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TUBOB: Mom, Apple Pie, Arm Wrasslin’

Arm wrasslin’ is as quintessential American as all get out. It invokes images and smells of smoky, grimy bars stinkin of stale beer and broken dreams, of now fat ex jocks, maybe the star high school quarterback in little Buttpimple, Texas, livin out the string arm blasting drunks on pitted, heavily shellacked bar tables. We’ve all done it. If you’re a man and you haven’t arm wrassled somebody then go home to your momma/TUBOB. More here.

Question: Have you ever arm wrassled?

Three comments on this post so far. Add yours!
  • Bent on February 18 at 8:57 a.m.

    For some reason, my oldest daughter is nearly invincible when it comes to arm wrasslin’ Of course, I can beat her, but when she was senior in high school she beat all challengers — except for one boy. Even then, she had already arm wrestled a half a dozen kids so she was a little worn out.

  • poolman on February 18 at 11:23 a.m.

    I once had a high school teacher that would arm wrestle any student for an A. You win - you get an A. I don’t remember what the penalty was for a loss, something like cleaning the chalkboard.

    For years he never lost a match. Then, one day this kid comes along with a particularly large noggin and puffy, vein laden arms. He walked in, and in an eerily pitchy voice said, “I’m ready for a match, teach”.

    The kid won in a remarkable 5 minute arm wrestling marathon. He wore the teacher down with almost supernatural stamina and strength. The teacher was crushed. The kid and the class were in total exhilaration, it was as if they were witnessing an incredible and monumental moment in history.

    A few weeks later that kid was busted for selling pot, cocaine, and you guessed it, steroids at the local Gold’s gym. Turns out he was on the juice the entire time. What a sad story, the teacher’s reputation as an unbeatable arm wrestling champion was devastated, the kid ended up in the can, the record books were forever tainted.

    The kid did get his “A” however – with an asterisk *

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.

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