Quote Originally Posted by pontooner View Post
Forest is insane, of course you need to be a little crazy to do what these guys do but a story Forest told has always stuck out in my mind.

When he was a kid he wanted to be able to palm a basketball and his hands were just not big enough so he started cutting the webbing between his fingers to try and make it work. OUCH!!!!!!!!!

Never heard if it actually worked or not but that is one crazy experiment .
Ouch would be correct, but those guys march to a different tune.

My wife was doing some paperwork in the LR last night when I came in and turned on the Fisher/Stone fight. It was a stand up slugfest start to finish, and an excellent contest.

Wife after round one: "That's awful. Why would 2 people hit each other like that?"
Me: "They get paid to see who can beat who."
Wife: "Crazy. How can you watch this stuff?"
Me: "With my eyes."

After the last round horn the cut up, beat up men abruptly stopped hammering away and hugged each other.

Wife: "They hug after beating the crap out of each other?"
Me: "Mutual respect."
Wife rolling her eyes: "That's stupid, it doesn't make any sense."
Me: "One time a guy hugged me and kissed me on the cheek after we fought in a parking lot."
Wife: "Why?"
Me: "Respect."
Wife: "No! Why'd the two of you fight?"
Me: "No real good reason come to think of it."

She looks at me like an interesting but failed lab experiment, and shakes her head. I give her the dog staring at a fan look I use when confronted with female logic.