Phantom Stranger

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="MichiganHero" data-cite="MichiganHero" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Theoretical question here.<p> </p><p> Say I'm wanting to make a dynasty that tracks three promotions under one umbrella banner. One promotion would get the full write up treatment whereas the other two would get monthly recaps with big events get a full write up. Would I be better off doing this in one main thread that contains all the promotions, two threads with one dedicated to the main promotion and the other dedicated to the two smaller promotions or three threads that focus on a promotion each?</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'd say main thread.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="petecrimson00" data-cite="petecrimson00" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34905" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><a href="http://s282.photobucket.com/user/immortal_enigma/media/JungleJackBC_zps8f5a62a5.jpg.html" rel="external nofollow"><span>http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/immortal_enigma/JungleJackBC_zps8f5a62a5.jpg</span></a></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Epictacular. Thank you.</p>

<p>Hey, guys.</p><p> </p><p> Can someone take Jungle Jack and turn him into Big Cat Marlowe, a la the old Brandon James gimmick?</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Matt Shannon" data-cite="Matt Shannon" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> PS: I didn't know it was a law that diaries <strong>must</strong> have pictures. I thought the content of the writing was what was important. I forgot I'm dealing with the Xbox generation here.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> No kind of law whatsoever - but you can use pictures on surprises very well. It sticks out a lot more if you ONLY use them then.</p><p> </p><p> Plus you can tweak pics, as Self does, and you can tease people with an unknown name offscreen for a while before revealing it with the picture...</p><p> </p><p> ...while in text you'd be going "And it turns out this dude is Randy Orton with a different name. And I'm going to keep using the different name, but, you know, be impressed!"</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BHK1978" data-cite="BHK1978" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>If you have the right people reading your diary, you will get more readers. I know people hate it when I say that but it is the truth. I have witnessed many writers on here who nobody paid attention to, all of a sudden become "great" writers after other big name diary writers took an interest in them. </div></blockquote><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="3rdStringPG" data-cite="3rdStringPG" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> But I will have to contest the first paragraph. I don't think that popular writers posting on a less-heralded writer's diary automatically makes them. For example, E-V has congratulated me on great shows and Phantom Stranger did the same once and predicted for a bit. But that didn't make my diary any more popular than it is. I still stick by the "if you write it, they will come" theory, "it" being quality storylines and/or engaging backstage segments. Not saying that I'm a "great" writer - actually far from it - but for me, content is still king.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I'm actually with BHK here - and no, I'm not claiming responsibility for PG's success by doing so.</p><p> </p><p> I'm also with PG. I did a diary here that was read by very few people, but I did it for ages. When I moved on to do PPPW, I got a lot more readers from the off, not because of a big name poster, but because I'd shown that my diaries didn't just fade away, which I do think is important.</p><p> </p><p> But a couple of folks I got were then big names. And that brought more folks in.</p><p> </p><p> When I wrapped PPPW and started TCW, I started with a bigger crowd than I'd had before. I'd got the old following, plus new folks who'd found PPPW's length daunting by the time they noticed.</p><p> </p><p> Again, big names helped build that crowd, but they can't be the only thing; for one thing, if that's all you've got going for you, big names won't come.</p><p> </p><p> I don't think it's a bad thing; I mean, we're here to read good diaries. *I* sure as hell am not going to regularly keep up with something I don't enjoy just to help a guy, you know? This is where I come with my time off!</p><p> </p><p> (It's kind of equivalent to books by new writers getting blurbs from Gaiman and King, I think. Only on a waaaaaaaaay lower scale.)</p><p> </p><p> ...I should point out here that I DO read a lot of diaries I don't predict on. 3rdStringPG's is one; I stopped predicting when I realised I couldn't get near the booking there. So if I'm not posting, it doesn't mean I think you suck, and if I AM posting regularly, it's because I enjoy predicting. Other threads, you'll see the very occasional post from me when I'm questioning something someone's said or when the writer delivers something TRULY standout.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="D-Lyrium" data-cite="D-Lyrium" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><p> I was mostly going offa what they talk like on that there Corrie on't telleh.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Would you do the same with Eastenders for a London accent?</p><p> </p><p> Exactly.</p><p> </p><p> <img alt=";)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/wink.png.686f06e511ee1fbf6bdc7d82f6831e53.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

I'll agree with D-Lyrium that Tommy will have adopted Americanisms; that was more a warning against accidentally picking up inaccurate slang. However, as to the rest of what's quoted above... Prefacing this, I live in Lancaster. The very most rural areas of the county have much stronger accents, but the 36-year-old Cornell has spent half his life in America. It's unlikely his accent's strong. ... 'Nowt' from the older generation, yes. It hasn't survived down to people currently in their thirties. 'Owt' has, paradoxically. Barring an extremely thick accent, people say 'the'. Summat is entirely accurate; duck can happen, but again, I wouldn't expect it from someone in their thirties. What've becomes what; how're doesn't become how. Is not does become int, by and large. I know one person living in Lancaster who uses the word 'champion'; my girlfriend. She grew up in Hartlepool, which is an entirely different action. Clobber is still clothes - just about, but Tommy would've grown up with it - bickering is bickering, as it is through most of the North and Midlands, if not all of England. Never heard 'got a cob on' in all my time here; I've never even come across it being referred to. Mind you, I don't go to Preston if I can help it. NOW. D-Lyrium is nonetheless right that all of these are associated in the English mind with the county's accent. If Tommy were playing up not just his Englishness but his home county any could come out; if he just plays up Englishness, 'owt', 'summat' 'int' and saying 'aye' instead of 'yes' are the bits most likely to just come naturally through. So take what he's said and use the bits you want. It'll give the right impression, albeit exaggerated.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="JShmoopy" data-cite="JShmoopy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>How do most people write Tommy Cornell's accent? I know he has a Lancashire accent, and that it's different from a Cockney accent which is how most non-UK people think all English speak. How would it be written (I mean how do you differentiate a word like car between two different US accents?), so would he just use more of the local phrases?<p> </p><p> I know he has been in the US for a long time now, but I still don't think he should come across as having no accent.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I've not seen Cornell being a Lancashire lad being set canon. It's an affectation a lot of us like as it's tied to the homeland of British wrestling.</p><p> </p><p> That being said, it's not an accent which has much in the way of differences you can represent through text. Your best bet is probably to represent Cornell's Englishness by paying attention to how English* characters speak, what phrasings they use.</p><p> </p><p> * As in, written by Englishmen. I always get jolted out of a US show when a British visitor refers to city blocks in ways which suggest he's used to them; it's not a term over here.</p>

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http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/UKWA_zps040b0cbe.jpg Watch this space...

I used to do this, until I found out that the Immortal Driver - the move that got a man over in Japan - is just a regular cradle piledriver.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Bigpapa42" data-cite="Bigpapa42" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Wow that's from awhile ago. Barely remember writing that. I still approach things much the same way, but I use a spreadsheet to keep track of everything and maintain a degree of organization. I couldn't image trying to do a diary project at this point without that.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> It's all in figuring out what fits your style.</p>

Winning.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Blake Trask" data-cite="Blake Trask" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Apart from the Tommy Cornell identity crisis...<p> </p><p> Oh yes.</p><p> </p><p> Oh. Hell. Yes.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Good catch, and fixed.</p><p> </p><p> I've been prepping this thing since before POW started. I'm just waiting on the C-V97 release at this point...</p>

<p></p><div style="text-align:center;"><p> </p><div class="ipsEmbeddedVideo"><div><iframe width="200" height="150" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RaJAxdGeZ4E?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows"></iframe></div></div></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> <em>Everybody knows that the dice are loaded</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/Dangerous/SWF%20Footage/BlackHatBailey.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "Nemesis had a lot of backing behind him," Black Hat Bailey remarks. "I think that was it. I think it was just that he figured he could get away with it."</p><p> </p><p> <em>Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/TCW/BarryKingman.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "What I always wondered," Barry Kingman offers, "was - Nemesis was toast after that match. He was the veteran. He called the shot. The argument afterward was formality. But - Tommy. He was eighteen. If he hadn't gotten into that argument with Dick Eisen as hard as Nemesis did, he'd have probably had to pay his dues a couple years. But after that, he could've come back from it. He'd be World Champion at SWF by now."</p><p> </p><p> <em>Everybody knows the war is over</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/TCW/TysonBaine.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "When I heard Mr. C was coming in, I was surprised," the man now known as Tyson Baine confesses frankly. "Sure, he was hot sh*t as far as the fans were concerned. But he'd also just spelled it out; he was a f***ing liability as far as booking plans were concerned. What do you do, put the guy up against Rip? The champ? Me? What if he takes liberties again? You understand what I'm saying - <em>what if he makes Sam Strong look bad</em>?" He nods significantly. "What I didn't get was, Stallings was adamant. Nerd-boner the size of New Mexico."</p><p> </p><p> <em>Everybody knows the good guys lost.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/TCW/PhilVibert.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "You're damn right I took advantage," Phil Vibert exclaims. "Show me a man who says he wouldn't and I'll show you a liar. He asked for a lot, sure. Not just money. He wanted to make sure he didn't get trampled."</p><p> </p><p> <em>Everybody knows the fight is fixed.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/Dangerous/SWF%20Footage/Dread_alt1.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "I'd say, yeah, you wanted to get ahead in HGC, you had to be Sam Strong's buddy," Dread concedes, with a slight smirk. "Or someone he knew he could make money off. You wanted to stay on top, you had to be someone he knew he'd always make money off. That was me and Rip. He brought Rahn in just for someone else to beat." The smirk broadens. "Then Mr. C came in, and things changed. Not just him - but it showed that Stallings might just overrule Sammy boy if he had a good enough reason."</p><p> </p><p> <em>The poor stay poor and the rich get rich</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/TCW/JDMorgan.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "I was already figuring on my time with DaVE coming to an end," JD Morgan confesses. "My style wasn't the same as what was making Phil money, and Phil needed to go with what his big moneymakers could handle. With the boss-man coming in, I decided to give it a bit longer. He wasn't the boss-man then - not by a long chalk - but we could all smell the money coming."</p><p> </p><p> <em>That's how it goes...</em></p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><p> <span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/Dangerous/SWF%20Footage/Nemisis.jpg</span></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> "I knew it was going to be rough," Nemesis confesses. "I was an SWF guy. I was a little guy. And I was clearly a problem. Worst, I was big enough off the match to be a political threat. And my only real backing was the owner."</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/TCW/TommyCornell_alt1jt.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "I knew it was going to be rough," Tommy Cornell confesses. "I was an SWF guy. I was a kid. And I was clearly a problem. Worst, I was big enough off the match to be a political threat. And my only real backing was the owner."</p><p> </p><p> <em>Yeah, everybody knows.</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/TCW/TysonBaine.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "Said it before, say it again," Baine says. "If it hadn't been for Mr Campbell coming in, I've gotta think I'd've been fed to Sam Strong, then out on my a** looking for work and needing to rebuild."</p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:center;"><span>http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/TCW/EricTyler.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> "Tommy Cornell was a good kid who just hadn't put in enough time to be able to cope with the book," Eric Tyler offers. A smile spreads across his face. "But he knew which side his bread was buttered, and I found he was really willing to listen. And without him, I don't think DaVE could have won the war."</p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="34866" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div><div style="text-align:center;"><p>Coming Soon</p><p> </p><p> From The Somewhat Over-Praised Phantom Stranger</p><p> </p><p><strong> A DaVE/HGC Co-Production</strong></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:14px;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">[C-Verse 97] Everybody Knows</span></strong></span></p></div><p></p><p></p></div></blockquote>

I'm actually contemplating, at the moment, running two diaries; one will be possibly the biggest undertaking I've yet done. The other would be lighter and more cut-down, but would revolve around "Operation Lullaby," taking my cues from the old TV series Wiseguy.

I was going to question this... then I remembered the examples I had in mind were all custom requests, and in most cases ones where I'd said some variation of "Old school" or "serious." My favourite requests remain Canadian TCW Championship and TCW Womens, though.

Hey, man. Welcome to the forums. The traditional etiquette when one guy is running a request thread, over here, is for the first post to contain the current status of the thread, which in this case is closed. You might get lucky, though, as a few other belt makers are currently active...

...dayum. Now I need to work out how to bring that in...

It was mentioned upthread, but since it's debuted in my diary, here's my most recent request: http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/TCW/TCWWomens.jpg The TCW Womens belt.

Placeholder post for private request.

...I want to restart XFW.

XWF, PPPW, and RPW, unified with the DaVE top title.. Believe you've made belts for two of those in the '08 era - the PPPW Smoking Skull belt, Tag belts and Maximum Championship I requested, I know that, and foolinc had some RPW belts made. XWF I'm not sure about, but here are all three logos according to the '97 mod: http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/PPPW.jpghttp://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/RPW.jpghttp://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/XFW.jpg And here's the awesome PPPW reworked logo Kam did during my PPPW diary: http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm75/trenchcoatbrigand/Dangerous/pppw5.jpg

...Yowza.