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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

Post by FBM » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:43 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Everybody thinks they're the center of the Universe, so there's a lot of kettles out there. :hehe:
That's the way of it, innit? ;)
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:47 pm

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Gawdzilla wrote:Everybody thinks they're the center of the Universe, so there's a lot of kettles out there. :hehe:
That's the way of it, innit? ;)
I love how so many times the word for "locals" translates as "the people".
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

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Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Everybody thinks they're the center of the Universe, so there's a lot of kettles out there. :hehe:
That's the way of it, innit? ;)
I love how so many times the word for "locals" translates as "the people".
And the word for 'foreigner' is the same word for 'barbarian'. :roll:
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:55 pm

FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Everybody thinks they're the center of the Universe, so there's a lot of kettles out there. :hehe:
That's the way of it, innit? ;)
I love how so many times the word for "locals" translates as "the people".
And the word for 'foreigner' is the same word for 'barbarian'. :roll:
I had a t-shirt that said "gai-jin" and "kwai-loh" in the appropriate characters when I was in Japan. The sailors would ask me what they meant. I always had a different answer. :levi:
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:10 pm

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Gawdzilla wrote:As the only "real"residents of the Middle Kingdom, and the only civilized people on Earth, that would be a given, would it not? :doh:
It would. We would also be guilty of being pots calling the kettle black... ;)
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

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Gawdzilla wrote:As the only "real"residents of the Middle Kingdom, and the only civilized people on Earth, that would be a given, would it not? :doh:
It would. We would also be guilty of being pots calling the kettle black... ;)
Sorry, but when I was at Purdue we got journals and such from all over the planet.
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

Post by FBM » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:07 pm

In other news: This thread exists.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:13 pm

FBM wrote:In other news: This thread exists.
So did you get your underwear back from those people with guns?
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

Post by FBM » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:16 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:In other news: This thread exists.
So did you get your underwear back from those people with guns?
I'm gonna work up the nerve to call them tomorrow. I imagine they've eaten all the jerky by now. Bastids.
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:19 pm

FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:In other news: This thread exists.
So did you get your underwear back from those people with guns?
I'm gonna work up the nerve to call them tomorrow. I imagine they've eaten all the jerky by now. Bastids.
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Re: Dinosaur feathers!

Post by FBM » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:23 pm

We're* all going to die.



*Koreans, that is.
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