Last Friday we had an evening with Adele, Florent, Olivier, Fred, and myself, grilled up some meat and cheeses, red wine to go with it, it was fun time. Towards the end of the evening we found ourselves watching WWE (the new WWF, 'professional wrestling'). As is every time when some bizarre American television creation comes on the screen, it was interesting to be watching this with my French friends here around the dinner table. The culminator for me, I know that is not a word, was when two fighters came out, it was Finlay (an Irishman) vs the Boogey Man. The Boogey Man was dressed up like an exaggerated medicine man from some bush tribe that had never seen civilization. He had a sidekick who was dressed like him, but who was a dwarf.
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