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Post by hankuh on May 30, 2005 19:39:41 GMT 7
Welcome Talk Doc, Sixerfan, and Peggie. I hope you find this place a better, more tolerant place than that cesspool of an ESL forum.
May the tao be with you here, and don't drink too much baijiu because the aftertaste will linger in your burp.
WELCOME!!!!!
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Post by Mr Nobody on May 30, 2005 20:01:42 GMT 7
err yess. Arms open wide.
Welcome.
Your turn.
(say something funny)
(Nobs)
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Post by George61 on May 30, 2005 20:45:28 GMT 7
I have every confidence in Amanda Gallstone, and I thank her on behalf of all thinking Australians. We will decide who comes to our forums, and that is the right of every right thinking Forumite. If they throw their babys overboard, that is their right, but we do not want that type of people here!
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Post by Beausie on May 30, 2005 20:53:39 GMT 7
Hello everybody, figured I'd follow the cool guys here. I like this sitting in a bar business! Can I drag my stool over to the ladies lounge for a long cold VaT? The smell won't bother me, I live in China!
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Post by lily on May 30, 2005 20:54:57 GMT 7
Hi y'all, 'Nother ex-spooner here - we'll try not to take of the forum, promise Like what I'm reading so far!! Lily.
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Post by con's fly is open on May 30, 2005 21:20:27 GMT 7
A bevy of chicks! Welcome, Peggy, Beausie, Lily. I'm Con, the most attractive man here. Step carefully over that big lump on the floor (his name is George) and I'll buy you all a drink. Peggy, while you're there, could you be a luv and pass me my wallet? It's in the lump's back pocket.
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Post by George61 on May 30, 2005 21:22:51 GMT 7
Beausie and Lily....Ah, such beautiful names. Welcome ladies. We are terribly short on genteel womenfolk here. We have two very sophisticated young Chinese gentlewomen, and a couple of tough, old birds from Australia, and a god-fearing , biblebasher from Canada....although I fear she has defected to become an instrument of the Great Satan, America. I sincerely hope you two are beautiful, young, blondes with fathers that own breweries. Whatever, your first duty is to buy me a drink or two.....each...and a couple for my mate Con......Sorry about the smell in the ladies lounge, Beausie. It's not our fault. They just can't hold their grog!
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Post by Jollyjunklass on May 30, 2005 21:29:02 GMT 7
George, I know you left me out on purpose.
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Post by con's fly is open on May 30, 2005 21:32:51 GMT 7
Don't take it personally, Millana: unlike me, he's not a gentleman who wants you to put a good word in with the new chicks has the proper veneration for a class act.
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Post by Peggie on May 30, 2005 21:35:32 GMT 7
Well Con,
You caught me just before I walked out the door. I am going to try to get to the ladies room sometime earlier in the day when the risk of lumps on the floor and projectile vomit is less.
Ruth and Lotus Eater, where do you fall in the "tough old birds, biblethumper, young Chinese gentlewomen" scale of things? I'm closer to tough old bird than either of the others. Like, right on top of it closer.
And that, Con, is why I'm taking the wallet with me.
Night All, Peggie
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Post by George61 on May 30, 2005 21:36:36 GMT 7
Humble apogolies, Millana...in the throes of opening another bottle, I quite forgot your little self. Don't listen to Con...he is always looking to take advantage where the ladies are concerned.........and take my word, he needs all the advantages he can find.
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Post by dittolist on May 30, 2005 21:43:13 GMT 7
Hello, everyone:
My name is dittolist, and my first name is really mike. i teach english in a university in middle china. this is my second year here, and i will likely spend another, but this could change. my wife (san francisco) has a very, very responsible job with 40,000 subordinates, and she is constantly flying all over the place. we have agreed i could travel over here until she is ready to retire, which shouldn't be that long.
i retired in 1999 as a partner in a law firm in san francisco, and, after trading stock for a year, i went to school at night and got a california secondary teaching credential in english. i represented parole violators in prisons and did substitute teaching until i got a job working at a residential court-placement boy's school. i did that, until, out of the blue, i got an email asking if wanted to teach in china.
we have five kids, all boys. two are in graduate school, one in med school, one in the army, and one married and living with his wife.
although i am a stickler about english, i rarely use capital letters. this is because i have a nearly paralyzed left hand, and am limited to using only one finger of it to type. it is nearly impossible for me to hit the capital key without stopping and looking.
i am writing two books at present. one on the work in sociological theory of an ex professor, the other a novel i have been into forever. i like being in china because it provides me with long stretches of very quiet time in which i can concentrate. i have been using the forum as a way to start up the writing effort, just as i also like to play solitaire at my desk just to get myself over here.
i am politically very conservative. when i was in college during the punic wars, i was a socialist. my zeal for my present position often seems to have come from the hostility and self doubt i experienced, gradually becoming one of the dozen or so republicans in san francisco, while my wife (who has not changed a single idea in 35 years) and my old berkeley friends watched in horror. my social views are quite libertarian, though.
i had a love/hate relationship with people at dave's. i couldn't believe the babbling irrelevancies and digressive rants they would engage in whenever anyone disagreed with them. there seems to be a particularly self-loathing sort of american emigre here in china. it is not that they cannot tolerate criticism of china; it is, rather, that they cannot hear criticism of ANYTHING without holding america up to the exact same scrutiny at that precise time. even though they amuse themselves by always adding this sort of "balance," they make it impossible for anyone else to have any form of discussion which might lead to a modicum of resolution.
more on all of this later. i just came aboard, and i look forward to some spirited interaction. i am proud to be joining with the others. talkdoc, the first to come over, was a popular member, who had long served as a calming influence in many situations. he will be a great addition. rickinbeijing and old dog have, for quite a while, struck me as two of the most intelligent men i have ever witnessed. i have never told them that, but it is a pleasure to commend them to all of you. for a time, i imagine we will seem a little odd. i, for one, am anxious (as i assume we all are) to continue, in relative peace, with some of the discussions we were having last week, which became impossible with the sensitivity police breathing down everyone's back. we represent a number of viewpoints, but we were all agreed that no reasonable interaction could possibly take place in such an environment. thank you all for having us, and welcoming us so heartily and sincerely.
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Post by lily on May 30, 2005 21:46:06 GMT 7
Ahh, more warm welcomes, thanks con and george. Sure, I'll buy you guys a couple of drinks, but only if you buy me a few too Dittolist - good ter see ya.
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Post by George61 on May 30, 2005 21:56:19 GMT 7
Wow...that dittolist! Surely is a long-winded bastard, aint he. Let's see how he goes with cut, thrust and parry!!!!
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Post by con's fly is open on May 30, 2005 22:45:35 GMT 7
Whatever George said- I never listen.
Cheers, Ditto, and welcome aboard. Take this stool, upwind of George.
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Post by dittolist on May 31, 2005 0:26:53 GMT 7
well, it's good to see that at least someone is genteel, just as it was refreshing to see earlier that not everyone is an intellectual.
i might note that i have not seen such an elaborate development of the drinking metaphor (conceit, really) since i watched the old thin man films.
what makes us stronger will never kill us.
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Post by Mr Nobody on May 31, 2005 3:09:58 GMT 7
And a round from me. Shots for everyone. Raoul! Where is that sump oil? And a pint of the good stuff for yourself.
And don't trust that Con, he is a writer.
Or George. He is an Australian.
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Post by George61 on May 31, 2005 3:20:56 GMT 7
Such a shame...the refugees new boat..SS Machinecat has been invaded by the Troll from HongKong. He is operating under three names and they seem powerless to do anything. I thought there was mechanism to lock out wankers like that, but maybe they don't know how to drive it yet. I suppose, as it is still tied up at the dock, any wharf rat can stroll aboard.
Just to prove we are versatile, Ditto. Want to buy a brand new wind-up thingy??
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Post by Mr Nobody on May 31, 2005 3:39:33 GMT 7
I have a fine selection right here . . . .
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Post by Jollyjunklass on May 31, 2005 3:48:28 GMT 7
Okay I can't hold out any longer, must lose face and claim ignorance, what the hell is a wind up thingy.
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Post by Mr Nobody on May 31, 2005 3:53:12 GMT 7
It is a great gadget, made right here in Oz.
It can be used for many things. The traditional wind up thingy is much more versatile than the more recent versions, such as battery powered thingy or the plug in thingy.
Actually the first company to export wind up thingies was formed right here on Raoul's only a month or so ago.
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Post by George61 on May 31, 2005 4:02:39 GMT 7
And going great guns too. Our motto....."We wind up the world". Subtle, and yet, at the same time, it has that certain "je ne c'est pas" that gives rise to the piquancy of ownership. The desire to be up there with the best has struck a chord with our customers, and we are experiencing a healthy upswing in sales. But wait, there's more...for a limited time only, we are giving away, with every carton, a brand new, specially designed, gullibility-meter. This comes in it's very own, silk lined case, with instructions writ large thereon.....or therein. Get one today!! An absolute "must" for all North Americans travelling abroad!
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Post by Mr Nobody on May 31, 2005 4:08:21 GMT 7
The free gullibility meter is a flat bit of red plastic, with "I believe you" on one side, and "You must be Kidding" on the other. It is made by the same people who make the plastic crosses you find in religious shops. You throw it in the air, and when it comes down, it registers the absolute truth. Trust us. We are Ozzies.
(George! I can't speak Ukranian. What does that phrase Je knee kest pah mean?)
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Post by George61 on May 31, 2005 4:31:55 GMT 7
I could tell you,....but then I'd have to kill you. Old Ukranian tradition.
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Post by Mr Nobody on May 31, 2005 5:08:03 GMT 7
I can dance the dance, i can drink the vodka.
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