Misc: 4 Pitchers of Beer and Chinese Males do not mix

Well, if you are a Chinese male and drink 4 pitchers of beer, stay away from Pandas. I think 3 pitchers will be okay, tho.

[From cnn.com]:
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Zhang Xinyan had drunk four pitchers of beer at a restaurant before “stumbling to the zoo” nearby and stopping off at the pen holding a sleeping 6-year-old male panda, Gu Gu, on Tuesday, the Beijing Morning Post said.

“He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand” and jumped over a waist-high railing down into the enclosure, the newspaper said. “When he got closer and was undiscovered, he reached out to hug it.”

Startled, Gu Gu bit Zhang in the right leg, it said. Zhang, a 35-year-old migrant laborer from central Henan province, got angry and kicked the panda, who then bit his other leg. A tussle ensued, the paper said.
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Too bad there isn’t video of that. I find it funny that there is a picture of a panda for the WWF (World Wildlife Federation) logo. It REALLY is the World Wrestling Federation!

“What did you do today, honey?”

“I got a mouthful of panda back hair and wrastled with it at the zoo today.”

Misc: Fun videos

I’ve seen these guys before with their “Around the World” video – they have a new one in which they use treadmills. Impressive!

and, the original that got them noticed (at least by me):

Misc: Creative "bleeping"

Okay, so when they play big screen movies on TV they have two choices on how to deal with curse words – they can either bleep them out or dub over the word with another.

I have to say I just heard the most creative cover-up of the “f” word. I was watching “Any Given Sunday” which stars Al “Godfather” Pacino and Cameron Diaz. Al is pep talking his football team and asks, “Are we going to let them flute with us?” Yeah, we’re supposed to belive that Mr. Son of the Godfather said FLUTE. No, I heard they were going to oboe you guys up the butt. Hooah! (To quote another Al Pacino film).

Misc: The value of things

I just happened to be channel surfing and caught the end of Antique Roadshow on PBS. Some lady brought some half-moon side table to be checked out. The thing was grungy and not even a full table! Well, they flip back and forth between the Roadshow folks checking the table out and an auction where the table is being sold at a later date.

Roadshow folks: “Do you know how much this table is worth (and it is a good thing you did not continue to clean it because it would be worth even less)?”

Owner: “No, but I figured around $20,000?”

Roadshow folks: “We figure this will be able to fetch on the public market around $120,000.”

Cut to the auction: “Do I hear $100,000? $120,000! $140,000!”

Roadshow folks: “On a good day this may even fetch $225,000.”

Cut back to auction: “$200,000!”

Roadshow folks: “In fact, this could even get close to $300,000.”

Final cut back to the auction: “SOLD for $490,000!!”

I have 3 letters to spell out, “W.T.F.”?!?!?!?

$490,000 for a dirty, half table?

I wonder what I can get for our IKEA coffee table in 50 years…