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The screen grab doesn&#8217;t include the video description, though, which is also, ah, <acronym title=\"Two young females are given a camcorder to play with and are soon performing on-screen.\"><b>un-monk-like<\/b><\/acronym>.  The &#8220;more in category&#8221; is messed up, but the &#8220;also bought&#8221; &#8220;browse for more in&#8221; stuff fits the movie title.  Odd database glitch.)<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_12_01_archive.html#90062956\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. A goof, I think, at Amazon.co.uk. At least, I don&#8217;t think those look like fighting Shaolin monks. Though some of that monk stuff is kind of inscrutable. 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