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Dreamscape · #1 05-20-2011, 06:04 PM

Because...we need it now that the great "Macho Man" Randy Savage has passed on.

One of the best.

Freddy_Ballgame · #2 05-20-2011, 11:39 PM

OHHH YEEEAAAAHHHHH! Isn't this the thread Rap started up that was clipped awhile back?
RIP, Macho Man...

Wahoo · #3 05-21-2011, 01:11 AM

Good call Dream. Totally overshadowed by Hogan. As a kid I always gravitated towards Hogan but the Macho Man was awesome! Hope he dropping top rope elbows in heaven.

luvdembravos · #4 05-21-2011, 06:00 AM

Coincidentally, there's a horse named Mucho Macho Man running in today's Preakness...winner?

alaskabravesfan · #5 05-21-2011, 07:49 AM

Snap into a Slim Jim!

Chris_Moderato · #6 05-21-2011, 11:23 AM

When I was a kid and still into professional wrestling, the Macho Man was far and away my favorite wrestler. He often made no sense in his interviews and ran around like a madman in his matches- the perfect role model for a young man entering adolescence.

He was probably as 'roided out as the rest of them, but I always appreciated the fact that in his later years he avoided two of the most common outcomes for professional wrestlers- he neither wrestled well beyond his usefulness, having more or less retired into private life a decade ago, nor did he become a born-again Christian. Unfortunately, he didn't avoid the third most common outcome, dying "young".

RIP Macho Man.

Freddy_Ballgame · #7 05-24-2011, 10:20 PM

I was a big Ric Flair guy. He always had me laughing out loud at his over-the-top schtick. "Ya wanna be the man? Ya gotta beat the man....WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
It's pretty obvious he never got into steroids. He'll probably die in the ring. He'll just do that patented two steps into the full-face plant and never get back up.
NOW we go to school!

Chris_Moderato · #8 05-24-2011, 10:43 PM

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He'll probably die in the ring. He'll just do that patented two steps into the full-face plant and never get back up.
NOW we go to school!

That particular move is one of my favorite moves in professional wrestling. He sells it well.

Wahoo · #9 05-26-2011, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris_Moderato

That particular move is one of my favorite moves in professional wrestling. He sells it well.

That and his turnbuckle flip were golden.

Freddy_Ballgame · #10 05-27-2011, 02:58 AM

Flair in his prime, strutting around the ring, searching for the right spot to scream, "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" still cracks me up. Somehow, The Golden-Aged Nature Boy just ain't the same....

The Rap · #11 06-10-2011, 02:34 PM

My dad was into this stuff and I couldn't even convince him how unreal it was. This goes back to the days of Antonio Rocca, Bruno Sammartino and Haystacks Calhoun. The best fights were between the Bastein Brothers and the Grahams who always got help from Johnny Valentine.

I was in Madison Square Garden the night Hulk Hogan took the crown for the first time by beating the hell out of The Sheik. It was scary not because of the wrestlers but because of the fans as the building was shaking.

FrankEC · #12 10-06-2011, 08:59 AM

RIP Steve Jobs.

Chris_Moderato · #13 10-06-2011, 05:24 PM

Does it make me a bad person that I find all the mourning for Steve Jobs a little over the top? I mean, it's one thing to recognize his passing (as FrankEC has done) and the impact he had on technology. But seriously...he was a businessman and a salesman. You gave him your money, lots of it. No need to go overboard eulogizing him all over the news and Facebook.

It's a testimony to Apple's success in fostering brand loyalty that there is such an outpouring of responses to this man's death.

End rant. Thank your for your indulgence.

Agent-X- · #14 10-06-2011, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris_Moderato

Does it make me a bad person that I find all the mourning for Steve Jobs a little over the top? I mean, it's one thing to recognize his passing (as FrankEC has done) and the impact he had on technology. But seriously...he was a businessman and a salesman. You gave him your money, lots of it. No need to go overboard eulogizing him all over the news and Facebook.

It's a testimony to Apple's success in fostering brand loyalty that there is such an outpouring of responses to this man's death.

End rant. Thank your for your indulgence.

Yes, it does, but not for the reasons you may have considered. Jobs was much more than a businessman or salesman. He is owed much more credit for the impact his thinking has had on the world. He pioneered personal computing, gave PCs a visual interface anyone could use, ushered in computer animated movies, revolutionized portable music, and now tablet computing... When Jobs returned to Apple, they were an also-ran next to Microsoft. Today Apple is the most profitable company in the world.

I don't particularly like the man, but this is a little like the passing of a modern day Edison.

Hobbes · #15 10-06-2011, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Agent-X-

He pioneered personal computing, gave PCs a visual interface anyone could use, ushered in computer animated movies, revolutionized portable music, and now tablet computing... When Jobs returned to Apple, they were an also-ran next to Microsoft. Today Apple is the most profitable company in the world.

I don't particularly like the man, but this is a little like the passing of a modern day Edison.

Aside from his influence on personal computing, I'd say he refined and popularized those other things rather than pioneered them. He was a shrewd businessman and a phenomenal marketer, but it's a stretch compare him to Edison, IMO.