Chinglish

Tony Hicks writes And Another Thing, a very funny column in the Contra Costa Times. His recent article, "Humor not lost in translation" about preparations for the 2008 Olympics in Bejing points out a number of humorous errors in translation from Chinese to English, such as a park celebrating diversity named, "Racist Park."Hicks goes on to explore the phenomenon known as "Chinglish" and provides a few helpful links. The link to Flickr's Chinglish section devoted to photos of awkwardly worded Chinese signs and labels is very good. [Note: After repeated failed attempts to Blog This Photo from the Flickr group to Google's Blogger, which is under maintenance, I gave up.]

Little Pink Pill

A tourist goes up to the bar at the Top Of The Mark Hotel. There he sees this dude take a pink pill, wash it down with a beer, walk over to the window and jump out. The dude actually flies around for a minute and zips back into the bar and sits back down.

The dude repeats this amazing feat a few more times. Finally the tourist asks if he could have a pill. The flying dude tells him it is his last one. The gentleman offers five hundred dollars, but the fly guy says no dice. Then he makes his final offer of a thousand dollars, everything he has.

The flier reluctantly agrees, takes the cash, surrenders the pill, and turns back to the bar. The gentleman takes the pill, swallows it down with a beer, goes to the window, and jumps out only to fall to his death. The bartender walks over to the flier at the bar and, wiping a glass, says, "You sure are mean when you're drunk, Superman."