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       A Bushel of Apples
   DIR By: Babs
       Date: July 18, 2013, 7:42 pm
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       I keep wondering - why apples? Of all the fruits they could have
       picked, why apples? And why make them so important? There aren't
       many references to apples in Chikara.
       There's the Flying Apple, which is a Colt Cabana move.
       It could be a reference to NYC - The Big Apple. Kaiju runs shows
       there. But Chikara's only had a handful of Manhattan shows:
       9/11/2011: "Martyr Yourself to Caution"
       12/4/2011: "Joshimania: Night 3"
       5/20/2012: "Aniversario: The Ogg and I"
       11/18/2012: "The Cibernetico Rises"
       And I found this rather dark (and now ominous sounding) blog
       from last August by Quack:
       8/8/2012: 17, ordinarily, I regret being the bearer of bad news,
       but since it’s you, I don’t mind: You are in for some very
       unpleasant surprises in the midwest, next week.
       Unpleasant Surprise # 1 - Jigsaw is not Burt Ward. He is the
       only man in CHIKARA history to have won the Young Lions Cup, a
       Cibernetico, a King of Trios and held the Campeonatos de
       Parejas. In a fair match, he is more than you can handle.
       However, I am well aware that fair matches and GEKIDO are not
       exactly common bedfellows.
       So if by some chicanery, you manage to squeak past Jigsaw in
       Milwaukee, we will be waiting for you and your partner The Shard
       the very next day in the Egyptian Room of the Old National
       Centre.
       I have won and lost some 3 dozen championship titles in the last
       19 years. I have won and lost tournaments. I have won and lost
       against virtually every one of my wrestling idols. This is all
       part of the game for me. I respect the game. In that regard, I
       am a good sportsman. But what is not part of the game for me is
       watching as my trainees and proteges are eliminated one by one
       by a stupid thug who has an issue with me. Not an issue with
       Dragonfly. Not with Tianlong. Not with Fire Ant. Not even with
       Jigsaw.
       On June 2nd, I warned you personally, in the ring, as your bones
       snapped in my grip. And in case you weren’t wise enough to
       spread the word to your teammates, I reiterated my message on
       the Event Center:
       
  HTML http://youtu.be/EdUOoBVKKT8
       I am not the kind of man that makes idle threats, 17. I don’t
       think you are, either. Which brings me to Unpleasant Surprise #
       2.
       You are quick to point out in your blog that I do not intimidate
       you. I suppose because, unprepared for you as I was in Vaughan,
       Ontario, injuring my wrist came easily to you. And you are
       correct in that it is not 100%. Nor will it ever be again. The
       surgery it would require would end my wrestling career. My
       physical therapy is over. 70% is as good as it will be for the
       rest of my life.
       Come for my wrist. Come for whatever legacy I have built. Come
       for the company you think represents all the ills and injustices
       of your life. Come to remake CHIKARA in your image. Better men
       than you have tried, 17. And like them, you will fail.
       Too many times I have watched men like you kick in the front
       door of CHIKARA and declare it theirs as if it is an apple ripe
       for the picking. Mark my words masked man: that apple is the
       forbidden fruit.
       It is not the referee, nor the Director of Fun…once that bell
       rings, 17, I am the law. I am the Master of a Thousand Holds. I
       am a wrestler the class of which you cannot begin to comprehend
       and I am tired of playing the sportsman while goons like you and
       your friends trample over what I helped build up. I am the law
       here, and if I choose to break the law as I break your bones,
       there is nothing you or your “raging," “wrathful" group can do
       about it.
       Another bite of that apple will prove more than you can chew.
       LMQ
       (I added the bold. The last line sticks with me because it
       matches so well with the image of Wink eating the apple at the
       end of NC.)
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       Re: A Bushel of Apples
   DIR By: darkattack
       Date: July 19, 2013, 1:59 pm
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       Yeah, that definitely sounds like foreshadowing. I really wish
       he was talking about Wink in this so we could specifically tie
       Quack to everything that went down - although it's possible that
       the GEKIDO played a larger part in the CHIKARA fall than was
       revealed.
       #Post#: 772--------------------------------------------------
       Re: A Bushel of Apples
   DIR By: mervynpumpkinhead
       Date: July 19, 2013, 11:56 pm
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       Time is ticking to find out what's going to happen.
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