Originally published at: Musk fantasizes an agreement to hold his cage match in Rome | Boing Boing
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How about Vatican City?
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Never have two dorks spent more time fantasizing about a fight that will never happen, Kirk vs. Picard notwithstanding.
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That’s where I stampede my cattle.
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Kinky…
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Nothing screams authenticity and tradition like streaming Jiu-Jitsu from ancient Rome.
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TIL that filming in the Colosseum is illegal and the only reason Bruce Lee was able to film his climactic fight scene against Chuck Norris there was because they bribed the relevant authorities to let them sneak in cameras and shoot the scene in secret.
And that was for two of the greatest fighters in the world. Who’s going to risk their career to bend the rules like that for these two dweebs?
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A reminder that Prince Rogers Nelson was an American hero and icon, and the whole “Artist Formerly Known as ‘Prince’” thing was a brilliant legal-jutitsu move that he came up with when leaving his then-label Warner Bros. They claimed to own the use of the name “Prince” in music for some number more albums or years, despite it being his literal name. Prince changed his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol so that a) WB couldn’t claim that he was calling himself “Prince”, and simultaneously b) EVERYONE WOULD CONTINUE TO REFER TO HIM AS PRINCE.
Put some respect on his memory, and please stop referring to “xeets” or whatever as “Formerly known as tweets.” Elon is no Prince.
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How have the Vegas casinos not gotten involved, offering both an arena and a book on the fight?
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Can’t speak for every poster, but very few people here would be knowingly dissing Prince.
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Nothing mentions Prince.
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Are you not entertained?
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I’m being a bit facetious here; I know it is unlikely that either BB or Raw Story is intentionally making fun of Prince.
The source on Raw Story does include “FORMERLY KNOW [sic] AS A TWEET, VIA ELON MUSK”. I interpreted this as a joke comparing Elon Musk to Prince for the silliness of changing your very-well-known name. If we find out that there’s a judgement against Musk enjoining the use of the word “Twitter” or something, maybe this comparison will turn out to be more apt.
If you didn’t know that Prince changed his name to that weird symbol as a fuck you to a major record label, today you get to be one of the lucky people who learns that for the first time!
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Not a fan of either of them, but I’ve got to say if they ever do this, I’m looking forward to Musk’s absolute shit-fit when the robot named Zuck humiliates him. Probably without realising that what happened would have been embarrassing to a human.
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The “formerly know as…” bit was a convention adopted by the press who didn’t know a better way to verbalize the subject of their reporting. It wasn’t how Prince self-identified and using the phrase in this context is really mocking Elon’s brand confusion, not Prince.
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If bribery worked then, it’ll probably work now and they certainly have the money.
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Each day that passes puts us in a stupider timeline than the day before
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It should take place in the fountain at the center of the shopping at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. At the end of it, animatronic King Altas can rise up and smite them both. That is only fitting for the level of cheese, stupidity, and sad desperation for attention that this fight is.
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It’s really dog-catches-car stupidity.
I mean, they’re both billionaires, for sure, but Zuck’s been obsessively throwing himself into MMA training for years and Musk… eats poorly, barely sleeps, and is inconsistent with his training.
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If the coliseum isn’t available, I’m sure this place would be happy to host the event.
The venue name even captures the stupidity of this proposed dick measuring contest.
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