'Sugar' Ray Robinson appreciation thread

You have dissapointed me.

 

which documentaries on him are best?

 

Go on youtube bud. Plenty a footage there, or buy a dvd.

:kidcool:

 

I'm going to use trplsec logic and disagree,Ray Robinson is not the GOAT because the competition wasn't as good as it is now,so......Floyd Mayweather>>>>>>>>>Ray Robinson

 

Whaaaaaat

:bangh:

 

Gene Kelly was an awesome Irish american,... he was a progressive, well in-touch with his roots and of the Irish issues of his time, appearance wise he had non-admixed indigenous Irish genes, and he gave the Roman Catholic church the fucking finger :bears: ... that's good enough for me.

 

no argument here, I just don't get what that has to do with he and Ray Robinson

 

As I said,.. 'he tapped that ass' ... and made him quit ya goon.. :scratcher:

 

For real that's his logic in the MmA forum I don't even go there anymore

 

stop that, I am no goon, you know better

 

Well you must have had a fleet of ships flowing through your mind to have missed what I was talking about.

:crafty: subtle, subtle,..

 

I missed the "tapped" pun, sue me

Though the idea of them being lovers is hilarious

 

But interracial relationships offend me.

What about the fleet of ships?

Hopefully nordicism doesn't offend you in kind.

 

why's that?

I'm not Nordic, man

 

I needed a 'flow' of sorts for my final 'offended by nordicism' line, as to assist the 'fleet of ships' flowing through your veins.

Subtleties Cdogg, subtleties...

 

::alright, my friend

but what I am getting at is that once you leave Africa, you're hard pressed to find "pure" anything... especially in a ceaselessly invaded place like Eire

And then there is the question of "well, what is Irish?" ... William Butler Yeats, to name a world famous representative of the country, was of 100% english stock, not a drop of Celt... But he was born there, he died there... he was ascendancy stock, yet in verse he supported the 1916 martyrs... I, with the blood of violently oppressed native Taig heritage flowing through my viens, was born here in America... Am I more entitled to being thought of as "Irish" than Yeats? Wolfe Tone, the very symbol of Irish Republicanism, the rebel to whom all other rebels defer, was the son of Anglo prods, again I ask, am I MORE Irish than he? Perhaps by genetic markers, I am indeed... but Ireland is a land of the conquered and the conqueror many times over... There are ideals, ways of life, attitudes, customs, humor and tragedies that make the Irish "Irish" just as much as any gene pools.

 

Nope, it makes Yeats an English immigrant,.. you are of Irish stock so you are more Irish than he,.. then it comes down to carefully analysing the verticies of the skull, for traces of invasion genetics. You have a long skeleton, 6ft + ,.. athetic: that's not a good start.

 

the Kissanes (O' Ciosain, before the English showed up) of Kerry were giant, imposing people, that's where I get it from...

you'd be hard pressed to find anyone in Ireland or the diaspora who doesn't have some non-Irish genes ... comes with the territory

 

I'm a 6ft 8inch giant, with a 90 inch reach of irish descent.

 

perhaps you too are of the Kissane lineage:cheer:

 

He'd only be 6ft if he took off the horned hat.

Have you been to Kerry before?.. I'd loooooooove to see what they've got in thier museum.

 

:: The lake county is installed deep in my blood, with a hint of the Rebel too ::::

 

no, sadly, I haven't

my mother and sister have... my grandparents my aunts and uncles went there as well

 

Kerry is a beautiful county.

They don't call it 'The Kingdom' for nothing.

 

yeah, all of my relatives thought it was gorgeous

 

Lot's of old artifacts in there I'm sure,.. lots of treasures left behind, considering they were pillagers, they must have stayed for centuries. :crafty:

 

Ray Robingson would have loved to have fought in Westmeath.

 

Kauki, there's nobody on the island who has untouched lineage going back to 2000 years... nobody

hell, there's probably nobody on Earth of whom that could be said

 

Gene Kelly.

 

:laughing:he was part German, and his family also had Scot ancestry

certainly no more Irish than me