Put on a Happy Face: Lounge LC Thread
Around here Spring will be a little late, but what the hell, I'll start the thread now.
I just can't take the abuse any
I got yours, Bully, but Redeye had me flummoxed. I'm usually pretty good at deciphering his posts. But not this time.
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Yeah, I liked the Rodino Rodan Rodin stuff, but I couldn't follow the pro wrestling. Despite knowing Fritz von Erich as an adult, I was always in the lowest reading group in grade school. I always think I understand Red's stuff, and I'm always wrong. When people ask me my ethnicity, I always say American. Raymond Chandler's opinion of this persists to this day.
Met Moose Cholak a couple of times (after he retired). Moose was a Chicago area, Midwestern wrestler in the 60's. He was a big man. Wrestled at around 400 lbs and was easily 500+ in retirement. He could barely walk.
What did you think about The Iron Claw about the Von Erichs? I liked it.
I honestly know nothing of wrasslin', but I do know what the iron claw was, and found it astonishing. I had a group of friends who would go down to the Coliseum and pay their $2 to watch it, and I'd sometimes go along with them. There would be a gang of them and they'd always root for the villain. It was a lot of well-lubricated fun.
a podunk oklahoma town of eight thousand held the largest indoor crowd inside the middle school gym across the street from my house
once witnesses a couple of Von Erichs, Super Fly Snuka, and Hacksaw Jim wrassle in a ring.
SLC prepping for a record hot summer and Lake shrinkage.
apologies uncle st john for cold pooping on your thread with my future digressions
watched him do something like one of the first two of these
what an athlete
a four minute microcosm of my two primary conical foci as a tweenager in the early 80s
wrasslin' and rush tom sawyer
was always on the sony walkman before every football game
(the music cause youtube hadnt been invented yet)
seems like i've shared the story about jr high dance dates with the sexy daughter of some sort of symbrachydactyly affected family from next town over where every male was genetically missing a finger knuckle connection on every digit but the thumb
our 'dates' consisted of mom driving 30 minutes to drop me off at their place followed by awkward floor sitting watching wrasslin with the rest of her kin, capped off with her dad taking me home after the carnival gawking was complete
shaking his hand goodnight felt like pattycake with an infant
how tactile was this memory just now
My man Shocky probably got tired of living in a grocery cart.
Happy Friday!!!!!! It's nice to see pro wrasslin in this thread 😀 I was a big fan back in the day but haven't paid attention to it in decades. Me and a bunch of buddies went to a venue airing closed circuit Wrestlemania One, the orignal! That was Hulk Hogan and Mr. T vs Roddy Piper and Mr. Wonderful. But of course it had many pre main even bouts. The very first one was King Kong Bundy vs. Special Delivery Jones. Bundy (huge 400+ pounder) pinned SD Jones (athletic 220ish pounder) in about 12 seconds. One buddy who really never watched wrestling before said "now that is believeable".
Coincidentally, I showed two final films last week in class: The Princess Bride and They Live.
Y'all can certainly see the common thread.
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Rowdy Roddy Piper was Portland's adopted son. he first came on the scene in the 70s and 80s on the local wrasslin' circuit, and he's buried in Tigard just southwest of town.
I liked Norman the Lunatic, and the Wild Samoans.
Seeing the Road Warriors for the first time around 1982 was jawdropping. Guys that big that could get that vertical. The pictures in magazines didn’t do them justice.
For a few years there were only a handful of guys they could really work with without noticeably holding back. Definitely rassling’s Great Leap Forward. Probably a bit like Wilt’s first few years.
Said this a million times before, but seeing Dennis Rodman fir the first time in the ‘88 Finals was similar.
It's been a tough year at work (not really). Classes end on Monday, but begin again on August 31st this year.
I had about half my students drop out this year. It has been like this after COVID. That may be it, but I'm at a loss to understand.
Anyway, it means less work for me.
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They've got urgent tuning in and turning on to do.
Girl working at Subway just asked me if WWII was more than twenty years ago.
Tonight, went for dinner with three women from the math department, of which I am an honorary member.
Tomorrow night, it's the widower and widows club dinner. We cheer each other up and talk about our kids. We mostly don't bring up our spouses. That can be a little painful. But it can, sometimes, be good for a laugh.
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I somehow had the idea that, along with Chief Justice Rehnquist, Paul Newman was a notable longtime widower who never remarried or even was known to have dated afterwards, but no, Joanne Woodward turned 96 on 2/27.
Edit: Mel Brooks has been widowed since 2005. Newman is credited with the “ I have steak at home; why go out for hamburger?” line.
Both were married when they met Joanne & Anne Bancroft respectively but that was that; the heart wants what it wants. Inseparable just like John & Yoko, Paul & Linda, Brad & Angie, Dick & Pat, Jack & Barbara, etc
