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The app keeps crashing when I search through PPVs. Also, I don't see the 2014 Royal Rumble or last night's Elimination Chamber on there. Boo.

Just signed up w/ no problems. T-minus 8 minutes until it's live......

I liked it too. Ross seemed to do a much better job of asking specific questions instead of doing the usual "Talk about (insert name of wrestler)" or "What makes a good promo?" type of generalities that most people interviewing wrestlers stick to.

Kamala took his time because there's no way he can see anything through that mask and he didn't have Kim-Chee to guide him.

I'm guessing ponzi scheme or government bailout. Member? No. But I'm sure they had plenty of paid staff.

Always good to have another Packers fan on the board.

Definitely. Serving in military is a very noble profession. Good call.

Absolutely not. I watch in all the ways you mentioned, and probably get the most enjoyment out of wrestling when I just sit down and watch and get sucked into a match/promo/angle or whatever. I think it's hard for some people to get sucked into the drama of a match that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it still happens for me (thankfully). If I find myself watching with an overly analytical eye (I say "overly" because -- like the whole suspension of disbelief argument -- we all watch with an analytical eye in one way or another, even if we don't admit it or realize it) too often I end up taking a break from wrestling. Because really, it's professional wrestling. If I analyze it too much, I realize how absurd it is and wonder why I bother watching so much of it.

He carried around scissors and cut people's hair, so I think he counts as an actual barber. Not sure if his assless and tattered tights would have been good or bad for his barbershop business. Suppose it depends on where his shop was located.

The Undertaker has achieved the most popularity using a gimmick that is an actual real-life profession. There probably aren't many real Undertakers who dress in a sleeveless back outfit with a purple tie when they go undertaking for the day, but the gimmick is still based on an actual career path so it counts. Who comes in second? The Big Boss Man? Do we count Diesel as an actual truck driver? Or did he just use trucking imagery to build his character? I'm kind of drawing a blank when I try to think of other workers who have had success using gimmicks based on an actual job. There have been plenty of failures -- repo men, teachers, baseball players, lumberjacks, ship captains, etc.

Everyone grab a pitchfork on your way out the door. I've already loaded the torches in the back of the truck. Let's roll.

No offense, Parv, but if you showed those slides on the first day of a class I was in, I wouldn't come back.

Oh definitely. That tiny, tiny minuscule fraction has its group headquarters on this board! (And that's part of what makes this place so great)

A tiny, tiny minuscule fraction of people who watch wrestling watch it the way you watched that match (and there's nothing wrong with watching wrestling in the manner you described). And I still say you suspended disbelief on some level based on your description. Suspending disbelief doesn't mean you think any element of wrestling is "real."

I definitely suspend disbelief on some level when watching wrestling. I think we all do, even if we refuse to admit it or don't recognize that we're doing it.

Damn, those Bryan shirts are awful.

I interviewed Nord the Barbarian's kid at the high school state wrestling tournament once. I wanted to ask him if he ever thought about stomping around the mat and yelling "huss! huss!" to intimidate his opponents, but I held back.

I need to move to the south so I can observe these chicks in packs at wrestling shows

I went to RAW a year ago and there were a few MILFs there with their kids, I guess.

Someone who wants to get laid on a regular basis

Everyone knows I like 80s and 90s wrestling but they have no idea about all the binders of DVDs and in-depth wrestling discussions on the interwebs. How do you even explain something like that? I'm the guy who references Randy Savage's elbow drop or Hulk Hogan slamming Andre in making an analogy in a normal conversation and people think it's kinda neat and laugh about me remembering things from back when wrestling was "cool." They have no idea how into this shit I really am. A good buddy moved in with me for about 10 months a while back. He hates wrestling and mocks me for liking it. By the time he moved out, he still hated wrestling, but he told me that he oddly respected me more when he saw just how much I enjoyed wrestling and how much time I put into the hobby.

An absolutely outstanding Slaughter promo. Firing an automatic weapon into the air makes you squirm a little bit. Then when he points it at the camera, you're like "HO-LEE SHIT!" Just outstanding.

I think we need to stop calling ourself a "message board" and start calling ourselves a Thinktank. Thinktank makes us sound like the Cato institute or Greenpeace. We're more like a wrestling universe.