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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: Is there a word for this? #88639 12/08/02 05:58 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok What is who, tsuwm? - Pfranz Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Is there a word for this? #88640 12/09/02 05:47 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Hwæt? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Who? #88641 12/09/02 09:40 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,549 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,549 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA What is who, tsuwm? "Hu is leading China!" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Who? #88642 12/10/02 04:01 PM Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague B bonzaialsatian enthusiast bonzaialsatian enthusiast B Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 261 London/Prague Dunno... who? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Hu, indeed ! #88643 12/10/02 06:28 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,549 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,549 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA Oh well. No one else has done it, and I've been bursting to share my delight further, so here goes. (Playwright James Sherman deserves to have his name more widely known:) *************************************** Playwright Jim Sherman wrote this after Hu Jintao was named Chief of the Communist Party in China. HU'S ON FIRST by James Sherman (We take you now to the Oval Office.) George: Condi ! Nice to see you. What's happening? Condi: Sir, I have the report here about the new leader of China. George: Great. Lay it on me. Condi: Hu is the new leader of China. George: That's what I want to know. Condi: That's what I'm telling you. George: That's what I'm asking you. Who is the new leader of China? Condi: Yes. George: I mean the fellow's name. Condi: Hu. George: The guy in China. Condi: Hu. George: The new leader of China. Condi: Hu. George: The Chinaman! Condi: Hu is leading China! George: Now whaddya' asking me for? Condi: I'm telling you Hu is leading China. George: Well, I'm asking you. Who is leading China? Condi: That's the man's name. George: That's who's name? Condi: Yes. George: Will you or will you not tell me the name of the new leader of China? Condi: Yes, sir. George: Yassir? Yassir Arafat is in China? I thought he was in the Middle East. Condi: That's correct. George: Then who is in China? Condi: Yes, sir. George: Yassir is in China? Condi: No, sir. George: Then who is? Condi: Yes, sir. George: Yassir? Condi: No, sir. George: Look, Condi. I need to know the name of the new leader of China. Get me the Secretary General of the U.N. on the phone. Condi: Kofi? George: No, thanks. Condi: You want Kofi? George: No. Condi: You don't want Kofi. George: No. But now that you mention it, I could use a glass of milk. And then get me the U.N. Condi: Yes, sir. George: Not Yassir! The guy at the U.N. Condi: Kofi? George: Milk! Will you please make the call? Condi: And call who? George: Who is the guy at the U.N? Condi: Hu is the guy in China. George: Will you stay out of China?! Condi: Yes, sir. George: And stay out of the Middle East! Just get me the guy at the U.N. Condi: Kofi. George: All right! With cream and two sugars. Now get on the phone. Condi: (picks up the phone) Rice, here. George: Rice? Good idea. And a couple of egg rolls, too. Maybe we should send some to the guy in China. And the Middle East. Can you get Chinese food in the Middle East? ***************************************** Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Hu, indeed ! #88644 12/11/02 04:17 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 872 Birmingham, Alabama M milum old hand milum old hand M Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 872 Birmingham, Alabama Clever, cute, funny. I like it. I am so much an unremovable part of life. Be kind. Be careful. Be cool. I am (ever-so-slightly) drunk. The Mister Milum. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Thanks, wofa #88645 12/11/02 12:47 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Maybe I'm too jaded for my age, but I figured everyone had received this E-joke by now, so I refrained from posting it. I was wrong. Witness Milum. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter unable...to...resist...temptation #88646 12/11/02 03:19 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,549 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,549 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA I exercised self-control for as long as I could, and then getting no takers in response to my "Hu?" comment couldn't stand it any longer and posted the whole thing. With some hesitation because it might be copyright. At least I gave it its attribution. Apparently it was written on or about November 22. Remarkably fast global circulation! No copyright notice that I could see elsewhere on net where it appeared, either. Edit: Maybe not so fast, at that. It's already been two and a half weeks. How time flies when we're not looking. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Thanks, wofa #88647 12/11/02 08:32 PM Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 180 Atlanta, GA birdfeed OP member OP birdfeed member Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 180 Atlanta, GA Gee, I wonder whether Anna S. remembers that long ago in a different life, I used to phone her in a state of mind similar to that of milum. I don't think I ever said anything as profound as "I am so much an unremovable part of life", but it wasn't for want of trying. Yeah, I got the Hu thing from a few sources, but it still makes me laugh. They could have done that back in '86 or some year, when Hu Yaobang and Hua Guofeng were major officials. Or maybe that's just so much bull deng. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Thanks, wofa #88648 12/11/02 08:50 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont I'd re-read it again, but it's time to go Christmas xiaoping... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 4 1 2 3 4 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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