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2muchcoffeeman
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I have decided that I shall pash on this opportunity.
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I have decided that I shall pash on this opportunity.
There's a layup of a political joke here, but wrong thread.
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Kind of. They used it that way - sometimes with great effect, sometimes poorly with terrible results (including, once, it being taken captive; until God chose to get it back in an interesting way). The theological message, as with just about all of the military parts of the Bible (OT - I don't know anything the NT), is that (back then, at least) military success or failure has little to nothing to do with your own strength or that of your adversary, but whether you had God on your side which for the most part depended on whether the people / leaders were following His word or not.
I Should Coco
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Guy Fieri needs to do a Triple D episode honoring all the schlubs who get to wash the huge piles of dishes these diva chefs leave behind.
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When a post on the socials sends you thru hot and cold running rat holes ...
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When Bobby Heenan's WWF contract was up in 1993, Vince McMahon presented The Brain with a new offer, but one week later, Vince couldn't honour it.
Vince asked if Bobby could take a 50% pay cut, which Bobby understandably turned down.
Bobby was also growing increasingly tired of travelling to New York.
At the production meeting before his final WWF show, Vince asked Bobby how he would like to leave.
Bobby's response: "Have Gorilla Monsoon throw me out after going through my bags and finding stolen towels, light bulbs, ashtrays, and phonebooks. Everything from a hotel."
Vince agreed to Bobby's suggestion.
In his book, Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All, Heenan described his final evening in WWF with one of his best friends, Gorilla Monsoon:
"So Gorilla came to ringside where I was doing commentary. He threw me and my bag out of the building.
I gave my farewell and walked around the back. Gorilla was waiting for me in his car, and we drove to the LaGuardia Holiday Inn. We quietly stood in the elevator, which took us to the floor where our rooms were.
I turned to him and said, "Well, nine years together. Good luck, partner."
I shook his hand. He went his way. I went to mine.
I got into my room. There was a big basket of fruit in there, all bananas. I called Gorilla. "I have some bananas here. Do you want them?" He came down the hall, and I gave him his favorite fruit. We must have hugged and cried for an hour.
Gorilla Monsoon's real name was Robert Marella. Before he wrestled, he was a singer in Toronto called Gino Marella.
Doing Prime Time in a studio and voice-over work for Wrestling Challenge was repetitious since we were seeing the same match four to five times a week. But working with Gorilla Monsoon was a joy--the highlight of my career. He was the most honest, gentle, intelligent man I ever met.
We stayed in touch after I left. I would visit him, and we would talk on the phone every week. Gorilla is one of my best friends in life. He is dearly missed by me and my family. I love that man."
WOHW Publishers
When Bobby Heenan's WWF contract was up in 1993, Vince McMahon presented The Brain with a new offer, but one week later, Vince couldn't honour it.
Vince asked if Bobby could take a 50% pay cut, which Bobby understandably turned down.
Bobby was also growing increasingly tired of travelling to New York.
At the production meeting before his final WWF show, Vince asked Bobby how he would like to leave.
Bobby's response: "Have Gorilla Monsoon throw me out after going through my bags and finding stolen towels, light bulbs, ashtrays, and phonebooks. Everything from a hotel."
Vince agreed to Bobby's suggestion.
In his book, Bobby the Brain: Wrestling's Bad Boy Tells All, Heenan described his final evening in WWF with one of his best friends, Gorilla Monsoon:
"So Gorilla came to ringside where I was doing commentary. He threw me and my bag out of the building.
I gave my farewell and walked around the back. Gorilla was waiting for me in his car, and we drove to the LaGuardia Holiday Inn. We quietly stood in the elevator, which took us to the floor where our rooms were.
I turned to him and said, "Well, nine years together. Good luck, partner."
I shook his hand. He went his way. I went to mine.
I got into my room. There was a big basket of fruit in there, all bananas. I called Gorilla. "I have some bananas here. Do you want them?" He came down the hall, and I gave him his favorite fruit. We must have hugged and cried for an hour.
Gorilla Monsoon's real name was Robert Marella. Before he wrestled, he was a singer in Toronto called Gino Marella.
Doing Prime Time in a studio and voice-over work for Wrestling Challenge was repetitious since we were seeing the same match four to five times a week. But working with Gorilla Monsoon was a joy--the highlight of my career. He was the most honest, gentle, intelligent man I ever met.
We stayed in touch after I left. I would visit him, and we would talk on the phone every week. Gorilla is one of my best friends in life. He is dearly missed by me and my family. I love that man."
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