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Post by Sad sack ass fruitbooty on Nov 18, 2007 9:28:30 GMT -5
Alex Trebek, welcome to wrestlemania.
Alex: Thanks Jim, pleasure to be here...
Okerlund: That's Gene...
God, Mean Gene was such a a tool
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Post by thesam07 on Nov 18, 2007 19:53:17 GMT -5
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Nov 18, 2007 20:11:13 GMT -5
Alex Trebek, welcome to wrestlemania. Alex: Thanks Jim, pleasure to be here... Okerlund: That's Gene... God, Mean Gene was such a a tool Actually I remember they did a segment on SNME with Lord Alfred Hayes and Gene Okerlund and Hayes kept calling Gene "Jim" on purpose. I liked Mean Gene, one of the all time great interviewers. |
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Post by I'm The Cool One on Nov 18, 2007 23:22:57 GMT -5
mean gene > you are
live with it
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Post by willywonka666 on Nov 19, 2007 7:26:38 GMT -5
Mean Gene rules
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Post by Erik Majorwitz on Nov 19, 2007 7:31:40 GMT -5
Is his hotline still working?
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Post by strykerdarksilence on Nov 19, 2007 7:33:03 GMT -5
Is his hotline still working? You`ll have to drop $2.99 a minute to find out!  |
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Nov 19, 2007 8:06:41 GMT -5
Is his hotline still working? On his shoot, he talks about how his hotline in WCW drew over $3 million dollars. I guess those little tidbits he'd drop on the air about various wrestlers leaving/returning paid off. |
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Post by Erik Majorwitz on Nov 19, 2007 8:55:19 GMT -5
Is his hotline still working? You`ll have to drop $2.99 a minute to find out! But I don't have my parents' permission to call! |
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Post by I'm The Cool One on Nov 19, 2007 8:56:41 GMT -5
1(900)909-9900
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Post by seano on Nov 19, 2007 9:09:19 GMT -5
^ Whatever happened to 900 numbers? I never hear them mentioned anymore...
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Post by willywonka666 on Nov 19, 2007 9:49:06 GMT -5
I called it once. I got Terry Taylor taking his sweet ass time describing what all he was gonna talk about.
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Post by default on Nov 19, 2007 23:30:30 GMT -5
My friend used to call it from time to time before he got the internet. He said he dropped $10-$20 to find very little out.
Oh, and Mean Gene rules... especially in the party scene in Ready to Rumble.
"Do you think I'm sexy?"
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Post by Agent P on Nov 20, 2007 10:30:06 GMT -5
All that was a big joke by Bobby Heenan, I thought. Didn't Gene also interview Tenryu and Kitao, and they wouldn't answer him?
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Nov 20, 2007 11:02:09 GMT -5
All that was a big joke by Bobby Heenan, I thought. Didn't Gene also interview Tenryu and Kitao, and they wouldn't answer him? I think Regis Philbin was interviewing those two. |
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Post by Chris the Bambikiller on Nov 21, 2007 13:52:30 GMT -5
Mean Jim should make a comeback.
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Post by themanwithnoname on Nov 22, 2007 22:53:41 GMT -5
I found and old WMIII countdown, it brought back great memories. Anyway, Gene was somewhere interviewing Bob Uecker, who was wearing an open shirt sports jacket and huge '80s sunglasses and their exchange was awesome gold. They were both improvising at the drop of a hate. I have always been a huge Uecker fan, but what put me over the top with him was not only his quick wit and great humor, but his knowledge of wrestling. He would have made a great interviewer like in the vein of Mean Gene, but he also would have been a great TV commentator.
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Post by Mongo & Pepe: Back in Black on Nov 23, 2007 17:52:46 GMT -5
Mean Gene rules!
One of the best parts of late WCW was his cantankerous, dirty old man character.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2007 13:13:39 GMT -5
Shoot, I remember when those calls were 99 cents a minute. My brother and I was "watching" an NWA PPV (through a scrambled screen, it was Mike Rotundo vs. Rick Steiner). I called the number and they gave us the commentary from that show. I think nowadays it would be: "Hi, hello wrestling fans, "Mean" Gene Okerlund here. If you want the latest news on a former World Champion, text "Nitro" to "XXXXX" for the scoop and it is hot. $3.99 per cal, all phone charges apply, kids 18 and under, get your parents permission." Bobby Heenan: "And if they don't give you permission, hit them with a baseball bat!" |
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