--- Kitsuno <
samurai-listowner@...>
wrote:
> I saw something similar on TV that was a
> psuedo-history lesson to
> advertise "Nin-Nin Hattori Kun". They basically had
> thier panel of
> pretty boys and girls answer multiple choice
> questions about ninja.
> Apparently, the "flying ninja" trick with the square
> shaped cloak
> could work in theory, but my question is, if so, why
> did it take 1000
> years and the wright brothers to prove it? Also,
> they talked about
> how ninja can jump 2.4 meters straight up, and can
> long jump two
> parked volvos. So of course they said "ooh, if we
> had ninja in the
> olympics this time, we would win every event!" The
> only useful bit of
> info I got from it is that ninja dont wear thier
> swords over thier
> shoulder because it is too hard to draw - except
> when they are
> crawling under a house.
On friday night (I think) I saw a show that was
basically counting down the silliest blunders in
history, or at least that's what I got out of it.
Anyways, one of their countdown was about
Nobunaga--basically, the theory went that the reason
Mitsuhide turned against him and attacked was that
Nobunaga "propositioned" Mitsuhide's wife, and she hit
him on the head with a fan. So after that, Nobunaga
did his best to humiliate Mitsuhide, including hitting
him on the head with...a fan. Hmm...
Of course, this same show had Ieyasu stopping at a
food stall prior to the battle of Mikata-ga-hara,
hearing the Takeda army coming while mid-dango, and
running off without paying--the old lady running the
stall apparently chased him down after a couple miles
and made him pay. Later on, after the battle, he gets
back to his castle, and his retainers unsaddle his
horse, finding "unchi" on the saddle--and Ieyasu
claims it's "yakimiso"...
I'd heard part 2 of that one before--just not sure of
the physics of it, being as he was wearing armor and
all.
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