BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?

Subject: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 11:35 PM

Okay, I've known the answer to this one for a loooong time. Apes are tougher. Apes are way tougher. You don't believe me? Check out this here video from YouTube that puts the question to rest. Apes are best! Ook! Ook! Ook!

Champion 300 lb Sumo wrestler versus 180 lb Orangutan

The stupid humans who did this video make the usual mistake of callin' the ape a "monkey". Idiots! An ape is not a monkey.

If it hadda been a chimp, the results would've been even more decisive, but the Orangutan done good. She makes me feel proud to be an ape.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 11:43 PM

I made a mistake. The friggin' Sumo wrestler weighed 363 pounds! Twice the weight of the Orang, and she still beat him. Ook! Ook! Ook! Ha! Ha! Drinks all around!

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 12:32 AM

Man is definitely tougher between the ears....

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Peace
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 12:55 AM

"Who's tougher? Man or Ape?"

IMO, it would depend on how they're cooked.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 01:05 AM

If Global Warming keeps up, Man's Goose is cooked...

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 01:31 AM

Just like the US Pro wrestlin' matches. It's always rigged so the one with the best promoter wins. I'll concede that in this case it's consistent with the usual "one with the most sex appeal" getting the nod.

(Sumo wrestlers sure as h*** don't turn me on, and she did have a nice smile.)

[have I mentioned I haven't been gettin out much lately?]

John

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 03:33 AM

I suspect the major contributing factor is muscle/fat ratio. OK so the Sumo (and he was quite small compared with some of those chunks) weighed 363lbs (that's about 25st or 164kg for us Yookers) but how much of it was muscle and how much was just fat? I've seen muscle-men and they don't look like an inflatable chair.

Orangs spend most of their time moving around, swinging through libraries, sorry, jungles and trees, and as far as I'm aware, haven't succumbed to stuff from McDonalds yet.

In a bet between any human and an orang, my money is on the little orange hairy, four handed one...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 12:55 PM

My bet would always be on the ape. They're incredibly strong. Plus, they've got four hands, not two, and that means they have way better ability to anchor themselves. The Orangutan didn't even get short of breath dealing with that Sumo champ. She was using her feet to anchor herself to the little ledge at the front and her arms to do the pulling. The wrestler never had a chance.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 02:42 PM

The ape is tougher but the flavor is more like buffalo than chicken. You need an overnite marinade and a 24 hour salt rub to tenderize it properly.....a bit less on chimps than others so give Chongo "The Bolt" tonite and you'll be feasting on Tuesday,

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 03:16 PM

To be fair, Sumo wrestling isn't about pulling, it's about pushing. For example

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 04:40 PM

Impressive. But anyone who grapples with an ape in that fashion is taking his life in his hands. When apes go mano a mano, anything goes. That's why they had a pulling contest with some physical distance between the combatants.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Rowan
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 05:12 PM

The headline is really "man" vs "man".
Orang = man & utan = wild

But the muscle strength of nonhominins far exceeds anything the current hominins can put up.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 05:15 PM

Does "man" include womanz??

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 06:44 PM

Dude got beat by a girl!! Man, in the fifth grade I would have been appalled!

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: bobad
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 07:00 PM

I'd like to see some dumb monkey go up against The Great Antonio

Anton Barichievich, otherwise known as "the Great Antonio", who has died aged 77, earned two entries in the Guinness Book of Records, first in 1952 when he pulled a 433-tonne train along the tracks for 19.8 metres, and secondly in 1960 when he pulled four buses loaded with passengers along St Catherine Street, Montreal.

Barichievich weighed more than 30 stones and stood 6 ft 4 ins tall. His shoes were size 28. His furniture had to be custom built and included the world's largest rocking chair , four metres high and two wide. He was, as his Montreal landlady once told an interviewer, a nice boy. But so big. Every time he sits on the toilet, bang - toilet breaks. My son fixes and fixes, but always the same. Toilet breaks again.

Barichievich boasted that he could eat 25 chickens or 10 steaks at one sitting; wrestle 18 men at once; juggle six people on his shoulders; and single-handedly pull buses, trains and jet planes full of passesgers.

At least some of this was true. Montreal bus drivers would dread the uninvited attentions of the Great Antonio, who would, when the fancy took him, hijack a bus, hook a chain round its bumper and pull the vehicle for several hundred yards.

In 1971 he almost became the North American heavywight wrestling champion, but the title bout ended in a public riot. Opponents also objected to Barichievich's habit of preparing for each fight by eating handfuls of raw garlic.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: bobad
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 07:08 PM

Oops, something screwed up with my link - that was The Great Ashley - This is The Great Antonio

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 07:36 PM

Good Lord!!! That was one BIG guy! It certainly would have been interesting to see him take on some of the world's top ape contenders in a tug of war. Pity he didn't take the wrestling crown.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: bobad
Date: 11 Mar 07 - 07:57 PM

Yeah LH, he was quite the character, a common sight on the streets of Montreal (he was hard to miss). All you can eat buffet restaurants probably got pretty nervous if they spotted him perusing their menus.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:15 AM

He was from Montreal...William Shatner says he was from Montreal...they were never seen together...you figure it out.

Subject: RE: BS: Who's tougher? Man or Ape?
From: GUEST,Big Louis
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:27 AM

Hey, Chongo. The Boss says you stink and you're gonna stink worse. He's gonna have that sumo dude sit on you. You're gonna flatten like a rotten banana.

But hey, that's some good lookin' orang, ain't she?

Subject: ADD: I'm an Ape Man (Ray Davies)
From: Scrump
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 10:26 AM

Ray Davies was right when he said:

I think I'm sophisticated
'Cos I'm living my life like a good homo sapiens
But all around me everybody's multiplying
Till they're walking round like flies man
So I'm no better than the animals sitting in their cages in the zoo man
'Cos compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees
I am an ape man

I think I'm so educated and I'm so civilized
'Cos I'm a strict vegetarian
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians
I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man

I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man
I'm an ape man I'm a King Kong man I'm ape ape man
I'm an ape man
'Cos compared to the sun that sits in the sky
compared to the clouds as they roll by
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies
I am an ape man

In man's evolution he has created the cities and the motor traffic rumble,
but give me half a chance and I'd be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
'Cos the only time that I feel at ease
Is swinging up and down in the coconut trees
Oh what a life of luxury to be like an ape man

I'm an ape, I'm an ape ape man, I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voo-doo man
I'm an ape man
I look out my window, but I can't see the sky
'Cos the air pollution is fogging up my eyes
I want to get out of this city alive
And make like an ape man

Come and love me, be my ape man girl
And we will be so happy in my ape man world
I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man, I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voo-doo man
I'm an ape man
I'll be your Tarzan, you'll be my Jane
I'll keep you warm and you'll keep me sane
and we'll sit in the trees and eat bananas all day
Just like an ape man
I'm an ape man, I'm an ape ape man, I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man, I'm a voo-doo man
I'm an ape man.
I don't feel safe in this world no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore
And make like an ape man.