Cockfight

thumb|right|To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting." A cockfight is a blood sport between two roosters (cocks), or more accurately gamecocks, held in a ring called a cockpit. Quotes I didn't see it, but it sounds barbaric. It's become like cock-fighting: poor dumb brutes being set upon each other by conniving television producers. Boris Johnson, reported in David Smith, "Focus: Big Brother brawl", Observer, 20 June 2004, p. 17; referring to the TV series, Big Brother. Cock-fighting must be considered a barbarous diversion. Lord Ellenborough, Squires v. Whisken (1811), 3 Camp. Rep. 141; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 30. Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport— two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner. P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell (1989). To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting." Plutarch, 61 Cleomenes. Trade hardly deems the busy day begunTill his keen eye along the sheet has run;The blooming daughter throws her needle by,And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;While the grave mother puts her glasses on,And gives a tear to some old crony gone.The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays downTo know what last new folly fills the town;Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things,The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. Charles Sprague, Curiosity. External links cockfight Category:Sports Category:Birds