Thanks, Diane, for your spectacularly diligent research in this startling display. From what you've posted I think it is likely it was the red ropes that helped turn the trick for our Daoist friend. Perhaps with some red rope, Panzade could allow his "friend" even more extraordinary weight-lifting prowess.
Today's Quote:
"It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." - William Kingdon Clifford (1849-1875)
Yesterday's Quote:
"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything." - Thomas Sowell (1930- )
And from the day before that:
"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." - Howard Scott (1926- )