[karajorma]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070831/D8RC9TIO0.html

China's Shaolin Temple has demanded a public apology from an Internet user who claimed a Japanese ninja beat its kung fu-practicing monks in a showdown, a lawyer said Friday.

An open letter from the temple posted on the Internet Thursday denied the fight ever took place and called on the person who posted the claim to apologize to the temple's martial arts masters.

Monks from the temple, nestled in the Songshan Mountains of central China's Henan province, said they will consider legal action if the person doesn't make a public apology.

The incident comes amid lingering tensions between China and Japan over World War II atrocities. China is highly sensitive to anything that smacks of Japanese militarism, particularly because many believe Tokyo has yet to show adequate remorse for its wartime actions in China.

The posting last week on the "Iron Blood Bulletin Board Community" described a ninja who challenged the monks of the Shaolin Temple to a fight in August after practicing boxing at a Japanese mountain retreat for five years. The Internet user claimed the monks accepted the challenge and the ninja won, proving the monks are trained to perform rather than fight.

The Shaolin Temple's letter said the posting was "evil" and "a pure fabrication." It said the account of the ninja's victory had been widely commented on and distributed, especially in Japan.

"This extremely irresponsible behavior not only impacts the Shaolin temple and its monks, but also the whole martial arts community and the Chinese people," it said.

Screw legal action. I want to see a Jay and Silent Bob style personal visit.

[Herra Tohtori]

...The next morning, the Internet appeared at the Shaolin temple and demanded of the Temple's head abbot that he offer his neck to repay the insult. The man at first tried to console the Internet, only to find the Internet was inconsolable.

So began the massacre of the Shaolin Temple and all 60 of the monks inside at the fists of the Series of Tubes. And so began the legend of Internet's 5,000,000 bot user exploding server technique.

[redsniper]

^^ Internet

[Black Wolf]

You don't even want to know how pissed off the Pirates are getting.

[BloodEagle]

So a bunch of monks (please be Buddhist) are concerned about their reputations?

 

[karajorma]

Well they're pissed off that someone talked trash about them on an internet forum. The difference is that unlike the majority of cases of this all over the internet they know full well that they kick the posters arse, regardless of who it is.

[Flipside]

There's only one way to solve this, and that's a cage match, and even if it's Pay Per View, I am SO watching that one.....

[Grey Wolf]

So a bunch of monks (please be Buddhist) are concerned about their reputations?

 

Shaolin monks are Buddhist by definition.

[Flipside]

There's only one way to solve this....



CLAB BATTLE!!!

[redsniper]

Speaking of Pirates vs Ninjas...
I don't know why I didn't post this earlier, just slipped my mind I guess.
This is a rad-awesome video my friends and I made in 3 days. I'm the ninja.

[Fearless Leader]

Men, this confirms it.

Monks = Pirates

[Kie99]

[Grizzly]

Joshua wants a battletech style Trail of Grievance!!!!!!

[Nuke]

dibbs on the timberwolf

[redsniper]

'Trial' even.