Re: [sumo] Asashoryu in NYC photos

["Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp>]

> The Illustrious Mr Dulka proclaimed:
>
> >>> If you refer to a rikishi as a wrestler you are wrong.
> >>
> and Knut Hogvall's riposte read thusly:
> >>
> >> Saying that a rikishi is not a wrestler is like saying that a Ford is
not
> > a car.
>
> To which our esteemed logician, Mr Dulka protested:
>
>  >The KYOKAI and the
> > RIKISHI want to DISTANCE themselves from PURO RESU. They don't want to
be
> > called 'wrestlers'. They are, but they don't want to be called that.
Call it
> > pride, call it stubbornness, call it whatever. I think they're
entertainers,
> > kings of the night, trenchermen, gamblers, wenchers, great guys,
determined
> > and lots of other things. But they are not what YOU PEOPLE think they
are!
>
> And I, your humble servant, scratching my head before my first cup of
coffee
> of the day, respectfully submit:
>
> Stephen, you know that they are wrestlers.  You say so yourself.  So there
> is apparently no argument between you and Mr. Hogvall on that point.  Your
> argument (apparently) is with the Kyokai and how they wish the sumo
> practitioners to be referred to, not anyone on this list.  I think.  But
I'm
> not sure.
>
> I'm going to go and pour myself a cup of coffee RIGHT NOW.
>
> --Beisuborumaru
>
> [EndPost by Mike Chamberlain <mikec@rocler.qc.ca>]

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Are you in Montreal? Anyway, I'm having a beer and a cigar right now.  I
have no beef with the KYOKAI. They have their preferences. You people
certainly have yours. So be it.

Go Habs Go!

[EndPost by "Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp>]