Category: Just Too Weird / Funny
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My fellow Xining blogger and teammate Neil sent me this funny article from BBC News about a German art student who decided to enlist in the ancient Terra Cotta Army located outside of Xian. Here’s a link to the article OR you can just read it reprinted below: New recruit joins Terracotta Army The terracotta…
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I debated about posting this article. Most people (more mature than I) can read an article like this (courtesy of boingboing) frown with empathy and move on. Me, well, I read something like this, go, "WHAT!!!" read it again…and just laugh out loud. It’s not right of me I know. I need prayer. The sad…
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Today’s Dilbert made me laugh. If you’ve worked in a cubicle before you can probably relate… This yeti has.
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Christa brought me a shirt back from America. (You know it’s a bad state of affairs when I’m blogging about clothes…) Tell me this isn’t crazy. According to the tag on the shirt and the events that have transpired: The shirt was designed in France. The shirt was made in China. The shirt was acquired…
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A few days ago, on our way to see the renowned Terra Cotta Soldiers unearthed just outside of Xian, I noticed this sign in Chinese with English translation: Terra Cotta WorriersNext Exit 1 KM I had to laugh at this misspelling (although I think it was actually "worriars") but then I thought about it. If…
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You know how I was telling you that I have ways to track visits to the yeti-speak… Well, sometimes intriguing information is gathered this way as I’m sifting through this often telling "reader data". I recently got a hit from a person living (or searching online) from Madras, India. Strange. My first question is always…
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My friend Mark and I were in a cab yesterday. Our driver, who obviously thought it was more important to show us how loud his stereo was than to actually allow a civil conversation, turned up the volume on an old song. This tune made Mark and I laugh. The song was funny because of…well,…
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Last night I was craving oatmeal. So I searched the cabinets and found a bag of Chinese brand (Sea Mild) instant oatmeal. Only one problem: the instructions on the back of the package were in Hanzi (汉字) a.k.a Chinese characters. I couldn’t make out some of the important instructions…but seriously how hard can it be? …
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It seems that China is now in the rain making business. (Read this.) Do you think Seattle could somehow find a way to reverse this process? Perhaps fire a cloud-retractor pod into the O-zone?
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At what point do you start to ask yourself whether your child’s somewhat idiosnycratic behavior might actually be a more serious (psychological) condition? I’m speaking a bit tongue-in-cheek here when I ask this question, but I think you’ll see that I can make a pretty good case to show that my eldest daughter (Anna, age…
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