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Mid-Week Report

By Bill

Trivia Question: Big Mama was the one-time valet and real-life wife of who? (answer at the end of the report)
A kick-ass mailbag this week:
- DDT Digest legend Creed writes:
  Here's my theory, just for grins 'n giggles:
  Sure, we all know it's Rick Steiner, a bulky somewhat-short stiff-working brawler, under all the black and white get-up. Then I thought, if this was a good mystery, it wouldn't be the most obvious candidate. So who then, would it be?
  Stiff, somewhat short, bulky brawler - hey, it's Tank Abbott!! :j
- Joe Sr., Impeached former President of the Rufus R Freight Train Jones Fan Club, writes:
  How can you resist laying this aside for your first-born son-William La Parka, Jr? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=538365944
- Mike E. writes:
  Long time reader, first time emailer. I found out why Hacksaw Jim Duggan really quit Team Canada:
  http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/news/recent/react.shtml
  I had a couple of classes from Prof. Jim Duggan (he never went by James in class) in law school. My friends and I always called him Hacksaw, thinking we were pretty clever. Duggan let us know he was well aware of his namesake in wrestling. In fact, he had a couple of Hacksaw Jim Duggan action figures in his office. I guess the sword of justice is a 2x4, at least in New Hampshire.
  I recommend you read the entire article. It's really funny, given the context.
- Jeff L. writes:
  Last night I was watching a VH1 program about KISS. Yes, I was watching a show about KISS.
  Eventually they get around to interviewing Dale Torborg. He kind of wavered between being fairly cool and lucid, and then rambling about standing up for KISS and being the one they send for when there is a problem.
  Later on, when I was checking my email, I did a search for Dale Torborg on Yahoo. Why, you may ask? I don't know.
  This is where it gets scary and conspiratorial. The very first link that Yahoo listed was the official site of the XFL team known as the Demons. Strange, huh?
  This sort of thing cannot be good for our beloved wrestling. By, "this sort of thing," I mean Dale Torborg.
- Jeff L. later wrote:
  Thought you might like to see the two Christmas tree ornaments my mother-in-law gave me this year.
  If you can't tell from the crappy picture and the grossly exaggerated muscles, they are Kevin Nash and "Hollywood" Hogan (complete with black beard make-up effect).
  I put them on my tree as a joke, and then the strangest thing happened.
  My Christmas Tree moved my couch out of the living room and inserted itself as the Number One furnishing. It then went on to dictate the arrangement of all the other furnishings in the room.
  Those that didn't fall in line (my favorite chair, for instance) were left out on the lawn for the house down the street (which has a lot more money) to pick up.
  Strange, huh?
Three weeks to plan Nitro, and the best you can book is a Last Man Standing match that a team wins, and there's no ten-count to end it? Smoking crack, indeed.
With all the hullabaloo about the sale of WCW, it seems we've all missed the most bizarre marginally-wrestling-related news item of the last few weeks: Click here
It seems that WCW has finally given up on the nWo. The URL for the official nWo website is now mapped directly to the official WCW website. For the longest time, an nWo website was still out there.
For those of you having trouble making your kids and/or co-workers understand that time is money, have them click here. (Thanks for Matt R. for that link.)
Devin from Clover, SC, sends in an interesting pro wrestling link: http://www.gadfly.org/1999-09/wrestling.asp
Regarding the sale of WCW to a group led by Eric Bischoff, everyone on the Net has been weighing in with their opinion. As for me, I really don't care, as long as the programming improves. But, Big Mike sends in the best comment of all, from the Pro Wrestling Torch:
The identity of the Masked Straightjacketed Mystery Opponent was not revealed during Wednesday's episode of WCW Thunder, leaving open the possibility that somebody might book himself into the main event of Sunday's pay-per-view at the last minute and win the WCW World Title, brother.
Non-Wrestling-Related Comment of the Week: So, I'm going through some old high school stuff last night, and I find some old prom photos. This is a weird story to tell you, but on (senior) prom night, my date got REALLY, REALLY drunk. So drunk, that she propositioned me AND my buddy. And, to top it all off, through a weird variety of circumstances, I have the incident recorded on tape. Click here.
And, I've also got my response. Click here.
Trivia Answer: Jimmy Valiant

Mid-Week Report

By Bill

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