The World So Sweet...

Over 25 percent of the performers from Wrestlemania VII have died

By Chris Chase



Over one-quarter of the performers who took part in 1991's Wrestlemania VII have died, a wrestling website noted in the wake of the death of "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
The Wrestling Observer newsletter discovered that 14 of the 51 performers at the event have died in the past 20 years, with many of the deaths attributed to drug use (link is subscription only).
The list of wrestlers who have died since 1991 include some of the biggest stars in the sport like Savage, Andre the Giant, Miss Elizabeth and The British Bulldog. Causes of death include suicides, murder and heart attacks, some the result of years of anabolic steroid use. Savage died last week after suffering an apparent heart attack behind the wheel of his truck. His ex-wife, Miss Elizabeth, passed away after overdosing on a variety of drugs in 2003.
Looking at the list is a sobering reminder of the realities of a make-believe sport like professional wrestling. Not all of the men and women listed played a part in their own demise; referee Joey Marella was the victim of a car crash that occurred when he was driving home from a match.


As wrestlinginc.com points out, none of the 44 starters from the Super Bowl played in 1991 have passed away and only two of 44 boxers who held a championship belt that year are gone.
At 58, Savage made it nearly a decade longer than some of his deceased colleagues.

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4:20 - The Definition

@via wikipedia 420(cannabis culture)  Origins of term :

The term was allegedly coined by a group of teenagers, most notably Parker Haney, in San Rafael, California in 1971.^] Calling themselves the Waldos, because "their chosen hang-out spot was a wall outside the school," the group first used the term in connection to a fall 1971 plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop that they had learned about. The Waldos designated the Louis Pasteur statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 p.m. as their meeting time. The Waldos referred to this plan with the phrase "4:20 Louis". Multiple failed attempts to find the crop eventually shortened their phrase to simply "4:20", which ultimately evolved into a codeword the teens used to mean pot-smoking in general.

High Times Creative Director Steven Hager was the first person to track down the Waldos and publish their account of the origins of the term. Hager wrote "Are You Stoner Smart or Stoner Stupid?" (October 1998) in which he called for 4:20 PM to be the socially accepted hour of the day to consume cannabis. "I believe 420 is a ritualization of cannabis use that holds deep meaning for our subculture," wrote Hager. "It also points us in a direction for the responsible use of cannabis."

Sooooooooooooooooo What does the term 420 mean?

If you don't know that it is an international code word for smoking marijuana -- especially at 4:20 and on 4/20 -- you are not as with it as you think you are.

The term floats just below the radar of many baby boomer parents who are totally clueless about the vast underground that celebrates the term.

Parents will hear about it by spring. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) intends to drag the code word into the mainstream. For the first time, it will hold its annual conference on 4/20 --April 20, a day known as Stoners' New Year.

"We have scheduled the conference to coincide with 4/20, the date that has become associated in the popular culture as a special day for marijuana smokers -- sort of what 'Miller time' has become to beer drinkers," says its Web site, norml.org. "We hope to build on that tradition."

NORML's Allen St. Pierre notes that, unfortunately, 4/20/99 was the day of the Columbine school shootings, but says he believes the two were not connected.

The origin of the term is a bit hazy. Some say it has been a police radio code for "pot smoking in progress." But Steven Hager, editor of High Times, has traced it back to 1971, to some pot-smoking wiseacres at a California high school who met frequently at 4:20 to light up. The term caught on and was popularized in the counterculture by the Grateful Dead, Hager says.

It is now "known universally around the world by people in the (drug) culture,"
Hager says. "And for 20 years, there have been important rituals and ceremonies that happen on April 20," including those on college campuses.

Those observations now include some teens staying home from school. "At most public schools, April 20 is an (unofficial) holiday," says John Heydinger, 16, of St. Paul, Minn. "Kids hang out and party."

Those who party too hearty might say they are "420-ed," he says, or really stoned.

St. Pierre is amazed "by the mass commercialization that has grown up around 420. Kids can buy all kinds of stuff with 420 on it," including clothing through the Net and "skateboards, surfboards, snowboards."

Some teens say they use the term almost as a joke. "It's like you see someone in the hall at 4:20 and say, '420, dude, ha, ha,' " says Brady Welch, 17, of Mt. Pleasant, S.C.

Teens don't make much of it at his school, says Jared Holst, 15, of Englewood, Colo. "Kids just happen to know what it means. Someone will say when it is 4:20."

Parents are usually oblivious to the reference, says Beth Kane Davidson, director of the addiction treatment center at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD. "This is a whole culture with kids." The message is, she says, "even if your adolescent is at home alone at 4:20, and he smokes up, he is not alone. He knows somebody somewhere else is smoking also."

St. Pierre has some qualms about going public with the term for the NORML conference. "As soon as it gets bandied about on the Today show, 420 will fizzle as a cultural phenomenon."

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UK artist, JonPaul Kaiser hits us hard with a beastly new custom 8-inch Dunny known as Pandaimyo. Created for a fellow KR Forums member as a continuation of a previous commissioned custom 3-inch Dunny.
JonPaul explains the backstory,

“He’s fought his way upwards, bearing the battle-scars of his experiences and has risen to the rank of Daimyo. Here he is at the beginning of yet another battle, roaring the signal for a new campaign to begin.”

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