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Maybe it's the only reason Neo's been hanging out with an old palooka like me.
One boxer has plenty of pop, can hit bad pitches, and is a fun at-bat, while the other is your average palooka with a wood stick.
Like the palooka who pulls himself up off the canvas after each knockdown, the dedicated employee is expected never to waver, no matter what battering he takes.
And if you are feeling wistful about the big palooka from Campbellton, Newfoundland, don't be.
But with Rocky pushing 60, feeling unloved and just aching for an ear to listen to his palooka wisdom, the poignancy factor is hard to resist.
Well, that and the fact that I'm a podgy, poverty-stricken palooka who has never got anywhere near her.
Even the comic strip heroes got into the act as Joe Palooka, Mickey Finn, and Buzz Sawyer joined the military.
On Sunday mornings a man would go to all the pubs along Netherfield Road selling American broadsheet comics like Tarzan of the Apes, Joe Palooka, and Little Orphan Anne.