Comments by WSSloshtop

Absolutely. And how must it have felt to him, waking up on the morning of the shoot, knowing that later that day he'd be undergoing what amounted to deliberate degradation just for others' amusement. Was he excited or apprehensive - or a mixture of the two?

Photo: Slapstick victim.4/10/21report

Yes - you've really got to be a dedicated and resilient sloshee to put yourself through this kind of treatment. (And if you've agreed to act as a superstooge, there's nothing you can do to prevent yourself from getting fucked as well as messed-up.)

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Yes, it's worth keeping the image in a photo albumin.

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Are you sure? Even after the third hour - by when you'd be blinded with gunk, shivering, and have pissed your jock twice?

Photo: My work is degrading.1/3/21report

Dear Tar_n_Feathers, I may not have thanked you for your kind comments about the story I posted, '13 Myths About Bernard Higgins'. I really appreciate your generous words. Trusting you're well, & wishing you a happy new year, WSS.

User: Gone home1/3/21report

I like the way you say you were 'forced' to do something similar and - cruel and pitiless old sadist that I am - I'm turned on that you found the experience deeply humiliating ( ! ). For me, this is the essence of slapstick - it's fundamentally degrading. When you agree to be the target for slosh you relinquish all dignity. I hope you get a chance to writhe in waste food-stuffs with your bum in the air again soon - if you really want to, that is ( ! ).

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Delighted to hear the vanilla ice-cream idea appealed to you ('Bernard Higgins' story), & impressed you opted for Neapolitan. So much classier - and colourful [ ! ].

User: morepies_211/23/20report

It's a still from the initiation scene in the film The Good Shepherd (dir. Robert de Niro, 2006). Matt Damon is one of those grappling in the gunk, but there is no reliable information on the identities of the other five actors or stuntmen who performed as mud-wrestlers, nor on how many takes were needed, or how long in total the sequence took to shoot.

However, writing in Village Voice in 2005 Michael Musto was at least able to reveal that the wrestlers were all wearing flesh-coloured thongs.

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Indeed they do. And I don't just l i k e slapstick clowns, I revere them. I imagine how tough it must actually be to get messed-up as part of your job, and have it done to you - perhaps two or even three times - every working day.

User: WSSloshtop6/27/20report

Dear Tar_n_Feathers,

Many thanks for your kind comments about my story, 'Blackpool'. I'm delighted you liked it. I only wrote it for my own amusement.

I admit though to being embarrassed that you will know the Tower Circus better than I do. My backstage experience there is limited to just one occasion - probably 20 years ago - when friends & I were whisked through to take up some comp seats we'd been given. I'm bound to have got many details wrong [ ! ].

Thanks & best wishes, WSS

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