RE: comedy central-Eurosport sumo "coverage"-total nonsense and waste of time

["Goddard, Margaret" <margaret.goddard@unistudios.com>]

Kintamayama, 

You are TOO funny.  Now I'm wishing we had this very entertaining coverage
in California.

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> From: 	motid@bigfoot.com[SMTP:motid@bigfoot.com]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, December 08, 1998 5:00 AM
> To: 	sumo server
> Subject: 	comedy central-Eurosport sumo "coverage"-total nonsense and
> waste of  time
> 
> Hi non-Europeans!!
> 
> Well, yesterday was the final installment of the KAyushu BashU ( THAT'S
> how it should be pronounced, according to the commentator..).    If it
> wasn't sad, I would be laughing my head off . For those of you who
> didn't have the priviledge of watching, and LISTENING, here are some
> gems I jotted down:
> 
> Tack-eye-  Tachi ai- ( Oh, what a THUNDERING Tack eye that was..}
> musashi- mawashi  ( He has his arm on the musashi)
> emerald green--any green musashi
> ocean blue- any blue musashi
> Tokyonada- one of the variations on Tochinonada
> Kotonishi - Kotonishiki  -with the accent on the "to"
> Cow- Kaio {The locals are cheering the local boy --Cow)
> Chiyotaki- well, you know who..
> SekiwakA-- (nohana??)
> Mitsoyuma- No, not Musoyama----, Mitoizumi--5 times
> While Terao (in his ocean blue Musashi) was fighting Asahiyutaka,
> Mr.Commentator was explaining that Wakanosato, on our right, in his red
> musashi, was out for the duration of the BashU  with an injury, and
> Kotonowaka, who can be seen on our left, is the winner by default.
> (Terao won by yorikiri, and when the they actually SHOWED Kotonowaka
> winning by default, there was a deadly silence accross all of Europe...)
> 
> Gorojo- ten times this variation, then he turned Gojoro and Wakanojo
> into Mexicans by calling them  GoYoro and WakanoYo..
> Makushi, as in-"This is  Oochari's (Oikari"s)  first BashU in Makushi.).
> 
> Tokiazuma, Tokinowaka, and the best one-- Talkeye!! As in--- ("That
> Talkeye sure has a hairy back..!!}
> This drivel went on for five days. OK, it's no big deal, and beggars
> shouldn't be chosers, and we should thank the stars that we get a
> trickle of Sumo in Europe here and there and so on and so forth..,but
> hey, this isn't some local station- this is going out to all of Europe!!
> I don't blame the poor "commentator' who probably doesn't know Sumo from
> Judo- but who's the @@@3$#% that made him do it?? I wonder what the
> repercussions would have been if this was a soccer or a Basketball
> commentator screwing up the basics.( Ooooh, Mikel Yordan in  ocean blue
> pants is gribbling the beskitbul, and he yumps and flunks the ball in
> the beskit and draws a fool! The Chicago BAlls are leading by a
> musashi!!  ( Remember, this is not an Italian commentator trying out his
> Inglish--this was an English commentator...)
> Sorry for the grivvel and y'all have a great holiday!!
> 
> 
> --
> Kintamayama of Camelot
> http://members.xoom.com/mdi  or     http://webalias.com/Motisumo
> "If one and one and one is three, I better be heading home."
> Overheard on the subway
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