Mid-Week Report

By Bill

I'm back!

Trivia Question: Immediately before Missy Hyatt became involved with, and eventually married, Eddie Gilbert, she escorted a different wrestler boyfriend to the ring. In fact, her leaving this previous boyfriend for Eddie Gilbert was turned into an angle. Who was he? (answer at the end of the report)
As you probably saw on the main page, DDT Digest tied with another website for "Most Underrated Website" in the 1999 ScoopThis Best of the Net Awards. It's a big deal to all of us here as, especially since there is no official anything on the Internet, acknowledgement from ScoopThis is the best recognition you can get. Although the award is technically chosen solely by the staff of ScoopThis, I know a number of you voted for us in the various People's Choice awards, and I'm sure that didn't hurt our cause. So...thanks. (Click on the icon if you want to see the awards.)

While I'm on the subject, I appreciate all the congratulatory e-mails that a number of you have sent me regarding this. Now, I know from the e-mail I've received over the last few months, and by looking at the webserver stats, that a number of you look forward to and enjoy these mid-week reports. However, this lame-ass "Notes from Bill" that I put out here every week ain't what won us the award.
So, if you want to congratulate someone, congratulate one or more of the writers for DDT Digest. In the case of Wade, Aldo, Jesse and The Cubs Fan, they're putting their lives on hold somewhere between two and five hours every week compiling a pre-show report, watching the show, and sending me results, for no pay whatsoever. And, as we know, sometimes watching WCW TV can be painful. As for Xavier Doom and Big Mike, they're up until midnight on a Sunday night, shelling out $30 (that's $2,000,000 Canadian dollars), covering PPVs, some of which are truly horrendous. Dan, Alex S., The Masked Historian and James B. labor in a quiet obscurity.
So, as much as I appreciate you thanking me, thank them. And don't necessarily wait for DDT Digest to win an award to do it.
On a very related note, our own Xavier Doom's Slayground won (not shared) the award for "Best Amateur Website, Humor". And there is no better compliment than having the guys at ScoopThis say you are a funny pro wrestling writer.
By the way, Xavier will be covering Bash at the Beach for us this weekend.
So, before I left for the Bahamas, I'm waiting in line in a supermarket in West Palm Beach, Florida. I'm glancing at the tabloids in the rack, and one of them has the headline "Steve Austin stole my wife!" with a picture of Stone Cold right next to it. So, I'm thinking that with all the rumors about Austin and Debra, it must be something about Mongo.
Nope, it's an article about Chris Adams, and Austin stealing Adams' wife Jeannie some nine years ago. Nothing like keeping current, huh? It was interesting in that the story was presented as being 100% legitimate. An interesting fact I did pick up from the article is that Chris Adams and Jeannie were already divorced before Jeannie even met Austin.
Interestingly enough, Chris Adams is no longer with Toni and is now with a third wife, a very young one I might add. He trades his wife in for a newer model more often than I trade in my car.
As you probably have heard, the guys at Wrestlemaniacs have now moved over to be part of the wrestling megasite Wrestleline.
A funny thing with that...typing "wrestline" instead of "wrestleline" is a common typing error. See what happens when you go to http://www.wrestline.com/. It seems they set up that domain as well for people who mistype. Not a bad idea, seeing as I mistyped the name and that's how I found out.
Anyway, the reason I'm telling you this story is because of something that happened to me a few months ago. I was at work, and I tried to go to the Compuserve site to get one of their dial-in numbers. I mistyped the URL and instead of putting in "www.compuserve.com", I put in "wwwcompuserve.com". Well, that of course resolves to "www.wwwcompuserve.com", and up comes somebody's freakin' porno site!
That may sound funny at first, but I was at work, and if somebody had walked into my office at that precise moment, I probably would have been fired. Sheesh. Anyway, I can tell you the story now since "www.wwwcompuserve.com" is no longer online, although to make a bizarre story more bizarre, the domain is still/now registered to someone in Iran.
Kudos to the WWF for giving us a red herring on the King of the Ring winner. For those of you who are curious, they had a picture of The Big Show on the King of the Ring box cover, and the text certainly led you to believe he was the winner.
Regarding the results, I have a whole bunch of house show results I need to post. I should get to them this weekend.
Also, Alex S. will be getting the latest stats posted soon. He's been swamped as of late.
I think I've commented on this before, but it seems like it's even more extreme than before. The WCW really missed the boat letting the Giant go because it is incredible how much he and Bobby Duncum, Jr. look alike in the face in additions to their (relative) frames being similar. Perfect opponents for Konnan and Rey Misterio, Jr.
Thanks a lot for all the tagline suggestions for the main page. I will be using a number of them, and there were just too darn many to credit everyone.
And while they are all good, there was one that really captured the essence of what we're all about here: "We don't run with scissors, we run from them". Thanks to Dalton Mayo from The Ringside Seat for that one.
This week's non-wrestling-related note is to any of you eBay surfers looking for an oil painting. I used my (very) limited HTML skills to put an impressionistic painting my Mom owns up for auction. Check it out if you are interested.
There's a new poll on the main page. (Came up with this one myself.)
Trivia Answer: "Hollywood" John Tatum

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By Bill

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