Llap-goch, the secret deadly welsh art of self-defense.
When I first ran across this about twenty years ago it was attributed to the Monty Python crowd but I could never confirm that and it doesn't look like the right media for them. Did the Flying Circus ever do anything with print.
When you're done laughing, think harder- about promises you have been made or (horrors) made yourself.
I like this one. Back when I started, there was a guy who called himself Count Dante, who taught the deat-touch, DIm Mak. One of the lines I recall ran something to the effect of, " ... and if anybody dares to attack you, he will be sorry for the rest of his miserable, crippled, life ..."
ReplyDeleteBut this was -- supposedly -- not a joke. The ads used to run in the back of comic books and popular magazines ...
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/12/31/dim-mak-the-death-touch/
The Chicago Reader did an interesting article in Count Dante, The Black Dragon Fighting Society and the Chicago Dojo Wars a while back. It's well worth reading to get a flavor of MA in the 60's & 70's and the kind of hucksterism that runs through the MA world.
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Great stuff. Quoted directly from page 7 of "The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok" (Methuen 1974)
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Hi
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Remember reading it aged 10 or younger. My babysitter used to have it. (old lady with 3 grown up sons, 1 had kept the book since Uni.)
Gotta remember, the Welsh are tough! for instance.." & lo, it rained for forty days & forty nights...still the best summer Cardiff ever had.