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It is hard to edit something written in letters cut from magazines. Especially with how unpopular magazines are.
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So I know Dave and Bryan do their rundown of the observer awards every year but do Bryan and Vinny do Best Of/Worst Of year end shows?
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Jan 2, 2012 19:48
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Borh posted:I don't have much use for PDF's, though I can see why some people would want them, but I wish Meltzer would just hire a guy to spend a couple of hours every week proof-reading the Observer and fixing up the formatting. Hell, get Vinny to do it. It's not a deal-breaker, because ultimately it's the content that matters and that's far and above anything else that's available, but between Dave's quirky writing style and the abstruse formatting, the Observer can be pretty hard to read sometimes. jeffersonlives posted:As crazy as this sounds, he already has one, Scott Williams. If you think Meltzerese is bad now, you should read some ones from before about 2006.
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Jan 3, 2012 15:52
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Dave talking about Sean Waltman taking a dump in Juvi's bag is amazing. He used the phrase "take a dump" about a half dozen times and it was hilarious.
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Jan 3, 2012 17:34
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That whole story was  I think I am going to keep a .txt somewhere with all these anecdotes (like the last one of "that's like comparing Ricky Steamboat to Hulk Hogan!") so I can put them together in a Dave mega-mix later.
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Jan 4, 2012 00:15
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The latest back issue cracked me up with this blurb:quote:Speaking of Cactus Jack, he's opened a side business selling leather biker jackets and vests. For a catalogue send to Cactus Jackets, (Address Redacted since I doubt Mick Foley lives in Georgia anymore!) and he's offering a 10% discount if you write and say you're an Observer reader.
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Jan 4, 2012 03:48
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Karmine posted:Dave talking about Sean Waltman taking a dump in Juvi's bag is amazing. He used the phrase "take a dump" about a half dozen times and it was hilarious.
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Jan 4, 2012 05:49
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Perigryn posted:I was shocked at Dave's discussion of Cena's promo on Raw. "What is he saying? He HAS lady parts?...a vagina? or boobs...." while Bryan is probably trying not to laugh... That was loving hilarious. I love when Meltzer just goes on these weird tangents.
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Jan 4, 2012 06:07
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I enjoyed how casually he mention that Jack Evans was able to physically best another human being in unarmed combat.
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Jan 4, 2012 06:40
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Perigryn posted:I was shocked at Dave's discussion of Cena's promo on Raw. "What is he saying? He HAS lady parts?...a vagina? or boobs...." while Bryan is probably trying not to laugh... Dave explaining to Bryan that Cena was going to prove he's not a pussy or a vagina was the new summit of peak Dave.
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Jan 4, 2012 08:32
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Alastor_the_Stylish posted:I enjoyed how casually he mention that Jack Evans was able to physically best another human being in unarmed combat. He must have spun at him really loving hard. Who says flippy guys are unrealistic?
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Jan 4, 2012 09:47
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I was going to say that having Dave's off the cuff story about attacking a water polo player in the water and discovering they had "Like, super strength in there" was a weak #1 for best of 2011, then I realized what I was typing.
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Jan 4, 2012 14:14
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Arbite posted:I was going to say that having Dave's off the cuff story about attacking a water polo player in the water and discovering they had "Like, super strength in there" was a weak #1 for best of 2011, then I realized what I was typing.
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Jan 4, 2012 21:41
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Borh posted:He must have spun at him really loving hard. Who says flippy guys are unrealistic? More like attacked him from behind in the locker room. So is it funny or sad that Dave is such a 'spergy wrestling fan with no other hobbies? Alvarez is about as bad, but there's an element of tragedy to Dave that's uniquely his.
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Jan 4, 2012 22:52
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:I'm not a huge fan of Todd Martin but his extensive analysis of the lawsuit against Homicide was classic. The Assumption of Risk that Archibald Peck undertook in carrying a Flux Capacitor just slayed me. He could get hit by a car or a meteor with that thing and go back in time to meet George Washington.
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Jan 4, 2012 23:11
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CombineThresher posted:So is it funny or sad that Dave is such a 'spergy wrestling fan with no other hobbies? Alvarez is about as bad, but there's an element of tragedy to Dave that's uniquely his. That's actually pretty far off for Bryan, and I personally see Dave differently. Dave is a workaholic who has the kind of personality where he would throw himself into whatever his career is, regardless of what the career may be. But given, his chosen profession is wrestling and MMA and that consumes him to the point he wanted to watch Smackdown in the ICU while he was there with his sick kid. I find it somewhat charming, to be honest - he's pretty much covering the thing he loves the most in life. Bryan, on the other hand, is as lazy as possible (when it comes to work) and really just wants to do jujitsu nonstop. He doesn't have the optimism for wrestling that Dave has.
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Jan 4, 2012 23:19
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Anyone who says Dave has no other hobbies has never heard him talk about Friends.
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jeffersonlives posted:Anyone who says Dave has no other hobbies has never heard him talk about Friends. Or 90210.
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Jan 4, 2012 23:44
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Or bodybuilding.
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Jan 5, 2012 00:32
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Or roller derby!
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Jan 5, 2012 00:35
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Or Dallas.
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Jan 5, 2012 01:01
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CombineThresher posted:More like attacked him from behind in the locker room. The story I heard at the time made it sound like a very fair fight and Juvi just got his rear end kicked by Jack Evans.
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Jan 5, 2012 01:34
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MassRayPer posted:The story I heard at the time made it sound like a very fair fight and Juvi just got his rear end kicked by Jack Evans. Really? I'd always understood that Jack blindsided Juvi during an argument with Konnan.
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Jan 5, 2012 01:37
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CombineThresher posted:Really? I'd always understood that Jack blindsided Juvi during an argument with Konnan. Jack may have thrown the first punch but I vaguely remember the story being that Jack got in between the two knowing Konnan can't fight anyone at this point and them went to town on Juvi. I may be wrong because the main thing I remember from that incident is "Holy poo poo, JACK EVANS beat the poo poo out of a larger man?" It really goes to show what a dumbass Bryan is about MMA that Todd Martin can make him sound like a complete idiot.
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Jan 5, 2012 22:58
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MassRayPer posted:Jack may have thrown the first punch but I vaguely remember the story being that Jack got in between the two knowing Konnan can't fight anyone at this point and them went to town on Juvi. I may be wrong because the main thing I remember from that incident is "Holy poo poo, JACK EVANS beat the poo poo out of a larger man?" I've heard both. One side of the story is Jack stepped in-between the two, and Juvi took a swing at him. The other story is Jack jumped him while Juvi wasn't looking.
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Jan 5, 2012 23:20
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:I've heard both. One side of the story is Jack stepped in-between the two, and Juvi took a swing at him. The other story is Jack jumped him while Juvi wasn't looking. The latter being Juvi's version of events. I have to think the truth isn't on his side.
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Jan 6, 2012 00:49
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Latest Observer has a great look into the mind of Bischoff.quote:In a conversation I had with Eric Bischoff before Jericho decided to leave, when bringing up guys who should get a shot at moving up and his name came up, Bischoff was decidedly negative on him, saying that in a real fight that his teenage son (who now wrestles in TNA and was a karate student of Ernest Miller) could take Jericho.
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Jan 6, 2012 02:51
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Wait a second I thought Bischoff claims he has never spoken to Meltzer ever!
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Jan 6, 2012 03:26
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LordPants posted:Or Dallas. Dallas Sucks I hope someone else gets this reference
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HulkaMatt posted:Wait a second I thought Bischoff claims he has never spoken to Meltzer ever!  "quote:- these dirtsheet distributors (I have a hard time referring to them as writers)
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:Latest Observer has a great look into the mind of Bischoff. Turns out Vince and Eric had more in common than they could ever know.
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Strenuous Manflurry posted:But given, his chosen profession is wrestling and MMA and that consumes him to the point he wanted to watch Smackdown in the ICU while he was there with his sick kid. I did not get that impression at all, I think he was just making it clear that this was the reason why he wasn't 100% up to date with the service WO members pay for and that circumstances were beyond his control. He thought he may as well try and watch it while he was in the hospital since he's so busy but his son didn't want to watch it so he was a good Dad and let him watch whatever he wanted instead and was just explaining the situation to listeners since it seems some of the subscribers get pretty spurgy about when they get certain things. Sue Denim fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Jan 6, 2012 |
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Jan 6, 2012 11:40
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"So this guy here wants to know, with you both having to stay up until 4 am covering UFC and such, how do you balance work and family life?" Meltzer: "I don't."
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Jan 6, 2012 15:24
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"Gunner Manchild!"
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triplexpac posted:"So this guy here wants to know, with you both having to stay up until 4 am covering UFC and such, how do you balance work and family life?" I was about to write the exact same thing 
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Jan 6, 2012 15:52
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:I really enjoyed his book, "Dirtsheets! Is he just sticking to his guns, or does he really not realise how much money he effectively burned on that Georgia Dome match?
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Gaz-L posted:Is he just sticking to his guns, or does he really not realise how much money he effectively burned on that Georgia Dome match? Sticking to his guns. The thing with the Georgia Dome match was that it was on a Nitro that TNT just opened up several new markets. That Nitro was looked at like a PPV on Monday. Still, YOU DON'T SUDDENLY GIVE AWAY GOLDBERG VS. loving HOGAN.
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UltimoDragonQuest posted:I really enjoyed his book, "Dirtsheets! That kind of anger is especially rich coming from Bischoff, who did more to expose the business by running WCW than the sheets ever did.
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Jan 6, 2012 20:10
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CombineThresher posted:That kind of anger is especially rich coming from Bischoff, who did more to expose the business by running WCW than the sheets ever did. Eric Bischoff is an idiot and a colossal hypocrite hth.
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Lone Rogue posted:Sticking to his guns. The match was Hogan's idea to make himself look like a huge draw in front of Turner execs. Eric was on board with it, but it's not like he had any leverage to convince Hogan to lose a month later on PPV. Instead Eric will go to the grave defending a poorly promoted match that sold 2,000 additional tickets and let them beat Raw for 1 week. 
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