Mince Pie Fest 2024: M&S Collection
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I do not like the pastry on these mince pies at all. AT ALL. Crunchy and
far too sugary (which doesn't help with the crunch), I suppose at least
it's not t...
Monday, August 31, 2009
'“ninja” was an unknown term.'
Maybe to you, Mr. Edwards. But James Bond had teamed-up with ninjas back in '67.
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Roald Dahl wrote a James Bond Film? Wow.
ReplyDeleteThis is like the guy I gamed with back in the day who claimed D&D invented the term "Long Sword"...
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about this one too. It's true that ninja were found in film and literature before this. But I also remember a particular moment in my little fraction of California youth culture in the late seventies when suddenly everyone wanted to be a ninja - in real life and in D&D games - and they hadn't before. I was never sure what caused this.
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In Australia the TV series 'The Samurai' popularised ninjas even earlier.
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I'm pretty sure I first heard of ninjas in The Great Escape: A Source Book of Delights and Pleasures for the Mind and Body (1974). It had a one-page article detailing varieties of martial arts. Later they showed up on my TV in Shogun (1980), but I don't recall if the word "ninja" was used.
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