Congrats for your silver star!

P.S. this one's dead: http://www.videosift.com/video/2008-Beijing-Olympics-Torch-lighting

Favourites

1) Spring
2) Beijing, China
3) Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
4) South Park
5) Knemidokoptes
6) Beauty and the Beast
7) Don't know
Snakes
9) The French Revolution
10)Not sure

Which one?

11) Dog
12) Sweet
13) Cereal
14) Tan
15) Barefoot
16) Laptop
17) Walk
18) Drama
19) Food
20) Futurama

The Sift

21) Duck Amuck
22) "* promote" - various vids
23) blankfist
24) Fjnbk
25) Comedy, but I don't spend any time looking at single channels.
26) Everything I've done here
27) mlx's
28) YouTube
29) Some
30) Non-charters get to choose handle colors

About you

31) Michigan
32) Non-smoker
33) Right handed
34) Black
35) Single
36) 5' something
37) No
38) No
39) All of me
40) Brilliantly stupid, humbly narcissistic

If you could...what, who, when etc

41) John Lennon
42) Red Cross
43) Kevin Trudeau
44) 9th grade
45) Telepathy
46) Albert Einstein's last words
47) Umm...
48) Ban teaching of creationism and intelligent design by executive order.
49) The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Terrible time.
50) Win a Nobel Prize

*quality

Sounds more like Beijing to me

Are they related to the Beijing Olympic preformers?

The problem with a phonetic language is that people who speak different dialects (Bostonians, Southerners, Jamaicans) will naturally be inclined to spell the words as THEY would spell them, and since there is no central dialectical authority with English, no one would consent to the overhaul.

Look at the Chinese language. Someone from Hong Kong would be speaking mostly gibberish to someone from Beijing. But written Chinese is the same for everyone in China, so they can still communicate with each other.

gm is right, words communicate concepts and ideas, and not sounds for the most part.

Every year, The Spelling Society that advocates this silly overhaul of English protests outside the National Spelling Bee. It really would cause way too many problems and solve none.

Also the music used by Russian gymnast Anna Pavlova in the Beijing 2008 Olympics for her floor routine.

>> ^honkeytonk73:
Hurray for lip syncing!!


It's so they can be dubbed by 'uglier' but more talented singers.

Last time I visited Beijing, I saw many old people practicing calligraphy at public park. It is a popular pastime for them it seems.

Actually, this is going to be the closing ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

That'll show Beijing that the British are the ones who truly know how to party.

Middle of Ohio, Meet Beijing.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Mad-TV-Hooters

>> ^Fjnbk:
>> ^NordlichReiter:
they welcome you then they take your organs.

What does that mean?


ORGAN PROCUREMENT AND JUDICIAL EXECUTION IN CHINA

>> ^NordlichReiter:
they welcome you then they take your organs.


What does that mean?

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>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
Hooters, now with asian bird flu!

Well my friends are always saying they're just dying for some Hooters' chicken wings...

Never actually been in a Hooters myself. It just seems kind of sleazy. Trying to convince someone you go there for the food is about as easy as convincing someone you read Playboy for the articles. But I guess if the girls are happy working there and the managers are keeping an eye out to make sure no customers get out of line, that's all that matters.

And what was with that creepy old dude who was like, "I'm kinda partial to Asian girls." He actually sent a cold shiver down my spine the way he was looking at the camera.

I've been to that Hooters in Beijing. It's right next to a massage parlor called "Swallows"