It would seem that the statue was Mao-Maoed.
Posted on 01/09/2016 10:06:06 AM PST by chajin
With all the information technology around these days, it's getting harder and harder to build a gigantic gold statue in peace.
Many of you may remember the huge 37-meter (120-foot) gold colored statue of modern China's founder Mao Zedong. After all, it's pretty hard to forget the image of him politely sitting on some scaffolding, towering over the middle of nowhere.
Well, it's gone now.
On 9 January reports began to surface that the statue was being demolished by the Chinese authorities. The exact reason for the removal of golden Mao is unclear but there are many possibilities.
Firstly, the project was said to be bankrolled by local businesspeople to the tune of 3 million yuan ($457,000). It's possible that the likeness of China's Communist Party's biggest icon was not authorized… And surely there must have been zoning issues.
This would make sense seeing as it was also erected in an area historically famous as ground-zero for a massive famine that wiped out millions after some of Mao's policies were enacted. It's understandable that the government might want to put some distance between those things.
Then again it could have simply been taken down by either the owners or the government after it became a 120-foot golden chunk of troll-bait online, playfully dubbed "Mega Mao" by certain wags.
And so ended the short life of Golden Golem Mega Mao, but as Kurt Cobain quoting Neil Young quoting Jeff Blackburn quoting Millard Fillmore once said, "It's better to burn out than to fade away. My my, hey hey."
It would seem that the statue was Mao-Maoed.
And they hadn’t finished building the toilet. Sad.
Irony alert: The statue was built in one of the hardest famine hit areas of Mao’s rule.
LOL!
First, there is no such word as “Firstly”.
Secondly, there IS a word “secondly” which can follow a previous declarative statement.
Is there no one teaching actual proper English grammar these days?
I sure hope 0bama doesn’t see this and get any ideas!
Put him at the exit to a Chinese buffet in Texas. But I’m going to need a ladder to pat his belly on my way out the door.
He’s di di Mao.
A few things:
#1 you are right
B. sometimes things just don’t make sense,
and lastly, I forget...
STEVE! WE GOT 20 FEET TO GO!!!
OH, I forgot!
Call that Chinese buffet, Feast of the Mao-Mao.
Obama plans to hire ISIS to demolish Mount Rushmore, so it can be rebuilt with his image as the centerpiece. It may be known as Mount Blackmore.
They don’t need to change the name. Remember its in the Black Hills.
Wow! Be sure and stop by and see the 120 foot statue of
Mao made entirely out of BUTTER or is that cheddar Cheese?
After all it’s on the way to see the largest ball of Wonton
noodles in the world...
1) China needs the gold.
2) Obama needs the gold.
Looks like the crane almost messed up his hair!
No. Worse yet, they're teaching that proper grammar is racist.
Bill Clinton’s administration almost got schools to accept ebonics as an official (and correct) dialect of English.
Talk about an action that would forever hamstring the black community.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/admin/stories/riley122596.htm
U.S. Bilingual Education Funds Ruled Out for Ebonics Speakers
By John F. Harris
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 25, 1996
Clinton’s people were pushing for this until there was public backlash.
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