Posted on 04/13/2007 10:15:37 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Have a couple, enjoy Friday night. Maybe some WWF will come on, although it isn’t as tough as it can be around here!
Now, don’t think I watch that stuff. Hulk is the only one I know of.
I didn’t even know you were female until a little while ago. THAT explains Rudy’s appeal no doubt. Us bald guys are just chick magnets.
I noticed that a high proportion of Rudy supporters on FR are women. Is this an important observation? I don't know.
Oh yeah. Big time.
I was on a thread a week or so ago where a freeper posed a question that maybe Rudy was a pedophile or something equally asinine. When I dared to note that FR had jumped the shark, a Rudy hater jumped all over my post (ignoring the ridiculous post) all of which sort of proved my point.
Oh man, you are a baldie? As long as you are not a comb over baldie, your okay.
LOL
When I was a kid, (mid 1960’s)it was Dick the Bruiser and his partner Crusher Kowalski. They claimed to work out by running along the RR tracks with beer kegs on each shoulder (and they looked like they could do it). The way they talked made Hulk Hogan sound like a John Edwards.
Ah the good old days when pro wrestling was real and Walter Cronkite was the man America trusted most.
Oh geesh, Are you telling me Edwards is a girlie man?
Whatever happened to those bruiser type guys?
I remember my Dad talking about Dick the Bruiser, must be because my dad’s name was Dick. Dad wanting to look tough! Not a good name to have these days, unless you want to be known as one!
JUST MAKE UP WHATEVER FACTS YOU WANT
“I remember my Dad talking about Dick the Bruiser”
Good Lord! I am getting old. Your Dad must be a Midwesterner near my age. I don’t think Dick the Bruiser was well known outside this area.
Dick played guard for the Packers until a knee injury forced him to retire. He was about 5’11’ and 290 - a fire plug with a beer barrel chest. He was the sort of guy that the feminists caricature as a Neanderthal. He would have dealt with a feminazi by pinching her butt and saying in his gravelly voice, “Hey Honey! See something you like here?”
I suspect he would have spent a good deal of time in court if he were born 40 years later.
Dad is from Indiana, and Mom from Illinois.
Dick the Bruiser was what we knew as tough.
You are right about the trouble he would be in now.
How funny and interesting.
My hubby wants to know if you remember a Cowboy Bob Ellis who was famous for a certain headlock?
Yeah , that why were are talking about wrestling history. It is interesting, if you care, though.
LOL
“My hubby wants to know if you remember a Cowboy Bob Ellis who was famous for a certain headlock?”
I have a vague recollection, partly because I may be confusing him with Cowboy Jack Lanza (a villain), and partly because he was a bit later than Dick the Bruiser. I seem to recall that he was tall and had curly hair. Was it a scissors headlock?
Does your husband recall Handsome Harley Race, Koko Brazil
or Eduardo Carpentier (i.e, the Flying Frenchman)?
He mentions Yukon “Moose” Cholok. I guess Cowboy Bob Ellis was known for the “flying bulldog” head lock.
All Greek to me, but its funny.
He remembers Koko and Carpentier.
I myself find Handsome Harley pretty interesting. LOL
Your husband has a more accurate long-term memory than I do. It’s coming back to me now. He is right about Cowboy Bob Ellis. He had sort of a rodeo schtick.
I recall Moose Cholack, but the Chicago Blackhawks (at that time) had a defenseman named Moose Vasko who was also a very large, ponderous fellow. After age 50, things kind of blend together.
I wonder if he remembers Reggie Parks, an Aussie body builder who was my idol at age 12. He used to have trucks roll over his abs at the beginning of shows. It convinced me to do situps for most of my life, but I never made it to the “washboard” phase.
Every candidate should hang onto Bolton! State is good, and he would get us out of the UN, and kick the UN out of the USA! .............. FRegards
Not to mention Ted Olson. He’s in the grip of a foreign cabal.
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