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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 30, 2023 16:19:54 GMT -5
Perceptions of time are funny. I've gotten used to how old I'm getting in most aspects of my life, and yet I still think that the CCF is a relatively new community and that I've only been a part of this amazing group of friends for a few years now. The CCF is nine and a half years old. I joined CBR eighteen years ago next month. Holy heck. If you want to feel really old, bear in mind that when 2026 begins, the WWE acronym will have lasted longer than the WWF acronym (WWF from 1979 to 2002, WWE from 2002 onwards). I swear to God, the last time I watched wrestling was on this show: On a B&W tv, too!
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 30, 2023 16:39:01 GMT -5
If you want to feel really old, bear in mind that when 2026 begins, the WWE acronym will have lasted longer than the WWF acronym (WWF from 1979 to 2002, WWE from 2002 onwards). I swear to God, the last time I watched wrestling was on this show: On a B&W tv, too! No Sweet Daddy Siki? So, you were watching the "outlaw," bunch, under the Vachons, instead of the established Rougeau "Les As de La Lutte"? I mostly started out watching the Poffos outlaw ICW, with Macho Man Randy Savage, before he became a national figure (as much due to Slim Jim commercials as the WWF). I probably would have not become a wrestling fan, if it wasn't for the Poffo show coming onto our tv, circa 1981. We only briefly got local wrestling tv show, in the 70s, from Indianapolis, with Dick the Bruiser and it was pretty boring stuff. We only saw their tv when they promoted shows in the area. If not for the Poffo show coming onto local tv and staying, and watching Randy Savage's bizarre promos and brother Leaping Lanny's acrobatics, plus some other great workers, I would have never gotten into it....or not until we got cable and I could see bigger names. Bruiser's stuff was like re-reading the same bland 1950s comic, again and again, while the Poffos were like getting a stack of EC Comics, from an older cousin, and then cable made it like getting to read Nexus, Grendel, Jon Sable, American Flagg and Love & Rockets, while everyone else just reads X-Men and Batman.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 30, 2023 18:25:18 GMT -5
Another thread about wrestling ? If I had hair, I would pull it out...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 30, 2023 18:44:33 GMT -5
I swear to God, the last time I watched wrestling was on this show: No Sweet Daddy Siki? So, you were watching the "outlaw," bunch, under the Vachons, instead of the established Rougeau "Les As de La Lutte"? I mostly started out watching the Poffos outlaw ICW, with Macho Man Randy Savage, before he became a national figure (as much due to Slim Jim commercials as the WWF). A-ha! A connoisseur, I see! Maurice Mad Dog Vachon was indeed a celebrity, and much loved in Quebec for all that he was one of the bad guys in the ring! In later years, having lost a leg in wrestling-unrelated circumstances, he played a pirate on children tv shows. We still miss him. What a character he was! As for Rougeau, he is something of a national hero. When René Lévesque started campaigning for his new Parti Québécois, Rougeau acted as an unofficial bodyguard for Lévesque. Rougeau was not especially politically-minded, but when louts associated with the people in power started pressuring him to steer clear of Lévesque if he didn't want his business to know some unfortunate fate, he started breaking heads! You just don't mess with a wrestler!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 30, 2023 18:45:17 GMT -5
Another thread about wrestling ? If I had hair, I would pull it out... Hey, every other thread tends to turn into a music one...
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 30, 2023 18:45:59 GMT -5
Another thread about wrestling ? If I had hair, I would pull it out... Hey, every other thread tends to turn into a music one... I never noticed that.
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Post by berkley on Dec 30, 2023 19:18:22 GMT -5
If you want to feel really old, bear in mind that when 2026 begins, the WWE acronym will have lasted longer than the WWF acronym (WWF from 1979 to 2002, WWE from 2002 onwards). I swear to God, the last time I watched wrestling was on this show: On a B&W tv, too!
It wasn't the last but Grand Prix Wrestling was the first I remember seeing, and I can remember watching most of the performers in the video, but not all of them. Assuming there were different broadcasts for the French and English-speaking markets, I wonder if some of them appeared only on the French show? I would certainly remember Viviane Vachon if she'd been on the one we got on our channel!
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 30, 2023 20:30:16 GMT -5
I need the There I said it! thread back, so I can rant about automated customer service lines, especially for your internet provider who suffers a data breach. Tells you everything you need to know about your information security and their commitment to their customers. This is so much more efficient than hiring a human being to do the job correctly.
Artificial Intelligence my @$$......Artificial Dumb@$$!
What hath corporations wrought?
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 30, 2023 20:31:50 GMT -5
Another thread about wrestling ? If I had hair, I would pull it out... Wrestling hasn't been the same, since Frank Gotch retired!
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Post by Calidore on Dec 30, 2023 22:54:15 GMT -5
Maurice Mad Dog Vachon was indeed a celebrity, and much loved in Quebec for all that he was one of the bad guys in the ring! In later years, having lost a leg in wrestling-unrelated circumstances, he played a pirate on children tv shows. We still miss him. What a character he was! Vachon contributed to one WWE PPV during a match between Diesel (Kevin Nash) and Shawn Michaels, when Diesel attacked Vachon, who was sitting in the front row, and pulled off his artificial leg to use as a weapon against Michaels. He got great heel heat from the crowd for that.
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Post by berkley on Dec 31, 2023 1:00:09 GMT -5
The Vachons were great villains: I remember as a kid getting very upset whenever they won against someone I liked! I remember my favourites included Carpentier, Andre, and one wrestler I didn't see in the video, "the Great Molumba", or something like that: as the stage name would suggest, I think he was meant to be an African prince, something along those lines. He had a well-defined, muscular build and being a young comics fan I always liked the guys who looked like superheroes. I was also fascinated by Killer Kowalski for some reason. And they even had a wrestler from Newfoundland, Sailor White, though I can't recall if they made mention of that as part of his stage persona. I'll probably remember more favourites later on but those are the ones come to mind right now.
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Post by berkley on Dec 31, 2023 1:05:31 GMT -5
Another thread about wrestling ? If I had hair, I would pull it out... Wrestling hasn't been the same, since Frank Gotch retired! I came across his name recently in reference to an exercise routine known as "the Gotch Bible" - apparently something he used to do when he didn't have access to any training facilities or gear or whatever. Basically it was going through a deck of cards and doing a different exercise for each of the four suits, doing whichever number was on the card, adding one for each of the face cards, plus extra for the two Jokers. You can see several different variations on the idea on youtube.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 4:22:00 GMT -5
Now for something completely different:
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Post by berkley on Dec 31, 2023 4:32:53 GMT -5
Now for something completely different:
I was always much more of a Marvel than a DC fan as a kid but for some reason I'll take Alfred in this one. Maybe it's the moustache? I don't see much else to distinguish one from the other.
Wait a second, I just noticed, the DC charcters have most of the front-row spots and the Marvel ones are way back in the cheap seats so the fix is probably in.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 31, 2023 4:49:37 GMT -5
I think Alfred has a history as a soldier in WW1. Alfred in 3 by KO.
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