RawIsWar
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Post by RawIsWar on Sept 11, 2012 16:00:24 GMT -5
In my Effective Speaking class today, the professor began the class asking if there were any wrestling fans in the room. I, along with more people than I would have thought, raised their hand.
He then began to talk to us about what happened last night with Jerry Lawler, and even went on to describing his Smokey Mountain days and the Andy Kaufman incident. I was actually surprised with the knowledge he had.
Later on in class he said, "just when you think you have all the answers, I change the questions", "who said that?" he looked at me and I said Rowdy Roddy Piper! Thought that was pretty cool.
Any way, who else has had cool experiences like this in school?
Discuss.
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Post by K5 on Sept 11, 2012 16:15:36 GMT -5
my grade 8 class trip was to niagra falls, and i somehow convinced the teacher to bring the whole class to the newly opened wwe store there. it was a really catholic school, not sure how i swung that.
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Dante, The Voc
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Post by Dante, The Voc on Sept 11, 2012 16:22:09 GMT -5
One day in the beginning of freshman year, my English teacher asked me if non-restrictive clauses meant they followed no rules (my English teacher had a few screws loose). I didn't say anything and he said, "Is it like a WWF Steel Cage match? No rules?" Pretty interesting for me considering he didn't know much about me yet, nor did he strike me as a wrestling fan.
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Post by Zigzag on Sept 11, 2012 16:36:10 GMT -5
Back in 1997, I co-hosted a podcast, back when you called them "audio shows" lol. Anyway, I told my sister's Earth Science teacher about it. Next thing I know, my sister told me he plays it in class every week.
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Post by The Natural Eddy Valintino on Sept 11, 2012 16:44:32 GMT -5
My eighth grade teacher would always talk to me about classic wrestling. He said when he started watching, he would enjoy the NWA mostly and he enjoyed the WWF a little bit, especially Demolition and the Bushwackers.
Also, my music history teacher was a huge wrestling fan, just like me. I remember the second week of school, he mentioned Ric Flair and did the WOO chant! Ever since that, we would always talk about wrestling after class. I was actually a little bit sad to hear he retired because he was a fun teacher.
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Post by The Future on Sept 11, 2012 17:08:04 GMT -5
I'm a teacher, and I talk to my students all the time about wrestling...mainly the current product, as they're 7th graders and just love to watch RAW. A few know about the attitude era, though- we have some pretty fun discussions.
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Post by alexgg on Sept 11, 2012 18:08:57 GMT -5
I remember my Maths teacher a few years ago would occasionaly talk about wrestling, once in class he even watched Chris Jericho vs Ricky Steamboat on his laptop. :X
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Post by TheChamp617 on Sept 11, 2012 18:22:07 GMT -5
My grade 8 teacher mentioned one day in class that one of her friends was a big WWE fan and wanted to be a broadcaster/commentator person. Apparently he was able to do a little bit of that and met a few of the crew of wwe
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Post by JHTB® on Sept 11, 2012 18:34:54 GMT -5
I had a summer school teacher that had a sister that works for the WWE! She brought a Judegement day 2006 tag that only people that work there has, the rock elbow pad and some glasses that I forgot who's it was for me to see.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2012 20:12:39 GMT -5
My math teachers last year were wrestling fans and started talking about it towards the end of class.
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Post by hbchris on Sept 11, 2012 20:20:21 GMT -5
Nothing like that, but as a college freshman I wrote an English essay justifying why I liked pro wrestling. My teacher thought it was the greatest thing and read it to the class.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 9:39:24 GMT -5
Im from Australia and my 7th grade science teacher was Canadian and she would always brag about how she was Chris Jericho's cousin (or half sister). I'm not sure if she was lying. Chris Jericho was my favorite wrestler at the time but I was too shy to tell her, she left the school 2 years after and I was so close to going up to her to talk to her about it. But I did not
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Post by rude1awakening on Sept 12, 2012 11:02:16 GMT -5
I used to go to the original ECW when I was in high School, on a Friday I wore a Sandman shirt becaus we were going that night my hisotry teacher asked me to buy him a bWo shirt, I thought that was great.
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Post by The Hitman on Sept 12, 2012 12:33:13 GMT -5
I actually have 2. In 6th grade, we had this reading assignment due every Friday, where we had to go up infront of the class and talk about a book we read. Well my buddy, went up in front and summarized an episode of Smackdown, me and another friend of mine laughed at it, cause he got away with it, but little did we know, our teacher was a wrestling fan, and even referenced it later in the year. Still a great childhood memory.
Another was in 8th grade, when a gym teacher would always stop me to talk wrestling. He was an old school guy like AWA and NWA type. He would always reference the Road Warriors, while Ill called them the Legion of Doom. Lol, He would ramble on for a few minutes and in turn I would be late to homeroom. He didnt seem to mind as he would continue talking. Pretty cool dude.
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Post by specterkev on Sept 12, 2012 12:39:51 GMT -5
I wish i would have had a cool teacher like that!
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Post by MARK-ISM on Sept 12, 2012 13:03:35 GMT -5
In a media studies class, back in the "attitude era", we got to watch a pay per view and then we had a quiz on what happened during it, to make sure we were paying attention
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Post by TheChamp617 on Sept 12, 2012 14:43:57 GMT -5
Another thing that has happened:
Last year my friend and I was talking wrestling and our substitute teacher overheard. She continues by saying "my cousin is a wrestler"... I ask "who?" She responds, "Santino Marella". She continued by saying that his trumpet thing comes from their grandfather (or someone else - I don't remember who). She said that she could get me Santino's autograph if I wanted, but I said that I already have one as I've already met him before.
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Post by wwextreme25 on Sept 12, 2012 16:08:35 GMT -5
My teacher once saw my wrestling animations i made and Loved them.He told me he used to religiously watch WWF and we got talking about it all. Was very interesting for me to talk to someone about it all ahha
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 16:44:30 GMT -5
My grade 6 student teacher was a fan back in the 90's, and got Bret Hart's shades once. He was easily the coolest teacher there is, the coolest there was, and the coolest there ever will be.
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Post by gwtpunk on Sept 12, 2012 17:39:59 GMT -5
Another thing that has happened: Last year my friend and I was talking wrestling and our substitute teacher overheard. She continues by saying "my cousin is a wrestler"... I ask "who?" She responds, "Santino Marella". She continued by saying that his trumpet thing comes from their grandfather (or someone else - I don't remember who). She said that she could get me Santino's autograph if I wanted, but I said that I already have one as I've already met him before. that's weird you would mention that because Santino went to my friend's school to do autographs because my friend's teacher was santino's ex lol
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