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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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For that matter...
Bruce Lee, for all his many strengths, was not very expressive in English. And why should he be? He didn't leave Hong Kong for the US until he was 21 and had no formal schooling.
He did sometimes mangle his verb tenses and screw up his subject-object agreements. Once, in 1967, the milkman left two cartons of skimmed milk and a pint of cottage cheese when Bruce had specifically told him FULL milk and NO cheese. Bruce immediately sat down and wrote him a long, angry note. Chuck Norris had a quick glance at it and though he knew it was gibberish he didn't say anything when Bruce left it on the doormat.
Well, it so happened that milkman was Allan Ginsberg who took the note and, without changing a word, published it as his poem 'Howl', perhaps the most famous verse of the Beat Generation. Later Bruce stuffed a whole Aberdeen Angus cow wearing samurai armor up Ginsberg's arse 'for plagiarism'.
( , Thu 14 Aug 2008, 16:14, Reply)
Bruce Lee, for all his many strengths, was not very expressive in English. And why should he be? He didn't leave Hong Kong for the US until he was 21 and had no formal schooling.
He did sometimes mangle his verb tenses and screw up his subject-object agreements. Once, in 1967, the milkman left two cartons of skimmed milk and a pint of cottage cheese when Bruce had specifically told him FULL milk and NO cheese. Bruce immediately sat down and wrote him a long, angry note. Chuck Norris had a quick glance at it and though he knew it was gibberish he didn't say anything when Bruce left it on the doormat.
Well, it so happened that milkman was Allan Ginsberg who took the note and, without changing a word, published it as his poem 'Howl', perhaps the most famous verse of the Beat Generation. Later Bruce stuffed a whole Aberdeen Angus cow wearing samurai armor up Ginsberg's arse 'for plagiarism'.
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