> > OK, who's *not* thinking "Monkey!" at this point? The Helerings
> > leaping down from their clouds shouting "Hwooahhhh!"!
> > :)
>Err, me? Is "Monkey" some sort of British child's game, or do you mean
>simians?
A japanese television program of the famous Chinese Fantasy "Journey to the West" in which three demigods ousted from Heaven for some crime or another (Monkey's own crime was to style himself as "Great Sage, Equal to Heaven" and start a war) are condemned to lead a Buddhist Priest on his journey to India to retrieve Buddhist Holy Texts. The other two were Pigsy (famous for being a glutton) and Sandy (hitherto obscure but now we have a better idea).
More details on the Epic here:
http://www.china-on-site.com/monkey.php
More details on the TV series here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078659/
--Peter Metcalfe
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