Posted on 02/21/2005 5:04:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
When he was in charge in Red China, I used to say it's not who you know that counts, it's Hu Yao Bang.
GOOD
I am happy if he dies!
The repeated references to "the anti-Japanese guerrilla army" with respect to quartering arrangements suggests severe austerity and "self-reliance" (self-maintenance) of units.
Too, these are almost certainly parade units.
You miss the point about American humor. Deployed against such hyperventilating egos, it's a service to humanity and an effective counter to their pretentiousness, their mano, and the legends they are trying to build about themselves, their dynasties, and their dynastic mojo.
Nothing like the cream-pie treatment to bring them down a peg or six. Ever see The Great Dictator? I think you just referred to it, obliquely. Well, Charlie Chaplin's film is now recognized as a masterpiece of counterpropaganda. He pied Hitler and Mussolini both, and it's no accident that that was the attitude the average G.I. took to war with him, when it was time to "go shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch!"
Never make getting rid of those guys into a big deal. Cut them down first -- make it sound like just taking out the trash.
Killing their legend, their mystique, and their hold over other people is better even than cutting their throats. After all, kill one dictator and another takes his place. But kill the idea of a Great Leader, and you clean out the whole nest.
Actuarry, MiSo Ronry called up Sum Yung Ho and was surprised when Hu He show up with Wun hung lo...
More Chins than the Hong Kong phone book.
Oops sorry, wrong punch line.
The more specific issue I think though, was that basic, considerate Freeper Etiquitte (and I would hope Jim Robinson would agree) is that when someone starts a serious thread where the intent of the thread's author or contributor (who may have put some initial, difficult and specialized work into it such as translating from a foreign source) is to encourage real FR information exchange, it is not considerate to have it hijacked into the same, very very endlesstired jokes about Korean last names (by people who have nothing substantial to say about DPRK news due to their lack of knowledge and comfort-zone with mere joke after jok), with (an initial) majority of FR thread posters just taking the thread away from it's intial and sincere purpose by the thread author and in some cases, foreign source translator: to inform.
Some people do the same thing when an important story on FR about Japan, for example, Koizumi's statement on the Self Defense forces' deployment to Iraq, is brought up on FR for serious discussion, and then a ton of people flood and bastardize the threat with silly, juvenile endless jokes about "Godzilla" and "Mothra", and plaster manga or comic pictures, when we are trying to engage in some analysis. Why can't primarily joke threads about Asian issues be maintained somewhere else on FR?
(Posts #126 and #127 are good cases in point.)
The anti Japanese part is true. There are many ways the Koreans particularly in the north refer to Japan and Japanese in unflattering ways. Japan of course has sins of the past, but you can see that they are a long way from forgiveness, from the communist North least, nearly 60 years out.
I'll second AIT's post, my Korean is limited to the necessary phrases to get the really hot duck kimchi they only usually serve to Korean customers at a little NYC restaurant.
Thank you and Gamsa hamnida.
The twist of fate could have it that two American wisecrackers, Stone and Parker, were the tipping point that turned Jong-Il completely paranoid, not of American aggression and political skullduggery, but because of his vanity and manhood, as retold in the biography written in 2031 by the grandson of the great leader himself.
I don't have much to add here. What looks to be Jong-Il's legacy in the world has been invented by two scat humor puppeteers, if his ego is as supersized as they report, this could well alter his mental state in the long term.
I've heard enough Japanese call Koreans the Polacks of the Orient to say without a doubt that street goes both ways.
Have you been there recently? You'd be surprised what's been happening in Japanese society about Korea.
That's an admirable effort...not to mention the nice tip about hot duck in NYC. :-)
My feelings exactly! Thus my tagline.
GMTA
HE FAINTED !!! HA HA HA HA HA HA
Hey during that train explosion that suppose been assassination attempt I hear Little Kim wet his pants LOL!
I think Tiger reported that he hear from one of Japanese newspapers LOL!
I hate it when this happens ~ somebody missed!
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