who/what is a grasshopper?

Advice
#10

Here I splain to U

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCyJRXvPNRo

But wouldn't the ants just eat the grasshopper having that much more food for winter?

#11

Whoa…1972-75
But I think you can still find it playing on cable.

#12

Not quite
It isn’t that the student is “inferior”. We are all students sometimes. It’s often used to indicate that the student is not quite as wise as they think they are…

#13

Predates kung-fu
At least the movie.



It is one of Aesop’s Fabels



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper

#14

yeah yeah

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but that dude WAS a grasshopper. Lazy, live for the moment grasshopper, not like the hard working, industrious, but often unenlightened grasshopper, needing just a wise saying or two from "wise master." Now if the Aesop grasshopper had been advised by the wise old ant how to prep for that mean, cold winter, AND LISTENED, he would have been a grasshopper thru and thru(and possibly gotten his own TV show.)

#15

it is not used condescendingly
in the Kung-fu TV show, but rather with amusement at the enthusiasm of youth.

Grasshoppers are good luck in China.

Kaps

#16

Grasshopper…
…when you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave…

#17

“that was too fast … best 2 out of 3?”

#18

so you have assumed the role
wise master. you and fat elmo. thats interesting.

#19

Not me’…
Ah’ jus’ liked de Kung Fu TV series, before yer time hence de “young whippersnapper”.



FE

#20

call somebody a grasshopper
and you are calling yourself a master. is that the way it works?

#21

Not necessarily the master


…but someone wiser than the Grasshopper.

#22

Not condescending
I don’t think it was meant to be condescending in the Kung Fu tv series. Simply a fond term for a student, like calling someone a young pup.



And I remember watching the tv series in its original run, not re-runs.

#23

Condescending w/o malice




Condesending words also have a driving force. Every physical challenge has condescending names for those who desire to reach higher levels. These names remind candidate who and where they are and where they want to go. Being called a pup was condescending but in the end the reward was great.

#24

w/ creme de menthe
Grasshopper



3/4 oz green creme de menthe

3/4 oz white creme de cacao

3/4 oz light cream



shake ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, serve in kevlar/fiberglass

#25

You have much to learn
Grasshopper

#26

I like to think of myself

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as a wise old ant.

#27

Never thought I’d see the day
You learn well, Pamlicohopper :-).

#28

Haaa!
Good one, Daggermat.



FE

#29

Right
When I’ve said it, I’ve said it with a smile, remembering my own experiences as a novice. I certainly don’t think of myself as a “master”.