Re: [Vo]:"Patience, grasshopper" quote

2011-12-21 Thread Robert Lynn
Excepting the last 'act' On 21 December 2011 15:37, Terry Blanton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Jed Rothwell > wrote: > > > Supposedly Master Po said this. > > He did . . . at the beginning of every show. > > And Pai Mei taught the Black Mamba Dim Mak, aka the > Five-Point-Palm-Exp

Re: [Vo]:"Patience, grasshopper" quote

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
>> We are an interesting species. It's probably one of the reasons why we >> are being studied... at a discrete distance ;-) > > Or not so distant as in Doc Smith's "Triplanetary". I loved reading Doc's Lensman series. Doc gave great space opera. And now... back to regularly scheduled programmin

Re: [Vo]:"Patience, grasshopper" quote

2011-12-21 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:49 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: > We are an interesting species. It's probably one of the reasons why we > are being studied... at a discrete distance ;-) Or not so distant as in Doc Smith's "Triplanetary". T

Re: [Vo]:"Patience, grasshopper" quote

2011-12-21 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Terry sez: ... > And Pai Mei taught the Black Mamba Dim Mak, aka the > Five-Point-Palm-Exploding-Heart Technique, used to dispatch Bill; a > far better way to die than in real life via autoerotic asphyxiation. > > Carradine's life will make a great movie one day. Probably so. We are an interest

Re: [Vo]:"Patience, grasshopper" quote

2011-12-21 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > Supposedly Master Po said this. He did . . . at the beginning of every show. And Pai Mei taught the Black Mamba Dim Mak, aka the Five-Point-Palm-Exploding-Heart Technique, used to dispatch Bill; a far better way to die than in real life vi

[Vo]:"Patience, grasshopper" quote

2011-12-21 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: > And please don't patronize me. It's not very elegant. Grasshopper >> indeed. You're not some sort of senior sage. >> > > Ah, but I am an honorary oriental. (Brevetted rank.) > People unfamiliar with schlock American culture may not recognize this. It is from the "Kung Fu" televisio