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« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2007, 08:00:38 PM »
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Gee, can you tell who has no sense of humor in this thread? :rolleyes:


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« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2007, 08:10:12 PM »
I joyfully watch the olympics once every four years.

 In the '80s I predicted the Mary Lou Retton win....6 months before those Olympics. Also, Cincinnati has a Gymnastics school that trained at least 5 of the "Magnificent 7" of the 1996 team.

Also like that shooting and Skiing event - whatever that one is called.


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« Reply #17 on: December 04, 2007, 09:27:21 PM »
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I'm boycotting the Olympics until DnD is an event.


There ya go!  Now I have something to hang my righteous dislike of the Olympics on.
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« Reply #18 on: December 04, 2007, 09:50:18 PM »
I here Mario AND Sonic are competing!
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« Reply #19 on: December 05, 2007, 05:56:12 AM »
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Also like that shooting and Skiing event - whatever that one is called.
Biathlon.
Somehow, most of our biathletes seem to come straight from the army, and a lot of them train here in the Black Forest area.

For some strange reason that isn't going to be displayed at the summer olympics though ;)
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« Reply #20 on: December 05, 2007, 12:44:11 PM »
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I'm boycotting the Olympics until DnD is an event.

Out of curiousity, does anyone know what those Chinese characters mean?  I wouldn't want to show up in China in a tee-shirt that read "Death to Mao" or "I'm stupid, take my cash".

I think he wants the English slogan(s) inside the post to be on your T-shirt. Running the screen name through a couple online translators, the best I get is "Feng Zhi-kun". So I think it's just a name.

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« Reply #21 on: December 05, 2007, 01:01:52 PM »
I love his avatar. Am I not enough of a history wonk to recognize who that is, or is it just a random Asian guy?
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« Reply #22 on: December 05, 2007, 01:08:48 PM »
It's Jiang Zemin, the face of political retrenchment.

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« Reply #23 on: December 06, 2007, 11:05:28 PM »
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I think he wants the English slogan(s) inside the post to be on your T-shirt...




Post this picture on your T-shirts?  :pundit:

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« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2007, 12:12:28 AM »
Is it a swastika...or a clown fish?

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« Reply #25 on: December 07, 2007, 01:45:51 AM »
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Post this picture on your T-shirts?  :pundit:

Didn't see that. So what's it mean?

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« Reply #26 on: December 07, 2007, 04:39:49 AM »
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Didn't see that. So what's it mean?
'Please detain me for interrogation'?
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« Reply #27 on: December 07, 2007, 04:41:12 AM »
Fuck--these Chinese spambots are sophisticated!

冯志焜, old chum, if you want us to wear your logo, could you post a bigger pic? Thanks.


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« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2007, 11:16:01 PM »
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I avoid the Olympics because they're nationalist propaganda for individual members of the state system...


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« Reply #29 on: December 12, 2007, 11:27:30 PM »
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China party secretaries's mine blast,105 killed.



SO, do you play role playing games?

 Or this the sole topic that you're interested in?

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