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To: LibWhacker
LOL, reminds me of this Far Side classic...


21 posted on 03/28/2022 2:30:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
Haha, I competed once in California's arm-wrestling championship.

I never lost in my adult life, and I wrestled in nearly every bar in that state that I ever went into, and in many other states... plus probably a hundred guys in the Army, etc.

Then one night, in my 30s, I met a guy in Davis, CA, who beat me. Couldn't believe it. So we wrestled again a few times and he never beat me again. Doesn't mean I beat him everytime afterwards, either; we had a number of draw matches. Anyhoo, we became friends and he suggested I go with him to the next big event. So I did, and lost, BIG! To a guy half my size.

There are some really strong guys in those things. But I never saw anybody with an outsized arm, lol. And I'm having a little trouble believing it, actually.

In any athletic competition I've ever seen, you have to have a well-rounded physique; e.g., the fastest runner in the world didn't just have big muscular legs and nothing else going for him, etc.

33 posted on 03/28/2022 3:04:58 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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