NEW WORLD ORDER
Posted on 09/10/2002 9:49:47 AM PDT by H8DEMS
It's not like a soap opera on steroids. It is a soap opera on steroids. Scour the wwe website until you find the job listings, and they want writers with soap opera experience to create the story lines.
WWE THURSDAY NIGHT SALAD TOSS!!!
NEW WORLD ORDER
Exactly! That is what these 2 guys, Billy(Bad ass Billy Gunn) and Chuck (Chuck Palumbo) are doing a rip-off of. It isn't going to be a homosexual wedding. They are merely cementing their tag-team partnership for life. :) Of course, this is all meant to be ambiguous. They have been the ambiguously gay duo bit for months now. It's just comedy.
PROBABLY?
You all should lighten up. It's just a TV show, and there's a good chunk of money to be made off of the Howard Stern / Jerry Springer audience. Plus, some of these guys pull off some very athletic stunts in between all of the sexual garbage. And some of the Rock's interviews are priceless, especially the ones in which he cracks himself up.
Well, not to mention body-obsessed guys shaving their chests, pumping up, and appearing in public half-nekkid...some of them made or make a career out if that little innuendo, from the latter-day Gorgeous George to Dustin Rhodes ("Golddust") these days. What I think is funny is that these two particular guys - "Billy and Chuck," that is - strike me as among the lesser-likely to be able to carry it off credibly, which is probably why they were picked to do so in the first place.
It pains me to admit this as a long-time rasslin' fan, but I am beginning to suspect that there are some minor - very minor, mind you - aspects of this grand entertainment that may be just a little teensy bit contrived. I hope that isn't shocking anyone. I could, of course, be wrong - perhaps three-hundred-pound bodybuilders can pound on one another with all their might for a quarter-hour at a time and not draw blood - but just maybe there's a little suspension of disbelief necessary to the enjoyment of this sort of entertainment. You could say the same thing about opera.
Real homosexuality among wrestlers - and if this is the real thing I'll kiss Rikishi's signal characteristics in Macy's window at high noon - real homosexuality turns out to be as touchy a subject as it is among other professional athletes. They do share locker rooms and showers (the private ones are only for the TV segments) and close, personal physical proximity for long periods of time. Anyone wishing to find out how a real professional rassler feels on the topic, and others, should check out one of Mick Foley's recent books - great reads, and you find out one of the dirty little secrets of the network "expose" on the WWF along the way. Not that the latter will surprise anyone on FR. (Mick seems pretty conservative, maybe even libertarian, to me, BTW...)
"Something" will happen that will prevent the wedding from taking place. Wrasslin is nothing if not predictable.
A local radio talk host was discussing this this morning. He observed that the gay groups are happy when they really should be outraged --> this is all about that 'redneck' audience sitting on the couch screaming 'kill that faggot!' and 'bash that wussy homo!' He thinks it was a brilliant move on the producer's part and will appeal to that audience.
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