Victorian Vigilante

Nov 02, 2012 08:41


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steampunktigger November 3 2010, 01:42:52 UTC
Is it bad I kept hearing the line as "Rain some justice on your head"?? Probably my brain defaulting back to the great El Kabong, which requires a quick jump up to lay the kabong out across yonder victims head proper like.

What? It works both ways.

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lucius_voltaic November 3 2010, 01:50:16 UTC
Interesting tidbit of information: the actual martial art was called "Bartitsu" (with another "t"), because it was invented by Edward Barton-Wright. But the spelling error isn't the Captian's this time--the "Baritsu" spelling comes from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Empty House", in which Holmes describes how he escaped Moriarty at the Reichenbach. (This is possibly because of a newspaper article on Bartitsu which appeared a year before Conan Doyle wrote the story--this newspaper article misspelled it "Baritsu" also.) And ever since then, most people think of it as "Baritsu".

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