The youthful face looks to be fresh out of high school having originally hailed from Northern California, yet is face, voice, and actor of a well-trained virtuoso in his thirties. Six years ago without any training in German, nearly six-foot tall, handsome, golden-eyed, fair-skinned performer headed for Germany to hone his craft on stages of several smaller opera companies. According to producer and promoter TR Cutler, Damkier will make his recital debut in South Florida.

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It’s safe to say that a fight between these two species would be something along lines of King Kong vs. Godzilla, and, if anything, that might be low keying it. The announcer proceeded to raise my anticipation level even more when he started handicapping fight. He said that if anaconda was able to bite tiger’s head that it was all over, that this would enable giant snake to hold tiger and quickly wrap a couple of coils around him. On other hand, a tiger is so quick that it possibly could avoid strike of anaconda. If that happened, tiger’s jaws or claws would be enough to do serious damage to snake. It was then noted that a couple of bites to snake would probably kill it from just infection alone. Man, after hearing all that, I can tell y‘all that I was wide awake and ready to watch animal kingdom fight of century!

Do y’all want to know who won? I hate to have to tell y‘all this, but they didn’t actually match up a live anaconda and tiger. What they did was assign a team of experts to build a mechanical anaconda and tiger. I guess they were concerned that animal rights people would be on their butts if they staged a real fight, and I‘m sure they were right about that. Honestly, though, I lost interest in program when I discovered that a real fight was not in cards. Maybe I’d have to sum it up like this - watching a fight between a mechanical tiger and a mechanical anaconda would be about as interesting as watching prettiest female stripper in world put on more clothes as her background music was playing. Some things in this world have to be real to mean something, and that definitely holds for true for a battle between an anaconda vs. a tiger. Man, just think, if we could’ve gotten a real fight goin’ with Marlin Perkins in there with ‘em both as special guest referee....

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