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The most effective pawn is one that does not know that it stand upon the chessboard.

Name: Christopher
Location: Auburn, Maine, United States

I'm a fairly typical computer geek - I love anything to do with technology. I like to play Scrabble on a Tournament level (chess timers, Custom Tiles and board, the works basically), and I'm enjoying life and every thing in it.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

They Say Competitive Eating is a sport...

I think it has to be the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

I’m all for eating contests, but the Hot Dog eating contest at Nathan’s is just completely sick.

One guy was literally SHAKING after eating 40 dogs, and he’s still kept going.

ESPN (of all stations) aired this as a Live event from Nathan’s Hot Dogs.   Competitive Eating, which is mindless eating, and Poker, which has no physicality to it,  are considered “Sports “ but Scrabble isn’t?  Scrabble falls into the poker category, because it’s a mind game, and much more cerebral than Poker is anyways.