Re: [sumo] Re: Akebono's pro wrestling debut

[Dale Carlson <drc@oz.net>]

At 06:54 AM 4/6/2005 -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dale Carlson wrote:
>
>> Sorta like if the Pope were to retire and then go on the road with
>> "Father Guido Sarducci", parodying everything he supposedly stood for
>> before. Fine, I guess, if he needs the money...
>> 
>> Then again, maybe I'm just taking this all too seriously :)
>
>	Ah, maybe not the best comparison to make.  In fact, putting any
>Yokozuna in the same sentence as Pope John Paul II is a bit pretentious at
>best.  Maybe if you compared Akebono's latest "career choices" with the
>Emperor of Japan stepping down to follow his dream of being a Three
>Stooges impersonater it would be a more realistic example.  But, from a
>lapsed Catholic who is more Buddhist than anything else, please do not
>disparage His Holiness again.

I don't think I said anything disparaging about the Pope- a man I respected a
great deal. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, and especially that I didn't
anticipate
that the recovery we were all hoping for would suffer such a reversal only
a day 
or two after my post. 

If you were so offended by what I said- again, I'm sorry. But your
reasoning which
then makes it OK to recast my analogy with the Emperor of Japan, a man also 
deeply revered by many people, eludes me, I'm afraid.

Dale



[EndPost by Dale Carlson <drc@oz.net>]