Mid-Week Report

By Bill

Raven as Scotty Flamingo, circa 1992

Aldo is covering Thunder tonight so here is my usual mid-week report. Given the seeming demise of the {Pro}, Aldo will be taking over Thunder every other week, covering all the taped shows. Plus, in the month of November, I've got vacation, a business trip, and a bunch of other stuff, so he may be covering a bunch more in November.
Trivia Question: Andre the Giant once portrayed Bigfoot on which television show?
The mailbag:
- From Larry J. at University of Michigan:
  I went to the Monday night's RAW at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit....and got to see parts of Nitro!
  Our seats were in the second row of the upper bowl. We were directly behind the crew who were in charge of the light & sound and a guy who we assumed to be the assistant director. Among their other equipment were a couple monitors that they would often switch to Nitro to see what was going on. So we got see the Bret Hart heel turn at RAW!
  Just thought you might be interested in that tidbit.
- Big Sexy Mas checks in with:
  You'll be happy to know I've pieced together the mystery of the mysterious, eerie cackle playing at WCW shows lately. This is none other than the long-awaited second appearance of the Gobbledeegooker, on loan from the WWF Cheese Vaults.
  Just trying to help ;-)
- Edward J. send the following snippet in from The Onion. He sent it in for the wrestling part, but I think the entire thing is so incredibly funny that I had to post it (This snippet is copyright 1998, Onion, Inc.):
  Question of the Week
  Russia is currently in the grips of the worst economic and political turmoil it has seen since the breakup of the Soviet Union. What do you think about the woeful state of our former enemy?
  "As a Siberian potato farmer, it's hard for me to adjust to these hard times after so many years of tremendous prosperity."
  - Yvgeny Koptev, Potato Farmer
  "Things are that bad over there, huh? No wonder all my mail-order brides have been sick or dead on arrival."
  - Rob Traschel, School Psychologist
  "We can help support the Russian economy in all sorts of ways: Request Stolichnaya for our screwdrivers. Buy more nesting dolls. Rent Battleship Potemkin."
  - Patti Bauer, Photographer
  "Why don't they do one of those Five Year Plans? Those were pretty successful. Except, I guess, for the famine and genocide."
  - Craig Sims, Systems Analyst
  "It's just so awful what has happened over there. I mean, she was the people's princess."
  - Lauren Geist, Homemaker
  "The U.S. should not offer any aid to Russia until Nikolai Volkoff publicly apologizes for hitting Sergeant Slaughter over the head with that folding chair."
  - Timothy Hughes, Auto Mechanic
Believe it or not, I really don't have any "witty" commentary for you this week. I had a good time at the house show on Saturday. For any of you who've been really disappointed in attending a televised WCW live event like I was at the June 1^st Nitro, I recommend you attending a non-televised house show. Instead of a bunch of interviews and things setting up angles, the matches at a non-televised show "cash in" on the angles that have already been set up. Plus, things move along much more quickly. They play to the crowd, not the cameras.
Er, that's it.
Trivia Answer: The Six Million Dollar Man

Mid-Week Report

By Bill

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