Pier Six Brawler

There's a never seen before ECW show coming out called Holiday Hell 2000. Tommy Dreamer found it in his garage or something. It was taped in December 2000 but never edited or anything because the company was on deaths door.

I liked the palm trees, deckchairs etc that they'd use for Bash at the Beach and Beach Blast. And the Western theme for Spring Stampede. WWE should do more like this to differentiate their PPVs from each other and from regular TV that you get for free. They wouldn't need to spend that much money, not like the early 00s when they had giant sets and props like those great hooks on Backlash.

It all depends what you call a "shoot interview". Bruiser really didn't acknowledge that wrestling was worked in that interview. And I don't think it was officially sold anywhere either like the Eddie Gilbert one was. I think wrestlers have been doing "shoot interviews" for as long as wrestling has been worked.

Is "Wonderland" any good? The John Holmes film starring Val Kilmer. Bought it on DVD the other day, how does it compare to Boogie Nights, which is one of my favourite films?

I also bought "Flyboys".

KFC/Sean Oliver wouldn't spend the kind of money it would cost to do a Clique shoot.

A Hall YouShoot would be good though, as would a Hall Timeline, either WWF or WCW. 1993 for WWF and 1997 or '98 for WCW.

Surely Striker is better than Feinstein?

Can anyone remember an Amiga game where you played a little green creature climbing a tower using platforms & steps etc? The tower rotated in the background, which was impressive at the time. Been trying to remember the name of it for years.

EDIT: I just googled Amiga green creature tower and found it straight away. Nebulus. I'm sure I've looked for it before and couldn't find it.

Who are the guys in the Muto pic? That's Funaki to the left of Muto, right? I don't recognise the others.

I hope he writes a book.

Surely JR retiring deserves a thread of its own?

Bret's book is the best wrestling book out there, of course it's worth

As many of you guessed, the dog on my lap is not actually alive. She's not stuffed though; she's freeze dried. We lost our precious little dog, Jou Jou on New Years Eve 2010 from and my kids were just devastated. Seeing how down they were, I inquired as to whether there might be a way to kind of keep her around...and a year later, after the freeze drying process was through, we received Jou Jou in the mail, looking every bit as vibrant as she did in life. When an animal is stuffed, it's fur is simply stretched over a form. When it's freeze dried, what you get back is the real dog - all the bones, flesh and blood. The only thing removed are the eyes and the internal organs. Sure, it seemed creepy at first, but she's part of our family every day, and the freeze-drying idea, though costly and time consuming, turned out to be one of the best Christmas presents in Foley family history.

I definitely wouldn't pay

Anyone read the Big Daddy book yet? It's only

It's more than possible that Haystacks and Andre both had to take a shit that way on a plane. They were both far too large to fit into an aeroplane toilet.

212 pages. Very easy reading.

I read Booker's book yesterday, pretty good but bare in mind it finishes as soon as he got to WCW, the vast majority of the book is about his childhood and young adulthood before he got into wrestling. Very entertaining, it's amazing how far he's come from a very hard upbringing. Funniest thing in the book is the bit about Stevie Ray working as an exterminator and driving around in a car made up to look like a mouse with ears and a tail.

Booker T's book is free for kindle on Amazon at the moment.

Is there any way to buy ebooks that are on amazon.com but not on amazon.co.uk?

I watched "Moonrunners" the other day. It's the movie that Dukes of Hazzard was based upon. Very disapointed in it, 4/10 and that's being generous. It's more gritty than Dukes but the characters are all fairly unlikable and the plot unbelievable. Uncle Jesse and Rosco P. Coltrane are both in it but played by different actors, the other characters are different but the same basic archetypes as the TV show.

I have "The Sweeney" with Ray Winstone to watch, also "Aces High" with Malcolm McDowell. Anyone seen either of them?

They really need to get actors locked up long term. I imagine they have with the main characters but it's pretty ridiculous to have different guys playing the Mountain in each season.

Wonder if there's any chance they'll eventually recast any of the Stark kids? Maisie Williams (Arya) and the kid that plays Bran are clearly aging faster than the characters are supposed to have, how much time is supposed to pass over the course of the 5 released books? A year or so?

Daz, just stick Babestation on whilst reading Lord Of The Rings, that's Game Of Thrones.

One of the babestation girls was in Game of Thrones. I forget her name, indian bird.

There isn;t that much fantasy stuff in GoT, only the Dragons, White Walkers and maybe one or two other things. It's more like Dallas or War and Peace or something than Lord of the Rings.

I don't think the Shield is the greatest TV series of all time, but the final season, and especially the final episode, are absolutely fantastic. It gains points for this, compared to other shows which have final seasons that don't quite live up to the earlier seasons (The Wire, the Sopranos). But the Shield suffers from too many formulaic "criminal of the week" episodes in mid seasons where the overall story arc is barely advanced at all.

Top six will have The Wire, The Shield, Oz, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad in it. Struggling for a sixth, possibly Battlestar Galactica.

Game of Thrones.

Is there a full list of "honourable mentions"? I don't want to have to trawl through the whole thread to look. I'm surprised not to see Six Feet Under get a place.

I reckon either Sopranos or the Wire will get the top spot.