Thursday, January 18, 2007

ALI

"Muhammed, Muhammed Ali,
He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee,
Muhammed, the black Superman,
He says to the other guy, I'm Ali, catch me if you can"

My very first hero. Before my parents, Carl Yastremzki, John Lennon, Iggy Pop there was Muhammed Ali. He made it look cool to be a Black Muslim, even to a cracker from the suburbs of Boston. Still does. Happy 65th Birthday, champ. Howard Cosell is rolling over in his grave.

2 comments:

Muddah said...

Floats like a butterfly,
Stings like a bee
The great smell of Brut
and the punch of Ali..

I'm a baaaad man.....

Rope a dope.....

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
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A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
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Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
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I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
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If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. .............

When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble..........

bigfoot chester said...

I forgot about that Brut commercial.