Re: CHAT: Temperature (was: I'm back!)
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 3, 2002, 2:19 |
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in datu 08/02/2002 02.56.05 PM memo, Steg (draqonfayir@JUNO.COM) grafi:
re: one of my many sig.lines (Hanuman Zhang Avatar of Sun WuKong, a.k.a
"Monkey", a.k.a. "the Monkey King," a.k.a. "TricksterGod of the Glorious
Anti-Imperialist Chinese Boxers")
>But now it sounds even funnier as underwear :-) Glorious
>Anti-Imperialist Boxers fighting against the forces of the Imperialist
>Briefs!
*eek!* That's hysterical alright ROTFLMAOSHIH...
::had a Monty Python moment there...::
> I wonder if the actual Chinese Boxers themselves were ever faced
>with being compared to underwear...
::searches thru a history on the Boxer Rebellion (_History in Three Keys:
The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth_ by Paul A. Cohen, 1997, Columbia
University Press, ISBN 0-231-10651-3)::
Not as far as I know and can research... I could ask my dad... but I
think I could get tirade about "bloody silly, cheeky questions" and about
wasting my and his time (& jacking up his phone bill since I call collect ;).
>Actually, speaking of underwear and East Asia, my Japanese teacher said
>that in Japanese, _pantsu_ ( from "pants") means 'underwear' - and
>_shotsu_ (from "shorts") means 'panties'! I think they did that on
>purpose, just to mess with English-speakers ;-) .
Some Chinese don't call them "little people"/"dwarves" for nothing ;)
The Cantonese stereotype of Japanese is: they are so uptight and conformist -
thus small-minded; they have lil sense of humour; and the first Japanese
Cantonese saw - en masse - were half-starved fishermen/sailors who were
generally smaller sized and thinner than even some Cantonese (in more ways
than one ;) etc..
re: "ngiirau"
>Hmm... i'm sure they mountain climb - otherwise, since they live mostly
>in the tropics, they probably wouldn't have a word for "snow", and i know
>they do :-) . it's actually very close to the word for "flower" - |fwi|
>"snow", |fwei| "flower". And surfing? definitely, now that you mention
>it! i hadn't thought of it, but you're right, it fits in perfectly.
>thanks!
Welcome, Steg. Anything to help (within reason)...
>> >-Stephen (Steg)
>> > "there is darkness all around us;
>> > but if darkness *is*, and the darkness is of the forest,
>> > then the darkness must be good."
>> > ~ song of the BaMbuti in troubled times
>
>> Niceness. I haven't seen this sig.line in awhile... thought ya
>> had dumped it...
[ . . . ]
>Thanks, nope i generally don't consciously drop sigs... i just
>periodically don't have time or effort to type up a nice one so i just
>do one of the short "aru" or "hrmph" ones. This one i really like though,
>it's from the textbook i had for Musics of the World class, in the
>chapter about African music.<unfortunate snip of lengthy detailed reply>
One of my favourite subjects is music. You familiar with the book _Music
of the Whole Earth_ by David Reck, copyright 1977, Da Capo edition 1997, ISBN
0-306-80749-1? (I strongly recommend this book to any one intrigued by music,
especially all kinds all over the planet... BIG HINT: good resource for
conculture music creation.
What's a culture without some kind or many kinds of music????).
>(here's another of my favorite sigs)
>
>-Stephen (Steg)
> "You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment
> that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand
> miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light.
> Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have
> limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
> ~ _jonathan livingston seagull_ by richard bach
"No more coffee for you, Stitch!" - from the Disney movie_Lilo and Stitch_
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Hanuman Zhang, 3-Toed-Sloth-Style Gungfu Typist ;)
"the sloth is a chinese poet upsidedown" --- Jack Kerouac {1922-69}
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"There is no reason for the poet to be limited to words, and in fact the
poet is most poetic when inventing languages. Hence the concept of the poet
as 'language designer'." --- O. B. Hardison, Jr.
"La poésie date d' aujour d'hui." (Poetry dates from today)
"La poésie est en jeu." (Poetry is in play)
--- Blaise Cendrars
"...Poetry is perhaps the only insurance we've got against the vulgarity of
the human heart..." ~ Joseph Brodsky
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