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On April 14, 2009 10:21 AM in Don't buy puppies off the street, they said:

We've seen little dyed dogs being sold on the sidewalk in Nanjing - they look like they should still be inside of their mother, squinting like moles, but are covered in little polkadots. Terrible. B...

On April 14, 2009 10:07 AM in Photo of the Day: Corner stopping, they said:

I love those vents that are always spilling black grease refuse onto the outside wall of restaurants and homes. One of our neighbors had a really good one last year....

That sounds like a Texas Republican. But America has a history of name butchery. Luckily, the Chinese are generally quite creative when it comes to choosing new names. In a few years, Lucifer and R...

On April 6, 2009 5:58 PM in Backlash against public displays of pajamas, they said:

Pajamas are far less offensive than the hordes of hooker-booted women teetering around on their deadly heels. Pajamas are comfortable. They show much less to the neighbors than most acceptable fas...

On March 29, 2009 5:05 PM in China really DID draft Tiger Woods, they said:

Wasn't there a Chapelle Show skit where the different racial groups were drafting people? I think Tiger Woods turned out to be white, and the Chinese ended up with the Wu Tang Clang....

Audio porn? What does that even mean? Wait, I think we may have heard some of that blaring through our thin plaster walls our first night in our apartment... maybe the result of a neighbor's visit t...

I'd prefer this place....

On March 18, 2009 11:10 PM in Shanghai photographs win Sony World Photography Award, they said:

For some reason this picture reminds me of something we saw in Yichang - an abandoned storefront at night, with an old man in his undies and a solitary light bulb......

On March 16, 2009 8:15 PM in Video: Anti-spitting campaign from the 1950s, they said:

We caught this guy in the act...

On March 12, 2009 5:39 PM in Condom machines getting extra layer of protection, they said:

Hopefully the vandals are at least using their loot, so as to avoid reproducing....

On March 7, 2009 8:29 PM in HK "Airport Auntie" gets apology, ticket upgrade from Cathay, they said:

We've seen some upset people in airports. Last year, after the spring festival transportation mess, we watched a woman go berserk on an airline employee in the Guangzhou airport, punching and kicking...

What's with that picture of the dam? Is there a rainbow arcing over the gorge? Both times we were there (we lived in Yichang) it was so grey and foggy you couldn't see across the river....

On March 4, 2009 10:26 PM in Photo of the Day: Hovering at Fengyang, they said:

Is that business man carrying a ladder?...

On February 27, 2009 12:52 PM in CCTV fire gets its own commemorative t-shirt, they said:

Those looks kind of similar to the shirts that came out after 9-11. Not quite the same tone, though....

On February 27, 2009 12:43 PM in Charity groups strives to end brutal bear farming in China, they said:

That doesn't look too much different from a Chinese zoo, or at least Yichang's....

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