Last Poster #7

[granfire]

I am partial to peaches myself

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I am partial to peaches myself

Me too!

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I am partial to peaches myself

A lot better than eggplant.

 

[gyoja]

A lot better than eggplant.

So that’s where eggs come from!

 

[Xue Sheng]

Sister-in-law took me to an old school Chinese mall today. It took up a city block and was 6 stories high. I can honestly say i was the only non-Chinese person in the building. Got a lot of surprise looks, sideways stares, and in one store the staff, and there were only 4, tagged team me. Wherever i went, one was following me. I had some fun with them. I kept catching them and they kept trying to make it look like they weren’t following me.

DANG over 60 year old white guys, they’re ALL just a bunch of troublemaking hoodlums

Can’t imagine what the response would have been if I looked like i did 35 years ago…. I’m thinking riot police would have come to haul me away

 

[Xue Sheng]

Another thing, in the USA you see folk with Chinese characters on shirts and with tattoos that don’t mean what they think they mean. Or they are just plain wrong.

This happens in China too. So far i have seen
A t-shirt with ‘I hvae a dream’ another with “if it swells ride it” and a hat with ‘W Goo Wetrust”

 

[gyoja]

Another thing, in the USA you see folk with Chinese characters on shirts and with tattoos that don’t mean what they think they mean. Or they are just plain wrong.

This happens in China too. So far i have seen
A t-shirt with ‘I hvae a dream’ another with “if it swells ride it” and a hat with ‘W Goo Wetrust”

Sounds like a great adventure.

 

[Gyakuto]

British political satire with lots of F bombs.

 

[gyoja]

British political satire with lots of F bombs.

I know people that see things that way.

 

[Gyakuto]

I like to wind up Star Wars fans asking if it’s…”the one with the gold robot/space bear”

 

[gyoja]

I like to wind up Star Wars fans asking if it’s…”the one with the gold robot/space bear”

It was the first movie that I ever watched.

 

[Gyakuto]

Did you know the last person to be executed by guillotine in France was in the same year Star Wars was released (1977)?

 

[gyoja]

Did you know the last person to be executed by guillotine in France was in the same year Star Wars was released (1977)?

I didn’t know that. Interesting.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Interesting thing happened at dinner in the hotel. Should also say by my ancestry i am mostly German. And my first wife always told people she was married to a big German. Also this hotel is in the embassy area of Beijing.

I was at the buffet when this older Chinese woman went to walk i front of me, I stopped, she stopped and I signaled for her to go ahead. She looked at me and said

danke schoen

I responded with

Willkommen

I thought maybe she lived in Germany

Then when i returned she was at the next table speaking to her husband in mandarin

Had to come to Beijing China to finally get to use my college German

 

[Xue Sheng]

Uh oh, we got trouble, right here in river city….. China had block some if Chuck Norris’ linked pages… and may need to cut my trip short before Chuck finds out

 

[Gyakuto]

Did you know that Cleopatra is closer in time to the invention of the smart phone than she was to the building of the first Egyptian pyramids?

 

[Gyakuto]

Did you know that stegosaurus had been extinct for 80million years before the emergence of tyrannosaurus rex?

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

Did you know, you can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think? Now say it out loud.

 

[Gyakuto]

Did you know, you can lead a horticulture but you can’t make her think? Now say it out loud.

I try to raise the overall intellectual tone of the board and then this

Now, do you know that chins (mental process of the mandible) are unique to humans?

 

[Xue Sheng]

and a hat with ‘W Goo Wetrust”

Should also note…. I bought the hat