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  • #16
    I am with you on that one doc.


    Uwe

    PS: Congratulations on the visa stuff. I guess it's time to make field trip to you soon.

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    • #17
      I've given this a lot of thought, sitting here in Beijing watching the rain fall.

      I want a certificate just like Steve's. The Long Haired One.

      I really, really do.

      It would make me very, very happy.

      Please?
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      • #18
        The ambassador’s certificate doesn’t really look authentic for me, as there’s no stamp, no signature, no seal, there’s nothing that could make it official. Even the “ladies” in Las Vegas are using a seal (look at Steve’s certificate. Btw, great job Steve!! You are a true talent). The paper used for the certificate looks like it was bought on a parish fair.

        Honestly, everyone who has ever seen an official certificate, can see that doc’s monk book looks more official (and there’s no doubt that it is official) than this so called Ambassador’s certificate.
        Uwe are you able to read what’s written in these stamps? Maybe you could “enlighten” us a bit with a translation of the Chinese characters in this certificate?

        Cheye
        Don’t take life too serious, as you won’t get out of it alive anyway.

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        • #19
          STOP IT!!

          All of you! Stop it right now. I am so sick of this. All you can do is sit there and make fun of the Shaolin AmbASSador...it's not right. It's not easy to be a Shaolin AmbASSador, or even a Shaolin GrandmASSter...so lay off the guy, can't you see how high his pubu is? You should all be more sympathetic.
          "Arhat, I am your father..."
          -the Dark Lord Cod

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          • #20
            Just to show you what a real certificate looks like!!
            Oh my god!! Arhat you are right there, we need to stop this immediately! This man is a heroe (just like Superman, Batman and Mickey Mouse)
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            Don’t take life too serious, as you won’t get out of it alive anyway.

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            • #21
              Bunny says...

              Bunny says the Blonde Topless Dancers Group can't give you one, because you always tell the blondes "No" and have not met the minimum duties for a Blonde Ambassador yet.
              1. You still need to buy them 200 drinks
              2. 60 Lap dances
              3. Have countless hours of conversations about how pretty they are.
              4. 100 Sushi dinners (You might be close on this one but she was not really blonde)
              5. One bailing them out from jail on Thanksgiving (that's a good story)
              6. At least five times going to pick them up at work at 4:30 am because they are too drunk to drive home
              (another story).
              7. At least once bringing them to the hospital because their "boyfriend" beat them up and then move all her stuff to a another blonde stripper friend's apartment, all in the same day (another real good story).
              8. Watch "The Kid" at least 10 times so she can go to work and make enough money to pay the rent.
              9. Put together a "Barbie Dreamhouse" and a new bicycle for "The Kid". (That just happened not long ago)
              10. Have a blonde that you met at a bar in Los Angeles, have sex with her that night and then find out she is a stripper in Vegas and see her in a Porn Movie six years later (wish this didn't happen, but it did).

              So till you start being nicer to the "Blondes", Bunny says you can't get to be an Ambassador. But she will talk to Asian Girls Union to give you something special.
              I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
              "Life can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade."
              "I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle."
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              • #22
                Do you think you could talk to the Brunette Topless Dancers Group for me? I've always been nice to them, and have always donated generously to their cause.

                I really really want a certificate. Just like yours.

                Sniff.
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                • #23
                  okay, i'll post something serious...this time i'll be a good boy.

                  well, the whole ambassador/certificate/whatever debate is kind of silly. let him call himself whatever he damn well pleases, because he's just making himself look like a fool. the big issue here are the 'rights' to teach gongfu. or specifically 'shaolin' gongfu, and that's a whole mess of names and histories and whatnot. even if demasco was an official ambassador, even if was a shaolin 'grandmaster', even if he was allowed to teach by yongxin...to me that means jack. and it certainly doesn't give ussd the right to say that others can't teach what they might teach.

                  doc, are there any more details concerning this lawsuit, like who exactly its against, or the circumstances leading up to it? i know you probably can't reveal your sources since nothing has happened yet, but i think this is important, not just for the chinese martial arts community, but for anyone who practices martial arts.

                  and another idea, maybe i should buy a kempo grandmaster here in japan a giant fruit basket and maybe he can give me the sole rights to teach kempo in north america. most martial artists here find american martial arts teachers pretty funny, and i'm sure i could find one that would love to be in on this joke. btw, i have some good stories of americans wanting to do martial arts in japan...i'll have to write those up at some point.
                  -Jesse Pasleytm
                  "How do I know? Because my sensei told me!"

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                  • #24
                    Re: Bunny says...

                    Originally posted by Steve
                    Bunny says the Blonde Topless Dancers Group can't give you one, because you always tell the blondes "No" and have not met the minimum duties for a Blonde Ambassador yet.
                    1. You still need to buy them 200 drinks
                    2. 60 Lap dances
                    3. Have countless hours of conversations about how pretty they are.
                    4. 100 Sushi dinners (You might be close on this one but she was not really blonde)
                    5. One bailing them out from jail on Thanksgiving (that's a good story)
                    6. At least five times going to pick them up at work at 4:30 am because they are too drunk to drive home
                    (another story).
                    7. At least once bringing them to the hospital because their "boyfriend" beat them up and then move all her stuff to a another blonde stripper friend's apartment, all in the same day (another real good story).
                    8. Watch "The Kid" at least 10 times so she can go to work and make enough money to pay the rent.
                    9. Put together a "Barbie Dreamhouse" and a new bicycle for "The Kid". (That just happened not long ago)
                    10. Have a blonde that you met at a bar in Los Angeles, have sex with her that night and then find out she is a stripper in Vegas and see her in a Porn Movie six years later (wish this didn't happen, but it did).

                    So till you start being nicer to the "Blondes", Bunny says you can't get to be an Ambassador. But she will talk to Asian Girls Union to give you something special.
                    Wait... do they have to be "real" blondes..
                    practice wu de

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                    • #25
                      Real Blondes.

                      Only if there are no dark roots.
                      And Orchid "The Aisan Chick Union Leader" did not show at work last night?
                      Doc, Your "Special Title" is coming soon.
                      I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
                      "Life can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade."
                      "I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle."
                      "Whatever guy said that money don't buy you pleasure didn't know where to go shopping"

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                      • #26
                        An interesting tidbit about Shaolin student books

                        I forgot to write about this before. These Shaolin student books are generally filled out alll in the same way, whether you get one from the wushu guan, or from one of the local monk run schools (since the monks all come from the wushu guan, they learn the "correct way" to fill out these student books.

                        Each line is devoted to one topic, ie, form. If you learned Da Hong Chuan, Da Hong Chuan would be written in Chinese on one line, and a grade would be given next to it. The grades, from what I have seen, tend to be numerical, and not alphabetical. If you have learned a second form, then it is written down on the next line, with it's appropriate grade listed next to it. The more forms you have learned, the more lines get filled in.

                        Having one line filled in just demonstrates to me that only one form was learned. Why, in the above mentioned case, it is written as "Shaolin Forms", in English, and not Chinese, is beyond me. There is no Shaolin form known as "Shaolin forms", and from my experience, no monk or coach would 1.write it in English, and 2. not delineate exactly what was taught.

                        If the Chinese above "Shaolin forms" is the name of a form, then writing "Shaolin forms" in English is also a bit bizarre.

                        The above mentioned student book, therefore, is interesting, to say the least.
                        Experienced Community organizer. Yeah, let's choose him to run the free world. It will be historic. What could possibly go wrong...

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