Celgress
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Post by Celgress on Oct 22, 2014 12:53:34 GMT -5
The OP is almost too unbelievable for words. However if it is true, Dixie is not only a mega mark but also a moron imo.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Oct 22, 2014 13:12:06 GMT -5
"I swear to God Bro", deciphering Russo's actual point from that paragraph is one of the most challenging tasks I've ever attempted.
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Bad Moon
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Post by Bad Moon on Oct 22, 2014 13:34:12 GMT -5
"I swear to God Bro", deciphering Russo's actual point from that paragraph is one of the most challenging tasks I've ever attempted. It honestly makes me wonder whether he's actually responsible for all the horrible booking, or if people just can't interpret what he's saying. |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Oct 22, 2014 13:38:23 GMT -5
I figure it's because this must have happened a lot in wrestling. Some bookers probably didn't know how to read. But he started out in the WWF by writing for their magazines. Go back and read some of his articles... his style hasn't changed.  |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 22, 2014 13:45:37 GMT -5
This is so Russo, but so believable. Am I being worked, bro? SWERVE! Life is a work bro... and that's a shoot. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 13:59:16 GMT -5
This is so Russo, but so believable. Am I being worked, bro? SWERVE! Life is a work bro... and that's a shoot. So...that's a...yes.......? Dude, I dropped Russology after 2 weeks. I didn't mind the teacher pretending to be a student for the first few days or the entire Show-And-Tell fingerpainting incident. What got me was that pop quiz on what was supposedly modern day wrestling but turned out to be a test on the history of the Tootsie Pop. I think it was the swerve and the pun. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 22, 2014 14:32:39 GMT -5
I really hope that this is engraved on Russo's tombstone when his time is up many years from now. In a swerve he won't be buried but rather cremated than shot into space They'll send him cheesy movies, the worst they can find (la, la, la). /See it's a SHOOT, cause Vince worked in a video store! //TBF, I could have swore someone said Mitchell was legit a Satanist. ///James M., not Joe Don Baker. //// And/or am I thinking of Balls Mahoney? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2014 19:18:10 GMT -5
In a swerve he won't be buried but rather cremated than shot into space They'll send him cheesy movies, the worst they can find (la, la, la). /See it's a SHOOT, cause Vince worked in a video store! //TBF, I could have swore someone said Mitchell was legit a Satanist. ///James M., not Joe Don Baker. //// And/or am I thinking of Balls Mahoney? ... MITCHELL |
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Oct 22, 2014 21:15:34 GMT -5
"I swear to God Bro", deciphering Russo's actual point from that paragraph is one of the most challenging tasks I've ever attempted. It honestly makes me wonder whether he's actually responsible for all the horrible booking, or if people just can't interpret what he's saying. I assume that if Russo was coherent, the "Higher Power" storyline would have been his Citizen Kane. |
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Oct 23, 2014 10:23:59 GMT -5
"I swear to God Bro", deciphering Russo's actual point from that paragraph is one of the most challenging tasks I've ever attempted. At first, I thought he was referring to Mitchell as the mark |
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Post by Lancers on Oct 23, 2014 13:59:25 GMT -5
Also, I have never seen a writer, who has had several major writing gigs, not be able to put together a coherent paragraph. It kind of makes sense if you think about it. It's entirely possible the birth of the shoot originated from wrestlers reading his scripts unable to comprehend what the hell he was putting together. So in a fit of rage, Russo just told them all to just say whatever they want to say, and when it sorta worked, he took credit for it. Then WCW paid him a lot of money to go even further down the path of incoherent writing which didn't work out as well. |
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Post by SCCB Was Told To Do Steroids on Oct 24, 2014 9:08:35 GMT -5
Imagine if she was owner of Chikara instead of TNA.... Dixie: GET THAT AWAY FROM ME! IT'S A SWAMP MONSTER! Using giant cans of Raid to get rid of all those damn ants and bugs running around. Scouring Amazon.com for a copy of Gray's...Sports...Almanac. Looking up theories of time travel and trying to constantly book Kazarian because she thinks he's the only one who can use the DeLorean. Keeping the lights low enough to where Icarus' wings don't melt. Surrounding the arena with sandbags to stop The Flood. Finding a mate for Eddie Kingston so his breed won't die out. Dixie being Chikara owner would be too good for this reality. I got a headache after reading up on the whole Gekido/ 17 Takeover. I could only imagine Dixie Carter, having been explained all this by an outgoing Quackenbush, standing there, getting a nose-bleed while her liquified brain oozes out her ears. |
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Post by Chainsaw on Oct 24, 2014 9:22:25 GMT -5
The mods should put in a filter on the boards that, whenever Russo's name is mentioned, the words ",as God as my witness," will be inserted randomly into the post.
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Post by 67 more on Oct 24, 2014 9:59:44 GMT -5
The mods should put in a filter on the boards that, whenever Russo's name is mentioned, the words ",as God as my witness," will be inserted randomly into the post. I swear on my children, bro and Standards & Practices will also be randomly added. |
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 25, 2014 23:29:15 GMT -5
This is yet another reason Vince Russo annoys me. MAYBE people in the industry talk to each other like that, but take the f***ing carny talk out when talking to fans. It's ridiculous.
I don't personally know Vince Russo, but I get several impressions of him from his interviews and from those of others who had to deal with him. I get the impression that he is a damned glory hound that wanted a share of the fame that he was helping generate. Well, guess what? Wrestling bookers don't get to publicly share the fame. If he had wanted to share the fame he should have tried writing a sci-fi show or comic book series instead. Those are industries where the writers and producers are put out front just like any stars of the show.
Instead, wrestling has kayfabe. It needs kayfabe, to a degree. Knowing too much of the backstage workings severely weakens the product. I enjoy hearing all involved talk about past angles, including the bookers. Knowing anything about what the bookers are currently thinking about the current product ruins the magic, in a sense. Therefore, bookers should do their jobs, accept all sorts of pats on the back from everyone backstage, hopefully cash some decent checks, and write memoirs/do shoot interviews later.
Russo did not seem to want that. He seemed to want the fame. He clearly wanted to make kayfabe a thing of the past, which might allow him to have his cake and eat it too. Everything that resembled kayfabe he seemed to go out of his way to undermine. I feel like the carny speak in public just continues that.
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Post by SAJ Forth on Oct 26, 2014 0:41:35 GMT -5
In a swerve he won't be buried but rather cremated than shot into space They'll send him cheesy movies, the worst they can find (la, la, la). /See it's a SHOOT, cause Vince worked in a video store! //TBF, I could have swore someone said Mitchell was legit a Satanist. ///James M., not Joe Don Baker. //// And/or am I thinking of Balls Mahoney? I heard it is Mahoney, and that Mitchell is an atheist. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 27, 2014 7:04:44 GMT -5
That quote made such little sense that I really think it's a parody rather than a real thing, or am I three pages late in finding out that was the case.
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