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Oh, you haven't seen me for some time?
You should know better than let Shuimo tell you, for reasons that should be known all!

Now, you can reach Shuimo for his unique opinions amid lively and interesting discussions together with other forumists on a range of affairs, language included, just at the following forum:

http://forums.ec.europa.eu/debateeurope/viewforum.php?f=9&language=english

Be THERE, BE SQUARE!

Shouldn't it be:

Be there, or be square!

or are you suggesting that there is something not quite right about Shuimo's lively and interesting opinions.

Is this a cruel attempt to blacken Shuimo's name?

<<Now, you can reach Shuimo for his unique opinions >>

I thought Shuimo usuallty just pasted Chinese news articles, with no added opinions.

. Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:50 am GMT
Shouldn't it be:

Be there, or be square!

or are you suggesting that there is something not quite right about Shuimo's lively and interesting opinions.

Is this a cruel attempt to blacken Shuimo's name?
marcus minimus Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:52 am GMT
<<Now, you can reach Shuimo for his unique opinions >>

I thought Shuimo usuallty just pasted Chinese news articles, with no added opinions.
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Oh, Shuimo is on that forum now!
Join us!

There is something totally yellow about someone who is not even prepared to give their real name. What sort of a muppet are you?


"Three Little Maids From School Are We"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXWkIZUPmDY




Mikado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8kxB3nSTn0



The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=642oCPTgWjQ

You like Gilbert and Sullivan, I guess. What's the connection between an English operetta (I guess that's the best word) about Japan and Shuimo? Sorry, it isn't transparent for me.

Hi

I was just feeling a bit bored.


The Mikado

"Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert to satirise British politics and institutions more freely by disguising them as Japanese."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mikado


I believe that Shuimo is Japanese. So I was being a little bit provocative and annoying. However the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera's are worth studying. After I made my post, I found an interesting YouTube clip.


The Mikado: Behold the Lord High Executioner/As Some Day..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivY2HK777Zg


When British people went to China and Japan they found a very peculiar society. Gilbert and Sullivan were able to make fun of British society by drawing parallels with Japanese society. (1885)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mikado


"his pointed satire of British institutions"


Ko-Ko, The Lord High Executioner of Titipu

(If you listen carefully to the lyrics there are all sorts of modern references, 'to computers that go down on you', 'there will none of them be missed' - modern evils like graffiti, and dog doo, and Fergie's spending.)


Chorus:
Behold the Lord High Executioner
A personage of noble rank and title
A dignified and potent officer,
Whose functions are particularly vital!
Defer, defer,
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer,
To the noble Lord, to the noble Lord,
To the Lord High Executioner!

Ko-Ko:
Taken from the county jail
By a set of curious chances;
Liberated then on bail,
On my own recognizances;
Wafted by a favouring gale
As one sometimes is in trances,
To a height that few can scale,
Save by long and weary dances;
Surely, never had a male
Under such like circumstances
So adventurous a tale,
Which may rank with most romances.

Ko-Ko:
Taken from the county jail
By a set of curious chances; Surely, never had a male
So adventurous a tale.
Chorus:
Taken from the county jail
Liberated then on bail,
Surely, never had a male
So adventurous a tale.

Chorus:
Defer, defer,
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer,
To the noble Lord,
To the noble Lord High Executioner!
Bow down, bow down,
To the Lord High Executioner!
Defer, defer,
To the noble, noble Lord,
To the High Executioner!



http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=Qw2LUrHvjfs%3D

Japanese? Well, the articles offered up by Shuimo in the languages forum are in Chinese.

Is Shuimo a Japanese Sinophile? (Ne, Shuimo-san...Nihonjin desu ka, sorekara Chugokujin desu ka?)

I was in The Mikado when I was a teenager (well, in our 'scenes from The Mikado'). I won't say what role I played, but I was not the Lord High Executioner.

Japan is still a peculiar (to use an old word I never use) society and although I am American, I sometimes thought about the parallels between Japan and GB. You know, royal families whose heads are respected, a rainy, windy island, reserve...

Make that "soretomo", lol.

Is Japan rainy like GB?.

<<Is Shuimo a Japanese Sinophile?>

In the other forum (the linked EU one), Shuimo claims to be in Beijing.

I suppose he could easily be a non-Chinese resident in China, though.

It's not THAT rainy. But it can occasionally pour when it wants to!

What i remember about Japan was the fact that for the three years that I lived there, I never once saw stars. Never. The sky was often overcast, and was always brown at night. Whether that was just from light pollution (I lived in the greater Tokyo area) or from air pollution or from a combination of the two, I couldn't say, but it made a definite impression on me.

Ah, Uriel, have you forgotten the tsuyu/plum rain/monsoon season in June goes that into July? Then in September there is the typhoon season.

Do you remember that there were umbrella stands in almost all buildings and school? That you could buy or borrow an umbrella (plastic)
almost anywhere?

Dear Uriel

I am very pleased to see a topic that I have contributed to near the top of the tree. On the other hand, I am not quite sure what the meaning of your post is?

It's not THAT rainy.

Do you mean?

Is Japan rainy like GB?.


I am sure there are much rainier places than the UK. When I first moved to Scotland I used to make a joke about the climate killing slowly. Scottish people certainly do not look very well.

So, where does this topic go from here?

Meaningless insults, a discussion of the Mikado, the futility of the everyday, or the micro climate of Manchester that enabled it to export cotton products around the world, and the growth of the Guardian newspaper.

I was hoping that you would contribute to Google: Mary Phagan and Leo Frank?

<<So, where does this topic go from here?>>

We could talk about light pollution.

From the looks of things, parts of Scotland are pretty dark. Unfortunately, it's also pretty cloudy, and way too far north to be an ideal location for astroimaging.