Back when I lived in Nashville, we used to live at The Grove apartments on Elmington Avenue. We would often drive by the park there at Elmington and West End, where we would see scenes like these:

The wife (then fiancee) and I would say to one another, oh my, what a throwback to the days of yore…, then we’d head down to Baja Burrito for a big fat chicken burrito.

Anyway, the Tennessean, known nationwide for its cutting-edge journalism, reminded me of these bloated battlers with a feature this week.

I never got the whole D&D thing or Lord of the Rings, so maybe I’m just too uneducated to really appreciate this group’s brand of absurd ritual. But, I suppose it is like pretty much any other sporting event, as long said sporting event uses a Nerf™ brand sport ball.

I find the whole “very athletic” thing odd, because when we would come upon these Ogre battles, it was often a mix of morbidly-obese and pencil-thin combatants, moving in a grotesque ballet of flying foam swords and cellulite. On the other hand, they did wear the heavy costumes in the heat of summer, which has to help shed the pounds.

I’ll go ahead and save Brittney the trouble and make this point: at least it’s better than real war!

Posted by Preston Taylor Holmes @ 9:29 am
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1. D & D Southern Style…

   Preston Taylor Holmes of Six Meat Buffet has a White Trash Wednesday post – post here today that is classic. PTH points the WTW lance at the Nashville Dur-Demarion group that re-enacts and plays out epic middle earth and tolkenesque battles. This post…

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2. White Trash Wednesday - just for fun…

   A picture is worth a thousand words, so for my White Trash Wednesday contribution I offer the following White Trash Huzzies (click to look closely, you might recognize them): For more White Trash fun, Here are your White Trash Wednesday…

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1. Dear Warcraft geek, reveal thyself!!

   comment by Gordon — Wednesday, May 31, 2006 @ 10:12 am

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2. Oh damn. I understand that Dabu reference. Scary.

   comment by Lee — Wednesday, May 31, 2006 @ 10:45 am

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3. That’s just plain stupid.

   comment by Swamp Rabbit — Wednesday, May 31, 2006 @ 1:31 pm

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4. I almost forgot about White Trash Wednesday today. I know exactly what and where you are talking about. We also lived in Nashville for a few years. You could see some really strange folks at the park.

   I’m publishing my contribution to the occasion as we speak.

   comment by Debbie — Wednesday, May 31, 2006 @ 7:00 pm

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5. I try to post on White Trash every Wednesday. Linkage is good, ha.

   I guess you heard that Memphis is now high on the list of terrorist targets? I would have thought Nashville would be a bigger threat. I guess not. Both have increasing Muslim populations.

   comment by Debbie — Wednesday, May 31, 2006 @ 11:05 pm

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6. The D&D crowd always weirds me out. The whole “Narnia” and “Rings” phenom goes right over my head. Big money in catering to maladjusted sorts, tho!

   comment by What's WRONG with them? — Sunday, June 4, 2006 @ 8:34 am

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