[ANSTHRLD] The Art of -fu. Check it out!
Tim McDaniel
tmcd at panix.com
Sun Jun 12 21:02:09 PDT 2011
Someone asked about the meaning of "blazon fu". The Hacker's
Dictionary is a dictionary of computer slang.
<http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/suffix-fu.html>
-fu
[common; generalized from kung-fu] Combining form denoting
expert practice of a skill. "That's going to take some
serious code-fu." First sighted in connection with the
GIMP's remote-scripting facility, script-fu, in 1998.
I'm almost certain that Job Bob Briggs was using it before 1998, q.v.
It is found also in <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-fu>
For real-world examples, you can look at the movie reviews of Joe Bob
Briggs. "While a movie reviewer at the Times Herald, he created the
humorous persona of 'Joe Bob Briggs' to review 'exploitation' movies."
He has a summary near the end of reviews along the lines of
What we got here is: One breast. Seven dead bodies. Three quarts
blood. Electro-heart massage. Sickle in face. Sickle in
chest. Sickle in neck. Bad Loretta Lynn imitation. Snake striking
wimp in the eye. Stuffed bobcat in attack position. Dollbaby
shrine. Gratuitous gardening. Gratuitous "Help Me Make It Through
the Night." Head rolls. Snake fu. Rat fu. Guinea fu. Drive-In
Academy Award nominations for ...
"Da'ud Bob ibn Briggs Goes to the Movies!" is an SCA reviewer of
history-related films, who bears a strange resemblance to Da'ud ibn
Auda, twice Laurel King of Arms. Or perhaps resemblance to strange
Da'ud ibn Auda. <http://www.appletonstudios.com/movies1.htm>
The monthly review is at <http://www.appletonstudios.com/movies2.htm>
This month has two. The one for Showtime's _The Borgias_ ends
Good points: The sets. The costuming. The floors. The doublets
were particularly nice. The banners. They used real heraldry in
this production: besides the actual coat of arms of the Borgia
family, I recognized the arms of the de' Medici, Colonna, and
Farnese - though this last appeared on a white field, when it
should have been yellow.
Bad points: Jeremy Irons periodically sounds drunk, slurring his
words. And Derek Jacobi dies way too early in the series.
Three breasts. Two gallons of blood. Five dead bodies. Sword
fu. Knife fu. Scourge fu. Poison fu. Dagger fu. Plots
roll. Counterplots roll. Cart rolls. Gratuitous simulated
sex. Gratuitous goat. Gratuitous turncoat assassin. Academy Award
nomination to Jeremy Irons as Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia for
"St. Augustine never had to vote in conclave," and as Pope
Alexander VI for "What would Rome be, without a good plot?" A 72
on the Vomit Meter. 3 1/2 stars. Da'ud Bob says, "It lived up to
all of my expectations. Check it out!"
Daniel de Lyncoln
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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