So I'm reading my...

"And 10 cubic feet of clean-burning propane free with every ticket!"

 

Preface | I do not watch TNA on a regular basis.

BUT -- Jake the Snake was on TNA the other day and he looked like death warmed over. Of course, he had a big ole snake with him. Man, if that's what coke (and not the other Pepsi version) does to someone, gosh damn that's horrible.

 

Once interviewed Jim (The Anvi) Neidhart ... long after the Hart Foundation had fallen by the wayside ... it was some two-bit wrestling company out of the Lower Mainland. The man was pathetic ... bitter about things that went on with the WWF and such ... 10 minutes into the intvu, he started hitting on me. I almost yakked.

 

C'mon, the guy inspired Jake "the Snake" Plummer's nickname. Oh, wait, that's two guys whose best years are behind them.

 

The DDT was the thing that completely ruled out a career in school teaching one day. On break from college, my Mom got me to substitute teach for a P.E. teacher who called in sick. I spent the entire day trying to stop kids from DDTing each other.

 

It sounds like this country owes Jake a debt of gratitude for protecting our future.

 

That's probably the non-DBV-centric point of view, anyway.

 

Isn't he dead, too? The Anvil, I mean.

 

The Anvil is the only healthy member of the Hart Foundation stable (Bret Hart -- retired after stroke; Owen Hart -- dead from stunt gone wrong at show; Brian Pillman -- dead from heart failure; British Bulldog -- dead from steroid-related heart attack)

 

I think he's skulking around Alberta somewhere ... I know Bret is back in town to present his stage performance of ... is it Aladdin? I can't remember. I was actually in Telus training with his daughter before I got hired away by the NPO.

 

Ah, must've gotten confused. Probably been a year or two since I looked at deadwrestlers.com.

 

I once flew into Little Rock for a wedding the same day the WWE guys were in town for a Saturday night show. First stop after getting off the plane from Dallas was the bathroom to take a leak.

Standing at the urinal and two hulking guys come up on either side of me. I finish my business and go wash. Turn to leave and see who they are: Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Hercules Hernandez. Jake had a big Army duffel bag with him, but it didn't appear to be squirming.

Also, Hercules washed afterward. "The Snake" didn't after handling his snake.

That's all I have to add to this thread.