Years ago (at least 10 and probably more) there was an incident at the SF Asian Art Museum where some monks were making a sand mandala and a crazy woman came and destroyed it before they were done. Jon Carroll wrote a great column about the indident. Carrol used the line, in refering to the monks response: "And the monks nodded and went to lunch". Honestly, I've been remembering that line in response to recent SCA-related foo/drama.