PILLS! PILLS! PILLS!

Any other wrestler car stories?

Anybody else remember this as well as I do?

Wow, it took 4.5 years, but 4EVERDELAYED found a thread worth commenting in. You both have the same join date. What gives?

Yeah-uh!

What? Yes, both the Rock N' Rolls and the Fantastics were getting work in WCW at that time.

I think that making a brand new thread would have been much more annoying.

You knew nothing, but who did at the time. I was a huge Austin mark, incidentally, going back to his TV Title days in WCW. I was angered that he was gone from late 94 until mid 95 in WCW, without knowing what was going on with him, physically. Even as a not-a-smark-yet fan of Hacksaw Jim Duggan, I fucking hated that he dropped the belt in a few seconds and never recovered. He was way more interesting to me than the washed up ex-WWF talents that were brought in at the time. When he showed up in late '95 I sorta freaked that it was him, and hated that he was repackaged in the same vein that many former stars were at the time. I knew who he was, and no name would ever change that. I didn't think that the Ringmaster name was so much stupid or over the top, so much as I did think that it was a name that was not comfortable with the performer, and the kind of thing that would not last (and, fuck- Vince actually referred to him as Steve Austin a several weeks later at the Royal Rumble). I actually called it. Two months later the company went back to the Steve Austin name, albeit with a nickname that I was unsure of. And I could not have been any more wrong. The Stone Cold character deserves much credit for pulling the WWF out of the muck. Partial credit should be handed to DX, The Rock, The Undertaker, Ken Shamrock and Mick Foley, but, overall, I am very appreciative that Austin caught on the way that he did. I have a feeling that, had WCW won the war, we just might appreciate things less than they are now.

I wish that I could meet Porter in person so that I could put him on ignore in real life. Just like I did here before he retired. But if he retired from real life then that would be cool too.

Hitler Hornets would have had a good ring to it back in the nineties.

This will be the sleeper pick of the draft. Expertly adept but oft overlooked, mostly because his fingers have been dug into other genres nowadays. I wish this draft had more rounds. I feel like I'm just getting started. I guess I am, though.

Thread over.

I was considering Saturn, as he is AWOL, but chances are that if the circumstances surrounding his disappearance are cause for his demise, then you won't be getting any points for the 2009 contest. Or is it just a Radicalz thing?

.GIF time!

Dynamite's still alive. Better make it Davey Boy and Owen. Freudian slip.

The quote itself is a link. Police are being hush on the details.

I think that Biggie is overrated. I still like him, but really- this greatest rapper of all time shit has got to go. He recorded one solid album and a follow-up that was completely padded with filler before he was pumped full of lead. I'll give him credit for his accomplishments within the industry, but he's easily a far cry from icons such as KRS-One, Rakim and even Tupac (and I'm just naming the least disputable artists that I can think of off the top of my head). One of the top-selling rappers? Sure. But I don't consider him to be the best by any margin. I'll probably cry when I watch it, though.

I remember being semi-excited when he first showed up in WCW as Parker's bodyguard. That didn't last very long, though. I was really into him for a little while when he first returned to the WWF in '01. Probably because I never thought that I would see him in that company again. Wasn't he the reigning WCW Hardcore Champion when he jumped back to the Federation?

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Rikishi was extremely over at the time, though. More so than anybody that you just mentioned.

...I don't get it. As in Signature Pharmacy Scandal...?

You just reminded me of the time that I decided that I didn't like having light hairs on my forehead, and, thus, decided to shave said forehead, without the aide of a mirror, and ended up looking like Peter Gabriel in the process. Insult to injury was apportioned as, shortly thereafter, an episode of Scooby Doo Junior or whatever the fuck aired that featured one of the pivotal characters losing their hair. I have no memory of anybody ever noticing, in spite of how obvious it should have been. Not even in P.E. class.

I would act out scenes in Ghostbusters while I watched it. I would also insist on renting it at the video store even though we already had a copy at home.

Pretty much. Though, Paul Heyman, of all the people in the universe, couldn't even make Lashley seem interesting when he was in OVW, so who knows...

I really liked wearing biker shorts. And tucking my t-shirt into my biker shorts. This is really horrible. I think I'm going to a place I should never think about... like my death...

Consequences, Simon.