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    Image of adiam7 adiam7
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Chinese Had Obama's Name Wrong the Whole Time
    My nephew is in a Mandarin Chinese immersion school- he is 5- and last year in pre-k he was given his Chinese name and it does not sound anything like his name so I am doubting this translation. There are 60,000+ characters and they are for words not the consonants and vowels.
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    Image of gbmbg gbmbg
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Chinese Had Obama's Name Wrong the Whole Time
    The funny thing is that some news outlets were rejecting the standard transliteration of his name ("Aobama"), and using an alternative, "Oubama". This is hilarious because the Chinese character they used for "Ou" translates to "Europe"; these same news outlets were thus talking about a visit to China by president Eurobama.
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    Image of jeetjet jeetjet
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Chinese Had Obama's Name Wrong the Whole Time
    Hu said that
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/23/09

    In reply to 'Fun Which You Need to Lubricate'
    Failure to uphold distinction between "that" and "which" aside, I like that ad. Rust never sleeps.
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    03/23/09

    In reply to 'Fun Which You Need to Lubricate'
    Every new generation/ emerging world power thinks that they invented sex. Some of them are wrong. Some of them just invented metal burn.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    03/23/09

    In reply to 'Fun Which You Need to Lubricate'
    This is probably more poignant to those of us who have been married for many years.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/23/09

    In reply to 'Fun Which You Need to Lubricate'
    Wing's nuts are all the rage in China.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    03/23/09

    In reply to 'Fun Which You Need to Lubricate'
    This makes me want to bolt to the nearest Durex retailer.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/23/09

    In reply to 'Fun Which You Need to Lubricate'
    Good thing so many chinese are petite. There's nothing I like more than a good spinner.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    03/23/09

    @Mount_Prion: *Bitch Slap* from the mother of a Chinese daughter.


    Asshole Number 2.

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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    03/23/09

    @Mama Penguino: Because your daughter is Chinese we must stop speaking of having sexual relations with Chinese women? Seriously?
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/23/09

    @Mama Penguino: Yeah, uh, what?


    This is what we humans call a joke.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    03/23/09

    @CaptainFantastic: @Mount_Prion: I know, I know, but I just ate that labia going sideways thing. This is my daughter's labia you are talking about! And no, don't ask me to be reasonable!
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    03/23/09

    @Mama Penguino: Oh, fuck. I HATE that . . . . Shit. I'm fucked. Carry on, gentlemen.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    03/23/09

    @Mama Penguino: Haha! Wait. You ate what that was your daughter's?
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    03/23/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Isn't it enough that I'm a dumbshit supreme? Must you rub it in? Wait. Don't answer that!
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    Image of blix blix
    03/23/09

    In reply to 'Fun Which You Need to Lubricate'
    They are not as inscrewtable as thought.
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    Image of Inescapable Picnic Inescapable Picnic
    03/23/09

    @blix: But just as rustic.
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    03/23/09

    @Inescapeable Picnic: A little nuts over personal lubricants.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    03/23/09

    In reply to 'Fun Which You Need to Lubricate'
    According to this metaphor, Chinese ladies have very large and inverted labias.


    And I always thought the distinguishing characteristic was that they went sideways.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    03/23/09

    @resipsaloquacious: *Bitch Slap* from the mother of a Chinese daughter.


    Asshole.

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