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I remember watching one of those 'truth or fiction' shows on a cable channel a while back.

An older couple visits a Hong Kong restaurant with their poodle, wearing a stone studded collar. They didn't speak the language, but gave their beloved pet to the waiter to be cared for until after their dinner. They dined on what looked like General Tso's chicken. After dinner the waiter appeared with their check and the dog's collar on a plate, LOL!
I think about that story every time I order General Tso's !

Marya

Oh Marya :p I have heard that before and forgot it just as quick. But in this discussion it takes on a whole new meaning.

An older couple visits a Hong Kong restaurant with their poodle, wearing a stone studded collar. They didn't speak the language, but gave their beloved pet to the waiter to be cared for until after their dinner. They dined on what looked like General Tso's chicken. After dinner the waiter appeared with their check and the dog's collar on a plate, LOL! [Eek!] [Eek!]

I wander how many paramedics it took to bring them out of shock?

Alex, so ,if I eat at Jack-in-th-Box I'll never get gout,right?

DJS, I beg to differ with you because I've had 3 personal experiences myself and, remember DC is not called Chocolate City for nothing. Most of the downscale restaurants are not in upscale areas.

Marya, I've heard similar stories about kids giving away puppies to families and later going back to visit and the dog had been eaten (barbecued to be exact).

Gaudior, you might be right about all that dressing up. It's either yip or bite the hand that feeds them, and though their intelligence is rather low, even they know better than to do that!

Cats are different. they'll bite your hand and still demand food.Sounds, nervy but, you neer see them dressed up in bows and socks! So who's smarter?

Glad to "see" you here Pani Rose.The more the merrier.

Peace,
Cynthia

Marya,

You forgot the important part: truth or fiction.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/edibles/tourist.htm#chinese


There was an apparent spate of cancer deaths some years ago in Nanty Glo PA. A local state sentator - from my parish - brought it to the attention of the state health department officials. The agent investigating took him aside and said - well , you know they're mainly Slavs with a suspect diet,...

The rep icily responded - if holupki kill then
I'm a dead man! And admonished him to be particularly throurough in his investigation.

It's easy to be suspicious and to joke at the expense of semingly foreign people. It's not at all funny when that foreigner is you.

Actually, it's really not funny in any case.

Marya, since I hate Chinese food anyway, I can laugh at all of this. I once worked with an engineer who had been a South Vietnamese army officer during the war. He said Vietnamese people did not eat cats, but that during the war in some places, they ate whatever they could find to survive. But according to a Chinese friend, there is a breed of dog that is raised in China for food. So they do actually eat them. But China is such a vast country, there probably are many food differences from one part of the country to another. Nevertheless, I will take your advice and avoid the DC restaurants. I guess that would not be the place to ask for a hot dog, would it?

Cynthia,

Why is DC called Chocolate City? I thought Hershey, PA had that claim to fame?!?

Exactly that, if my prayers are answered!
ROTFLMAO!

Gaudior, who uses the television to pile books on :p

Dear Gaudior,

What is: ROTFLMAO ?

Thanks!
Alice

Also, since you seem to know Ukrainian, what would "mnogaya leta" mean (many years?)

Also, what would "vechnaya pamyat" mean?

Someone wrote these somewhere in a sentence on a site I came across, but it is all 'Greek' to me! Thanks.

Dear Alice,

ROTFLMAO=Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My A** Off!

Mnohaya Lita does indeed mean Many Years! (Chronia Polla!)

And, Vichnaya pam'yat= Memory Eternal!

Gaudior, speaking in tongues that NO ONE can understand :p

Deacon John,
Chocolate refers to people and not candy, though we are pretty sweet, now that I think of it.Years ago a funk group wrote a song for black folks in DC and called it Chocolate City, and anyone from Dc (maybe not from the 'burbs) would be familiar with this.

Peace

Cynthia,

If I remember the lyrics correctly, those were described as the "vanilla" 'burbs, were they not?

Many years,

Neil, recollecting that the song proposed Stevie Wonder as Secretary of Fine Arts

Ah Neil, you do have a wonderful memory and you're right about the vanilla suburbs and Stevie Wonder. :)Where did I put that 8 track?!

I used to work at the International Student House in DC and was honored by many Asian students with fine dining in some of the best Chinese and Korean restaurants in the area at the time. The food was wonderful and there was no problem with it. So if you stick to "good" neigborhoods and Chinatown, you're bound to eat some very good food. Don't miss it!!

In fact, unless it's just a personal preference ByzanTn, I suspect you may have eaten mediocre chinese food and that may account for your dislike.

But, in the predominantly black neighborhoods where the street corners are assaulted with liquor stores and dinky Chinese food carry out places,if I have to eat there I only eat what I can recognize.

And lest I snuff the life out of the thread, it's back to animals.

You would think that walking down the hallowed halls of a place of higher learning I would be able to stop anyone I see and find out the name of that confounded mutt that was biologically engineered. But no, I'm still trying to find out.

I think it was a boxer. Back in 15th century England dogs were pitted against bears for fun.So, dogs were bred for strong jaws, height, etc. to be able to successfully take on(withstand?) a bear.The result was a weirdo breed that needs help mating.

I'm still tripping over the snake with hair remark. Here in Texas there are 5000 varieties of snakes, so you'd think they'd be here!

Peace,
Cynthia

Originally posted by theophan:
Gaudior:

You signed off with

Gaudior, who thinks advertising folk should be forced to watch hour after hour of their own commercials...

What do you think Hell will be for people who subject us to this type of advertising?

BOB

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Oh, I think it'll be worse than that. They'll have to star in them ,too!

Gaudior, I also have found out that TV's make wonderful bookshelves. Especially now that rabbit ears are no longer placed on top of the set!

Peace,
cynthia

I think dogs were put on the earth for mankind to learn from. The dog has unconditional love for their master. Even after correction they come back and want to be loved. We should have this same unconditional love for our Master, Jesus Christ.

Cats were put on the earth to remind us that we arent as important as we like to think we are. And that we should not take ourselves to seriously. And that there are demands that are made by others that are just as important to them as it is for us.

JoeS

Joe:

An interesting note about dogs and their masters.

One of the Desert Fathers, lamenting about his own sin, made the comment that he was less than a dog in that a dog loved his master and that he, by sinning, showed that he didn't love The Master.

BOB