Last year for our Christmas white elephant gift exchange at the office, my contribution was the Avenging Unicorn playset; it was quite a hit, actually.
Now, almost eight months later, I had quite forgotten who went home with the unicorn. After a short jaunt around the office fixing computer problems, I returned to my office to find this:
It found its way home, how endearing…
On their Tele-mega-phone! Call the number and broadcast your voice (or something else) all over the mountains.
PS If you're looking to RickRoll them, it's already been done, so you can't be the first to RickRoll an entire country. Sorry.
Thanks to Richard Bartle's post about Beijing pronunciation, it sparked me to make my own comment about something that's been bothering me since the opening ceremonies.
SAY THE J!
It's bay jing, not bei zhing!
In America it seems common to make fun of Asian people because they can't pronounce 'L's and 'R's properly, but every hour on the news they can't say the 'j'!
I don't understand why this is so hard! Nobody calls me 'Zhacob,' why can't they pronounce Beijing?
