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From: dkempste@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David N Kempster)
Subject: Re: Flair leaves next Monday
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:01:35 GMT


In article <C130uF.L3L@uceng.uc.edu> sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide) writes:
>
>On Monday Night RAAAWWWW they as well as signed Flair WWF death warrant.
>It was Flair versus El Stupididor when Mr. Perfect came out.  The battled
>all around, out of sight, through the commercial break, and then back out
>again.  They final separated them and Flair challenged Perfect to a Loser
>Leaves Town match (not his words, but that's what it was).  They then
>had Perfect come out and accept.  They all acted like they couldn't believe
>they would put their careers on the line (like this type of match has never
>taken place before).  So I guess we all know who loses next week.
>
"Next Week's" Monday Night Raw was taped after the end of the broadcast this 
past Monday. As expected Flair loses. Even though this has already been taped 
they will air the show next week after the Royal Rumble (still claiming that it
is live no doubt.) So if there were any true Marks at the taping they may 
wonder why Flair was allowed to participate in the R.R. given that he already 
lost the loser leaves WWF match.

                                David Kempster
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From: robert@askinc.ask.COM (Robert McMullen)
Subject: Re:  WWF Rantings
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:44:37 GMT

In article <C16s2J.MJ1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, Bob Rusbasan writes:
 >While WCW and Watts aren't perfect, I think there's been too much
 >WCW-bashing and WWF-praising on the net when you consider the quality

When this happens, Bob, use your "N" and/or "K" keys, at least if you're
using the "rn" program.  That's how I avoid rampant WWhiFf-praising 
(whiffing?).

Actually, folks, it seems to go in spurts (doesn't everything?  ;-P  ).
And I think it has to do with where Ric Flair is.  When Flair was still
in WCW, not nearly as many people posted favorable things about the
WWhiFf (admittedly, this also had to do with the high-profile presence
of Messrs. Bollea and Hellwig...).  If this is the case, we don't have
to wait long for things to change...

And...

In article <C15xp2.Cv8@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>, Herb Kunze writes:
>  Outside of Ric Flair (heads above the rest), Shawn Michaels and Bret
>  Hart, who else in the WWF consistenly works hard?  In WCW, there has 

Even though I'm an anti-WWhiFfer, Herb, I have to throw in these names:

  Tom Boric (almost up there with Flair when you consider the amount of 
             styles this guy can do...see my subsequent post about this guy)
  Bam-Bam Bigelow, at least live
  Owen Hart
  
I wish I could add Randy Savage to that list, but he's getting too old and
slow.  

============================>Robert McMullen<============================

    The opinions expressed in this message in no way reflect those of   
   ASK Computer Systems, Inc.  Flames welcome, but highly uncalled for! 

=========================>robert@askinc.ask.com<=========================

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From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: WWF Superstars: Capsule Review, Jan. 23
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:39:36 GMT

Crush got Doinked again.

Heavily promoted Royal Rumble, but only mentioned the three big
matches.

Bret Hart's interview got interrupted by Ramon.

Lawler and Savage argued the whole show.

In short, nothing happened.

Next week: didn't say.
From: scheid@danzan.EBay.Sun.COM (David Scheid)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: San Jose Taping
Date: 22 Jan 1993 17:04:54 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Where is the show taking place? Where does one park?
Where does one get tickets?


---
Dave Scheid - All Disclaimers Apply


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From: mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson)
Subject: Re: Watts
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:51:41 GMT

In <6579.137.uupcb@ssr.com> dave.scherer%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dave Scherer)  writes:

>Hi Guys,
>I heard a rumor from a pretty reliable source who said that Watts has
>been fired by WCW.  I don't know how true it is, but it was worth
>mentioning.

Sorry..dumb question: Which Watts? I assume you mean Big Billy, not
Nepo Man.

If it is true, I suppose everyone will think it's a good thing...but I
gotta wonder: how many more management changes are going to happen in
the WCW head office before Ted Turner pulls the plug on the whole
operation. From what I gather, Ted was never really fond of wrestling
in the first place, and he's not going to stand for World Championship
Wrestling to keep losing money on him.

Michael
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From: ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham)
Subject: Royal Rumble summary
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:19 EST  

Here are the results of the Royal Rumble, held 01/24.

The Steiner Brothers def. the Beverly Brothers on a Frankensteiner 
and a pin by Scott Steiner.

Bam Bam Bigelow def. Big Bossman

WWF Intercontinental Title match: Shawn Michaels def. Marty 
Jannetty (Michaels retains title)

WWF Title match: Bret "Hitman" Hart def. Razor Ramon with the 
Sharpshooter (Hart retains title, will face winner of Rumble at 
Wrestlemania IX)

Bobby Heenan introduces us to Narcissus, Lex Luger.  For some reason,
he is referred to as "the Narcissist."

And, the Royal Rumble:

Ric Flair drew #1
Bob Backlund drew #2
Papa Shango drew #3
Backlund eliminated Shango (1)
"Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase drew #4
Nasty Boy Brian Knobbs drew #5
Virgil drew #6
DiBiase eliminated Knobbs (2)
Jerry "the King" Lawler drew #7
Max Moon drew #8
Lawler eliminated Moon (3)
Genichiro Tenryu drew #9
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig drew #10
Skinner drew #11
Perfect eliminated Flair (4)
Koko B. Ware drew #12
Perfect eliminated Skinner (5)
Head Shrinker Samu drew #13
Berzerker drew #14
Perfect eliminated Lawler (6)
DiBiase eliminated Virgil (7)
Lawler pulled Perfect out of the ring before retiring (8)
Undertaker drew #15
Undertaker eliminated Samu (9)
Undertaker eliminated Tenryu (10)
Terrific Terry Taylor drew #16
Ware eliminated Taylor (11)
Backlund eliminated Berzerker (12)
Undertaker eliminated DiBiase (13)
Undertaker eliminated Ware (14)
Berzerker pulled Backlund out of the ring and whomped on him - 
     Backlund not eliminated (at this point, Undertaker alone)
El Gigante, dressed in an outrageous monkey suit, came to the 
     ring and whomped on the Undertaker (Gigante not scheduled, 
     WWF officials act like they don't know who he is, Gigante 
     accompanied by Harvey Whippleman)
Damien Demento drew #17
Irwin R. Schyster (IRS) drew #18
Backlund recovered
Undertaker withdrew to seek Gigante (15)
Tatanka drew #19
Nasty Boy Jerry Saggs drew #20
Typhoon drew #21
Head Shrinker Fatu drew #22
Earthquake drew #23
Earthquake eliminated Typhoon (16)
Carlos Colon drew #24
Backlund eliminated Fatu (17)
Tito Santana drew #25
Colon eliminated Demento (18)
Rick Martel drew #26
Earthquake eliminated IRS (19)
Yokozuna drew #27
Yokozuna eliminated Tatanka (20)
Yokozuna eliminated Colon (21)
Owen Hart drew #28
Yokozuna eliminated Earthquake (22)
Repo Man drew #29
Randy Savage drew #30
Yokozuna eliminated Santana (23)
Hart eliminated Saggs (24)
Yokozuna eliminated Hart (25)
Yokozuna eliminated Repo Man (26)
Backlund eliminated Martel (27)
Yokozuna eliminated Backlund (28)
Yokozuna eliminated Savage (29)

Yokozuna wins Rumble, will face Bret Hart at WrestleMania.  
Vital stats:

Average # men in the ring after an elimination ==> five
Most Tossed ==> eight (by Yokozuna) 
Iron Man Award ==> Backlund
Worthless Waste Award ==> Papa Shango

RG
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From: jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
Subject: Re: z
Followup-To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Summary: colon   dash   right parenthesis
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
X-Serving-Suggestion: sprinkle with :-) as needed
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:36:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.104006.3125@dct.ac.uk> mcsdc1st@dct.ac.uk writes:
#
#
#Article: 12468 of rec.sport.pro-wrestling
#From: mcsdc1st@dct.ac.uk
#Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
#Subject: z
#Message-ID: <1993Jan27.104006.3125@dct.ac.uk>
#Date: 27 Jan 93 10:40:06 GMT
#Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That wouldn't be the Superstar Bill Dundee Institute of Technology
would it?

Is the DIT devoted to studying the life and times of Bill Dundee?

-- 
Cal...                   "It demoralized them, not to mention that it
                          killed them."
 jewell@Data-IO.COM       -- An officer in the 24th Infantry Division (Mech.)
 ...!!pilchuck!jewell        on the effects of DP/ICM in Operation Desert Storm
From: skar@warp6.cs.misu.NoDak.edu (Keith M. Skar)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: RR Match 4
Date: 24 Jan 93 22:28:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.C1DqEp.C2D
Organization: Minot State University -- Minot, ND.

Match 4....

Bret Hart retains the WWF title and beats Razor Ramone with the Sharpshooter.

Narcissus is Lex Luger...  Heenan introduces Luger as
this is Narcissus Lex Luger...(so they are allowing him to use the Lex Luger
name)...Luger goes through a posing routine while Bobby spouts complements
at him.  Luger then challenges Mr. Perfect.
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From: shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum)
Subject: Re: Official keepers of information needed.
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:21:04 GMT

In article <C1FB2A.6rp@news.iastate.edu> jnelson@iastate.edu (Jeremy F Nelson) writes:
>
>Jeremy Nelson
>
>ObWrestling: Am I the only one who wonders just how high(low) the new
>  'slam' record will go on the charts?  I wonder just how many marks will
>  shell out $10 for it.
>
>-- 
>jnelson@iastate.edu


Well, according to the Feb.4th edition of _Rolling_Stone_ (the one with
Neneh "I lust her lips" Cherry on the cover) Billboard has "Slam Jam" at
the #4 single in the British charts!
$10 Buxx is what that thing costs?! I have not heard it myself. Seems
like McMoney would be playing the hell out of it.


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From: lhstone@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Louis "Big Lou" Stone)
Subject: Re: Flair to face Ramon 2/7 in Phili.
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:01:56 GMT

1.  *Cards subject to change without notice*

2.  Perfect and Hart certainly have no love lost between the two of
them.  I would say to look for a quick Henning heel turn again after
Royal Rumble if your scenario were to come true.  I don't really see
it happening though.

I am hoping for a quick Henning Heel Turn anyway.  I think he is one
of the premier heels that the Federation has had in a _long_ time and
I hate to thing that McMahon would waste the heat he can draw. Especially
with Flair's departure.

Of course, those who know me, have always known that Perfect is my favorite
wrestler.  Ever since he lost tyo Lawler to create the Unified World Title
and came to the WWF.

"And Hulk Hogan.. you can't do that."
"Can't do what?"
"Eat a chocolate covered ferret."

-- 
`  c      o  '  Support The           Louis Stone - lhstone@ucs.indiana.edu
`'#v--  --v#`'  Indiana University    Major: Accounting/Computer Info. Systems
  /'>    <`\    Fencing Team          Quote: You can't exactly dust for vomit.
From: jbeverly@adobe.com (Jamie D. Beverly)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Owen Hart/ Bad Frankensteiner
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:12:11 GMT
Followup-To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated

In the RR yesterday, it sure looked like Owen Hart injured his left knee.
Yokozuna tossed him hard, and awkwardly, with Owen landing with t=his left
leg under his body. They didn't show him again, but he looked injured.
  Also, Scott Steiners Frankensteiner dropped Beau or Blake on his head. He
didn't get all the way over. Not a very clean Frankensteiner. His Tilt a
whirl was very sloppy also. 
  I had several peopple over who rarely (if ever) watch wrestling, and they
had a blast! It was a pretty funny show, with El Gigante getting the
biggest laughs. It takes a lot of guts/stupidity to wear a costume like
that...

Jamie D. Beverly
Acrobat Technical Support
Sugar Bombs Roadie
Adobe Hounds of Rebound All-Time Leading Scorer
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Royal Rumble Report
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:46:50 GMT
Followup-To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling

I assume that most people here have already seen the Royal Rumble or have
spoken to someone who has, so I'm not going to rehash the matches.

They had one match in the dark before they began televising.  Doink beat
Jimmy Powers.  It was not a squash match; both men wrestled, and it was
pretty much even until Powers missed a drop kick when Doink held onto the
ropes.  Doink's finishing move is a submission hold where he sits on the
opponent's neck and pulls his feet up, to put lots of pressure on the neck.
 It is a lot more believable than Slaughter's atomic noogie. <grin>

The ARCO arena was just about sold out.  There were a few empty seats in
the upper balcony, and the seats that were blocked by the video monitor at
the entrance to the dressing room were not sold (ditto for the seats near
the cameras in the stands).  The crowd reacted very favorably to Bob
Backlund (shouts of "We want Bob!" but mostly from the kids, throughout the
Rumble itself).

Two questions for those who saw it on TV:  Did El Gigante's body suit look
as phony on TV as it did in person?  Did they give him a name?  (We didn't
get to hear the TV audio except for Heenan's introduction of Luger and for
the recap of the Janetty-Michaels fued.)

All in all a most pleasant experience, and a much better show than I had
actually anticipated.  I'd say that all the matches were at least three
stars--Well, Doink vs. Powers gets only 2.5, but what do you expect from a
prelim in the dark?

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From: cquimb1@server.uwindsor.ca (QUIMBY  COREY            )
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Owen Hart takes a spill
Date: 27 Jan 1993 00:02:57 GMT
Organization: University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Another thing I noticed was that Shawn Micheals eye looked puffy after the IC Match.
From: sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide)
Subject: WCW reviews
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:53:08 GMT


The vote is in and I will be doing WCW reviews starting next weekend.
I will do WCW Saturday Night and try to do at least one of the other shows
(if anyone wants to commit to one or both, let me know).  If anyone has
any advice, I'm all ears.

Steve
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From: sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide)
Subject: Re: [WCW] Saturday Night - Battle of the Underdogs - WOW
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:49:22 GMT

In article <9301242227.AA25425@pserv.CFSMO.Honeywell.COM> Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com> writes:
>fipster writes:
>>  So who was it?\  Please summarize who it was and what moves they did.
>
>The name was something like Johnny V - I saved the tape to my permanent
>tape so I can check it if no one else remembers.  He wrestled barefoot
>(looked like he was wearing spats or something).
>
>He walked the top rope.  When Pat Rose had him in some kind of hold,
>this guy jumped up, so would be sitting on the top rope, slingshot
>HIMSELF off the top rope, and did a backflip.  When both guys were 
>running back and forth from rope to rope, this guy did the splits
>(as opposed to the standard "duck under") then did a nip up and
>some sort of super kick.  At one point, he was standing on one leg
>and had his other foot ALL THE WAY UP IN Pat Rose's face, kicking 
>him repeatedly!  For the finisher, he dropped Pat in the corner
>(like 2 Cold does for a few of his finishers) and jumped up in the
>direction of the top turnbuckle, did the splits in mid-air, one
>leg landing on each of the top ropes as they come out of the top
>turnbuckle, and double-sling-shot himself to do a backflip onto
>Pat Rose for the pin.
>
>All I can say is:  put him in with Brad Armstrong against Benoit
>and Pillman!  Bring in The Lightning Kid and Liger for the
>Light Heavyweight tourney they've been putting off:
>
>Liger
>Pillman
>Benoit
>Johhn V (or whatever his name was)
>Flamingo
>Badd
>Lightning Kid
>Armstrong
>
>That's a nice even eight-man, single elimination tourney.  If they
>want to make it a bigger tourney, add Muta, Mucus Bagwell, Owen
>Hart, 2 Cold for a 12-man tourney!
>
>		--Otto "Hacking to 2-Cold's new music" Heuer
>


It was pretty obvious that the V was for Van Damme.  He has the same style
as Jean Claude.  He even did the move where you hold their arm and put
your leg over their arm and repeatedly kick them (it's hard to explain,
but if you've seen it you know what I mean).  He looks like he needs some
more experience (he almosted botched his finisher by landing and Rose's
legs) but he has definite potential.

Steve
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From: ash@ulysses.mr.ams.com (Alan Harder)
Subject: royal rumble
Organization: American Math. Society
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:59:26 GMT


Since my newsfeed is so far behind that I'm reading 1/21 posts today
(1/25) :-(, could someone please e-mail royal rumble results to me at
ash@math.ams.org?  Unfortunately, it looks like I won't see the
1/25 postings in r.s.p-w until 1/29. :-(  :-(  :-(

Thanks much,

-Alan Harder
 ash@math.ams.org
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From: mdorems@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Mitchell Doremus (CORTEZ))
Subject: RR rumbligs
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:16 EST
From: wen5@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Stan T2 Wen)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: WCW updates
Keywords: Power Hour & World Wide
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:52:41 GMT
Reply-To: wen5@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

In article <C0yLGD.B3n@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> fippjc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Fipp) writes:

>  On World Wide, the debut of the Wrecking Crew, who lethe jobbers get
>a lot of moves in before winning with the Wrecking Ball.

Pretty sad steroid monsters...

>  Showed the Erik Watts/Arn Anderson incident.  Basically, it was "filmed
>by a young girl's father."  We see Erik signing an interview for a girl, I
>think it was by a gas station.  Arn pulls up and says something like "I found
>you ass" and starts fighting Erik.  Erik slams the car door into Arns leg and
>applies the STF.  Police some, throw Erik against the car, cuff him, and take
>him away in their police car.  Arn keeps complaining that his leg is
>broken.
>  My question:  where did they get all the cops (6 or 7) and police cars
>(2 or three).  Don't cops have better things to do than helping WCW angles?

Stupid.  Why did daddy just sit there filming instead of putting down the
camera and helping his son.  Silly, badly acted, humiliating to Arn.

>  In the Main event, Steve Austin and Brian Pillman beat Z-man and Gunn
>when Steve Austin caught Z-man in a bearhug, Pillman dropkicked
>Z-man's back, propelling AUstin to deliver his stungun even faster (the
>first time they really did a double team finisher).  I think all teams should
>have double team finishers.  It's a trademark of tag teams.

I noticed that Pillman accidentally kicked Steve in the face when he did
that (on slow motion).  Can anybody roll back the tape and take a look?
-- 
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  _|     _____/                     chimera@minds.bsd.uchicago.edu
  _|    ________      "I think it was his eye, cold and blue like a vulture's."
From: jsteeves@ac.dal.ca (Jason Steeves)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: Royal Rumble summary
Date: 26 Jan 93 12:28:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: ac.1993Jan26.162821.10579
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <25JAN199312194931@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>, ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham) writes:
> 
> Bobby Heenan introduces us to Narcissus, Lex Luger.  For some reason,
> he is referred to as "the Narcissist."

..and why do you suppose that is? The sign above his head clearly
said "Narcissist". We've just been mistaken the past several weeks.

If anyone had gone to the bother of looking the word up in the
dictionary (as Mean Gene did for us already), you would find:

narcissism : self-love
narcissist : one who practices narcissism
narcissus  : bulbous plant

When I looked that up, I remembered that my grandmother used to plant
narcissus in her flower garden :-)

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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 20:49:39 -0600
From: Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
To: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: [WCW] Sat Night - Battle of the Underdogs - WOW
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Organization: mailEnteringNews at Honeywell SRC


For people who tape WCW Saturday Night:

This is NOT the week to fast-forward through the "Battle of the
Underdogs" match (like I tend to do).  Pat Rose was beaten by
the next Jushin "Thunder" Liger!

Wow.

		--Otto "Hack-Man" Heuer
From: hatcher@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Donald L.C. Blewett)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: Re: RR question: Did Yokozuna ever get taken off his feet?
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:14:49 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON

In <abick.728080881@cunews> abick@sebastian.carleton.ca (Alan Bick) writes:

>       I didn't see the Royal Rumble (and probably won't) and I'm
>wondering if Yokozuna ever fell down my a wrestlers hold or was picked up
>(and not thrown out) by a bunch of other wrestlers (if so, how many tried
>it and how close did they get?)

>Alan Bick

He was knocked off his feet by Savage who gets the "Dumbest move of all time"
award for going for the pin.  Yokozuna proceeded to press him over the top
rope.  You understand?  He pushed Savage so high in the air that he flew out
of the ring.  

Don
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From: Mike.Dunnagan@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Dunnagan)
Subject: Re: Royal Rumble summary
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:23:11 GMT

Jason:

> If anyone had gone to the bother of looking the word up in the
> dictionary (as Mean Gene did for us already), you would find:
> 
> narcissism : self-love
> narcissist : one who practices narcissism
> narcissus  : bulbous plant

Narcissus was also a greek god. He was very handsome, and didn't pay
attention to girls. When the goddess Echo got the cold shoulder from him,
it was decided he needed to be taught a lesson. He was cursed, and when he
bent down to get a drink of water he saw his reflection, and fell in love
with himself. He was so in love with what he saw, that he never stopped
looking at his reflection, and eventually died. Now, doesn't that sound
like Lex Lugar?

Mike Dunnagan ---

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