The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    The Biggest Political Scandal Ever...

    By Michael Maiello on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 1:30pm | Politics

    ...played out in the wrestling ring, years ago.

    When Irwin R. Schyster (always announced as "I...R...S!")

    Fought the red, white and blue blooded (but orange-skinned) Patriot!

    That's all that needs to be said about this latest scandal, right?

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    yo! also too some real wrasslin' going on at Grand Central today....personally, that Awards Gala at Bryant Hall sounds even more intriguing....


    by artappraiser on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 6:08pm

    Iran #1! USA Hock-tooey!


    by Michael Maiello on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 6:29pm

    Not to be mistaken for this guy:


    by tmccarthy0 on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 6:57pm

    Bruce!


    by EmmaZahn on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 7:39pm

    Grampa would make me watch Gorgeous George in the late fifties and early sixties.

    hahahahahah

    I am ten or twelve and I cannot grasp the meaning of all of this. hahaha

    I hate wrestling. I hated it in Junior High (I found it a little gay? at the time) and I hate it fifty years later. hahahahah

    I am so glad you finally put on your shirt.

    Politics and everything else is fake--except for professional wrestling.

    That is because we all know professional wrestling is 'fake' but then again the politicians claim they are not 'fake'. 

    So, through some misinterpretation of 'fake' we either give up all hope in philosophy and we run to rhetoric?

    What the hell was the question?


    by Richard Day on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 6:59pm

    My next door neighbor loved "rasling."  They took me to see Gorgeous George and he came out with his bleached hair in rollers as a teaser before he put on his showey entrance with Channel No5 he spray around.  He used to fight a guy with a mohawk, Don Eagle.  There was also a guy with a mask called the Destroyer that he would have matches with. I think his goal all the time was to tear off  his mask.  LOL  My little brother liked to put a old nylon stocking on his face and pretend that he was the Destroyer.  There was a few tag teams but I don't remember their names.  I think one of them had fake German accents and came in the ring with WWI German helmets on.  It was something we watched on TV on Saturdays.  I had 3 brothers so I always got out voted when it came to the TV.  It was just family intertainment in the 50's and early 60's.    


    by trkingmomoe on Thu, 05/16/2013 - 12:27am

    Gosh I wonder who that "Patriot" guy is? He looks so familiar! smiley


    by Orion on Sat, 05/18/2013 - 4:31am