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[Pretty Little Flower]

So, Bluefly is advertising that they got in a bunch of new ties, including a series of Hickey ties that have what they describe as a "leaf" pattern:



Did Sebastian have something to do with this?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Don't forget a bald man peeking over the wall at a tanning booth:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/app.../NEWS/90429004

What makes you think he was bald?

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

What makes you think he was bald?

TM

Whoa. I read the article yesterday (it was a link from fark), and the article noted that the peeper was bald. In fact, many posters on fark found it strange that the article mentioned that fact. They must have updated the story because the article didn't identify his name when I read it.

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

What makes you think he was bald?

TM

All bald dudes do shit like that

[ThurgreedMarshall]

I am confused by this:

http://livesteez.com/watch/X0l4y7/Ky...t-No-Arms-Legs

Is this really where we are as a society? More importantly, was the other guy paid by many punches he didn't throw?

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by J. Fred Muggs

All bald dudes do shit like that

Exactly. Fucking weirdos.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I am confused by this:

http://livesteez.com/watch/X0l4y7/Ky...t-No-Arms-Legs

Is this really where we are as a society? More importantly, was the other guy paid by many punches he didn't throw?

TM

How do you punch at something below knee level? You've break your hand on the top of his head. The other guy couldn't throw kicks to the head because the no-arms-no-legs guy was considered down.

He was a successful wrestler in high school (I don't know how), and I believe he wrestled at the collegiate level, perhaps Juco. He's incredibly strong and butterfly presses something like 350 pounds. I was disppointed the video didn't show more of the fight, because I was genuinely curious to see how he could grapple and strike. A lot of people with disabilities find him inspiring. He wanted to do this. I don't see anything wrong with it.

eta: This probably slowed things down, too:

Maynard doesn’t even have gloves on because it was so hot and humid they kept slipping off his stubs. As a result, he was barred from punching even if he’d been able to reach Fry.

But I admire the guy.

The voice through the phone, despite being thoughtful and soft spoken, screams out too.

It’s 36 hours since Kyle Maynard was carried by a friend, piggyback style, into that cage and took his shot at being a mixed martial artist. To say he has no regrets understates it. He calls it “fun,” an “awesome experience” and a “huge accomplishment.”

“I accomplished everything I wanted to short of winning that fight,” Maynard said.

When Kyle Maynard speaks of accomplishment, you listen. The term hero is overused in sports, but this is the real deal. He was born with a rare physical disorder that left him deformed and incapable of walking. He proceeded to spend most of his life doing exactly what he wanted anyway.

In the process he’s made plenty of able-bodied folks first uncomfortable, then inspired.


When he was in middle school he played football (he was a nose tackle who occasionally charged through the center’s legs). He’s been a champion weightlifter, hooking chains around his arms on one end and bars of iron on the other.

When he went out for wrestling as a teenager, he was told by many that it wasn’t possible, that there should be a rule barring him from getting hurt. He lost his first 35 matches. He never quit. By the time he was a senior in high school, he was one of Georgia’s best in the state at 103 pounds.

He’s been honored by presidents, won humanitarian awards and appeared on “Oprah.” He wrote a national best-selling book, “No Excuses,” and has spent the last few years giving motivational speeches across the country. He got so busy he had to drop out of the University of Georgia. He now owns his own gym and just opened a training center.

Don’t judge him by his limbs. The guy is incredible.

“Quite frankly everybody has a disability,” Maynard said. “People go through personal issues of character, morality, spirituality, emotional. It doesn’t just have to be something physical. Everybody has something to overcome.”

Still, don’t you need limbs for mixed martial arts? He doesn’t think so.

He wasn’t pummeled like many predicted, he said, deflecting most punches. He just couldn’t knock Fry to the ground – “I’m not going to outbox somebody,” he joked. However, the fact that Fry ran to avoid Maynard’s wrestling and submission skills was a moral victory.

He even appreciated the two or three clean punches he took.

“They landed hard,” Maynard laughed. “That in and of itself was a huge confidence boost for me. I wanted to get hit in the fight.”

He’s 23. He’s a tough guy. He knows what he’s doing.

Back in high school, Maynard wanted to join the Army and be an airborne ranger. He went down and talked to the recruiters, who loved his heart and intelligence. They laid it out, though: He could be an asset to the Army, just not on the front lines because if someone ever had to help him, that person would be at risk.

“I understood that,” Maynard said. “The last thing I want to do is endanger someone else. But on the flip side, with mixed martial arts, I think it should be my choice. I’m the only one in harm’s way, so to speak.”

The ugly tableau of unregulated Alabama aside, how was this a bad thing? How is Kyle Maynard ever a bad thing?

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

How do you punch at something below knee level? You've break your hand on the top of his head. The other guy couldn't throw kicks to the head because the no-arms-no-legs guy was considered down.

He was a successful wrestler in high school (I don't know how), and I believe he wrestled at the collegiate level, perhaps Juco. He's incredibly strong and butterfly presses something like 350 pounds. I was disppointed the video didn't show more of the fight, because I was genuinely curious to see how he could grapple and strike. A lot of people with disabilities find him inspiring. He wanted to do this. I don't see anything wrong with it.

I read about this fight. He couldn't strike, because they couldn't get gloves onto his arms.

I see a lot of things wrong with it, but I won't go into them here as I will bore everyone but me, and possibly Club, half to death if I do.

[Gattigap]

Totally buying one of these for TM.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Mark Leyner's description of driving across Iowa (in My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, I think):

Corn corn corn corn Stuckey's. Corn corn corn corn Stuckey's.

t. (I like Iowa, BTW) s.

one of my son's old teammates is at Grinnell and tried to talk another into going there. how can you go there? good school, I'm sure the hoops is very fun, but shiiiiiit.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Don't forget a bald man peeking over the wall at a tanning booth:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/app.../NEWS/90429004

Are there really tanning salons where the walls don't go all of the way to the ceiling?

not at places that would let you in, but yes. No offense.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

So, Bluefly is advertising that they got in a bunch of new ties, including a series of Hickey ties that have what they describe as a "leaf" pattern:



Did Sebastian have something to do with this?

ha ha i get it! Sebby likes marijuana! Very clever flower!

[ThurgreedMarshall]

It's a true mystery.





Best. First. Lady. Ever.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

How do you punch at something below knee level? You've break your hand on the top of his head. The other guy couldn't throw kicks to the head because the no-arms-no-legs guy was considered down.

Ah. Well, that clears up a lot. And people punch the top of other people's heads all the time in those fights. They just do it in more of a "Hulk Smash" than boxer type way.

I've seen stories on him before as a wrestler. Frankly, I don't understand how we was successful at that, but I gotta...er...hand it to him. I can't imagine a mixed martial arts fight could be made where he wasn't completely destroyed if the other guy knew what he was doing and fought all out.

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

I was disppointed the video didn't show more of the fight, because I was genuinely curious to see how he could grapple and strike.

I doubt he'd do any (effective) striking. I imagine he's an all-submission holds kind of guy.

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

A lot of people with disabilities find him inspiring. He wanted to do this. I don't see anything wrong with it.

I think it's kind of a freak show dressed up like a legitimate fight (although, to be fair, that's what I would have said about his first 35 wrestling matches). The other guy in the ring clearly wasn't going all out.

TM

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

It's a true mystery.





Best. First. Lady. Ever.

TM

Vive la France.