From: owner-monkey To: monkey-digest@anduin.eldar.org Subject: Monkey Digest V1 #12 Reply-To: monkey@anduin.eldar.org Errors-To: owner-monkey Precedence: bulk Monkey Digest Saturday, 24 May 1997 Volume 01 : Number 012 In this issue: [monkey] "Monkey" on British TV this weekend!!! [monkey] monkey's hairs Re: [monkey] Re: Japanese TV [monkey] Quotes list up... Re:[monkey] Monkey versus Steven Seagal! Re: [monkey] Mushrooms Re: [monkey] Mushrooms ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Parry Howell - FML Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:18:17 +0100 Subject: [monkey] "Monkey" on British TV this weekend!!! The first episode of "Monkey" will be shown on BBC2 at 2.15AM on Sunday morning (the 25th May), as part of BBC2's "Kung Fu night". Howell ------------------------------ From: Tu Chung Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 22:31:51 -0700 Subject: [monkey] monkey's hairs What else did monkey produce from the hairs on his chest.I remember in a couple of eps he could blow up an entire army but it's been so so long. ------------------------------ From: "Howell Parry" Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 05:47:44 PDT Subject: Re: [monkey] Re: Japanese TV >According to Clare O'Farrell: > >> My own theory is that Japanese society is so regulated that when >> they break out - they *really* break out. Programs like Endurance >> probably fit in with a whole tradition of testing your body to the >> limits that is a feature of martial arts for example! > >I always wondered about this show. > >Is it serious (I think so) or is it a comedy? I think they take it seriously! >Why would 600 students vie to be on such a show? Because it's probably a very popular prime-time show in Japan...? >Why would anyone put themselves through such punishment for a lousy >six days in Hawaii? I think it's some kind of masochistic thing. I'm sure they enjoy the games. Howell - --------------------------------------------------------- Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Matt Sephton Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 13:39:49 +0100 Subject: [monkey] Quotes list up... See the original Monkey page http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~u5ms/monkey/quotes.htm Bye, Matt ------------------------------ From: Nick McCarthy Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 01:09:27 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re:[monkey] Monkey versus Steven Seagal! At 02:03 PM 5/23/97 +1000, Clare wrote: I have to admit I was also fascinated by the particular manoeuvre you mention. (Monkey was fighting a god of fertility whom he had insulted profusely for the colourful clothes he was wearing!) I immediately tried to see if I could do the same manouevre with a stick but needless to say, failed miserably!! Hehehehe, so did I! (and on may occassions). I was about 5 when Monkey originally aired in Australia in 1981 and I immediately became obsessed with spinning sticks and jumping up onto beanbags (which represented the pink cloud!). I think my mum was contemplating banning me from watching Monkey (when I began hitting my little sister with sticks :)) In the first episode Monkey kills a demon with a sword. He actually kills quite a lot of people or demons but it is interesting to watch him become more restrained on this front as the series progresses after numerous sermons, headache sutras and banishments from Tripitaka :-) :-) The techniques Monkey uses are of course fighting techniques and they work in reality. But a stick is far less deadly than a sword and intentionally so - - you can still kill somebody with a stick and Monkey does this on several occasions but one has more choice on this front than with a sword. Yeah, death from a repeated series of stick beatings would be far more painful and prolonged than being stabbed with a sword. Monkey does indeed kill several demons with repeated bashings. I think it's quite funny though that when Monkey is fighting a large group of demons, it's usually only one or two of them who attack him and the rest wait around in the background until Monkey is ready to kill them :) It's funny, but has anyone else noticed how when Monkey jabbed someone hard with his staff, it would make a distinct stabbing kinda sound (despite the fact that the staff had blunt, rounded ends :) I hadn't noticed that - certainly not pleasant to be jabbed by a stick - no matter how rounded!!! I have noticed however that in the fights even if they are sword against stick, you get that pinging sound that is characteristic of two swords clashing together. Have you noticed a few sparks flying on occasions as well? I'm not at all sure how you get a spark out of a sword hitting a stick - but there it is!! (Monkey magic perhaps?) Well I was under the impression that Monkey's staff was metallic. Pigsy and Sandy's weapons look obviously wooden but Monkey's has a sort of metallic shine to it and the lettering on the staff looks as though it's been chiseled into metal (I wonder what it actually says?), Nick. ------------------------------ From: "Semprini" Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 20:15:17 +0000 Subject: Re: [monkey] Mushrooms > >> >I also remember another episode where Tripitaka acted out of character- > >>"he" > >> >became a vampire and started lusting after young girls in the dead of night > >> >to suck their blood (and he had fangs!). Although I think it could have > >>been > >> >an imposter. Does anyone know the details of this ep? > > > >I don't remember this one..!? In "Astonishing Coincidences" (the > >disco one), (s)he does go a bit weird. From memory, (s)he turns into > >a rat type thing (but human and not in stupid disguise either) and > >starts doing strange things (including stealing and lusting after > >young girls.. and doing odd things in the night) > > Didn't we talk about this before? This wasn't the 'outrageous coincidences' > episode but another one. As someone else explained that it wasn't in fact > Tripitaka who was the vampire but a demon in disguise who was trying to > frame Tripitaka. Nah, Tripi went really odd in Astonishing Coincidences (as dancing at the disco kind of proves really) and going "ratty" was all part of it. I think. Ah buggered if I know.. .oOo. "hello" (c) 1997 mailto:semprini@buttle.com (All Rights Reserved) http://freeweb.redcat.org.uk/~semprini/ (for Heaven's sake, go there..) ------------------------------ From: "Smith / Jeanette Yvonne (MGM)" Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 10:26:01 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [monkey] Mushrooms Yes, I remember it well and it definitely screened numerous times on Australian TV - Through the episode it is believed that the vampire is actually Tripitaka - but they later discover it is a clone. Can anyuone back this up? I was quite young when I saw this. On Thu, 22 May 1997, Howell Parry wrote: > >> >I also remember another episode where Tripitaka acted out of character- "he" > >> >became a vampire and started lusting after young girls in the dead of night > >> >to suck their blood (and he had fangs!). Although I think it could have been > >> >an imposter. Does anyone know the details of this ep? > > > >I don't remember this one..!? In "Astonishing Coincidences" (the > >disco one), (s)he does go a bit weird. From memory, (s)he turns into > >a rat type thing (but human and not in stupid disguise either) and > >starts doing strange things (including stealing and lusting after > >young girls.. and doing odd things in the night) > > > >I don't remember tripi becoming a vampire though. Surely not? > > > >John > > When this list started, I wouldn't have believe it either - but I've > heard so many bizarre and surreal storylines from "Monkey" that I'll > believe anything now! Tripitaka as a vampire - yeah, sounds reasonable > enough to me... > > Howell > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Get Your *Web-Based* Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------ End of Monkey Digest V1 #12 *************************** ----------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the Monkey Mailing List digest list, send mail to: majordomo@anduin.eldar.org with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe monkey-digest To send a message to the list, send mail to: monkey-digest@anduin.eldar.org If you have any problems or questions, send mail to: owner-monkey@anduin.eldar.org For lots more information and news about "Monkey", check out the Monkey! web site: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/8153/