From: alvin@stud.cs.uit.no (Alvin Brattli)
Subject: Re: Xai Ji
Followup-To: alt.fan.warlord
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:51:50 GMT

In rec.martial-arts exudms@exu.ericsson.se (New Dave) writes:

   [ included article *and header* deleted ]

|> Now I think I know what you mean by "Xa Ji". I can't give an actual translation of the meaning, but  Xa Ji is a second class performance (stage or street) different than that of Opera. Xa Ji can refer to a Circus performance, Dancing like fan or scarf dan|> ce, Puppetiers, Street Actors, etc. Skilled performers, literally "Performance" or "Show". These people are not necassarily martial artist.
|> 
|>  I wouldn't tend to think that an Opera charactor like "Kwon" wielding a Kwon Dau in a battle scene for the Royal Peking Opera could be classified as "Xa Ji".
|> I don't know.
|> I know that movie companies employee Opera, Acrobats, and Xa Ji people to do a lot of stunts in Kung Fu movies, but they are not Martial Artist.
|> 
|> Thankx  "Jian Ke", Joey Zou and all
|> 
|> and Fo, I'm not in Sweden, this is TEXAS.
|> 
|> Zai Jien
|> /New Dave
|> 
|> 							
|> 
|> /-------------------------------------------------------\  																 	  		  				   																															    |  |  EXU/S/D		~<>~	"Patience, the essential|			      										 			  												 		 		 				F1066 RCHN  EXUDMS		 quality of man" |>        |			|	*My opinions are not that of my employer*													\-------------------------------------------------------/

I guess this guy must have a severe case of Returnophobia, as all his
paragraphs and .signature are one-liners.




Let's try to repair some of the damage done by the End-Of-Line-Eater:

/-------------------------------------------------------\
  							
							
		 	  		  		
		   					
							
							
							
					    |  
|  EXU/S/D		~<>~	"Patience, the essential|
			      				
						 	
		  					
							
 		 		 			
	F1066 RCHN  EXUDMS		 quality of man" |
>        |			
|	*My opinions are not that of my employer*	
								
				
\-------------------------------------------------------/




Hmmm....lots and lots of whitespace in form of tabs and spaces in there.
Let's remove some of the whitespace, repair some tab-damage and fill in the
missing |'s:

/-------------------------------------------------------\
|  EXU/S/D              ~<>~    "Patience, the essential|
|  F1066 RCHN  EXUDMS            quality of man"        |
|                                                       |
|       *My opinions are not that of my employer*       |
\-------------------------------------------------------/




Now for that ugly ascii border. Although restored to a recognizable shape,
it still offends the general .sigesthetics. Let's get rid of it:

   EXU/S/D              ~<>~    "Patience, the essential
   F1066 RCHN  EXUDMS            quality of man"

        *My opinions are not that of my employer*




Way better already. Overkill on the whitespace though. Next step:

EXU/S/D     ~<>~    "Patience, the essential quality of man"
F1066 RCHN  EXUDMS  *My opinions are not that of my employer*




Now this resembles something. The next step must be to improve
the signal/noise ratio. Let's be generous and let him keep his
barphic and disclaimer:

~<>~  *My opinions are not that of my employer*


Now *this* is hot, don't you think?

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                      I've got two legs from my hips to the ground
Alvin Brattli         And when I move them they walk around
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