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2005-05-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2005-05-16 15:06|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I thought gladitorial games died out with the Romans. Guess I'm a little short of facts....

Posted by mmurray821 2005-05-16 15:16|| 2005-05-16 15:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a historical reenactment of Pol Pot's boys against the Vietnamese to me. Festive ratflesh satay with dipping sauce or fruit salsa would be appropriate food for watching the fast paced and largely pathetic event.

Posted by Iron Chef Kenichi 2005-05-16 15:46|| 2005-05-16 15:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like a send up of some sort.

Posted by Shipman 2005-05-16 15:47|| 2005-05-16 15:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Lion(s) - why ~~did he eat~~ do they hate midgets?

Posted by Raj 2005-05-16 15:47|| 2005-05-16 15:47|| Front Page Top

#5 lol. Nice one though they didn't quite capture the tone of BBC writing style.

Posted by Tkat 2005-05-16 15:53|| 2005-05-16 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 After reading this, I have to ask myself, am I having acid flashbacks?

Posted by tu3031 2005-05-16 15:55|| 2005-05-16 15:55|| Front Page Top

#7 The err... meat of the story is that the Cambodian Midget Fighting League is pretty much out of business. I'm gonna miss them on pay-per-view.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-05-16 15:57|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-05-16 15:57|| Front Page Top

#8 So where does PETA stand in all this?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-05-16 15:58|| 2005-05-16 15:58|| Front Page Top

#9 This was a good ha-ha from a week or two ago, but while they were at it, they should have used the BBC letterhead to better advantage with fake headlines like: "BBC Admits War In Iraq Was A Good War -- Issues Apology For Repeatedly Deceiving Public With Biased Reporting"; "BBC Poll: Bush Is Great President"; "EU Constitution An Elitist, Bureaucratic Sham"; "British Public Still Openly Despise French, Germans, Wogs, And With Good Reason".

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-16 16:07|| 2005-05-16 16:07|| Front Page Top

#10 They apparently love midgets, but the repast was interrupted.

Two questions:
Did Sihamoni survive?
What was the Govt "take"?

I thought I'd heard / seen it all after running into the snake blood guys in Bangkok, see a bona-fide dog-pit match in Bosier City, the Toul Sleng Genocide museum's Skull map in Phnom Penh, and seeing the cobra routine in Bombay - Goa, actually. How naive of me.

Posted by .com 2005-05-16 16:09|| 2005-05-16 16:09|| Front Page Top

#11 If you go to the article, it appears to be a BBC story. However, if you click "printable version" you are sent to a disclaimer page where the prankster confesses he created the fake page to win a bet with a friend.

Posted by RWV 2005-05-16 16:12|| 2005-05-16 16:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Phony? Gee, y'think?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-05-16 16:12|| 2005-05-16 16:12|| Front Page Top

#13 RWV: The NYT should have that feature, too.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-16 16:59|| 2005-05-16 16:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Next, you're gonna tell me that the midgets were Christians. Is this story for real or did Isikoff write this one too?

Posted by GK 2005-05-16 18:11|| 2005-05-16 18:11|| Front Page Top

#15 should've fought a Lion Of Islamâ¢. Midgets would've skinned em

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-16 19:03|| 2005-05-16 19:03|| Front Page Top

#16 Would anyone be surprised to find that Don King owns the PPV rights?

Posted by Super Hose 2005-05-16 21:41|| 2005-05-16 21:41|| Front Page Top

#17 So, who will run with this first? CBS or Newsweek?

Posted by jackal">jackal 2005-05-16 22:46|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-05-16 22:46|| Front Page Top

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