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Any time! Anywhere!

created by Blue_Bellied_Lizard

(idea) by Blue_Bellied_Lizard (2.7 d) (print)   ?   I like it! Sat Nov 04 2000 at 22:46:42

The time and place at which professional wrestlers offer to meet their rivals to settle the score once and for all.

The utterance of this challenge is one of the time-honored rituals of the stylized theatre of professional wrestling - as central to it as kakegoe is to Kabuki.

The association of this exclamation with wrestling did not detract from the impact of an ad for a "facial massager" that I once saw in a cheesy "gift catalogue" for ladies. There, among the musical bud vases, angel tea cozies, and retractible clothes lines, was a large photograph of an attractive, smiling woman rubbing her cheek with a big beige vibrator of the standard phallic type. The caption that floated near her head, in bold print, and at a jaunty angle, read "Any time! Anywhere!".

I've often wondered if there were a few innocent souls who took the ad at face value (so to speak), and developed the habit of whipping out their vibrators on the train, in doctors' waiting rooms, or even at professional wrestling matches.


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Professional wrestling Kakegoe Vibrator Ritual
Kabuki The sinking of the USS Eisenhower and the start of World War III Fukuoku 9000 Settle the Score
face value theatre phallic Waiting Room
so to speak challenge Train Rival
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