Former WWE Writer Talks About Unwritten Airplane Rules, Vince's Sense Of Humor

[Silkk]

On a specific 'prank' Vince pulled after a writer fell asleep:
"Funniest thing I ever saw on the plane - there is always the rule that if Vince is not sleeping on the plane, then you do not sleep on the plane. Again, unsaid, unwritten rule and Vince will never ever tell you that, but if you fall asleep on the plane, someone is going to mess with you,"

"One of the directors - I will withhold his name - fell asleep on the plane and Vince started taking the cashews and throwing them at him. Like, one or two at a time, and there was no reaction. He was out cold and not waking up from this.

"Then, Vince just said screw it and took the entire tin of cashews, threw it at this director, and they go all over the plane. All of us don't know if this is awkward or if we should just break out laughing at this point. To this director's credit, because he had been in the company long enough to know when take his lumps and when to pick his fights, he opened his eyes, looked around, saw the nuts all over the place, and said, 'Um, Vince, I think you dropped your nuts.' And then it was a big laugh for everyone. He knew how to handle the situation and that's why this guy is one of the survivors in the company because he played that part perfect. Vince got his laugh and got to throw stuff at him, then it wasn't a fight that came out of it, just people letting off steam."



"You Gonna Learn To Eat shyt & Like It"

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

He threw cashews at a co-worker on a plane

Vince is wild, Coke Boy uncut

 

[Ohnoits]

I couldn't work there. How many people on this forum would just wile out and snap?

Then get randomly booked in a jobber match one night as a wrestler, even though you're a writer so Triple H can come in and bury you/stuff your face in the boss' ass.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

He threw cashews at a co-worker on a plane

Vince is wild, Coke Boy uncut

WhiteBoi getting fed up with the #fukkery around here. Hide the guns.

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[No_bammer_weed]

*get hit in the head by a tin*

*looks around, sees Vince is the culprit*

*picks up two cashews*

*Says...."These look a lil smaller than grapefruits. They must be old"

*gently places one on ground and proceeds to smash and grind with my foot*

*Punctuates remark with an "Ooooh Yeah, right Stephanie?" in a macho man voice*

*looks to the back of the plane with the face*





WWE has come to terms on the release of WWE Superstar No Bammer Weed. We wish NBM the best in all future endeavors.

 

[Versa]

I'd fukk Vickie because she's thick and because I just realized she has really pretty eyes. I'd ignore the rest for the sake of getting a nut.

 

[King Crimson]

*get hit in the head by a tin*

*looks around, sees Vince is the culprit*

*picks up two cashews*

*Says...."These look a lil smaller than grapefruits. They must be old"

*gently places one on ground and proceeds to smash and grind with my foot*

*Punctuates remark with an "Ooooh Yeah, right Stephanie?" in a macho man voice*

*looks to the back of the plane with the face*





WWE has come to terms on the release of WWE Superstar No Bammer Weed. We wish NBM the best in all future endeavors.

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

*get hit in the head by a tin*

*looks around, sees Vince is the culprit*

*picks up two cashews*

*Says...."These look a lil smaller than grapefruits. They must be old"

*gently places one on ground and proceeds to smash and grind with my foot*

*Punctuates remark with an "Ooooh Yeah, right Stephanie?" in a macho man voice*

*looks to the back of the plane with the face*





WWE has come to terms on the release of WWE Superstar No Bammer Weed. We wish NBM the best in all future endeavors.

 

[R=G]

McMahon is one deranged Republican....dudes be walking on eggshells around him.

 

[Lucci Vee]

Not everyone can work for Vince. I sure cant.

 

[TNC]

Coach got it the worst.

They used to say before and after RAWs Vince used to make him go to the ring and take top star's finishers purely as a way of humbling him

 

[NYChase718]

Frank Deford, generally regarded as one of the best sportswriters who ever lived, and who was a personal mentor of mine some 22 years back when I worked at The National, released a new autobiography this month called “Over Time: My Life as a
Sportswriter.”

In the book, he spoke about Rodney Dangerfield, who he did a series of TV commercials with, and talked about what a jerk he was. Then he said that of all the people he had come across in his life, Dangerfield was only No. 2 on the list, saying No. 1 was Vince McMahon. This one relates directly to me and I am mentioned in the story briefly. It actually had to do with a story at a birthday party for John Fillipelli in 1991, a close personal friend of Deford who at the time was one of the top
executives in WWF. Deford and his wife were at the party, as was Vince and a lot of WWF execs.

At the time, Vince was mad at Deford because Deford made the call to hire me, ironically based on the recommendation of one of McMahon’s best friends, dikk Ebersol, as well as the sports editor at the time of the Los Angles Times, John Cherwa. At the party, everyone decided to go bowling. At the bowling alley, apparently there was someone bowling that night named dikkk, and Patterson and Vince kept making jokes about penises whenever he’d bowl, which apparently had the Fillipelli family rolling their eyes because these were all upper class types there. Then McMahon and Pat Patterson stole one shoe from Deford as well as his wife while they had their bowling shoes on. Keep in mind these aren’t 20 year olds. Vince at this point is 45 or 46, Patterson is 50, Deford was 52. So when they’re done bowling, the Defords can’t find their shoes and McMahon and Patterson are laughing. So they figure okay, joke, where’s the shoe. But McMahon and Patterson never gave up the shoes and they actually had to leave the party with one shoe each. It’s one thing to do it to a guy, but then doing it to his wife? But what Deford actually was madder about is that after the death of Chris Benoit, Deford wrote a piece, based on an article I wrote at the time, about deaths in pro wrestling. Since it came from Deford, when McMahon testified before Henry Waxman’s committee, and they brought up the article, McMahon claimed that Deford held a grudge against him because he and his wife had their shoes stolen at a party. The idea that he wrote an article about dozens of dead wrestlers, and Vince’s explanation of the article is that he stole the guys shoes 16 years earlier and he was holding a grudge.

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

I'd fukk Vickie because she's thick and because I just realized she has really pretty eyes. I'd ignore the rest for the sake of getting a nut.

Damned if that ugly, annoying c*nt doesnt give me an erection about 80% of the time shes on the screen.

 

[Lucci Vee]

Coach got it the worst.

They used to say before and after RAWs Vince used to make him go to the ring and take top star's finishers purely as a way of humbling him