You know how it feels when you're trying to cross the street and a driver comes through the intersection as if you’re not even there? Like he’s muscling through with that big box of metal as if to say, “Hey, get out of my way, you little flesh-and-blood weakling!”
Wouldn’t you just love to have a superhero sweep down, stand up to the jerk behind the wheel, and block the car so you could cross safely?
Enter Peatónito, the masked Mexican defender of pedestrians!
posted by Etrigan
on Mar 1, 2013 -
22 comments
In Japan it's a
sport. In
Canada, it's
tradition. In
Mexico, it's
religion. In the
US - it's a
joke (NSFW language).
Perhaps rightly so.
In step with it’s
history, American professional wrestling has a
sordid, carnival-like
backstage atmosphere, replete with
insider slang. Extensive travel schedules and
backstage politicking (QT movie, NSFW language) take their toll in the form of
drug abuse and an
unusually high mortality rate. While a
few transition into
mainstream careers,
most don’t.
A
billion-dollar industry , it has seen a fair share of
success (NSFW image) over the years:
Books,
movies,
video games,
cartoons,
records (not to mention an
ECW nod in the lyrics to
El Scorcho) and even punching
John Stossel in the head. But it’s
inconsistent and never seems to meet the level of popular acceptance as in other countries. It is, by and
large, dismissed as a novelty for the
NASCAR crowd, barely respected enough to be
kitsch.
In truth, it’s a
back-breaking,
death-defying, colorful
soap opera of questionable taste that is
anything but
fake
posted by StopMakingSense
on Feb 16, 2005 -
30 comments
