My luck, Keith, I forgot to shift my Autotune to this from "Ashes to Ashes". Not posted yet on my listings, so I'll have to use the link you provided to gt the next air time. And now, I know how lucky I am to be able to watch this show without anyone to cringe at the display of my more primal urges.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > Tonight's "The Deadliest Warrior" is one of the best I've seen yet. For one > thing, I like the fact that it dealt with two warriors little discussed (in > the US, anyway): the Aztec Jaguar, and the Central African Zande. Both > sides used interesting weapons. I particularly like the Zande long range > weapon, the Kpinga. This metal blade carried a hell of a wallop, and was > configured so that it could kill from a number of protrusions. It even had > the ability to go *around* a shield and kill, due to remaining angular > momentum based on its shape. Also cool was the Aztec *Maquahuitl, > a kind of flat heavy club lined along the edge with sharp obsidian like > some kind of primitive chain saw. The guy testing the Maquahuitl was able to > hack off a simulated horse's head with three swings. Amazing. I'd forgotten > that obsidian, properly sharpened, can actually be *sharper* than a razor or > even a metal scalpel! Here's a list of the weapons in tonight's show: * > *http://www.spike.com/blog/deadliest-warrior/95351* > * > As much as I love some of the more modern or stylized weapons and fightings > (Shaolin monks, Medieval knights), there's something primal and visceral > about the weapons and fighting styles these two warriors used. I mean, these > guys are demonstrating decapitations, eviscerations: brutal and direct. > Great stuff. It was especially good when the Zende warrior, in defiance of > the Aztecs who'd just made a big deal of cutting a man's heart out with a > knife, decapitated his dummy, then bent over and put his *mouth* in the > bloody stump! > > I love this show--much to my poor wife's chagrin. Every time a weapon > pierces those plastic models, and the red dye pours out, or every time the > warriors take to a side of beef or pig like a mad dog, I'm uttering savage > yells, while the wife is averting her eyes, going "ewww!" or shaking her > head while looking at me sidelong. > > > * > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
