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Post by Chairman of the Board on Sept 7, 2013 10:22:05 GMT -5
Top 5 favorite Smark sayings:
5) Workrate. Anytime somebody discussing workrate, you know they at a smark.
4) Using a guys real name. We know Shawn Michaels last name is Hickenbottom or whatever, nobody gives shit. Do people brag about know other celebrities real names? No they don't smark!!
3) Bashing the WWE for being "stupid" yet still watching. It's a kids show, you like it watch. You don't, don't. If you're watching a show you hate just to review how horrible it was, you're a Smark!
2) ECW wasn't this! WCW was that! If you didn't live through it then just end it. Seeing ECW on TNN doesn't mean you have any clue why ECW was popular. Bash something you read about or watched a DVD about is Smarkedy Smakrish.
1) "I am not a smark you big jerk!!" People who deny the existence of and/or dislike the term are smarks. A smart mark doesn't have to be a bad term. The really hardcore smarks take it as an insult, but get over it. You gossip about what is going on behind the scenes in a fake soap opera world. Own it. You're obsessed with men in spandex!
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Post by The Beast Disincarnate on Sept 7, 2013 11:53:04 GMT -5
"Hayabusa vs Takeshi Morishima was so great too bad they never worked with Hiro Saito though"
to what someone will answer:
"Saito was never that great, Shimeo Ikumura's work was so much better".
And there's the famous:
"The Punk/Samoa Joe trilogy is the greatest snoozer art piece ever, particularly the second one, great psychology."
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Hank Scorpio
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Post by TGM on Sept 7, 2013 18:09:40 GMT -5
"Jeff Hardy, Bret Hart, Chris Benoit have no charisma... they are just death on the mic." In general, it seems that a lot of people treat charisma as the same as mic skills, despite people like the aforementioned having drawn lots of money in the business. That's why I picked those guys. Benoit and Hardy especially were nothing major on the Mic, but had an instant connection with the crowd. Yeah, the idea that Mic Skills = Charisma is one thing that never ceases to piss me off. |
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the2ndevil
Grimlock
Super Seducer Survivor
Where Is Your Santa, Now?
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Post by the2ndevil on Sept 8, 2013 11:18:53 GMT -5
"Muhammad Hassan was totally awesome right up until they made him a terrorist. I wish they'd bring him back." The thing with this one is, I never thought he was right, but I thought he was justified in his anger. He was a jerk, to be sure, but as I recall, it was only because he was fed up in the wake of 9/11. Wasn't there a match he had with Tajiri, or someone who was clearly not from the US, that got a USA chant? He was billed from Detroit. And masked goons have been used by heels for decades, but the fact he was deemed a "terrorist" because he used them is really telling, IMO. That really proved the character to be correct. |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Sept 8, 2013 19:08:10 GMT -5
"Muhammad Hassan was totally awesome right up until they made him a terrorist. I wish they'd bring him back." The thing with this one is, I never thought he was right, but I thought he was justified in his anger. He was a jerk, to be sure, but as I recall, it was only because he was fed up in the wake of 9/11. Wasn't there a match he had with Tajiri, or someone who was clearly not from the US, that got a USA chant? He was billed from Detroit. And masked goons have been used by heels for decades, but the fact he was deemed a "terrorist" because he used them is really telling, IMO. That really proved the character to be correct. I thought the concept of the character was great, but that the execution of it (by all involved) was lacking. |
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Post by rybackrulez on Sept 8, 2013 21:41:46 GMT -5
Yeah, that one bugs me a lot too. The biggest one nowadays being Daniel Bryan, who some people still insist on calling Bryan Danielson, and it just bugs the crap out of me. I think that and people who call him Daniel Bryan Danielson are the most annoying. We get it, you were a fan of him on the indies. Get over it. I hate people who shit on everything Also real names bother me when a wrestler never goes by their real name, so saying first name like "oscar was so good in wcw, now he is shit" I am like? Oscar was never in wcw. |
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metylerca
King Koopa
Loves Him Some Backstreet Boys.
Don't be alarmed.
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Post by metylerca on Sept 10, 2013 11:56:06 GMT -5
Current WWE sucks. So I'll fantasy book the PTPs and Wyatts into every main event scenario to appease me.
I'll give the "very over" PTPs the STRAPS.
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Malcolm
Grimlock
Wanted something done about the color of his ring.
May contain ADHD
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Post by Malcolm on Sept 11, 2013 22:29:36 GMT -5
I just thought of one:
Calling every angry/ranty/serious/ promo a "shoot".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2013 0:03:02 GMT -5
"Well ratings went up a third with him on the show, see, the guy I love is the best and is also factually the best!"
People should stop trying to make their own personal enjoyment of guys into a pissing contest in ratings threads, who really cares unless:
a) the company is going under [TM TNA forum]
b) you're a stockholder
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Post by salsashark on Sept 12, 2013 8:49:02 GMT -5
I find all this discussion of fans calling wrestlers by their real names as being sacrilege or stupid incredibly funny. Why do people give so much of a shit that some guys call Dean Ambrose Jon Moxley (which isn't his real name anyway -- just an old indie name) or even his actual name? It's such a backwards tradition of the wrestling business to care so much about that. I'm not saying go around and call someone Mark Callaway constantly (That's stupid, too), but it's not that big of a deal. I genuinely believe maintaining this kind of carny-ish mentality has hurt wrestling's reputation in the long term. If you know a guy's real name, what's wrong with using it if it matters? I call Bryan Danielson Daniel Bryan because I am used to it and enjoy it. If someone calls him Bryan Danielson, there is no reason to flip my shit. I also think of Claudio Castagnoli as Claudio Castagnoli instead of Antonio Cesaro because I will always associate him with that character, especially since Cesaro and Castagnoli aren't very dissimilar. 2) ECW wasn't this! WCW was that! If you didn't live through it then just end it. Seeing ECW on TNN doesn't mean you have any clue why ECW was popular. Bash something you read about or watched a DVD about is Smarkedy Smakrish. Thinking you or your opinion is superior because you lived through a period is also supremely smark-ish (and elitist). You don't think some solid research or good conversation can convey why ECW was popular? What a joke. I suppose all historians of ancient Greece are worthless because they weren't around for the period. Get off your high horse. |
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Post by Chairman of the Board on Sept 12, 2013 15:22:49 GMT -5
2) ECW wasn't this! WCW was that! If you didn't live through it then just end it. Seeing ECW on TNN doesn't mean you have any clue why ECW was popular. Bash something you read about or watched a DVD about is Smarkedy Smakrish. Thinking you or your opinion is superior because you lived through a period is also supremely smark-ish (and elitist). You don't think some solid research or good conversation can convey why ECW was popular? What a joke. I suppose all historians of ancient Greece are worthless because they weren't around for the period. Get off your high horse.  You sound like you're on a high horse. Also you're logic is flawed. If somebody from Ancient Greece were around today and they said something people would listen. They would value his word much more than a historian's opinion. Wrestling history is romanticized at times. I personally prefer to discuss and debate with people who can teach me something interesting of put a new twist on something. I do think "solid research" and "good conversation" can convey an opinion. To me, watching a WWE release on WCCW doesn't somehow make somebody a WCCW historian. The same goes for ECW or WCW. Maybe you're defensive because you feel like I'm talking about you. I am not talking about any individual in particular. I mean have fun, debate about something meaningless like ECW/WCW. I enjoy talking about it because it was a fun time. I'll never enjoy wrestling like I did back then. I was too young to be watching in the early 80's. I personally feel like a phony to try and speak authoritatively about the time period. To each his own. To me nothing is more Smarky than somebody debating the merits of something they watched a WWE DVD about. That is my opinion. It's like if I watched a documentary on the 60's and tried to tell a baby boomer what is was "really" like back then. |
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Post by Dave the Dave on Sept 23, 2013 9:47:04 GMT -5
#HHHquads
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saintpat
El Dandy
Release the hounds!!!
Posts: 7,664
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Post by saintpat on Sept 23, 2013 19:41:17 GMT -5
"I haven't watched WWE in 14 years, but ..."
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Post by 2 Cold Scorkum on Sept 23, 2013 19:42:45 GMT -5
"I haven't watched WWE in 14 years, but ..." Bonus points if they post on WWE Current and have 10,000 posts. |
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saintpat
El Dandy
Release the hounds!!!
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Post by saintpat on Sept 23, 2013 19:52:09 GMT -5
"I haven't watched WWE in 14 years, but ..." Bonus points if they post on WWE Current and have 10,000 posts. Many of them post multiple times a week, and all about what's wrong with the product they don't watch. |
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