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The Ultimate Lawsuit

Here's a link that's hilarious on its face, the more so if you've ever followed pro wrestling. The Ultimate Warrior, groomed as Hulk Hogan's successor in the early 1990s, turned out to be a flop on the wrestling circuit and now makes his living as a fanatically and uproariously right-wing college speaker. Ultimate Warrior (born Jim Hellwig, now legally Ultimate Warrior) also once released a Christmas comic in which Santa Claus met several violent fates not appropriate for discussion in a blog my mom reads.

Anyway, last Friday at the University of Connecticut, Warrior's lecture turned into a nasty confrontation between Warrior and some crowd members, drawing up assorted bemused coverage around the internet. The nature of the lecture, or somethingawful.com's coverage, is not important to be able to appreciate the back-and-forth correspondence between somethingawful.com's editor (or whatever) and the Ultimate Warrior's ultimate director of communications.

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2790

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