"Chinese people should learn more about the culture of Western countries, so that people can better study and use a foreign language."

GASP!!! Encouraging their fellow citizens to better themselves and learn more about the world around them.

Communists. You can never trust 'em.

Give me a down home good 'ol boy who rages against the non-English speaking any day. Or at least the dialect they've come to believe is the only English there is.

When I'm up against some uneducated lout, I know I have a chance. Them there Commies will use anything to compete with you - including their brains!

Unfair!

Un...

Un....

Unsomething.

Regards,
etc.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS TPS WB Sir. You HAVE been missed.

Larry

Many thanks friends. I was breezing through and the title caught my eye. My wife is headed out for China tomorrow morning and it made me smile to see the thread. A perfect blend of Drudge themes.

Regards,
etc.

Storm-
Good to hear from you. I hope all is well.

TPS

Are you going to stick around for a bit on DR now? I hope so.

Hello Boyd, Chris, Deth, Larry....all is well. I hope things are going well for you too.

The economy could cool off a little and I won't complain. At least I'd get to actually enjoy a little of this global warming. At the rate it's going I am going to be accused of co-habitation with an air conditioner with the intent to marry it soon. Good thing I'm north of the border. I'll be able to claim service calls as spousal support.

George still king of the jungle? Anybody left any of the world's problems behind to still solve? Tad still get a glimmer in his eye when you say the word "Damascus"? Rogers still getting hit on by 80 year olds and driving 100 miles to camp out on a concrete pad?

Those were the good 'ol days, when debates - and insults - were the stuff of legend.

Regards,
etc.

the stuff of legends

driving 100 miles to camp out on a concrete pad?

Yeah, Spud is still get a laff thinking about that. Spud thought the blog-god was gonna get back to nature and forgo all technology fer a week or so and it turns out that even in the heart of nature Rcade is still techno-jonsing.

He's incorrigible that way, ya know.

Be Well.

PS: Did you catch the Cramer melt-down yet?

He's never been wotcha call low-key but even fer him that was astounding.

Hello Stormy one.


What flavor scotch are we sipping this evening?

Double-matured Lagavulin?
18 Yr old Highland Park?


Do tell.

I heard about poor old Cramer. I guess the cruel reality of stepping out of the spotlight has been an unsettling experience for him.

Reminds me once of a gig that had me down in Orlando - about the mid 90's. The financial group footing the bill had some speakers, one of whom was Burt Reynolds. After his meandering talk I can remember the VP of marketing remarking to me that fame must be a difficult burden. It said more to me about that VP's humanity than Burt's, given the target of his venom at the time.

JeffJ!! A pleasant surprise. To tell the truth I waaaaas thinking about a recent purchase. I happen to find myself in la belle province - Montreal to be exact - this past weekend and took the chance to put a few bottles aside for the long drive home. Unfortunately I have been slumming it as of late:

1 Balvenie - 10 years
1 Auchentoshan - 10 years
1 Bowmore - 12 years

but....hold your breath...I found a prize (and cringe at the many hours of boring meetings I am going to have to attend to pay for this indulgence).... another....1986 Cragganmore Distillers Edition.

They look so cute together, snuggled up on the stainless steel rack in the back of the darkened basement.

Regards,
etc.

Oh Canada,


Cragganmore DE?

I recently killed a bottle of the stuff. That's a good purchase IMO.


Slumming it?

Coincidentally, I had a dram of Bowmore 12 last night.


It's good to see you back.

We must have been separated at birth. At the thought of my purchases languishing away in the darkness I brought the Bowmore out into the light and freed it from its confines.

It more than returned the favour.

Regards,
etc.

I guess the cruel reality of stepping out of the spotlight has been an unsettling experience for him.

Helluva a way to exit a stage thinks Spud.

Spud preferred Stormy's entrance today by far.

Cragganmore DE

Now Jeff finally has somebody to talk Scotch with again.

Wee drams and all that.

It is well.

Be Well.

Bowmore 12 is an overlooked and under-rated whisky.

I am gratified to hear that you freed it from its confines.

A question for everyone - has Sanguine ever returned? I did enjoy chatting with him about his experiences in the Samoa (if I recall where he was correctly).

Regards,
etc.

Storm-
I think it was the Northern Mariana Islands, but I could be wrong.

He was a good poster. Haven't heard from him in a bit.

I never got the concept of "concrete pad"...I asked my wife about them one day-asked how she'd ever been able to walk with one of 'em stuffed in her panties....

She promptly picked up her purse and slapped me with it...



On topic-the Chinese are banning "Chinglish"?
I'll have to remember that-the next time I'm in Beijing-I'll be sure to avoid speaking it......

...has Sanguine ever returned?

No godammit he has not.

Spud misses the Sanguine one.

Northern Marianna's Islands

Indeed, that was the case as Spud remembers it.

Spud remembers talking about Abramhoffs dealing in that part of the world and finding him remarkably informed on the matter. He also knew about the green flash. That was cool.

Spud would like to hear from that guy again big time. He had a wicked sense of humour he did. But Hey, ...Stormy is back so Spud is open a nice bottle of wine to celebrate the occasion wif a Glass of Gray Monk. Is an unwooded Chardonnay, which is good cos Spud hates drinking wood. They still make a pretty good Pinot Gris, which is where they got their name from. Good Plonk sez Spud. Passable enuff fer a toast certainly...

Cin Cin Stormy!

Welcome Back!

* clink *

Be Well.

Ever watch any of those poorly translated B grade martial arts movies out of Hong Kong? They are pretty fuckin hysterical.

She promptly picked up her purse and slapped me with it...

Maybe it's Spud over-active imagination but fer some reason Spud imagines that wasn't the first time Frank got purse-slapped fer one of his jokes. Don't listen to the critics, Frank. One day they will percieve yer jokes fer the gold they are.

Honest!

Be Well.

Does this mean that it is now politically correct to say to use "Ching" as a prefix?