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Old 04-14-2008, 19:40 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Chinese members,

That does not come from a ''running dog's'' mouth, but right from the ''horse's mouth''.

Now, don't go thinking he is a horse, he continues to be a human being and quite good one at that too!!
Dammit I said I wanted to be a running dog!

Or perhaps even a capitalist pig!

As far as a horse, I've been called a Horse's Ass (or arse, if you will) but I'm sure it was said only in the nicest possible way!


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Those are phrases drummed into the mental chemistry so that they lull the people as they strike deep with the sword into you and ask you to thank them thereafter!
A very Asian (by which I mean the so-called "Orient") way of beginning a conversation into perhaps a touchy subject. You approach it obliquely and politely.

According to that article I posted a little while back (wish I could find it), it drives returning Chinese student up the wall.
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