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>You can also rename those silly WWE wrestlers from 'SmackDown' into 'MonsterBallet' ...
>(Have you been asked; 'Daddy do they fight for real ??')
I remember when I was a little kid "professional wrestling" was just becoming popular on television. Of course there were a lot of theatrics, including a guy hitting another guy with a folding chair and the guy hit falling down then jumping back up. My father laughed and said " I only weigh 150 pounds, but if I hit that guy with a chair he's not getting up." ;-) It was good lesson to learn as a kid about the difference between show business and real violence. Probably saved me from having the kind of romantic notions that can lead to thinking a little guy hitting me with a chair ( or something worse, like a bullet ) isn't going to be a very very bad thing.
I've always thought fighting is wrong ... if it involves me :-)
I'm not even a boxing fan and I know that is sort of real. (even if sometimes the winner is pre-determined)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
