Dead Celebrity Thread
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Dammit, I liked Rowdy Roddy!!
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@Insomnia said:
nooooo not Rowdy Roddy Piper!
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This is where someone tells me she died in 1996.
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My dad is a big wrestling fan and I remember going to Wrestlemania VI with him when I was 10 and meeting Roddy Piper. He really was such a great entertainer and as a fanfreaking kid, I thought he was just fantastic. After the show he gave me a high five and an autograph. One of my best childhood memories.
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@Jaded said:
My dad is a big wrestling fan and I remember going to Wrestlemania VI with him when I was 10 and meeting Roddy Piper. He really was such a great entertainer and as a fanfreaking kid, I thought he was just fantastic. After the show he gave me a high five and an autograph. One of my best childhood memories.
Piper was so awesome that Ronda Rousey asked him for permission to use his nickname. His passing probably spurred her to shave 5 seconds off of Rousey's epic beatdown of Correia.
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The best thing about the Rowdy one was that even when something was completely choreographed you had no doubt, looking at him, that he was among the last men you would ever want to fight.
This is a match with Golddust from 1996. Keep in mind that by this point Piper was well past his prime and all but retired, if memory serves:
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
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I loved wrestling as a kid in junior high and high school, this being way before the WWF became the WWE and when the wrestlers like Hogan, Roddy Piper, Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat and a lot of other great wrestlers were in their prime. It makes me sad to see that they're now getting old enough to pass away.
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If you want to see some of Pipers best ringwork , do yourself a favor and find the Starrcade 83 dog collar match vs Greg Valentine. Unfortunately it is not on youtube but was released on a could different DVD sets, well worth the effort to track down.
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@The-Tree-of-Woe said:
The best thing about the Rowdy one was that even when something was completely choreographed you had no doubt, looking at him, that he was among the last men you would ever want to fight.
This is a match with Golddust from 1996. Keep in mind that by this point Piper was well past his prime and all but retired, if memory serves:
I guess I don't get wrestling, at least from that video. It looks like really fake to me. I mean I know it is fake, but it also looks the part.
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It does. This is far from a five-star match. But Piper still looks like a man who came to fuck some shit up, from the way he holds his shoulders to the way he carries that bat.
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Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), of heart failure, age 83. That role occurred on Adam-12, Dragnet, Emergency, and The DA. (all were Mark VII Limited productions)
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He was also one of the stars of Route 66.
I have been watching a lot of Adam -12 lately, it is on during my lunch hour. -
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Possible hoax, @WTFE .
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Quote my message. Read what it says.
And note the spelling: "dyes".
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Also, Betty White is 93.
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