If It Looks Like The WWE...

We decided to add a new adage here and it's...  If it looks like the WWE, it is the WWE.  Now just in case you didn't know or never heard, the WWE stands for Worldwide Wrestling Exhibition also known as Professional Wrestling.  Professional Wrestling should not be confused with College or Olympic Wrestling, which are real competitions.  Professional Wrestling is synonymous with the term FAKE.  Professional Wrestlers do not actually hit each other over the head with chairs or jump off the top rope of the ring and land on their opponents.  Professional Wrestling is all choreographed and rehearsed.  Occasionally, something goes wrong and someone misses a cue and someone actually gets hurt.  But that's an accident not by design or a result of an actual competition.

So when Will Smith on his way to accepting his academy award for Best Actor stopped to slap Chris Rock, it looked like the WWE.  And, as we said.  If it looks like the WWE it is the WWE, which is as you know now, synonymous with FAKE.

But it was curious to watch people cheer Will Smith on or accuse him of all manner of perfidy.  You know the usual inanities that pass for supposed thoughts on the "issues" of the day but are merely people yelling.  "Look at me please!"  If only for a few moments.  Our favorite was Will being accused of "toxic masculinity".  Toxic masculinity or any form of masculinity would have been a shot to the solar plexus followed up very quickly with an elbow to the jaw or mouth.  And, it would have left Chris Rock on the floor trying to find his teeth.  Not a little slap that couldn't have squashed a grape, your grand mama could easily have ducked and only left Chris, trying not to laugh too hard.

But the idea behind this pantomime, stems from the ratings for the Oscars being in the tank for the last decade or so.  And, the hopes now, that if viewers think, that the presenters and the actors might start hitting each other when they win, lose or just don't like something someone says, maybe they'll tune in again.  Just like...  You guessed it fans, the WWE.

Of course with that in mind we nominate for next year's host of the Oscars, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.  He's an actor.  He's funny.  And, he started out in Professional Wrestling.  Don't worry about anyone taking an actual swing at him.  None of them are that dumb.  No, this would all be choreographed just like the...  WWE.  

And The Rock, could even show them how.

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