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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Apr 29, 2023 11:05:24 GMT -5
Karma.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Apr 23, 2023 11:59:58 GMT -5
There's plenty of great new music out there, you just have to actually look for it. When someone says "they don't make good music anymore!" what I hear is "I refuse to listen to anything that came out after I turned 20."
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Apr 22, 2023 11:03:20 GMT -5
The Pixies are just fine without Kim Deal.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 21, 2023 20:45:09 GMT -5
It was either The Matrix or The Cell.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 14, 2023 10:13:47 GMT -5
3rd row for Raw in Providence the night after Survivor Series 2008.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 9, 2023 7:27:47 GMT -5
DDP did that to _everyone_. "Hey, JeriSCUM!", "Hey, RaveSCUM!" And it never sounded good. We should all add SCUM to our usernames like we did with 52 and muffins that time Hmmmm..... "Bob SCUMowitz'.....or maybe "SCUM Schlapowitz."
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 5, 2023 13:10:29 GMT -5
Sweatsock Jose Lothario was hands down the funniest thread in this forum's history. I still sometimes revisit it when I need a laugh.
Also, the series of Ask Bob Schlapowitz threads were pretty fun.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 3, 2023 21:14:25 GMT -5
No, but he should have won the WHC in 2002
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Mar 1, 2023 9:25:12 GMT -5
Just to be in the center of that mass of humanity. View Attachment"But enough about Big Bossman's mother." I'd go with the first Super J Cup. WILL YOU STOP!!
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Feb 8, 2023 23:49:13 GMT -5
Any time JR would go nuts about HHH.
"THAT SON OF A BITCH!! DOES HE HAVE NO CONSCIENCE??? DOES HE HAVE NO SOUL??"
"WHY? DAMMIT! WHY? SOMEBODY TELL ME WHY!!!"
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Feb 4, 2023 15:42:28 GMT -5
I always thought that Ivory was hotter than the sun, but what can I say? I have a type. RTC-era in particular. Damn straight!
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Feb 4, 2023 0:45:01 GMT -5
Sort of going abstract with it here: WWE never really presented Ivory as one of the prettiest of their women. They didn't call her ugly or anything, but she was one of the older ones, and they treated her accordingly. Nowadays, she looks fantastic, probably by virtue of looking almost exactly the same as she ever has. I always thought that Ivory was hotter than the sun, but what can I say? I have a type.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Feb 2, 2023 11:10:41 GMT -5
Pat Roach was in A Clockwork Orange. He was? I did not know that.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 29, 2023 22:43:54 GMT -5
It's hard to compare the eras because the focuses were completely different, the model then was all all about house shows rather than television numbers, and like you said there was more promoters running more shows, so the sheer number of tickets sold weirdly isn't necessarily an accurate measure of the overall popularity of wrestling. If anything the industry was in a slump during the last decade or so of the territorial era, a lot of territories - Amarillo, Detroit, LA, San Francisco, various others - were on the decline in the late seventies and early eighties in terms of ticket sales and were starting to merge with other offices or close altogether. Oddly during the last days of the territories,circa 80 thru about 86,the southern area was doing really good. WCCW was drawing huge gates and got good tv ratings,even in areas they never ran shows. Memphis was selling out often and drawing still really good tv ratings in the local area and the other areas that carried Memphis TV. And Mid South was HUGE. The Superdome shows had HUGE crowds. Then by 87 the boom was over and all that was gone. Yea Memphis still trudged on,and it was fun to watch. The crowds dropped and fewer and fewer areas appeared to get the weekly tv. As for if 2001 was the end of the Attitude era boom? I noticed from right after Starrcade 97 until 99 each few weeks our group that gathered on Mondays and Sundays to watch wrestling would get smaller. By 2001 it was just 5 or so of us. Where as just 3 years before there would be 25 people crammed into my buddy's living room. Might be different based on age during the time. We were all 24 or older baack then. I'm around the same age and have pretty much the same story. From 97 to 2000 there were about 15 of us that would watch every show, and in 2001, people in the group started losing interest quickly. By the start of 2002 there were only four of us, and by the end of that year, we were all done. Even though we had all given up watching, a few of us did go to the 2003 Rumble as kind of a last hurrah.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 25, 2023 18:50:41 GMT -5
It started to end in 2001. By the end of 2002, not a single person that I know still watched.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 23, 2023 12:38:15 GMT -5
When Taker returned at Judgment Day 2000 X-Pac hit him in the back with a chair, and Taker turned around with this "Son....you just f***ed up." look on his face.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 21, 2023 22:53:05 GMT -5
All American Boys (The Fabulous Rougeau Bros.) Is EASILY the greatest theme song in wrestling history.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 21, 2023 18:25:04 GMT -5
My Time is WAY better than Time to Play the Game.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 12, 2023 11:24:12 GMT -5
So, um, Tessa is single now? I mean technically just asking for a friend doing a school project. Yes, I know she's terrible, I just find her so attractive. 😍 Wonder what Ricochet is up to? Take a good long look at that Sgt. Slaughter-esque jawline and let me know if you still find her attractive. I think she's a very attractive woman. By all counts an absolute garbage human that I would want nothing to do with.....but I do think she's a good looking woman.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 10, 2023 19:42:27 GMT -5
how about a wrestler who has to win a match to get hired every show but gets fired by the end of every show for increasingly stupid and petty reasons? not quite an occupation gimmick outside of person desperate to be a wrestler and screws up constantly. Marty Janetty?
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