On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, The Blue Tigress wrote:

Aww, you don't have to go to Aikido to beat someone up.  I'm sure some of 
the MLers would _love_ to volunteer to be your practice dummy.  Right, 
guys?  ^_-

EG: "When do we get to beat people up?"
Ma: "Beat poeple up?"
EG: "Yeah, that's what I came here for.  I even bought the pajamas.
     Hiyah!  Pretty good, huh?
Ma: "Ed Gruberman, you must learn patience."
EG: "Yeah yeah, patience.  How long will that take?"
Ma: "To the student of Tai-Kwon-Leap a year is as a day."
EG: "A year?  I wanna beat people up right now!"
Ma: "Ed Gruberman, you have failed to grasp the meaning of Tai-Kwon-Leap.
     Approach so that you might learn."
EG: "At last, finally some action."
Ma: "Boot to the head" <Thwack-thump>
EG: "Aow.  You booted me in the head!!  I wasn't ready, now I'm ready"
Ma: "Boot to the head" <Thwack-thump>
EG: "Mind if I just lie here for a minute?"
Ma: "And now students.."
S1: "Master!"
Ma: "It is wrong to tip the vessel of knowledge."
S1: "I'm sorry, Master.  But Ed Gruberman may not be wholly wrong."
Ma: "How so?"
S1: "I want to beat people up too."
Ma: "Have you learned nothing from the lessons of Ed Gruberman?"
S1: "Anger is a weapon only to one's opponent."
Ma: "Very good.  And?"
S1: "Always get in the first shot - Boot to the head!" <swish>
Ma: "You missed."
S1: "Ah, yes."
Ma: "You too shall be enlightened."
S1: "I've got to go no-"
Ma: "Boot to the head." <Thwack-thump>
S1: <Argle>
Ma: "Have the rest of you learned anything?"
S2: "Yes Master.  Not a single one of us could defeat you."
Ma: "Very good."
S2: "So we'll just have to gang up on you.  GET HIM BOYS!"
Ma: "Boot to the head.  Boot to the head. Boot to the head."
S2-S5: <moan>
Ma: "Let us rejoin our mind to the body as we gaze into the candle...
     Very good."


Neoculture              (Crash-Test Dummy On The Information SuperHighway)
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Dans le froid glace de l'Olympe noir | Dans le vide de l'espace infernal -
Les Dieux malins ont en vain         | Fatigue, lasse, vainqueur -
Use de leur puissance, leurs pouvoirs| Ulysse pres d'une Aurore Boreale
Contre Ulysse 31.                    | Rechauffe un peu son coeur.
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