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Man bites dog
Brigitte Bardot wants South Korea to ban the sale and consumption of dog meat if it wins the right to host soccer’s 2002 World Cup.
“This market and the methods of slaughtering these dogs are unbearable to Westerners who consider dogs to be man’s best friend,” she said in a letter to Song Young Shik, president of the South Korean World Cup Organizing Committee.
Bardot noted South Korea forbade the sale and consumption of dog meat during the 1988 Olympics.
“Unfortunately, after these Olympics, the old practice was again tolerated and has even increased,” she said.
In South Korea, dog meat is considered a delicacy that can enhance health and sexual prowess.
He eats some schnauzer and he scoooooooooooores!
Aftershocks
The ground has long since stopped shaking in Seattle since the Mariners-Indians game that was postponed on account of earthquake. But some of the principals are still trembling.
Dave Aust, for one. Aust - the only baseball official present at both the Kingdome shimmy and the 1989 pre-World Series quake in San Francisco - checked both his Richter scale and his stat sheet to determine that this quake was higher (5.40 magnitude) than the American League’s ERA (5.26). Which meant, he said, that “baseball now has a new scale to measure earthquakes. A mild earthquake is anything below the American League ERA. A moderate earthquake is anything above.”
Some other quake quotes:
From Tribe reliever Jim Poole: “I didn’t feel anything. It just goes to show you that left-handers are off-center. But for about 30 seconds, it felt like my whole world straightened out.”
From Julio Franco, just back from a year in Japan: “There’s an earthquake every couple of days in Japan. But the Japanese are so organized, they make sure they never happen during a ball game.”
From Tribe manager Mike Hargrove, on his post-quake meeting with the M’s Lou Piniella: “Lou asked me what I wanted to do. I said, ‘It’s either finish the game or I go back to our hotel and go up to my room on the 34th floor. What do you think I want to do?”’
Twistin’ the night away
Never let it be said that the Mariners don’t properly commemorate special occasions. Here are the top 10 quake-related songs played in the Kingdome after the big shake:
10. “Standin’ on Shaky Ground” - Temptations.
9. “Shake your Groove Thing” - Peaches and Herb.
8. “House is Rockin” - Stevie Ray Vaughan.
7. “Rock This Town” - Stray Cats.
6. “Shake, Rattle and Roll” - Arthur Conley.
5. “All Shook Up” - Elvis.
4. “Shake It Up” - The Cars.
3. “We Built This City on Rock ‘n’ Roll” - Starship.
2. “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ on” - Jerry Lee Lewis.
1. “I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet” - Carole King.
The last word …
“We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.”
- Lakers center Vlade Divac
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