BS: Up for a pillow fight?

Subject: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 08:31 AM

Here ya go.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 08:38 AM

well - having been a proffessional for 8 years - I must say that I'm not impressed. Traditionaly pillowfighting should be done on a log, with the purpose being to knock the other off the log. Doing it on mats with little restriction to the movements reduces it from a noble and anciant sport to little more then a tavern brawl.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 08:39 AM

Hmmmm. I've been getting practice in with my grandson on this sport. Not sure I would want to take it up professionally - I get enough of a drubbing from a 6 year old! Those pillows can hurt!

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:02 AM

you better believe it! ONe of the reasons I gave it up was I was tired of the amount of bruises I got.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: Wesley S
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:10 AM

Face it - Canada will never be a world power if pillows is all they have in their arsenal. They're probabally feather pillows too.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:34 AM

Looks like the hits would hurt, but not the falls. Mmario's version sounds better!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: Peace
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 09:36 AM

"They're probabally feather pillows too. "

Yes. And now our geese are stark naked.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: Scoville
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 10:47 AM

My cousin (5'10" and about 225 lbs) did that pillow-fight-on-a-log thing at the Renaissance Faire once and immediately got knocked flat by a girl about half his size. He may never live that down. He blames it on the fact that he was wearing sneakers while she was barefoot and better able to cling to the log, but the rest of us think he's just a klutz.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 11:07 AM

*grin* A friends daughter worked pillow fights the years she was 12 and 13. Dainty, little, innocent looking; and deadly with a pillow.

Scoville? which faire?

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: Scoville
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 01:02 PM

I don't recall. It was near Oswego, New York.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 01:03 PM

heh-heh! I was master of the logs there for 8 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: Cluin
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 02:41 PM

What a glittering example of human progress.

(or is that an oxymoron?)

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: gnu
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 02:45 PM

Exactly, Cluin. What a bunch of morons.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jan 07 - 02:51 PM

HEY!!! Since I paid my bills doing pillow fights for eight summers I resent that. In the extreme!

And don't knock it until you've tried it. When you are doing it proffessionally it is a lot more then just beating someone with a pillow. And just *try* doing several hundred matches a day.

On a good day we averaged a match every minute and a half on the logs (two logs in the circle of hay); or about 3 minutes a match. If the crowd was in a challenging mood I might do ten or twelve matches in a row before stepping off to judge only and not fight.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: skipy
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:43 PM

I notice that the next item on that page is titled:-

Afghan mission
Canada beefs up military punch.

is it related?

Also please let me know when the topless league starts.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: Cluin
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 02:45 PM

Sign me up for the Pillow Talk league.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 03:13 PM

Sorry, MMario. But, this is not the same deal. This is sex kittens with pillows, just short of mud wrestling.

Please don't tell me about your mud wrestling days.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: MMario
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 03:30 PM

no - 'Theatre in the ground' I haven't done...*grin*

No - I agree it isn't the same thing at all - just like 'pro wrestling' and greco-roman wrestling are really totally different things.

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 09:49 PM

I note that the league described in the article is "women only."

Perhaps it's the surfacing of things like this that prompted the brief publicity a year or so ago about:

EXTREME IRONING!

In this sport, the man-about-the-house was required to take iron, ironing board, and wrinkled shirt, alone, to the most remote and extremely hostile environs he could come up with, and return wearing his own freshly ironed shirt. The contest was to see who could find the worst places to "perform."

I don't think the Canadians got into that, but it was popular(????) esp. along the northern US for a while. The thing might have lasted better if he'd brought her a fresh one too.

"Honey, I'll be back in about three days. I'm going to do some ironing."

John

Subject: RE: BS: Up for a pillow fight?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 19 Jan 07 - 11:08 PM

"I don't think the Canadians got into that" ... Strange ... but then we never got into Iraq either ... I wonder what's wrong with us that we don't seem to want go into "the most remote and extremely hostile environs" ... wonder if it has anything to do with our geography ...