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Kismet said:
Gin, you were aware that the Pillsbury Dough Boy has walked West weren't you?mamav said:The Pillsbury dough girl![]()
I'll save the world with sticky cinnamon rolls. Nobody can be too mad eating those![]()
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Costume.....well, of course, white cotton apron with a fluffy white hat.![]()
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Legends tells that Wukong was born out of a rock and through his many adventures he was able to master an array of amazing abilities and powers. He knows 72 transformations, double that of Zhu Bajie. [he can turn into various human beings, animals, houses, mosquito, temples, mountains, etc... He can also grow very big or very small, and he can pluck hairs out of his body and then blow on them to create doubles of himself. - HW]
Through a series of audacious stunts he acquires the powers of immortality, shape-changing ability, cloud travel skills, and ownership of a handy "as-you-will resizeable staff" which can be nestled behind the ear for easy carrying or resized to tree-trunk size for pounding the sense out of dragons and demons. His magical staff was a supporting pillar he "robbed" from the under-sea palace of the East Sea dragon king. The monkey king also forced the dragon king to offer him other magical "gifts" including his beautiful golden armour. Above all he has monkey chutzpah.
Sun Wukong learned many of his magical tricks while serving as a disciple under the Patriarch Subodhi; it was the Patriarch who gave him the name "Wukong" ("aware of emptiness"). The Patriarch, who by the time they parted ways was certain the monkey would come to a bad end, made him promise never to tell anyone who his teacher was.
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He was invited to the Heavenly Kingdom by the Jade Emperor in the hopes that a promotion and title would make him a little more manageable. He proved to be an incorrigible monkey, however, and soon he was scarfing down the Empress's Peaches of Immortality and popping Lord Lao Tzu's Pills of Indestructibility like they were Tic Tacs. Feeling guilty, but not that guilty, he became the biggest headache for everybody in heaven. Finally, the heavenly authorities had no choice but to attempt to subdue him.
He fought and defeated the Army of Heaven of 100,000 strong, Four Heavenly Kings, Erlang Shen and Nezha successively. Eventually, by the great effort and teamwork by the heavenly forces, including many famous deities, he was finally captured. After several more mundane execution attempts failed, Wukong was stuffed into Lord Lao Tzu's eight-way trigem cauldron to be distilled into an elixir. The cauldron's sacred flames were hot enough to consume anything (including immortals). After a good long cook and then some, the cauldron exploded and out jumped the Monkey King stronger and refined (for he was born of a rock). Not only was he not harmed in any way, he now had the ability to 'see' evil through what is called Huo Yan JingJing (Firey eyes flickering) no matter which form they appeared as.
Many scholars believe Sun Wukong is based on Hanuman from the Ramayana.Nasty said:And now we have nice blades in his honor misnamed "Hanuman"?
I used to have a book by this guy. He is incredibly flexible.Bamboo said:Real life Monkey Warrior
Howard Wallace said:Many scholars believe Sun Wukong is based on Hanuman from the Ramayana.
mamav said:The Pillsbury dough girl![]()
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Theme song is something celtic from Enya....very relaxing.So as to ease the nerves......
MAMAV has it right After a hard day (and night) kicking @$$ and taking names in the ghetto (read search warrants on crack houses), I would make it home after 36 to 48 hours too wired from close calls to go to sleep. I would lay sprawled on the bed, listen to the soothing strains of ENYA to unwind the kinks in neck and shoulders, then crash and burn. This is why I'd never make a super hero.... Those guys never crash, just go on fighting the good fight. By the way, MAMAV, the cinnamon rolls were a true inspiration...
Yvsa said:Gin, you were aware that the Pillsbury Dough Boy has walked West weren't you?
Damned shame it was. Seems that he had a long history of and finally succumbed to a....
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