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My understanding (and this is all pretty much baseless hearsay, of course) isn't that Vince was upset that he wasn't getting a piece of Macho Man's Slim Jim pie, but that Macho Man got the slim jim pie all by himself without needing Vince to do it for him, and evidently didn't credit Vince in any way. If there is one thing that Vince seems to hate, it is not being considered important/a big deal.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I'm sorry, I don't buy that Vince thinks like this until I see an actual Dave quote at the very least. Up until this point I've been under the impression that the Rock wanted to avoid WWE because he wanted to focus on a real movie career, and wasn't interested in doing one-offs between shoots, or remaining deeply associated with wrestling and having that limit his career prospects. Even now, all we can ostensibly look forward to is the Rock hosting Raw, which will surely be a cross-promotion even then. I didn't say anything about kickbacks  I meant that Vince was under the impression that if he asked the Rock do appear for the WWE in any capacity, The Rock should do whatever schedule-juggling was necessary to make it happen.
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I don't know how true this is but, Ventura has said that the way things used to work was that if you got work outside of WWE then Vince got a cut. He claims that Vince got mad when he hired his own agent and got the role in Predator. He sued Vince later on over royalties and won but still comes back every so often for appearances. Savage probably wants nothing to do with wrestling anymore and since everyone else has come back at some point the internet believes there has to be some kind of insane reason why he doesn't thus the Stephanie rumor was born.
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Because he went back to TNA when everybody else was going back to WWE, they canceled a DVD about him a couple years ago when Vince found out they were making it, and he hasn't been inducted into the hall of fame. There's definitely some beef there. Wrestlers even comment on it, but none of them really knows what started it.
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Free Market Gravy posted:I didn't say anything about kickbacks Oh, for some reason I read that as "Vince demanded a cut of whatever money the Rock made."
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Feb 19, 2010 06:27
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LividLiquid posted:Because he went back to TNA when everybody else was going back to WWE, they canceled a DVD about him a couple years ago when Vince found out they were making it, and he hasn't been inducted into the hall of fame. Did they just not tell Vince about the recent 3-disc set, then?
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Feb 19, 2010 06:29
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CombineThresher posted:Did they just not tell Vince about the recent 3-disc set, then? Something changed, sure, but there is/was a beef between Vince and Macho.
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LividLiquid posted:Something changed, sure, but there is/was a beef between Vince and Macho. A beef stick, you might say
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Seemingly the only people who really know what happened are Vince and Savage (and maybe Vince's closest inner circle), and none of them are willing to talk, nor could you necessarily believe what any of them said if they did talk. The Slim Jim explanation seems like a really petty thing, which makes it seem all the more possible with the way Vince is sometimes. There's also a few secondhand stories out there that lend some credence to the Steph story, or some version of it. Then again wrestlers are generally idiots and liars, so who knows what parts of those stories, if any, are true. The real answer when this comes up is that no one knows and pretty much everything is speculation.
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so what happened to the boogeyman? has he been doing anything since his release?
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IndustrialPope posted:so what happened to the boogeyman? has he been doing anything since his release? As a follow-up to that question: Why the HELL is there no Boogeyman smiley?
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Feb 19, 2010 09:11
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Carlton Banks posted:A beef stick, you might say
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LividLiquid posted:This is an awesome. Do slim jims actually have beef in them? Oh Boy Oberto Pepperoni sticks, and this is gross as gently caress, have their first three ingredients listed as "Pork hearts, pork fat, beef fat". I always thought it was hilarious that they said "Pork heart" and not "Pig heart". Its first ingredient is listed as beef, but "the US Department of Agriculture categorizes beef into eight grades of quality. The bottom three—utility, cutter, and canner—are typically used in processed foods and come from older steers with partially ossified vertebrae, tougher tissue, and generally less reason to live. ConAgra wasn't exactly forthcoming on what's inside Slim Jim." http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-09/st_whatsinside But, a wrestling-related question: Now that we've come back to PG WWE material, will kid-friendly products come knocking on the WWE's door for endorsements, like Chef Boyardee did?
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AKA Driver posted:But, a wrestling-related question: Now that we've come back to PG WWE material, will kid-friendly products come knocking on the WWE's door for endorsements, like Chef Boyardee did? God I hope so, that ad campaign was GOLD! EDIT: We could get one now of Jeicho in a suit. "Im the best at what I do, so I demand the best [holds up can of Chef Boyardee Beefaroni]." Probably cut out the part about Gelatinous Tapeworms, though. Captain Misc. fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Feb 19, 2010 |
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LividLiquid posted:This is an awesome. Do slim jims actually have beef in them? Oh Boy Oberto Pepperoni sticks, and this is gross as gently caress, have their first three ingredients listed as "Pork hearts, pork fat, beef fat". I always thought it was hilarious that they said "Pork heart" and not "Pig heart". I'll just say that, when I was a kid, I was a Macho Man fan until I ate a Slim Jim.
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Feb 19, 2010 09:31
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When I was really good around thirteen and stopped climbing out my window to stay out all night for at least a month, I'd get a kitchen full of food. Occasionally, this would include a Costco box of Slim Jims. Believe it or not, when you buy them from a distributor and not from a gas station, they don't even "snap". They're just like any other beef stick. The point of this story is that the ad campaign for the Slim Jims assumed that you'd eat their product after it had been on the shelf for two years.
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IndustrialPope posted:so what happened to the boogeyman? has he been doing anything since his release? He's coming to get you.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Duh.....eating worms and scaring the loving beejesus out of little kids. How about this? 
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LividLiquid posted:When I was really good around thirteen and stopped climbing out my window to stay out all night for at least a month, I'd get a kitchen full of food. Occasionally, this would include a Costco box of Slim Jims. Actually, to school you on some beef stick knowledge, the "snap" refers to the crunch when you bite into the casing. Similar to when you bite into a bratwurst and it snaps.
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Feb 19, 2010 19:06
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KungFu Grip posted:How about this? Nah....looks like one of those cans that you open and the snakes come out like at a little kids birthday party. Fail. ninja edit: Oh duh, "you've opened a real can of worms", right?
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Feb 19, 2010 21:19
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The one ingredient listed on Slim Jims that will always stay with me is "mechanically separated chicken". That's the first and only ingredient I've read that's ever made me cringe.
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CM Junk posted:The one ingredient listed on Slim Jims that will always stay with me is "mechanically separated chicken". That's the first and only ingredient I've read that's ever made me cringe. Especially if you're aware of how it's made. I am. It's horrifying.
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Timby posted:Especially if you're aware of how it's made. Did you go to Bovine University?
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Timby posted:Especially if you're aware of how it's made. Yup.....just googled it.....wish I hadn't. For Christ's sake don't click on the images link.
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AKA Driver posted:But, a wrestling-related question: Now that we've come back to PG WWE material, will kid-friendly products come knocking on the WWE's door for endorsements, like Chef Boyardee did? I loving hope so because the Chef Boyardee commercial where Kane was in a kitchen and did the thing with his arms that he does to make his pyro go off, thus causing ravioli or some poo poo to fly out of four cans and into bowls was the funniest poo poo ever. That was a very inelegant description but still.
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Karmine posted:I loving hope so because the Chef Boyardee commercial where Kane was in a kitchen and did the thing with his arms that he does to make his pyro go off, thus causing ravioli or some poo poo to fly out of four cans and into bowls was the funniest poo poo ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Lnv8N7SFE
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Honeymoon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Lnv8N7SFE 10+ years later, that poo poo is still amazing.
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This one is pretty good too. I miss wrestling being mainstream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j65DpagyhI&feature=related
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Suben posted:Something I've all of a sudden started wondering. Is there a more useless wrestler than Ed Leslie? I'm sure there are probably a bunch in some poo poo indy fed in rural Ohio or wherever but for the sake of discussion, keep it to guys who have worked for the bigger companies (WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA, ROH I guess). You watch your mouth sir.
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Was Norman Smiley over during his peak? I liked him when I was younger....
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BrutusBeefcake posted:You watch your mouth sir. You will be happy to know that someone asked Meltzer this question and he was able to think of good Ed Leslie matches.
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crankdatbatman posted:Was Norman Smiley over during his peak? I liked him when I was younger.... Yes, very, inexplicably, over.
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crankdatbatman posted:Was Norman Smiley over during his peak? I liked him when I was younger.... I think he got decent heat. He was never close to the main event scene in WCW, but he had a good run as a something of a comedy character. He and the Big Wiggle were over with me, at least. 
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crankdatbatman posted:Was Norman Smiley over during his peak? I liked him when I was younger.... I wanted him to die.
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El Generico posted:Yes, very, inexplicably, over. I don't know if I'd say he was very over. People would laugh at the Big Wiggle and sometimes when he screamed, but didnt care about his wrestling or interviews
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Carlton Banks posted:I don't know if I'd say he was very over. People would laugh at the Big Wiggle and sometimes when he screamed, but didnt care about his wrestling or interviews The man would wear full football pads during hardcore matches! He was UNIVERSALLY LOVED!!!
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Magic_Ceiling_Fan posted:This one is pretty good too. I miss wrestling being mainstream. Ah, I remember back in the days when you could show a grown man assaulting a child in front of his parents to sell a soft drink.
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TL posted:The man would wear full football pads during hardcore matches! He was UNIVERSALLY LOVED!!!
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When's the last time Scott Hall has had a good match? I've really been trying to think of the last one as I was thinking....when's the last time Scott Hall has been in ring shape? Well, WWE in 2002, but wait.....when's the last time he's even had a GOOD match?? At least this entire DECADE he's been no more than a drunk that's always getting fired.
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