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- From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner)
- Subject: Re: Fighting against animals?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.052311.22836@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:23:11 GMT
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- In article <MHIRSCH.93Jan26141025@dynastar.princeton.edu> mhirsch@dynastar.princeton.edu (Michael Hirsch) writes:
- >>>>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:44:14 GMT, reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland) said:
- >Reid> Nntp-Posting-Host: metis.tti.com
- >
- >Reid> In article <77570@apple.apple.COM> mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) writes:
- >
- >>the story of Wu Sung, a martial hero monk of China, who is said
- >>to have been caught sleeping by a hungry tiger. If you have
- >>ever seen a figurine of a Chinese fellow smacking a tiger
- >>in the head with his fist in a Chinatown shop, this is Wu Sung
- >Reid> This sounds rather implausible to me. Why was he sleeping in a
- >Reid> Chinatown shop? And how did the tiger get in there?
- >No, no! you misunderstood. It was the fist that is in the Chinatown
- >shop.
- >It's an old technique: When attacked by a tiger, first, put a
- >Chinatown shop around your fist, raise your fist (and the shop with
- >it, of course) and bring it down on the tiger's head. Even a modestly
- >sized Chinatown shop is sufficient to incapacitate most tigers.
- >--
- >Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch@cs.princeton.edu
-
- I think YOU misunderstand. You are confusing the
- building for the shop. The shop itself is a collection of capitol
- with which the shopowner makes his money. He does not necessarily own
- the shop, but rather rents it. If he lifts his fist through his
- shop, postcards, bamboo mats, etc, will fall down around the fingers
- as they are lifted. However, due to the presence of food and foodstuffs
- in many china shops it is highly probable that the tiger's fascination
- with the foodstuffs will suffice to allow Wu Sung to escape.
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- John(?)
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