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Cock-fighting must be considered a barbarous diversion.
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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.

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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

— David Smith, "Focus: Big Brother brawl", Observer, 20 June 2004, p. 17.
— On Big Brother.

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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).

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Cock-fighting must be considered a barbarous diversion.

law, edward, 1st baron ellenborough

— Squires v. Whisken (1811), 3 Camp. Rep. 141.

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