Re: [sumo] Mr. Dulka and the use of the two words "you people"

["Whitney" <kishiko@charter.net>]

Alright Mr. Dulka, I want you to explain who you are referring to when you talk about "you people". This should be very entertaining. 

Whitney
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephan Dulka" <dulka@alpha.ocn.ne.jp>
To: "Mike Chamberlain" <mikec@rocler.qc.ca>; "Knut Högvall" <knutte@bigfoot.com>; <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [sumo] Asashoryu in NYC photos


> 
> > 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>]
> 
> ======
> 
> 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>]

[EndPost by "Whitney" <kishiko@charter.net>]