"David E. Milligan"  wrote in message 
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> "L Alpert"  wrote in message 
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>> "Dillon Pyron" 
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>>> Thus spake "L Alpert"  :
>>>
>>>>
>>>>"David E. Milligan"
 wrote in message
>>>>news:I7jtk.17337$XB4.526{at}bignews9.bellsouth.net...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Ralph Mowery"
 wrote in message
>>>>> news:D4SdnSU6fJIq_C7VnZ2dnUVZ_tXinZ2d{at}earthlink.com...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "d"  wrote in message
>>>>>> news:J6OdnXpqoZEgxS7VnZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d{at}comcast.com...
>>>>>>> Wow, this channel only seems to get worse and worse.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Who watches it?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anybody believe its real? If so, do you
also believe in 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> Easter Bunny?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rick
>>>>>> This is the fiction channel.
>>>>>> The wrestling is not real,but more scripted like a
soap opera 
>>>>>> or
>>>>>> comic show.
>>>>>> It took me years to come to the conclusion that it
was just for
>>>>>> show and entertainment.  I knew the wrestling was fake, but 
>>>>>> just
>>>>>> did not see what people saw in it for a long time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>        That's why it is now called WWE -- World  Wrestling
>>>>> ENTERTAINMENT.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Only because WWF was a previously owned copyright of another
>>>>orginization  ;-)
>>>
>>> The ;-) makes me uncertain.  I believe that WWF morphed into WWE 
>>> under
>>> the same mismanagement, didn't it?  Not that I really know.  I 
>>> quit
>>> watching "pro wrestling" when BoBo Brazil retired
(google "bobo 
>>> bop")
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> The World Wildlife Fund (www.wwf.org) sued the then known WWF, 
>> forcing then to change their nomenclature.
>
>        Originally, it was the WWWF - World Wide Wrestling Federation 
> under Vince McMahon Sr. When Junior (Vinnie Mac [aka the Genetic 
> Jackhammer] ) took over, he shortened it to the WWF. It took 10 - 15 
> years before the World Wildlife Fund got around to suing, and 
> eventually winning. So WWF became WWE.

Sounds about right.

>
>>
>> BoBo and his infamous "Coco butt".....I remember him as
a kid when 
>> my dad knew the promoter in Convention Hall (Asbury Park, NJ) and 
>> used to get all the kids in the neighborhood front row ringside 
>> tickets.  I realized later my dad had an ulterior motive, as we all 
>> couldn't talk for days after screaming half the night of the 
>> matches!
>>
>
>
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