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This morn­ing, Lisa and I had lunch with her Grandma and Grandpa, who vis­it­ing this week­end from Buf­falo. Grandpa Dick is a retired pro­fes­sional wrestler, who used to be quite big in Japan. In addi­tion to win­ning numer­ous wrestling titles, the masked “Destroyer” was a star on the most watched comedy show in Japan’s tele­vi­sion his­tory, along with Wada Akiko. But he also was famous in the West – Debbie Harry of Blondie sported some camel-​toe in a t-shirt from Dick’s bad guy alter-​ego, Dr. X… Hott.

So, we ate a ton of Japan­ese food while Dick enter­tained the chefs and wait­staff with his antics and Japan­ese lin­guis­tic skills. The shot above is of a Japan­ese newspaper.

More photos, and a video of The Destroyer wrestling a bear, after the fold.