MoleMan
Team Rocket
KENNY!
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Post by MoleMan on Jan 2, 2007 3:31:57 GMT -5
Honestly. I like using wrestling slang, jokingly, but some people over do it. Such as,Kayfabe,work, shoot, work-shoot, stiff. heel, face, botch, brock, Dusty booking, spotfest, spot monkey....eh...here just look at all the crap here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Wrestling_Slang My point is over use of wrestling slang in a serious tone is annoying and make's you look somewhat moronic. Especially if you over use it in an attempt to look smart. that is all. discuss and such. Perhaps this thread will get me over, or at least give me heel heat. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit: An example of wrestling slang used in a douche bag manner. Dec 29, 2006, 7:54am, munter wrote:Jesus. Where do these threads come from? People just make them to get themselves over. to create a little internet following for themselves. Like, they're enlightening the rest of us. Jesus This guy was serious.
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nostradumbass
Tommy Wiseau
The only man to be booked in TNA and not look like a jackass
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Post by nostradumbass on Jan 2, 2007 3:36:03 GMT -5
I hate when people use the phrase "jump the shark" when talking about wrestling.
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jan 2, 2007 3:40:11 GMT -5
I'm not fond of the phrase "pop the buyrate." As in "If this guy's so good, why can't he pop the buyrate?"
I don't know why, I just find that annoying.
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nostradumbass
Tommy Wiseau
The only man to be booked in TNA and not look like a jackass
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Post by nostradumbass on Jan 2, 2007 3:41:25 GMT -5
I'm not fond of the phrase "pop the buyrate." As in "If this guy's so good, why can't he pop the buyrate?" I don't know why, I just find that annoying. Never heard that term, but it sounds stupid. One man can't make a PPV buyrate high. Just look at D2D.
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Post by Timmy8271 on Jan 2, 2007 3:42:30 GMT -5
This thread can end in nothing but a Dusty Finish. BOOKER MAN!!!
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Post by Big DSR Energy on Jan 2, 2007 3:48:52 GMT -5
I'm not fond of the phrase "pop the buyrate." As in "If this guy's so good, why can't he pop the buyrate?" I don't know why, I just find that annoying. Never heard that term, but it sounds stupid. One man can't make a PPV buyrate high. Just look at D2D. Well, it could also be used in reference to a feud/angle. It's basically another way of talking about ratings/buyrates for a show.
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MoleMan
Team Rocket
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Post by MoleMan on Jan 2, 2007 4:01:59 GMT -5
This thread can end in nothing but a Dusty Finish. BOOKER MAN!!! you see using it non-seriously like you is funny. If said seriously, You'd look like a douche. haha.
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mo
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by mo on Jan 2, 2007 4:02:54 GMT -5
I will no-sell this thread and not put it over and just it hope it ends in a clusterhug and de-pushes everyone in the process
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MoleMan
Team Rocket
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Post by MoleMan on Jan 2, 2007 4:23:18 GMT -5
I like to use the word "job" as a way to detail any form of failure, death, or consequence. I think that's really only appliable if someone is set up to fail. Like putting a lil' kid up against a monster. Simply to watch him lose.
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Post by thesunbeast on Jan 2, 2007 4:54:43 GMT -5
It gets a little annoying after a while, as if everyone knows all of the insides of pro wrestling and all. Especially because of the fact that only like 70% of the terms are available to us. No one knows terms like "Showing Light", "Sending it", "Showing your ass", "Psychic", "Dying", "2:1 Face Shine" or the combinations of status to create certain match structures. Which is why I get a little annoyed when someone uses all all kinds of different terms to try to bash someone's work, when it isn't justified.
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Scott
Dennis Stamp
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Post by Scott on Jan 2, 2007 5:27:56 GMT -5
I remember hearing Flair freak out at people not in the business using these terms. I can understand his point.
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MoleMan
Team Rocket
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Post by MoleMan on Jan 2, 2007 5:32:02 GMT -5
I remember hearing Flair freak out at people not in the business using these terms. I can understand his point. My main beef is with people thinking they're smart for knowing the terms. Knowing doesn't doesn't mean much. Especially these days. All you have to do is read the list I posted from wiki, and BAM! you're an expert in wrestling slang.
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MoleMan
Team Rocket
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Post by MoleMan on Jan 2, 2007 5:32:34 GMT -5
It gets a little annoying after a while, as if everyone knows all of the insides of pro wrestling and all. Especially because of the fact that only like 70% of the terms are available to us. No one knows terms like "Showing Light", "Sending it", "Showing your ass", "Psychic", "Dying", "2:1 Face Shine" or the combinations of status to create certain match structures. Which is why I get a little annoyed when someone uses all all kinds of different terms to try to bash someone's work, when it isn't justified. You sound like a hypocrite.
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Post by Chuckie Finster on Jan 2, 2007 5:53:17 GMT -5
Some terms, people outside wrestling will get. Like "over" and "heat". Most people get it. On a wrestling message board, most the time it's fine. Some people be assholes and use them to sound smart but some people have it just naturually become part of their message board lingo. I can't imagine me on the street in the following scenario.
A man gets hit by a car and is bloodied all over
Me: Yeah 911, this guy got hit but a car, we need an ambulance out here. 911 Operator: How bad is he hurt? Me: He's gushing .95 Muta. 911 Operator:..........
Just chill out.
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MoleMan
Team Rocket
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Post by MoleMan on Jan 2, 2007 5:55:22 GMT -5
Some terms, people outside wrestling will get. Like "over" and "heat". Most people get it. On a wrestling message board, most the time it's fine. Some people be rear canals and use them to sound smart but some people have it just naturually become part of their message board lingo. I can't imagine me on the street in the following scenario. A man gets hit by a car and is bloodied all overMe: Yeah 911, this guy got hit but a car, we need an ambulance out here. 911 Operator: How bad is he hurt? Me: He's gushing .95 Muta. 911 Operator:.......... Just chill out. i've never seen the Muta blade job. Is there a vid. online of it?
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Post by Chuckie Finster on Jan 2, 2007 7:13:38 GMT -5
I'm on dial-up right now so just type in "Great Muta vs. Hirosho Hase" into YouTube. It's from 1992. It happens during the middle of the match, but I'd watch the match up to then first. The whole blade job is a part of a storyline in which Muta bloodied Hase several times beforehand and Hase gets his revenge.
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Brain Of F'n J
Hank Scorpio
Not that cool enough to have one of these....wait.
We Discodians must stick apart.
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Post by Brain Of F'n J on Jan 2, 2007 11:53:32 GMT -5
I only use ones I KNOW can be gotten by non-wrestling fans, like describing myself as a a huge 24 mark. Or, during the last Survivor, some girl leapt from a log to a platform, missed, and hit the edge of the wooden platform on the small of her back; I called it a "bad bump". And I think, once, I made reference to a sports team "visiting the pay window" after they won.
But beyond that ... foricng the wrestling-only slang into normal conversation ... lame. You're impressing nobody.
Jed Shaffer ~And that's a shoot, brother!
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Post by Solid Stryk-Dizzle on Jan 2, 2007 12:00:47 GMT -5
I only use Spot Monkey in wrestling conversations...because the word makes me happy inside.
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MoleMan
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Post by MoleMan on Jan 2, 2007 12:15:09 GMT -5
I only use Spot Monkey in wrestling conversations...because the word makes me happy inside. you're just saying that to get cheap heat. In reality, all you get is a conway pop.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 2, 2007 12:40:41 GMT -5
I agree that it can become over the top sometimes. Then again, there are a few of us who threw the word no-selling around as if we were afraid it would somehow cease to exsist if it wasn't mentioned at least once a day. Ah memories.
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