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Post by Impact Zone's #1 DUMMY...YEAH on Mar 25, 2016 1:44:13 GMT -5
Maybe I'm missing something completely obvious, but why is this move called the electric chair? Somebody lifting 2 or more wrestlers off of a turnbuckle and slamming them onto the mat equates to an electric chair how?
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 25, 2016 2:00:11 GMT -5
Maybe I'm missing something completely obvious, but why is this move called the electric chair? Somebody lifting 2 or more wrestlers off of a turnbuckle and slamming them onto the mat equates to an electric chair how? It's called that because someone gets their opponent in a seated position on their shoulders, and they're in a kayfabe world of danger, like if they were seated in an electric chair, due for execution. It's like how the "Sharpshooter" was originally called the Scorpion Hold, because the opponent's legs are held up over their own back when they're turned over, resembling a scorpion's tail, or how a "Fisherman Suplex" is called that because you've got their leg hooked, little play on words since fishermen use hooks in their own line of work. |
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Post by TGM on Mar 25, 2016 6:39:23 GMT -5
Why is a schoolboy called a schoolboy?
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Post by Scott on Mar 25, 2016 7:53:40 GMT -5
Because of the schoolyard prank where you would fall over someone backwards because you didn't know they were there.
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Post by Johawn on Mar 25, 2016 11:00:21 GMT -5
I love this thread!
Now explain the moss covered three handled family gredunzle.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 25, 2016 11:25:05 GMT -5
I love this thread! Now explain the moss covered three handled family gredunzle.  |
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Mar 25, 2016 11:35:06 GMT -5
Grape Nuts- No grapes, no nuts. What's the deal?
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 25, 2016 15:31:39 GMT -5
Grape Nuts- No grapes, no nuts. What's the deal? C.W. Post, a patient and later rival of Kellogg, referred to glucose as "grape sugar" for some reason. As for the nut portion, either it was because he thought the finished cereal looked like seeds, or felt it had a nutty flavor, that part is less sure. |
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Mar 25, 2016 15:43:12 GMT -5
Ok smarty pants, explain the name Bulldog now.
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Post by blake6905 on Mar 25, 2016 15:56:46 GMT -5
Ok smarty pants, explain the name Bulldog now. After you've been face planted... Your face is squished like a bulldog |
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 25, 2016 16:23:09 GMT -5
Ok smarty pants, explain the name Bulldog now. Best I can find with a half assed google search was that it was originally called a "Bulldogging" or "Bulldogging Headlock", which makes me think they might have thought of it as grabbing onto someone like a dog might do around the neck to yank them down to the ground, but that's a pure guess on my part. |
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Post by kendrickisking on Mar 25, 2016 16:31:16 GMT -5
I'd assume Bulldog (move) is named after the Bulldog Choke which involves choking an opponent on all fours like a bulldog stands.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Mar 26, 2016 10:30:48 GMT -5
How about, what does the STO stand for?
Is the Atomic Drop named such for the mushroom cloud'esque shape the move's takee resembles when being picked up before dropped?
And obligatory, does ANYONE know what DDT means?
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Post by lildude8218 on Mar 26, 2016 10:45:31 GMT -5
It's credenza. Thank you.
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Post by Sam Punk on Mar 26, 2016 10:51:21 GMT -5
And obligatory, does ANYONE know what DDT means? The end |
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Mar 26, 2016 10:54:44 GMT -5
And obligatory, does ANYONE know what DDT means? The End. EDIT: Dammit! |
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Post by blake6905 on Mar 26, 2016 10:55:10 GMT -5
And obligatory, does ANYONE know what DDT means? The end Rat poison? |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 26, 2016 11:09:47 GMT -5
How about, what does the STO stand for? Space Tornado Ogawa |
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Post by Throwback on Mar 26, 2016 11:29:34 GMT -5
And obligatory, does ANYONE know what DDT means? The end I know that's what Jake said. But I remember having an argument about this as a kid. Some kids said "Drop Dead Twice" other kids said "Damien's Dinner Time" |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 26, 2016 11:32:28 GMT -5
I know that's what Jake said. But I remember having an argument about this as a kid. Some kids said "Drop Dead Twice" other kids said "Damien's Dinner Time" I think it is a reference to dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDTBut what it actually stands for has never been stated other than "the end"... other names I've heard are like Damien's Death Touch, Demonic Death Trap, and Death Drop Technique |
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