I totally forgot about it, but I guess at some point I just totally let it slip once I learned about dark matches, promos (or "interviews"), and pretapings for other shows.
These days, I still kind of wonder what's the deal with Hitting the entrance music when you're trying to make a life saving run-in for another guy, or trying to make a surprise appearance to jump your hated enemy and letting them know you're coming with your entrance music hittting. I know sometimes it works, but other times it's like, "hey I thought nobody knew he was supposed to be here, why's his music perfectly on cue?"
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Post by Clothesline From Hell on Sept 10, 2005 17:41:11 GMT -5
How JR/Brain/Savage could smell the chlorform Giant Gonzalez smotherd Taker with.
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Post by Wheresmy5bucks on Sept 10, 2005 17:58:27 GMT -5
Maybe wrestlers have the magical power to make thier theme music play on thier command? Triple H can walk down the street and make "The Game" play on his whim.
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Post by jack22 on Sept 10, 2005 18:01:50 GMT -5
I've never understood the expression 'capacity crowd' as it makes no sense.
The capacity is the potential maximum of a venue. A crowd is a group of people at a venue. There fore a capacity crowd is not possible as a crowd cannot be a capacity.
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Post by MiLB Fan on Sept 10, 2005 18:06:59 GMT -5
I remember the first time I saw a WCW event: Clash of the Champions XXI in November '92. One of the matches was a tag match: Kensuke Sasaki & Erik Watts vs. Arn Anderson & Bobby Eaton. During the match Jim Ross & Jesse Ventura kept talking about how Michael Hayes put a bounty on Watts's head. I had never heard of a bounty match before, or the concept of offering a cash reward for injuring someone. (I was 9 at the time.) So I'm sitting there thinking "What are they talking about? I don't see anything on his head!"
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Post by hakushi on Sept 10, 2005 18:08:12 GMT -5
Rick Steiner's mismatched boots, I didn't understand if he thought he was a dog, or if he was supposed to be stupid.
Well I liked him anyways.
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Post by jack22 on Sept 10, 2005 18:10:10 GMT -5
I also never understood how guys who supposedly hated each other could share the same locker-room.
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Post by Se7en: Horse That Wrote Poems on Sept 10, 2005 18:11:16 GMT -5
I've never understood the expression 'capacity crowd' as it makes no sense. The capacity is the potential maximum of a venue. A crowd is a group of people at a venue. There fore a capacity crowd is not possible as a crowd cannot be a capacity. A capacity crowd is a crowd filling the arena TO ITS CAPACITY. Wow...thank me later.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Sept 10, 2005 18:11:57 GMT -5
I also never understood how guys who supposedly hated each other could share the same locker-room. I was under the assumption, and later told in some other places (maybe books or wcw), that there was a heel locker room and a face locker room. What confused me was "if they turned into a good guy/bad guy do they have to switch lockerrooms?"
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Post by jack22 on Sept 10, 2005 18:18:04 GMT -5
I've never understood the expression 'capacity crowd' as it makes no sense. The capacity is the potential maximum of a venue. A crowd is a group of people at a venue. There fore a capacity crowd is not possible as a crowd cannot be a capacity. A capacity crowd is a crowd filling the arena TO ITS CAPACITY. Wow...thank me later. No it isn't that is a FULL crowd. You cannot have a full capacity or in which case even an event which has three people in a 40,000 seater arena would be a full capacity as the word capacity refers not to the amount of people in attendance but to the general size of the venue. So capacity crowd is an incorrect term as no crowd can be a capacity.
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Post by Se7en: Horse That Wrote Poems on Sept 10, 2005 18:33:42 GMT -5
Ok, how would you describe it with something other than "full"? The terminology is not as badly wrong here as you make it out to be. They don't look stupid, because announcers all over the world use the phrase "stadium filled to capacity" to refer to crowds at games quite often.
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Post by jack22 on Sept 10, 2005 18:37:40 GMT -5
They could have said it was 'filled to capacity' or even 'capacity filling crowd' but NOT a 'capacity crowd'
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Sept 10, 2005 18:38:24 GMT -5
Ok, how would you describe it with something other than "full"? The terminology is not as badly wrong here as you make it out to be. They don't look stupid, because announcers all over the world use the phrase "stadium filled to capacity" to refer to crowds at games quite often. He's just being really specific. I'm pretty sure he knows the whole "capacity-filled crowd/arena" phrase. Just pointing out something technically incorrectly phrased as a young'n
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Post by sunwukong on Sept 10, 2005 18:49:17 GMT -5
A capacity crowd is a crowd filling the arena TO ITS CAPACITY. Wow...thank me later. No it isn't that is a FULL crowd. You cannot have a full capacity or in which case even an event which has three people in a 40,000 seater arena would be a full capacity as the word capacity refers not to the amount of people in attendance but to the general size of the venue. So capacity crowd is an incorrect term as no crowd can be a capacity. Semantics. It's the exact same thing. Capacity crowd makes perfect sense.
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Post by The OP on Sept 10, 2005 18:52:04 GMT -5
Exactly. It should be obvious to everyone that it means the crowd has filled the arena to it's capacity.
Anyways, I never understood why the guy had to wait for his arm to drop twice before he could elbow the guy to get out of a sleeper hold.
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Post by Big BosskMan on Sept 10, 2005 18:53:20 GMT -5
What I didn't understand was how Hacksaw Duggan and the Iron Shiek (who were feuding at the time) were in the same car when it got pulled over and drugs were found.
That's what killed kayfabe for me.
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Post by jobber2thestars on Sept 10, 2005 19:59:54 GMT -5
I didn't understand how the Undertaker could hang the Big Bossman from above the ring, and not be arrested. Also, I din't get how the Big Bossman survived.
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Post by crazyrose on Sept 10, 2005 20:29:08 GMT -5
I could never understand how Owen attepmting to rise out of the shadow of his brother and beating him with a clean pin still made him a bad guy
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Post by jobber2thestars on Sept 10, 2005 21:19:34 GMT -5
Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I still don't understand why Vince kept the show going after Owen's death. In my opinion, that was an awful decision.
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Post by CrOaT.... on Sept 10, 2005 21:27:45 GMT -5
stop this capacity crowd thing,when i was a kid and thought wrestling was real i never understood how wrstlers never had bruises or black eyes or broken bones and how they showed feuding wrestlers together at atuograph signings and things out of wrestling, ofcourse now i know its all scripted but i miss those days when u thought it was all real
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