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[edit] Great Site

This site does the martial arts community a great service. Personally, I think something like this should have been started way back in 1996 or earlier even.

[edit] Media Citations & Origin of Bullshido (as a word)

To repeat the three main ones:

1. 'It's Greek to him', Thomas Becnel, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 24th January 2004 - e.g., "At the bullshido.com Web site, "dedicated to exposing fraud and b.s. in the martial arts," anonymous contributors rage back and forth. It's no-holds-barred debate."

2. 'Attorney dismisses accounts as fiction', Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News, 25th February 2006 - e.g., "This week, Browning, 38, posted on the Web site Bullshido.net an exhaustive dissection of Bannon's published claims, which he has investigated over the past two years."

3. 'The man who lied about everything', Tommy Tomlinson, Charlotte Observer, 25th June 2006 - e.g., "A Connecticut lawyer named Samuel Browning runs a Web site called Bullshido.net, which exposes people who inflate their martial arts credentials." (though it should be noted that the site is actually run by Neal 'Phrost' Fletcher, not Browning)

Reason I bring this up again is that there is now (sort of) a fourth one, but it may merely be a coincidence, as I don't think it refers to the site (would this perhaps be relevant to the Bullshido article that discusses the term rather than the site?). In the course of The Bulletin, 'The rising sun scree', 27th March 2007, Volume 125, No. 13 (what looks to be mainly comic in tone, or at least that's the intention. Also, might be 'screen' rather than 'scree', which would make more sense, but thats how its come through on the search engine):

"Japanese military tradition is based on the code of 'bullshido'. The Japanese practise warfare by ancient, formal ritual, involving tea ceremonies, and use prisoners for bayonet practice only after the tea things are washed up and put away. The Australian military traditionally drinks a lot of tea also."

Similar to the earliest use of 'bullshido', as part of a competition in another Australian newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald, in the 'Stay in Touch' column from 26th February 1990. The idea of the contest was to come up with a name for a proposed Japanese 'super-city' on Australian soil, of which the 10 best entries were judged to be:

"Nohwhere (D Simpson), Yenitch Village (S Faust), Japocalypse Now (J Monro), Cum-A-Cropolis (K Wilson), Pretty Poli (M Smith), Bullshido (A Griffith), Billy Can Valley (T Horler), Bonsai Beach (H Bell), Perhapsburg (C Wheildon), and Oh What A Feeling - That's my Multi Function Polis (F Elliott)." Slideyfoot 09:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)