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Title: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: Ultimate Paragon on July 31, 2015, 11:14:16 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/us/wrestler-roddy-piper-dies/ (http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/us/wrestler-roddy-piper-dies/)

Guess I'll be watching They Live tomorrow.

Title: Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: Svata on August 01, 2015, 12:16:29 am

Now I'm sad.

Title: Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: lord gibbon on August 01, 2015, 02:25:46 am

As someone who never followed wrestling and didn't see They Liveuntil recently, I didn't really know who this guy was until I played Saint's Row 4. But he was pretty funny, so I think I liked him.

Title: Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: Vypernight on August 01, 2015, 05:11:42 am

Shocking loss, especially after losing Dusty Rhodes last month.  RIP Roddy.

Title: Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: Dakota Bob on August 01, 2015, 09:09:05 am

In his honour I'm gonna kick the shit out of a dude in an alleyway for over 5 minutes.

Title: Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: ironbite on August 01, 2015, 04:31:54 pm

Just when you think you have all the answers, he changes the question.

Ironbite-RIP Hot Rod.

Title: Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: ironbite on August 02, 2015, 07:28:09 pm

As tribute to him, Rowdy Ronda Rousey dedicated her match to him.

Ironbite-34 seconds later her opponent was wishing he was still alive.

Title: Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: Second Coming of Madman on August 02, 2015, 11:03:42 pm

Looks like the aliens finally came for Nada.

Title: Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
Post by: Barbarella on August 19, 2015, 12:01:18 pm

I'm very late to the party but I wish both Roddy & Dusty well in that "Great Squared Circle In The Sky".

As a kid, I used to watch WWF wrestling a lot and lost interest just before that "Attitude Era" stuff started. I grew up with the mostly family-friendly high-flying live-action Saturday Morning Cartoon of Piper, Rhodes, The Hulkster, Andre, Macho Man, Junkyard Dog, Sgt. Slaughter, Nikolai Volkov, Brutus Beefcake, The Killer Bees, The British Bulldogs, Demolition, etc. I even enjoyed the early 90's stuff with earlier versions of The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels and Triple H back when he was a snooty fop heel Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

It was like a Saturday Morning Cartoon come to life. It was colorful and goofy. One could pretend for a brief moment to believe "Hey, that guy really has magic Voodoo powers/is undead/whatever". It was mindless fun for the whole family!

Those WWF Wrestler ice cream bars were DELICIOUS, too!....
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/SpukiKitty/WWF-icecreambars_zpsaebeechb.jpg) (http://s48.photobucket.com/user/SpukiKitty/media/WWF-icecreambars_zpsaebeechb.jpg.html)
....I loved those things! When the ice cream truck came along, I would order one.

Then, I lost interest, then, soon after, The Attitude Era began.

Nowadays, I think Pro-Wrestling is really dumb. However I have a big nostalgic soft-spot for the early days I look upon the 1980s-very early 1990s with fondness.