Posted on 10/05/2004 9:43:59 PM PDT by Bugbear
Singapore has issued its strongest response to Taiwan Foreign Minister Chen Tan-sun's description of the city state as a "booger", saying the comments were "extreme" and "painful".
"This recent outburst is a source of some pain and sadness to us that it should come to this," Foreign Minister George Yeo said in comments published by the Straits Times.
"We could disagree, but there's no need for some of these extreme actions."
Yeo ignited Chen's fury when he delivered a lecture to the United Nations General Assembly on September 24 warning Taiwan it should not push for independence from China.
"Even a country the size of a booger (bogey) brazenly criticized Taiwan and former president Lee Teng-hui in the United Nations," Chen responded on September 27 in the colourful Hokkien dialect that many people in both Taiwan and Singapore speak.
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Yeah. Not only are they a booger, they have the Koodies too.
Kooties, boogers, and chewing gum are all illegal in Singapore.
Sounds like a sticky situation.
Maybe someone is looking to pick a fight.
"Daddy, how did the booger wars start ? "
No one nose, son.. No one nose..
Should this be taken literally or is something be missed in the translation?
Maybe they would prefer armpit.
Or perhaps Florida.
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