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"Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« on: July 31, 2015, 11:14:16 pm »
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/us/wrestler-roddy-piper-dies/

Guess I'll be watching They Live tomorrow.

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Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2015, 12:16:29 am »
Now I'm sad.
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Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2015, 05:11:42 am »
Shocking loss, especially after losing Dusty Rhodes last month.  RIP Roddy.
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Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« Reply #4 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.

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Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2015, 04:31:54 pm »
Just when you think you have all the answers, he changes the question.

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Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2015, 07:28:09 pm »
As tribute to him, Rowdy Ronda Rousey dedicated her match to him.

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Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2015, 11:03:42 pm »
Looks like the aliens finally came for Nada.
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Re: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Dead
« Reply #8 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!....

....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.