Pencil-Necks Can Finally Exhale

Freddie Blassie, the villainous old-school professional wrestler known mostly (to me anyway) as the performer of the Dr. Demento classic Pencil-Neck Geek, died Monday of heart failure at age 85. According to the L.A. Times obit, sportswriting legend Jim Murray once described Blassie as "the worst villain since Hitler."

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