[wastedyears]

I didn’t have anything like that for my 20th birthday. Can I get a do-over?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well this is convenient for the Chinese. They get to pick the Lama, and either disappear him or thoroughly propagandize him. Why do Tibetans feel obligated to respect the Chinese Lama system? I guess I don’t grok the Oriental mindset sufficiently.

[americanophile]

I thought he was in jail. No?

[SIDENET]

Using the method of drawing lots from a golden urn, China selected six-year-old Gyaltsen Norbu as the "11th Panchen Lama" in November 1995.

Wait a minute. I didn't even know that they were doing a drawing. If I had, I would have submitted my name.

This isn't fair. I'm contacting my lawyer.

[edpc]

So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier.

Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me.

And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."

So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.