[thechat] Kung fu (was: Bali)

seb potter seb at members.evolt.org
Thu Oct 17 10:48:00 CDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 16:26, Madhu Menon wrote:
> At 08:42 PM 17-10-02, Luther, Ron wrote:
> >Hi Ashok,
> >
> >Wasn't everyone?  Oddly enough, David Carradine starred
> >in a very popular TV series here as a Shaolin Kung-fu monk
> >... while Nixon was in office.
>
> Which, incidentally was supposed to be for Bruce Lee, but apparently the
> producers decided that the audience wasn't quite "ready" for a Chinese
> protagonist.
>

Yay, Kung-fu! A shaolin monk's journey in which each episode teaches a
lesson about how to resolve a situation without recourse to violence,
and yet ends in a violent ass-kicking that was the only reason to watch.

Ah, Grasshopper!

Seb.





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