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2008-08-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Chinese Parents Swear Atheletes are Old Enough

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Posted by Bobby 2008-08-22 06:07|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 No, no, no. Dad didn't have time to hitch up the rig to ride 100 kilometers to the local Peoples Revolutionary Hall of Justice and Records and Mahjong Sports Palace to register the birth, especially of a female. So they recorded it in the family's ~~Little Red Book~~ Bible. Yeah, that's the ticket. Right here in the family Bible.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-22 09:38|| 2008-08-22 09:38|| Front Page Top

#2 But Chinese athletes cannot be like that. They are by ~~nature~~ diet that small.

Enjoy the advantage while it lasts. Or will they put their budding athletes on low protein diets, sot of like foot binding?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-08-22 09:55|| 2008-08-22 09:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I grew up in the S.F. Bay Area. I have been around a lot of Chinese, and it seems like they are always trying to pull some sort of bullshit.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-22 11:49|| 2008-08-22 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Finally, a form of cheating that relies purely on government statements... The IOC is clearly toothless and worthless.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-08-22 13:49|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-08-22 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Big J, I live and do business in the S F Bay Area. I use the Reagan method, "Trust, but verify".

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-08-22 14:13|| 2008-08-22 14:13|| Front Page Top

#6 A wise policy.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-08-22 15:00|| 2008-08-22 15:00|| Front Page Top

#7 ah... Chinese consider you 9 months old when born and then call it a year.
Makes it rough sometimes to figure out how old somebody is the way we measure.

Posted by 3dc 2008-08-22 23:21|| 2008-08-22 23:21|| Front Page Top

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