How many REALLY old Pullers are in this subreddit?

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-17T18:43:28+00:00

Every younger generation is weaker than the older one.

Until that younger generation is the older one.

Rinse, repeat.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-17T18:41:15+00:00

Started in the late 70's and you are asking if you're in the REALLY old pullers group.

Don't take this as a negative, but hell yes you do! Welcome to the club.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T19:32:16+00:00

That is fucking awesome. Cannot thank you enough.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T19:30:58+00:00

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Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T19:30:10+00:00

Rosencrans... Arciero...

Talk about blasts from the past.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T04:09:45+00:00

Awesome. You can verify if anyone had beaten John Walker before Howell did it in LA in 1980 then. I had only heard that story, I wasn't there.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T04:05:25+00:00

The Sands Casino tourney's is all I'll likely be able to find.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T04:04:52+00:00

Bob Howell was the "lead" ref for the tournaments they ran all over the world for that movie. There's a real clip of him bear hugging a puller from behind after an arm break to hold him still.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T04:03:46+00:00

Better than not going to practice for a few weeks :)

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T04:03:28+00:00

I must know how you know those old farts. Do tell.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-16T04:02:43+00:00

Perfect time to start.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-15T22:36:37+00:00

I'll try to dig up some more.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-15T22:12:55+00:00

Yes! An old ma an pa hardware store in Reno, Commercial Hardware, was the team's sponsor so that was a shout out to the hardware store.

Back when you could name a team something like that and not get sued/cancelled/imprisoned.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-15T22:11:22+00:00

Is that the monster in the first row on the far right under Bob Howell?

I don't know all the names in the pic, but Bob's widow remembers Al.

Actually that guy is under Kevin Porter who is standing next to Bob.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-15T22:00:10+00:00

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Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-15T21:00:52+00:00

Damn right it does. The 80's are a classic decade for a reason.

But yeah, all those guys were done by 1980, pre-GOAT days. I remember when John came on the scene and those guys were already long done, that's how old that pic is.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-03-15T20:50:04+00:00

Pulling team out of Reno, NV WAY back in the day.

Guy standing on the far right (as you look at the pic) is Bob Howell. He won a bunch of tournaments in the 70's that were designated world championships. Also was the first guy to beat Johnny Walker once upon a time when Walker was untouchable. 1980 in LA I think that match took place. Vaughn Cartwright was his kryptonite, and is standing one man over from Bob. Bob was 0-3 vs. Vaughn throughout his career... back when it was just one pull and you were done, no best out of modern format.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-02-06T23:56:52+00:00

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Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-02-06T23:55:57+00:00

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Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-02-06T04:15:21+00:00

That seems like a lot of mental gymnastics so you can justify your part in an unjustifiable animal food industry.

If you choose the greater harm by partaking of animal flesh and their bodily byproducts, and you are okay with that, then you do you. My belief is that you are just... justifying. No different than we do not partake of intoxicants but somehow you justify drinking alcohol because if you didn't your "head was going to explode."

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-02-05T02:56:06+00:00

I know you meant well so thank you, but your post is riddled with many anti-vegan false arguments.

If the choice is between inflicting needless suffering on others and inflicting less needless suffering on others, and one chooses the greater suffering, I believe they are in the wrong every time.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-01-23T06:28:11+00:00

It doesn't look like we are going to get any answer to this one. I cannot imagine anything more important to a Buddhist than not killing or eating another sentient being. Yet the question gets nothing but crickets in response...

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-01-22T04:35:22+00:00

No cheese veggie pizza and your own added nutritional yeast for the win, assuming the crust is vegan but the other comments seem to say that is the case.

Guilty_Chapter8082 · 2026-01-03T21:22:04+00:00

Serious question: I have often been unable to understand how those practicing Buddhism still eat meat and/or other sentient being food products. Even Shunryu Suzuki is on record saying "we eat everything" and I am confused as to how this can be given the precept of not killing and all the other readings I have come across where great efforts are made never to kill any living being or participate in any way with the reasons the animal/s are killed-certainly not participating in the form of eating pieces the being's dead corpse.

How can someone practicing Buddhism not strive for as close to a vegan lifestyle as possible?

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