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Quarantine vs Guacamole 2009 -OR- Children’s Day: Best Day Ever.
On this holiday in 2008 the Olympic torch passed over the quaint dam nearby and into our city of Yichang. This year’s big event, best known as Swine Flu, made a surprise appearance in the form of an alleged Nanjing city-wide mandate for foreigners to be quarantined (in their personal apartments) for a...
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NEW CAMPAIGN INFORMS CITIZENS ON FOREIGN EXPRESSIONS
Nanjing, CHINA – A recent series of public posters hopes to bolster the average Chinese person’s understanding of foreign emotions through the study of common facial expressions. The posters, which are a project of a local magazine, display eight “faces,” each meant to represent a particular feeling, attitude, or intention, all of which...
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I Am Thankful that this Moment Has Passed
Totally Awesome Picture of the week 51
I am thankful for my engaged and polite students who stay in their seats and don’t bury my activity sheets in homework from other classes. I am thankful for those students who don’t backtalk and the non-smart ass 12 year-olds who don’t believe a photocopied book over...
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The Visionary
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 46
Come one, come all! Witness a rip-roarin’ hair-pullin’ old fashioned good-timey ruckus down here at The Agricultural Extravaganza! Worth the pain and so much more! Less costly than that mini-skirt four-inch stiletto ensemble you’ve been flashing from your bicycle all over town! Created...
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CHINA ANNOUNCES NEW POST-OLYMPIC SLOGAN
Nanjing, CHINA – In effort to more accurately describe their society as a whole, China has stopped the excessive use of phrases such as “One World, One Dream” and “Stronger, Swifter, Higher, Faster,” and instead adopted the term “Zero Delicacy.” Created earlier this month after years of research by The People’s Central Search...
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Very Fashion China 6: The Do it Yourselfers
Due to the movement of foreign-financed sweatshops to less powerful and less demanding nations like Vietnam and Cambodia, many Chinese nationalists have begun to test their creative impulses and luck in the garment industry. With an abundance of leftover Western-style dummies at their disposal, aspiring designers can finally dress life-size foreigners to their pleasing....
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Dear Woman Who Handed Me Her Baby and Began to Walk Away
Dear Woman Who Handed Me Her Baby and Began to Walk Away,
Not cool. I don’t know which I was more afraid of: you running off and leaving the snoring little creature in my hands, or the snoring little creature releasing its processed meal through its assless pants and onto my hands.
Though we smiled...
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Dear Young Man Using Your Motorcycle to Blow Bubbles in the Yangtze
Dear Young Man Using Your Motorcycle to Blow Bubbles in the Yangtze,
I don’t know who you impressed more: us, the woman doing her laundry, or the man soaking his motorcycle downstream. To be honest, your objective was unclear. Our top three theories as to what exactly it was that you were doing...
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