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Onion article reprinted as truth by Beijing Evening News

 
 
SMS
21:51 / 15.06.02
Boston Globe Reports that a Chinese Newspaper printed a direct translation of an Onion article as FACT.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
15:06 / 16.06.02
I especially liked the Chinese editors refusal to admit to it being a mistake despite the fact the members of congress have sais thbey never said it and the editor of the Onion has said it's a spoof. I guess that if the Chinese guy admits he was wrong he has to jump on his sword or something...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:06 / 16.06.02
I guess that if the Chinese guy admits he was wrong he has to jump on his sword or something...

Um....Hari Kari is a Japanese thing, not Chinese.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:16 / 16.06.02
Well... the Romans used to fall on their swords too. Maybe it was Roman week at the Beijing Evening News.
 
 
Grey Area
18:35 / 16.06.02
I think a more traditional Chinese punishment would involve being tied down over some freshly sown bamboo saplings...
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
09:44 / 17.06.02
{Quick Recovery} The Chinese guy isn't a pirate, so his honour is all important. Perhaps he would go on the road as a Ronin-editor...
 
 
Grey Area
10:07 / 17.06.02
Managing the print-runs of small village newsletters, proof-reading the struggling efforts of cast-out poets and seeking out newsworthy copy in the face of mighty, multinational print syndicates...all in a day's work for Ronin-Editor! His correction pen is feared, his by-line is scathing, his smoking habits legendary. Women swoon, men break into nervous sweat when confronted with the awesome presence of Ronin-Editor!

Coming soon to a theatre near you. Soundtrack featuring smash hit "Gonna Get My Edit On" available on EMI. Novelisation due for release August 2003.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:34 / 17.06.02
Yep, probably have to jump on his sword. Then eat some rice. And have slitty eyes and an obsequious manner.

I think what you may be thinking of is seppuku, colloquially pronounced "hara-kiri". This involves neither jumping or, in itself, a sword - the disembowelling is performed with a kozuka knife, at some point during which the Kashaikunin will do you the favour of cutting your neck with a single swordblow, leaving the head attached to the body by a flap of skin. More impromptu seppuku may involve a shortsword, but not in this context.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
14:10 / 17.06.02
Of course, no satirical foreign publications have been represented as truth in this country...
Our tabloids are rigorous in their search for the truth about George Clooney and Cameron Diaz's secret lovechild...
 
 
grant
20:35 / 17.06.02
Note: Ronin are also Japanese.
 
 
Yagg
03:11 / 18.06.02
Blah, blah, blah. Why is this a big deal? The government-controlled press in Blecchistan does this all the time!
 
 
SMS
16:12 / 18.06.02
I appreciate feedback on my topics, Yagg. However, I made no claim that this was a "big deal." I thought it was amusing. And I hadn't ever heard of it happening before.
 
 
Jack Fear
17:06 / 18.06.02
In Blecchistan, no less.

It's a meta-joke, son.
 
 
SMS
04:23 / 19.06.02
Oh good. The board hasn't gone insane, after all. At least not all of it.
 
  
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