Mrs Redboots wrote:
Boltar wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 19 Jan 2005:

Given that ballet dancing makes needle point look like a macho hobby
(despite the best efforts of that Billy Elliot drivel) I don't know
many
guys who would and that ones that do generally bat for the other
team.

"Billy Elliot" may be drivel, but I think your second comment is a
case
of giving a dog a bad name and hanging him. In the USA they say it
about figure skaters, too, and it's also not true.

Isn't it? Pull the other one. John Curry , real heterosexual guy he
was.
What was it he died of again? And as for that rambo of a man Robin
Cousins...

That's not the hard part - the hard part, as in ice skating, is the
absolute muscle control required over every single body part so that
it's in the right place at the right moment. And *that* requires a
high
level of fitness. Besides which, they train for several hours every

I'm sure they have reasonable level fitness, but put them up against
real
athletes like boxers or pentathletes and I doubt they'd fare too well.
Anyway , this is going way off topic.

B2003