Posted on 07/22/2006 8:41:35 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Too good not to post
This thread's getting kind of 'racy' lol, guess I contributed to that!
So, he's no longer honery?
I seem to recall that in the language, the word for the number "four" sounds similar to the word for "death", and that it is common business practice (a.k.a. superstition) to avoid it, much the way that tall American buildings used to skip the 13th floor. I'm fairly sure that's true in at least one other Oriental language, but the details escape me at the moment.
> I seem to recall that in the language, the word for the number "four" sounds similar to the word for "death", and that it is common business practice (a.k.a. superstition) to avoid it, much the way that tall American buildings used to skip the 13th floor. I'm fairly sure that's true in at least one other Oriental language, but the details escape me at the moment.
In Cantonese (Chinese) the number 4 is linked with death and is considered a very unlucky number. Whether that's true in NK, I don't know for sure.
"Now, you see, me have rearry BIG missir! Rearry! Honest!"
"Four (四, formal writing: 肆, pinyin si4) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures because it sounds like the word "death" (死 pinyin si3). Due to that, many numbered product lines skip the "four": e.g. Nokia cell phones (there is no series beginning with a 4), Palm PDAs, the Leisure Suit Larry games, etc. Some buildings skip floor 4, particularly in heavily Asian areas."
(I don't know if the Oriental characters will show up right.)
Kim is widely believed to have been married three times.
Kim Ok, 42
Kim Jong Il is known to have three sons _ one from his second wife and two from his third. North Korean experts say Kim's 25-year-old son Kim Jong Chul is most likely to become the North's next leader.
His eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, is said to have fallen out of favor after embarrassing his father in 2001 when he was caught trying to enter Japan on a fake passport, saying he wanted to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
Kim Ok, who majored in piano at the North's prestigious Pyongyang University of Music and Dance, had served as the leader's private secretary since the early 1980s, another South Korean government source said.
"She is a cute woman rather than a beauty" like the leader's previous wives or live-in women, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "I heard she is very wise and clever."
It is no secret that Kim Jong-il has engaged in romantic affairs with numerous women, mostly actresses, singers and dancers. But sources versed in North Korean affairs said Kim only married or lived a long time with three women.
Just a pint sized pot bellied bundle of testosterone on parade.
Is that anything like Bill Clinton's "Department of Bimbo Eruptions"??
Cheers!
Marine Ryan is worth more than any number of "mentally Il's".
Just pick a number...oppps...sorry 'bout that. Pick another number?
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A blinker, in Scientology teaching, is a cat-like alien that can fly and teleport.
I know it's rude, but this is just a nickname for Scientologist.
Was it a Church wedding?
In 1953, General Chang of the ROK stated that the numeral 4 means ill fortune to many Koreans, much as the numeral 13 seems unlucky to many Americans. The Yosu revolt merely proved this to the Koreans, and thereafter 4 was not used as or within a ROK unit designation.
From the Army Historical Series Military Advisors in Korea: KMAG in Peace and War.
I thought for a sec her name was Yonhap. no pics? :(
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