TheBostonStrangler

Like a Latino would ever commit a crime! *looks around with shifty eyes*

Ced, on the bright side, you can claim yourself as a minority on job applications, census data, etc. and get awesome minority discounts

I like this n00b. He actually cares about showing. That's more than can be said for a lot of people, including me during my career. Good man, Lord David......if that IS your real name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *cues dramatic music*

I always thought you WERE your Mexican equivalant, Mr. Ordonez. I'd like the following things: - A rusted 1968 Volkswagon Beetle from Mexico City so I can practice my no-selling - The 8th nicest brick from an Aztec pyramid - A turquoise statue of Chris Raynor dressed up in a mariachi outfit - Mexico's only book (it's a Spanish version of Green Eggs and Ham) Thank you.

Damn, I was a couple hours late on the old skool SWF love. But I feel like participating anyways, so here we go: - Remember Jeremy Miller? Or Snow Demon? Or Vanilla Milla? How the FUCK did MVS ever take over this thing? - Jeremy Miller was part of the greatest stable of all-time, the Alley. I'd like to point out that however bad the Alley was (and let's face it, Iceman and Jace and the others were horrendous), it produced me and Mike Van Siclen. That is why the Alley pwns you all. - Random people of varying talents: K-Os, Tiger Manix, SoS, Venom, Chris Storm, Shinji, and Jack the Ripper. That is all.

He'd also have to be worshipped as a God by Massachusetts, and that's just not the case.

I'd like to chime in real quick: FUCK ENGLAND That is all.

Yeah, I'm wondering where it is too. It's a nice staple of my Sunday night. Damn you for not providing me free entertainment! I enjoyed it thoroughly, although there were a couple weak sketches (notably the jazz singer one). They should have done the Manning/McNabb one earlier in the night too. Overall, I enjoyed the show a lot.

I'd have to agree, this is completely overblown. I respect Storm, and he's a good man for telling the guys what to expect and not to take too much crap. But when you're the new guy, you're gonna put up with some jokes. Carrying luggage, getting drinks, picking up tabs, that type of thing. Overall, it's not a big deal, and it's the kind of tradition that should continue. Now, when it turns into things like JBL's famous shower incident, or Holly taking people out in the ring, then we have issues. But hazing, in the form that was described here, isn't a problem and shouldn't be an issue. Storm needs to loosen up a little, JBL needs to make sure his punishments remain lighthearted, and Holly just needs to shut up and stop causing problems everywhere he goes.

Jeff 'Unover' Jarrett is a piece of crap, and so is that goddamn Diva Search. I can't believe we're going to sit through that AGAIN!

I thought it was a solid but unspectacular skit. There are far worse things they could have done with that time. Overall, I really enjoyed the show. Definitely one of the better ones I've seen this season. And no insulting Tom Brady. He's one of my personal gods. Overall, I can see him being pretty good at it. He's got charisma, knows how to depricate himself, and doesn't take things all that seriously when there's a mic in front of him. He'll definitely be a better host than Roddick was.

You damn right.

No. It's a funny version of Becker.

Here's a handy five-step guide to cheering yourself up: 1) Put a smile on your face. Example: --------> ------------> ---------------> 2) Have a yummy snack Example: 3) Do one of your favorite activities Example: 4) Drink yourself stupid Example: 5) Bust some heads Example: And now you're ready to be HAPPY again!

Strangler = the king of the HOLT report, despite the fact that I'm never in it and I'm not actually the king. However, if you will refer to my signature, you will notice that I am indeed the man. That's right. ...you know you're hitting new lows when you look at something you're about to post and think "God, this is a waste of the internet's time"

Pffft....Toxxic sucks. So do you, Jake.

House is godly. House himself is one of the best TV characters I can remember, the medical dramas are well put together (although a little formulaic), and the subplots with the other doctors, staff, and administrator (damn you, Chi McBride) are pure gold. Watch this show. It's like crack.

*reads between the lines* *has epileptic seizure*

For Patrick Hannon: Contact Hitting: 6 Power Hitting: 8 Strike Zone Judgment: 4 Defense: 2

*pins everyone, becomes triple champ, leaves*

Someone should get the IGNJL/IGNML promo pages from way back. There's so much goddamn unintentional comedy on those things that it's unbelieveable.

You aren't getting me a beer. Get on that, lawyer boy.

How about Mysterio? Giving Rey a one-month title run where he somehow beats JBL would be amazing, and Mysterio deserves a chance at the main event. EVERYONE in the arena would get behind it, and Mysterio getting a main event push would appeal to the Latino demographic that watches SD. And it would be a nice way to prove to the cruisers that there's hope for them.

Why did you choose that name for your character? I was screwing around in No Mercy on my N64 one day, just making up CAW's because I was bored. I needed a new name for a character. When I thought, I remembered seeing a news report the night before. It had been the 50th anniversary of the REAL Boston Strangler being caught. Being from Boston myself (and being quite proud of it), I thought it sounded liked a pretty badass name for a wrestler, so I used it. Eventually when I signed up for this place, I just used the name (and a lot of the moves) that the CAW had for the character. Why do they look the way they do? He's just a generic somewhat grizzled big man. Looks a bit like the Undertaker with a fuller beard. I remember that when I signed up, most characters were about 22-24, so I thought I'd go older, and Strangler was about 30 when he debuted. He had the scars from his long, thoroughly useless backstory. I added all of that just in case I needed a random storyline sometime. I was happy knowing that I had something in my back pocket just in case, so I had to add some physical reminders of that past, just in case. The scars and tattoos worked just fine. Overall, Strangler was a fairly generic-looking big man, but it worked just fine. Why is their character the way it is, and is this different from how you originally envisaged them? Originally, I had planned to use Strangler as a Kane-esque figure. He wouldn't cut promos, he'd just get mad and beat on people. I was not a really original thinker, and this was even more true at the beginning of my run. During the JL run, Strangler started to show a little bit of personality. He joined the Clan for a bit and had his first real angle where he turned on the overbearing leader of the stable, which worked. It was my first face run, and it was fairly forced. I was the badass, determined face who just wanted to whoop some heel ass instead of face ass for a change. It wasn't a great run, and I screwed it up even more by debuting in the WF as a heel and immediately re-joining the Clan, despite the fact that I had turned on it three months ago and destroyed it. On the plus side, I think I might be the only two-time member of the Clan, which is cool. In the WF, Strangler was just a callous heel for a while, but the Erek Taylor feud made him into an actual person. He became desperate and starting breaking down mentally. He reacted to the person rather than simply being a heel who beat on people because he was mad. I liked the whole way I left the fed for a while. After beating Erek, Strangler got busted on steroid possession and got turned in by Chris Wilson, who was my stable leader and 'best friend'. It justified Strangler's paranoia and insanity, and set him up as a blank slate for the comeback I knew was coming. The second run in the SWF was completely different. I had been a heel for 90% of the run I had in the fed up until that point, and I was identified with it. However, I just sucked at writing the heel part for my character. I wanted to be the guy who was getting the big cheers, who got the crowd behind him. It might not have fir the character all that well, but it fit my writing style better, so that won out. I came back a little early in a last-second fill-in as King's tag team partner against Neilsen and his girlfriend. I turned on King, costing him the match. After that, I went after Flesher, who was the leader of the M7. Strangler wanted closure on that betrayal, regardless of who he got it against, and Flesher was the closest thing there was to Wilson. I think we had a solid but completely unspectacular feud, and then I randomly ended up with the title when Thoth beat Flesher, and I got a title shot against him and won (via no-show, I think). I had a slow run with it, setting up the tourney (which ended up setting up a very good Flesher vs. Judge main event at Genesis IV), but I didn't make it to the ME, since Flesher JUST beat me in an "I Quit" match. I'm still pissed that Edwin didn't call that one in my favor. King, I'll never forgive you for taking a vacation that week of all weeks. Still, Strangler was established as a strong face, which was nice. He finally had a new finisher, the Boston Massacre, to replace the Last Breath, which was an incredibly stupid finisher for a giant. A reverse DDT drop is a cool movev, but if you can toss people around, it's a crap move. The final feud with Erek was the feud I always wanted to do. We were originally gonna turn TBS heel again and have Erek be the face again, but it seemed like nothing had changed. So we did the opposite and decided to try and make TBS the face in the feud, despite the fact that he had absolutely no reason to be the face. He DID retire Erek Taylor, and I WAS the reason he retired. Still, we decided to make it work somehow. It was hard to build, since I was rapidly losing interest in the fed, but we did a pretty solid feud, if not quite the equal of our first feud. But in the end, Strangler went out as a crowd favorite. He was a face who controlled his emotions and fought back against adversity. He started as a cold, calculating heel. I never figured TBS would end up the way he did, but it was a lot of fun. If there was one thing you would want your character remembered for, what would it be? There are three things I'd like to be remembered for, with #3 the biggest of them: 1) My feud with Erek. It was the way feuds should be done. We worked out a rough outline and then alternated promos. We never really knew what would arise from it, but the other person would respond to it and develop it a little more. It was unpredictable, it was unscripted, and it was fun. We both wrote for all the matches, and it really made it fun. Work with someone you trust, but not someone you know. Then you'll get some good results, and you'll see your character from someone else's perspective, not a regurgitation of your own. 2) Booking both feds at the same time. I was the head booker of the JL while booking and marking the WF. The WF thing scared me, since by my calculations, I was the first person in about three years who had the book in the WF without having been IGNWF/SWF Champion. Thankfully, King and Mark were there to help, and they were awesome. It was a ton of work doing all that marking, but it was fun. I wasn't a particularly great booker (I had a fetish for stupid gimmick matches that only IL seemed to like), but I paid attention and generally had sensical matches, if not stips. 3) Those two things were great, but the thing I'd really like to be remembered for is sticking with one character the entire time. No one seems to do that anymore, and it's a shame. I'm proud of the way that I wrote Strangler in different directions and made him into someone who was a complete opposite of the original. Too often you see people come up with a great character, use the material for a few months, then let it go instead of finding something new with it. It's a real shame when that happens. I honestly think it's the reason the fed has gone downhill. Edwin, King, Thugg, and Mark are generally regarded as four of the greatest in this fed, and they all stuck with their characters and made them evolve. Mark said as much in his piece that he evolved the character. Sure, sometimes it didn't work, but they took chances. Taking chances is what creates great writing, and it doesn't seem to happen too often anymore. So now that my soapbox is thoroughly worn out, I'd like to reiterate: Strangler debuted in June 2001 and didn't retire for good until December 2003 (with the occasional post-retirement gimmick match for good measure). In that time, he changed a lot, but it made the experience worth it. People need to do this more.

Poor Muzzums. I'll miss ya, big guy.