Head Butts don't always hurt
At least not permanently. According to the WSJ, in a story last week, "Soccer Star Zidane May Have Lost His Head, But(t) It Hasn't Hurt Him".
Good for him.
Rash actions in the heat of the moment, particularly during a sporting event, seem easy to forgive. Exceptions, of course, exist - think Woody Hayes' attack on Clemson's Charlie Bauman in the 1978 Gator Bowl. Quite an embarrassment, and one he never really lived down. It differs both because he wasn't a contestant, and because it was clearly a childish hissy-fit, unlike Zinedine Zidane's head butt of Marco Materazzi, who, let's be serious, probably earned it.
Seeing the story, however, reminded me of an idiotic picture that circulated shortly thereafter. Just because it was idiotic doesn't mean it wasn't funny, however, and the WSJ story provided a cheap excuse to post it, so I will:
(Note: That's an animated picture, and I got tired of watching it move on our page, so click to see it in its native, full motion, form. It's far less funny if the animation is disabled in your browser, to the point of "not at all funny")
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You know, whoever went to all
You know, whoever went to all that effort to insert the annoying French soccer player was wasting his time. A loop of Castro falling would have been just as funny, or funnier.
It's funny because in real
It's funny because in real life the French don't stand up to dictators - fascist, communist, or Islamic.
True, true.
True, true.
But Bram's hit on the reason it's funnier this way. Wait - "reason" is too strong a word.
"Ex-post-facto justification for my thinking it was funny" would be more accurate.