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From: Alf@afs.com (Alf the Poet)
Subject: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), 2 of 2
Message-ID: <1993Nov2.124229.3844@afs.com>
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Summary: Celebrating a prominent religious figure who really is, plus EL DUPREE
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Archive-name: alt-buddha-short-fat-guy/part2
This is the second of two parts of the Frequently Asked Questions list
for alt.buddha.short.fat.guy.
Contents
PART ONE:
1. Getting Started
2. The Buddha
3. Buddha Nature
PART TWO:
4. El Dupree
5. Quotes from Our Readers
Send questions for inclusion in this list to El_Dupree@afs.com.
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Part 4. El Dupree
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4-1. Does El Dupree have Buddha Nature?
Yes.
4-2. Does the Buddha have El Dupree Nature?
Often.
4-3. Who is El Dupree?
He is the Ghost of the Western Plain, an unbathed drifter of
much notoriety, who gave us the game CamChata, "Devil Fingers."
4-4. Huh?
What he said.
4-5. Are there koans in the tradition of El Dupree?
There were several developed in the 50's, but there are only
re-runs now.
4-6. Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Get serious. I've changed a lot since then.
4-7. Tell me a koan.
Read on:
El Dupree came upon an injured cur on the road to Mejave Mai.
"Rise cur," El Dupree said, casually pushing up the brim of his
big spangled sombrero. He sucked air through his teeth and waited.
The cur glanced sidelong at the colorful stranger and hissed,
"Yeah, riiiight. A fucking miracle worker? A talking hat? Funny
man from downtown?"
El Dupree reached for his revolver, hesitated, and instead, took out
a #14 vinyl headsack. Yes, it was going to be a long day, he thought.
And the dog was enlightened.
4-8. Do I have time for another koan?
You have 15 minutes before the last bus leaves. Read on:
Pepito could just see daylight through the seams of the #14 vinyl
headsack. He found that if he cocked his head slightly to one
side, he could glimpse, through the splitting seam of the headsack
(the aging headsack, the headsack that smelled of masa harina and
hair oil, the hated headsack of enforced ignorance), one crusty
corner of El Dupree's mouth. El Dupree licked his lips, his tongue
the color of well-cured meerschaum, and muttered, "Yust you vate."
Pepito was enlightened.
4-9. What's CamChata?
Read on:
The big-hatted lone figure on the horizon went unnoticed by the
sleeping man curled next to the pile of blackened chicken bones.
Faint dust devils rose behind the approaching stranger's horse and
the morning sun let play its light on the little dangling balls on
the brim of El Dupree's impressive sombrero. Yes, men had made fun
of the proud sombrero, but those men were dead, El Dupree thought
to himself as he spurred toward the sleeping man he would soon
awaken and challenge to the deadliest of all games, the game that
had made its way from Tierra del Fuego, across Chile, and into the
heart of Mexico: CamChata! Devil Fingers!!
4-10. Does CamChata hurt?
Oh, baby, does it ever. Read on:
I rebel.
Grandfather.
Embrace me.
I rebel.
Yarn on the left, stones in groups of three and one, the
lizard bleeding from my fingernails.
I rebel.
4-11. Is there more poetry inspired by El Dupree?
Yes.
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Part 5. Top 9 Quotes from Our Readers |
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NOTE: If you try to be deep, you're not. If your quote gets included |
here even so, rest assured we know you tried and we're laughing at |
you. You know who you are. So do we. |
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Which quotes make up the top 9 are solely determined by karma, |
divination, sun spots, and the whim of the keeper of the FAQ. If |
your quote is replaced, well, fame can be a dangerous thing. |
5-1. Tim Larkin, March 31, 1993
"Truth and falsehood are both whatever, and simultaneously not so, |
rather than not." |
5-2. Peter da Silva, April 24, 1993
"That was Zen, this is Tao."
5-3. From the _Sundays_at_Moosewood_Cookbook_, April something, 1993 |
"Don't abandon Jambalaya if you don't want to make the roux."
5-4. David L. Coffey, May 28, 1993
"ZEN IS...Joyfully walking a never-ending path that does not
exist. On a sojourn to a destination that does not exist. The
delusion of your joy and the delusion of your existence are the
only true reality."
5-5. Forrest Cahoon, July 7, 1993
"Uh...the Tao that can be posted...er, uh...never mind."
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5-6. R. J. Mulroy, August 24, 1993 |
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"Courage, serenity, and wisdom are just dry grass." |
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5-7. John C. Abbe, aka Rademir, November 2, 1993 |
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"Nyah nyah, you're more enlightened than I am!" |
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5-8. El Dupree, sometime in his fabled past |
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"Bof!" |
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5-9. El Dupree, sometime in his fabled past |
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"Bof!" |