I was a DJ for the local radio station in high school and my brother took over when I went to college. We used to get free tickets to every event at the civic center......the Anderson bros.....Nelson Royal and Paul Jones....Sailor Art Thomas......Kevin Sullivan and Abdullah........got to meet some of them in person and they ended up buying gas at my dad's service station while travelling......went to the service station after school one day and there was Gene and Ole Anderson drinking a coke talking to my old man......great memories
Anybody watch any college basketball tonight?
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Try as they might Abdullah would find a way to get the dreaded " foreign object" into the ring!
my all time favorite is George the animal Steele......he was actually a college professor...had about 4 degrees...he said turnbuckles tasted awful
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SSB........remember when the Beckley TV station broadcast their own live wrestling show every Saturday night?
What a great act!my all time favorite is George the animal Steele......he was actually a college professor...had about 4 degrees...he said turnbuckles tasted awful
sure do....used to use a coat hanger as an antenna out my appt window to pick up the oak hill station.......Macho Man was one of the stars back then....also if you remember the West Virginia Hillbilly......he was from Van and his brother was a student at Glenville when I was there,,,there used to be wrestling at the gilmer county gym.....my frat bros and I would get all smoked up and go root for the bad guys
I was at that show at GCHS when you guys cheered for all the bad guys. It really confused those wrestlers. The only name of the performers that I remember is The Cuban Assasins - dressed in fatigues and heavy beards they looked like Castro
Start a new board called, "Ancient Fake Wrestling Goobers," nitwits. This is a smack board, for God's sake.
.......exactly.... and they wrestled Batman and Robin for God's sake......and whatever wrestler wasn't performing was the "announcer".......good times.....cheap weed
...btw you remember Roy Alltop.?....I was his varsity asst coach at Walton.....he lives in Elizabeth now and is an insurance agent and he owns the course record at Mingo Bottom GC near Elizabeth.....going up in May to see him and play a few rounds
Can't tell you how many times I've wished I was a plumber as opposed to the profession I ended up in...more useful and more lucrative!
All the trades: plumbing, electrical, carpentry, welding, mechanic, etc will be a high demand/lucrative job before long. Kids don’t want to work with their hands (other than a game controller or smart phone).
I do know a garage that pays one of his mechanics over $60,000 due to the high tech components now in cars. (He only has 6 people employed there.) Gone are the good old days of taking your VW Beetle motor out and putting it on your lap to fix it.
Joke Warning: Cardio-Vascular Surgeon calls a plumber to his house for repairs then bitches about the bill" I'm a surgeon and that's more money tan I make in an hour", Plumber responds " I know , I used to be a cardio-vascular surgeon myself".
Nothing wrong with being a plumber. I would imagine that if you were a good plumber and owned your own business that you could earn a pretty good living.
Trade and technical school education wasn't encouraged when we were growing up. Academic elitists convinced themselves that a kid was better off going to a four-year college and majoring in history than attending a two-year technical school where he would learn a trade. They were often wrong, as many kids would have been better off being auto mechanics, etc. rather than "thinkers."
I majored in History...graduated and had no idea what to do , so I went to Grad School to get a MA in History, even more less valuable! Twisted youth...I guess I should have just opened a " history shop" in the mall and done kid's papers for a price.
My mother and many other academicians would have told you that you made the right decisions, but they would have been wrong. One of my majors was finance, so I had a decent back-up plan (stockbroker/financial analyst or planner), if I decided not to go to graduate school.
A part of me always wants to say that education is the best answer...but I'm not sure that's true.
The Occupy Wall Street movement should of been a wake up call that colleges and universities are there to make money first, sports second and maybe educate a few students dead last. I’m not taking the blame off of the people who get a masters degree in dolphin language studies and are shocked they can’t find a job. Then search out someone to blame and pay off their student loans.
The law schools have taken a beating in the last few years on this issue. Kids graduate with $ 200,000 in debt and unless one gets on with the downtown law firms not much hope of getting a job that pays more than $40,000 for an entry level position.
I'm not saying that you're lying, Tony, but your entry-level position figure of $40,000 seems incredibly low, and is likely wrong. Many law firms were paying new associates more than that 30 years ago. Where did you see this figure?
I think college today is overrated..too many people majoring in stuff like Sanskrit or modern Hebrew theology and wondering why they can't find a job....have to agree with tosu in that some kids just have the knack or are better off in "trade school".One of my nephews buddies who had taken 2 years of welding signed on with a firm a week after graduation and left for Wyoming.....for 42 bucks an hour. Granted he'll be gone 4 months at a clip but he's young and unattached so what the hell. My degree was music but ended up doing as much coaching as music and then got into golf. Actually I wanted to be a touring musician but I wasn't good enough......the point is if you have intelligence and are willing to work most employers will give you a chance
Anecdotal! The downtown law firms in Cincinnati and Louisville pay new associates around $100,000 a year but they can afford to be very picky. I know a lot of young lawyers from mid pack law schools who graduated middle of their class that are working in Government for a mid 40's salary. My step son graduates from Cincinnati this May, he tells me he ranks 48 in a class of 96. While UC is not bad law school and smack middle of your class is not bad academic performance, he could not even get an interview at Frost Brown. Tough profession to get started in these days.
Gotcha, Tony. Good for your step son. Thirty+ years ago, Cincinnati and Case Western in Cleveland were considered the second/third best law schools in Ohio, after Ohio State. I would think that he would be able to get a decent job, but maybe not in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati law firms and local blue chip companies (Proctor & Gamble, for example) not only expected you to be in the top 10% of your class, but almost insisted that you be from Cincinnati, too. "Very picky" is right! Incidentally, instate public law school tuition back then was about $3,000.00/year. Hard to believe, I know...
I have always thought highly of UC, Case and OSU but one of the best lawyers I know went to Capital and one of the biggest nitwits I deal with went to Chicago. I'm sure you can tell similar stories.
Back in the old days, "national" law schools (e.g., Ohio State) taught general legal concepts and principles, and did not focus on a particular state's laws. Educators would tell you that if you understood general legal concepts and principles, then it would be easy for you to learn a particular state's laws. Capital, which was considered more of a commuter/local school, actually taught its students how to practice law in the State of Ohio, which was a much more practical and useful approach, if one intended to remain in Ohio, post-graduation.
Always useful to know where the Courthouse is... and how to create and file a pleading!
