BIG-NOSED BARBARIANS THEY ARE - Just A Minute Radio for 02-01-10

            Good Mornin’ Breakfast Clubbers…  How was your weekend?

 

            Oh… slept late I see… didn’t go to church… It was closed you say… (A likely story.)  Oh… big storm… ice… slick steps and roads and all the rest.  But you (and I) managed to clean out the super market shelves… Isn’t that amazing…

 

            Now I have a grandson who married into a family up in Minnesota… Eden Prairie.  We’ve been to St. Paul to attend the grandson’s wedding. But it was summer… Nothing like winter!  Well… those sturdy Norwegians… and the Swedes and the Polish… they all have a taste for snow I guess (J) meanwhile we get very giddy and close the schools and everything even on the forecast of snow.

 

            Actually, from all I can tell the mountains not over 100 miles from my back door grow some of those trees … they apparently made it down here somehow… I guess those big walkers in the Lord of the Ring movies weren’t so imaginary after all. Anyway we do need a touch of winter to make us appreciate the Spring and Summer.

 

            We were down in Florida when the last cold spell set in up this way.  On the TV I saw a poor guy – it was the second time in three or four years when a cold snap hit his tropical fish farm.  This time it wiped him out and about a mil & and a half bucks worth of fish.  But what could he do? No place to take them it didn’t have to freeze, it just stayed below 45 about 4 days in a row… and that’s enough to send all the tropicals to fish heaven.  I felt sorry for him.  But I guess our Peach farmers in this area are in just as much risk.

 

            Anyway… I’m glad you made it. I’d love to hear from you how you managed.  We did OK… really enjoyed the gas logs for a while.  Especially the part about not having to cut and carry in the wood… or carry out the ashes – although there’s something rather enjoyable about that too… We did it for seven years up in NC except we really didn’t have *that* much cold weather.

 

            Well… keep buttoned up… I haven’t heard from the groundhog yet. (J)

 

            Cordially, In HIM

 

            Jack

 

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BIG-NOSED BARBARIANS THEY ARE

Just A Minute – The ideograph depicting China, is a square with a stake,  right down the middle – thus the “Middle Kingdom” was not pleased when Marco Polo showed them his map that did NOT put China at the center of the world.  From then on those of us without Chinese blood are surreptitiously known as “Barbarians” or ‘big-noses’. 

So when our Lady Hillary, a bit sternly told the current Beijing Mandarins they needed a change of attitude, there was a speedy and stinging backlash – all the result Google the Internet giant resisting – this breach of Sino-American politeness. Chinese authorities want Google to excise the three ‘T’s… Tiananmen, Taiwan, and Tibet.  Holders of G-mail, addresses are suddenly pariahs.

The two giants will likely arrive at a save-face answer – but inside some Chinese tea-houses there are soft chuckles about the Barbarians standing up to the Communists. Things will probably quiet down – but not go away.  That soft jingle is the tinkle of commerce.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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