From: paradicsom <pperez@campus.gym.itesm.mx>

On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Rabid Childe wrote:
> Then again, Clan Malkav could be compared to a rodeo clown in a 
> bullfight. Nobody wants them there, the bull doesn't want them there, 

	And yes, I can't resist replying to this one too. A "Matador" (the 
adequate word) is the generic name to a bullfighter, while a "Novillero" is 
the one who kills young bulls only, "Toreros" (from whr the word "toreador 
might come) are the ones who had taken "the alternative" and therefore are 
allowed to kill full grown bulls. The guys on the arored horses with the 
spears are called "Picadores" and they have not even a bit of 
fashionability and are despised as cowards. Their dresses are far less 
brilliant and luxurious than the matador's ones. And in general the 
public dislikes them. There are, indeed, some riding bullfighters, and 
are called "Rejoneadores", They ride on very expensive excesivesly well 
trained horses, with no protection. And the only thing they do is ride 
the horse inches from the bull's horns and kill him with a long sword (No 
spear).  But yes, the most fashionable of these is the "Torero" cause he 
faces the bull head to head on foot, and armed just with a cape and a 
sword. 

	And there are no clowns in bullfight, there are some other foot 
characters. The "Banderilleros" that place little arrow ended sticks on 
the bulls back (Which must be done facing the bull, and running towards 
him), the "cuadrilla" (they must help the "Toreador" in case the bull 
may get him), and yes (There may enter malkavianism) the "Forcados" 
("Hanged men"). In the beginning the "forcados" wer men condemned to die 
hanged, and given the option of facing the bull an literally "hold it by 
the horns" (Which meant a certain death if you have no training), and we 
are talking of a 550 kilos bull much deadlyer than the big-heavy-slow 
bulls you have at the rodeo. The ones who choosed the bull were, yes, 
just the crazyer ones, because they taked the opction of a slow death by 
bleeding, or a little posibillity of surviving, instead of the "quick" 
"safe" way of the noose. To the day, the "forcados" are considered mad 
men (Now they do it for pleasure), cause they face the bull when it comes 
fresh and angryer from the cage. They hang from it's head and tail, and 
then they just walk away to let the "torero" show himself. 

 Paradipsomaniac "el chiquitio"

believe me. I do know about "La fiesta brava' (The brave feast). It is on 
my blood.