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The religious truths thread got me recalling one of my favorite parts of Caddyshack (an all time favorite movie of mine -- I've seen this silly, dopey and brilliant movie probably 15 times).
Bill Murray as Carl Spackler is explaining...
Bill Murray as Carl Spackler is explaining...
So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me?
(dramatic pause for a microsecond)
The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking.
So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says?
(another dramatic microsecond pause)
Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga...
(wow...)
So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know."
And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die...on your deathbed...you will receive total consciousness."
So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."