4.4.05 | Haiiii YAH! (Part Two: In Which The Saturnyne Explores The Esoteric Wisdoms of the Water Margin)
FOREWORD: This post has been flagged 18 years later by someone for having "Sensitive content". Having now wasted several hours on the assumption (No Blogger didn't tell me why. Because that would be too easy, obviously) that someone took exception to the the first sentence after the proverbs and altering that, i then discovered that maybe it was the term "The Orient" which still was in use at the time, but is nowadays less-favoured/less appropriate. So further edits have been made and after a bout of grumpiness at having to return to a long-forgotten post, this writers fondness for a multi-cultural world where people can speak freely and openly without being chastised or persecuted remains undiminished. With the caveat that using free-speech to promote hatred should be confronted at every turn. But please, whoever flagged this, just leave a comment next time. You'll find me very amenable and understanding and i've always welcomed discussion and the chance to learn to be a better human being when i'm wrong about something. In fact it would have been far better to let it stand as is and have a discussion about it from which we can all learn than have it behind a wall and/or whitewashed out of existence. If one cannot see folly, how then can one ever recognise it or learn from it? With deepest respect and also realising that i am now in the company of one James Branch Cabell who wrote a much longer foreword in his "notorious" allegory Jurgen,
Sincerely,
S
PS: At first i considered in my innocence that exception was taken to every other aspect of my writing, like punctuation and grammar and making absurd proverbs. Or maybe they didn't like pumpkins. Or whimsy? It had to be the whimsy, right? Or too much self-mockery? Or maybe them insights into how my 9yo mind works was just too horrifying. Anyway...
PS: Dear Blogger Team, if you still don't approve of this post, please tell me which parts you don't like and I will either explain them or accomodate by re-writing them.
Sincerely,
S
PS: At first i considered in my innocence that exception was taken to every other aspect of my writing, like punctuation and grammar and making absurd proverbs. Or maybe they didn't like pumpkins. Or whimsy? It had to be the whimsy, right? Or too much self-mockery? Or maybe them insights into how my 9yo mind works was just too horrifying. Anyway...
PS: Dear Blogger Team, if you still don't approve of this post, please tell me which parts you don't like and I will either explain them or accomodate by re-writing them.
"A pub with cheap vodka is worth more than a pebble without imperfections."
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. Or alternately, a nice big drink of something yummy and alcoholic."
- Water Margin proverbs as terribly re-interpreted by The Saturnyne (possibly aided by copious amounts of rum. I don't know. I'm writing this bit 18 years later)
Another, even better telly series from "The Orient" as it was then known, was The Water Margin. As fun as Monkey was, this was war! Nine dozen heroes fighting heinous tyranny from their fortress in the water margins of Liang Shan Po. Plots! Counter-plots! Character development! Kickass swordfights and battles! Even the opening credits have a big fuckoff battle! Yowsa!
And every episode had a really cool proverb you could carry away with you to reflect on, then spout off in weird moments of gibberish to all your school chums in a vain attempt to seem cool and "wise beyond your years". For some reason still unknown to me, i always seemed to fail at that one. More often than not sounding "stupid beyond my years" instead. Can't think why...
Thinking back on it all now, one can see these programmes and others like them as early forerunners of the modern day martial arts movie epic. Stuff like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.
The theme tune for this show began "dum da dum, da dumdum" repeated a few times. It sounded kinda cool and tense.
The final part of this "truly thrilling" extended post (In which i will make a bitter denouncement, no less!) will be posted sometime this week. After that- more bollocks. Yaay! Mebbe even some otters and squirrels. And pumpkins. gotta have me some pumpkins somewhere! I just gotta!
Please don't faint with excitement. Thank-you.
S.
12 comments :.
anxiously awaiting...
for the vodka.
i want to see the otters and squirls!!
And I want to listen to the soundtrack...
Put me down for a t-shirt :)
Right.
Vodka: Check. (And incidentally Broomhilda is just about the most awesome name evah! Hee!)
Otters n'n Squirls: Check. Haw! "Squirls"! =}
Soundtrack: Check. (Otters 'n' Squirls soundtrack?)
T-shirt: Check. (Otters 'n' Squirls t-shirt?)
Don't you lot have a local Vodka 'n' Otters 'n' Squirls 'n' soundtrack 'n' t-shirt shops near yr own homes, then? They're all the rage in Harle Syke at the moment!
Sometimes the otters 'n' squirls get a bit rowdy after nicking the vodka tho'...
Haven't seen many otters around my part of the States, lots of squirls, little bastards are always stealing my vodka.
Glad you like the name. Saturnyne is a pretty cool name as well.
Yay! I know at least three people now who offer vodka as a bit of refreshment while blogging, Broomhilda *nods* is one of them. I shall now be pleasantly buzzed all of the time thanks to all of you!
I like squirrels. They're like little darty cats with a windmill for a tail. I'll take 'em if no one wants 'em!:)
no vodka for me, i prefer bourbon.
love the saturnyne's interpretation of the proverbs. perfect!
Saturnyne,
Never fear about the evil boggarts, they have no power over me. i won't let them get you either.
Cheers Broomhilda! But i get along with all manner of boggarts, pixies, thurses... tis all a matter of being polite (but not too polite)
B! Yeah, i must perverse some more of them chinese sayings sometime.
S.x
Monkey, Harold Lloyd and now The Water Margin. Welcome to the 80s BBC 2 Teatime Gang!
How many of us tried to run like that Flash character? I also digged the huge dude with red and white polka-dot outfit. One remembers the handsome Lin Chung and the phwoar blimey Su Lin. And the villain, who was more scarey-looking than Anakin in la'er years.
In the words of Bob Hope's signature tune: Thanks for the memory.
Now...how about a Haiii YAH! (Part Three: My Uncle The Ass-kicking Aspidistra) on The Adventure Game, huh? :)
Ah yeeeah! I remember that... from the Planet Arg?
I'll come back to that sometime in the future, i hope.
Thanks back atcha for THAT memory!
S.
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