Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Was the 'Khan v Maidana' fight as exciting as the 'Higgins v Williams' match?

Hard to tell as I have only read about the Khan/Maidana fight, also I don't think many punches were thrown by Williams/Higgins.
There have been some fantastic fights over the many years I have followed boxing.
One of my favorite all time hardest fights was in June 1986 when Barry McGuigan fought Stevie Cruz from Texas in what proved a grueling fifteen-round title bout under a blazing sun. I think it was way over 90 degrees for the whole fight. McGuigan held a lead halfway through, but suffered dehydration because of the extreme heat and wilted near the end, being dropped in rounds ten and fifteen. He eventually lost a close decision and his world belt, which he was never to reclaim. After the fight, McGuigan required hospitalisation because of his dehydrated state.
If you want to see 110% shear guts, if you haven't seen it, just watch it. How anyone could carry on like McGuigan did was super human.

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For AlDs.

It is strange, to me, how some are able to enjoy two others, beating one another, to unconsciousness or near to it.

(A little like supporting water boarding to me, or dog fighting.)

Fred
Do you mean that you wouldn't have gone to see the circuses in Rome?

Even if Fred post's it a third time Greekman won't reply.

Hays,

Yes, unless my nature has changed.

Although, in the past, I have enjoyed playing and watching physical contact sports, but see no pleasure in attempting to seriously physically, or mentally maiming another person.

However, I found the spelling of "circuses", although correct, a little odd and looked it up and found:

"bread and circuses" = Offerings, such as benefits or entertainments, intended to placate discontent or distract attention from a poor political policy or situation."


This reminded me of this present decaying tory "coalition", which I find it far more interesting, with the gladiators Clegg and Cameron competing, or fighting it out for the leadership.

This little circus has similarities to the John Le CarrCircus.
Or are you referring to Bunga-Bunga party over for Silvio Berlusconi?
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister is facing a vote of no confidence in the Italian parliament.

Worth a look at the video:-





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8198507/Is-the-Bunga-Bunga-party-over-for-Silvio-Berlusconi.html

Fred, who won't read this as he has - allegedly - squelched me, doesn't seem to realise that Le Carrs circus referred to Cambridge Circus in London, then the HQ of MI6.

aldwickk: no, I didn't get your MAMmail. I've checked my settings, and they seem to be correct. Meanwhile, I have received one from another MAMer, so the system seems to be working. Try again?

Fred
If you lived in Roman times you would probably have gone to the curcuses and enjoyed them. The population of Rome was about 1m at peak. The circus maximus held about 300,000 and the Colleseum held about 55,000. Almost everyone visted the games and tournaments and there were public holidays lasting weeks and sometimes months for people to attend. It is just a change of taste. Pretty much the same with boxing. There are plenty of people who still like boxing. Most people used to smokle, but that has changed. None of these changes indicate that earlier tastes were any worse.

Micro

You my have mail

Hays.

I probably would have like to have gone to see the cuscuses and probably would have liked viewing them.

Have a look.


http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=&q=cuscuses&rlz=1B3WZPB_enGB336GB336&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=TWwGTfDhDcmWhQfHq8zuBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQsAQwAA&biw=1280&bih=582

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As you have probably recognised, I have not usually travelled with the mob, preferring my own forms of entertainment.

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Fred
In Roman times, you would probably have been eating them as a half-time snack.

Hays,

PS,

Although, I played a few sports at reasonably high levels, I found watching others chasing a bag of wind, or running around a field more boring than watching cars polluting the atmosphere with petrol derivatives.

Although useless at it, I would prefer to go fishing for trout, or grayling.

At least, i could eat the products of my labour.

What do they do with the Spanish bulls killed in the Ring?

I believe that the meat is given to the poor.

That should make the bulls torturers feel good.

Did the Romans get to Australia?

Ellis Cashmore is professor of culture, media and sport at Staffordshire University. Among his books are Beckham and Celebrity/Culture.


So when you learn about the courses or even degrees in for example, "Ghostbusting" (Coventry University), "Surfing" (Plymouth), or "Pig Farming" (East Anglia), assume they are headline writers' shorthand for academically respectable courses.

In the USA, universities offer studies in Madonna (Harvard, no less), dog psychology (animal cognition, actually, at Berkeley) and, interestingly, Oprah Winfrey (Illinois). The latter is a good example of a new eclectic subject area: it uses the American celebrity as a living case study in entrepreneurship, racism, sexism and other areas germane to life in the 21st century.

Coventry University is offering the chance to look into haunted houses, extra-sensory perception and "the survival of bodily death".

Tony Lawrence, director of the two-year parapsychology course, said it would be "controversial yet thought-provoking".

The focus will be the "middle ground" between religion and science, he added.


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