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My name Big Watermelon. I like China. This girl Monica very fat
Sunday Independent (Ireland) ^
| Sun, Jul 25 04
| Brendan O'Connor
Posted on 07/25/2004 2:32:41 AM PDT by Happygal
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I know we've had stories about this - but I thought this a very humorous take!
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posted on
07/25/2004 2:32:42 AM PDT
by
Happygal
To: Incorrigible; aculeus; GeronL; MadIvan; dighton; general_re; Colosis; Irish_Thatcherite
I thought you lot might enjoy Brendan O'Connors musings on this.
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posted on
07/25/2004 2:33:55 AM PDT
by
Happygal
(Kerry has a chin that could chop cabbage in a glass!)
To: Happygal
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posted on
07/25/2004 2:40:52 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Time for a Constitutional Amendment banning Government giving money away to anyone or anything...)
To: Happygal
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posted on
07/25/2004 2:41:10 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Time for a Constitutional Amendment banning Government giving money away to anyone or anything...)
To: Happygal
oh ok... more like "they call me vienna sausage"
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posted on
07/25/2004 2:41:40 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Time for a Constitutional Amendment banning Government giving money away to anyone or anything...)
To: Happygal
A bit off topic -- My wife just got a new curling iron. It the directions it cautions the user "do not use while sleeping."
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posted on
07/25/2004 2:43:25 AM PDT
by
Aeronaut
(There never was a bad man that had ability for good service. -- Edmund Burke)
To: Happygal
with a huge interest in and love for China and all things Chinese. Chicom campaign contributions were interesting.
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posted on
07/25/2004 2:48:25 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(There's always one to turn and walk away ........ and one who just wants to stay)
To: Happygal
He also tells his wife to "shut up" on one occasion-(First and last.)
I Rike how ashtrlay rook in my head. said birr crinton.
To: GeronL; aculeus; dighton; Incorrigible
Here's another one on this topic from the Sunday Indo. Seems like the editorial staff there had fun with this story this week.
Clinton's great wail of China IT'S a cultural thing - the Chinese get a bad rap. All we ever read about is how they suppress free speech and throw people in prison for doing calisthenics. But while the UN purses its lips there does seem to be a lower tolerance of celebrity bullshit in the Far East.
Take Bill Clinton's doorstep-sized autobiography.
Of course the translators get roasted for leaving out references to Tiananmen Square and other government misdeeds. But they make up for it in other ways. You see, while China is, by all accounts, a pretty grim place to live, they don't seem to have too many of those tedious libel laws that we have to worry about over here.
So instead of Clinton fulminating about "unfortunate mistakes" with You Know Who, he tells us that "she was just very fat. I can never trust my own judgement."
Now while, technically, this might be 'made up' we all know it's how Clinton would have said it if the lawyers and Hillary's PR people didn't have him on a choke chain.
In fact, most of the book could have done with a taste of the Oriental view of things.
For one thing, they could have cut a few centimetres off the book's width by sparing us the lyrical waxing on Northern Ireland and instead just telling us, "it was for the votes".
Or perhaps they could have edited out all those bits about the witch-hunts (or criminal investigations as some called them). It would have been so much better than the watered-down literary baby food we were fed in the West.
Maybe Clinton will thank the rogue publishers by not attempting to sue them. He is a humanitarian after all, and they are protecting the Chinese people's right not to have to read bullshit memoirs.
Which might not balance out all those poor murd-ered dissidents, but it's a start.
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posted on
07/25/2004 2:50:53 AM PDT
by
Happygal
(Kerry has a chin that could chop cabbage in a glass!)
To: Happygal
Har! Best, most honest review ever!
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posted on
07/25/2004 3:06:59 AM PDT
by
lainde
(Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
To: Happygal
Don't forget the classic "All your base are belong to us."
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posted on
07/25/2004 3:07:44 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I never had the makings of a varsity athlete)
To: Happygal
In other words, the Chinese version is about as accurate as the English version.
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posted on
07/25/2004 3:19:03 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Happygal
I bet there is the obligatory part of the book where Bill's extracurricular activities are described and prefaced with his women saying "Me so horny, love you long time."
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posted on
07/25/2004 4:43:32 AM PDT
by
vetvetdoug
(In memory of T/Sgt. Secundino "Dean" Baldonado, Jarales, NM-KIA Bien Hoa AFB, RVN 1965)
To: Happygal
on first meeting Hillary, Chinese Bill apparently thought, "she was as beautiful as a princess" and told her his name was "Big Watermelon".This Chinese Bill guy is stealing one of my most effective pickup lines!
Of course, I also sometimes claim to be William Hung.
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posted on
07/25/2004 4:46:17 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(The Fleet Center? Isn't Fleet an enema company?)
To: Aeronaut
And I hope your wife remembers that. Also, DO NOT Use While in Shower or Bathtub.
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posted on
07/25/2004 4:46:22 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.)
To: GeronL
They call me 'tater salad'.
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posted on
07/25/2004 4:47:36 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(The Fleet Center? Isn't Fleet an enema company?)
To: Happygal
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posted on
07/25/2004 4:49:16 AM PDT
by
bikepacker67
(Sandy wasn't stuffing his socks, he was stuffing A sock.)
To: Happygal
Big Watermelon? More like Bent SlimJim....
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posted on
07/25/2004 5:20:46 AM PDT
by
Victor
To: Happygal; Incorrigible; GeronL; MadIvan; dighton; general_re; Colosis; Irish_Thatcherite
I thought you lot might enjoy Brendan O'Connors musings on this. Funny!!!
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posted on
07/25/2004 5:25:48 AM PDT
by
aculeus
To: Happygal
"I thought this a very humorous take!"
LOL, agreed.
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posted on
07/25/2004 5:29:47 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
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