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Cock of Boone

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A lil off topic & I do apologize, maybe I've asked this before, maybe not, get'n old so forgive me if I have but, happened to be at an estate sale, saw an old Rasslin magizene & my mind wandered back to golden days of Township Rasslin. Does anyone (who'll admit to being a Rasslin fan) remember an elderly lady always front row at ringside, she'd swing an old (fake, by the way) rubber chicken at the heal rasslers? "Heal" BTW is Rasslin lingo for the designated bad guy.
My college buddies nicknamed her "Olive Oil" from Popeye cartoons, cuz she was spit'n image. Ole Olive Oil was a hoot, jumping up & down, running up to the ring shaking that rubber chicken shoot'n the middle finger at Ollie & Arn Anderson, Stan Hanson & all the "heels".
We'd always pull for the heals just to excite the crowd.
Oh Lawdy, never thought we'd live to see next morning one night when we pulled against Ole Dusty Rhoads!! Can't recall who he was Rasslin. Them ole folks came after us with a vengeance. One ole guy (which I am now) spit'n backer, huff'n & a puff'n not a tooth in his bald head say'n "I'm gonna whoop yur youngin arse, Mama ain't gonna recognize u "BOY"!!! Dude stood every bit of 5' 5" 110lbs, had RAGE, RAGE, I tell ya, in dem eyes! The 3 Columbia's finest working the match escorted him back to his chair. Dusty lost in case you're wondering & we escaped out the fire door.he,he,he!
 
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A lil off topic & I do apologize, maybe I've asked this before, maybe not, get'n old so forgive me if I have but, happened to be at an estate sale, saw an old Rasslin magizene & my mind wandered back to golden days of Township Rasslin. Does anyone (who'll admit to being a Rasslin fan) remember an elderly lady always front row at ringside, she'd swing an old (fake, by the way) rubber chicken at the heal rasslers? "Heal" BTW is Rasslin lingo for the designated bad guy.
My college buddies nicknamed her "Olive Oil" from Popeye cartoons, cuz she was spit'n image. Ole Olive Oil was a hoot, jumping up & down, running up to the ring shaking that rubber chicken shoot'n the middle finger at Ollie & Arn Anderson, Stan Hanson & all the "heels".
We'd always pull for the heals just to excite the crowd.
Oh Lawdy, never thought we'd live to see next morning one night when we pulled against Ole Dusty Rhoads!! Can't recall who he was Rasslin. Them ole folks came after us with a vengeance. One ole guy (which I am now) spit'n backer, huff'n & a puff'n not a tooth in his bald head say'n "I'm gonna whoop yur youngin arse, Mama ain't gonna recognize u "BOY"!!! Dude stood every bit of 5' 5" 110lbs, had RAGE, RAGE, I tell ya, in dem eyes! The 3 Columbia's finest working the match escorted him back to his chair. Dusty lost in case you're wondering & we escaped out the fire door.he,he,he!
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My memory is her having the windup monkey that clapped cymbals.
 
Anyone who went to the Township remembers Olive Oil. I even heard her referenced on a Jim Cornette podcast. He didn’t remember her specifically but said every town in the 70s and 80s had an older woman like her and they all went out of their way to interact with them.

While it was in the late 80s maybe early 90s she was still there and Lord Stephen Regal and Bill Dundee just harassed her to no end. That was more fun to watch than anything else.
 
I got my rsslin fix at the Big Brown Box in Greenville. The Memorial Auditorium. Monday nights. We had a young man with Down's syndrome in our church and I took him every Monday night. Whatever he wanted to eat, I bought. His Mom wasn't happy but he sure was. He always wanted to shake hands with the "faces" but would pull his hand back from the "heels" even though several tried to shake his hand. After he passed away, his Mom thanked me and told me he love going to Rasslin. It was the highlight of his week other than church. We were there the night the Nature Boy sat Johnny Valentine on the top rope i the corner and proceeded to pull his wrestling shorts down in the back so that Valentine Mooned half the auditorium. We saw Andre get out of Crockett's Cadillac and the car rise up a good 8 inches. We were there the night Magnum TA left and went back to Charlotte and wrapped his car around a pole. Good memories
 
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Rasslin’ just isn’t the same anymore. AEW is doing some decent stuff, but it’s pretty bad. WWE has been unwatchable for years. I have the peacock network and live going back and watching the old stuff
 
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I haven’t watched rasslin in years. Have been to The Township and Big Brown Box many times in the late 70s and the 80s. Does anybody remember the rubber phallus the old man had (say about 6 rows up at The Township)? He’d call out the heel to get his attention and yell “this is you!” That stiff rubber phallus was like a balloon losing air - it slowly would deflate downward. Saw Tully Blanchard run up a few rows after him to scare him, I guess, but the old guy held his ground and started swinging that thing like a baton. Tully backed off.
 
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