Going to Beijing, should I check out 797 Audio?

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<< there is often some action from the
backdoor of the factory. >>



Especially the "antiques" factory. <g>

-R

 

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On 21 Nov 2004 19:39:53 GMT, rkrizman@aol.com (R Krizman) wrote:

><< there is often some action from the
>backdoor of the factory. >>


>
>Especially the "antiques" factory. <g>

Set any piece of pottery out into the polluted Beijing air for 6
months & it will definitely look old.

Al

 

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A compass that points south? That's hilarious!!! Might be a valuable
item to folks from the southern part of the country (no offense meant
to my many southern friends). That is a great story!

Audy O


rkrizman@aol.com (R Krizman) wrote in message news:<20041120181424.06403.00000602@mb-m22.aol.com>...
> << A bunch of people from my group got sick drinking bottled water that
> was bottled from the tap.
>
> Safer to just drink beer instead of water...
>
> Audy O >>


>
> I tried to follow the latter advice whenever possible. And in Beijing, don't
> let them tell you Tsing tao is local beer. It's not. Insist on the Yang
> Ching, or Beijing beer.
>
> What a funny thought. Pretend bottled water to go with your fake lacquer boxes
> and knock-off North Face jackets.
>
> I bought a nice old (looking) compass in a leather box on one trip. When I
> got it home, I noticed that the arrow pointed south instead of north. On my
> next trip, in a totally different city (Shanghai) I found the same compass
> boxes for sale. All of the needles pointed south. When I showed that to the
> vendor, she tried rotating the compass to change the direction, unsuccessfully
> of course. She then handed it back to me and said with a shrug, "Oh well, the
> world is round." I love China.
>
> -R

 

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in article 6e9dc628.0411220329.43394f80@posting.google.com, Audy at
audy@audykimura.com wrote on 11/22/04 3:29 AM:

> A compass that points south? That's hilarious!!! Might be a valuable
> item to folks from the southern part of the country (no offense meant
> to my many southern friends). That is a great story!
>
> Audy O

The interesting thing about this is that the original Chinese compasses did
point south: The magnetic needle still aligned itself along the field
lines, but to their perception it was opposite. They saw that as the "up"
direction, and regarded south as we regard north. Reality is perception.

Carlos

 

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R Krizman wrote:

> Disneyland will never seem the same.

It never did.

--
ha

 

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<< R Krizman wrote:

> Disneyland will never seem the same.

It never did.

--
ha
>>



After having just spent a very long day in the land of the mouse, I've
concluded that the worst thing about living in So Cal is haveing to take your
holiday houseguests to Disneyland.

Oh my aching zeitgeist!

-R

 

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<< > Disneyland will never seem the same.

It never did. >>




I feel more like I did when I first got here than I do now.


Joe Egan
EMP
Colchester, VT
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EganMedia wrote:
> << > Disneyland will never seem the same.
>
> It never did. >>


>
>
> I feel more like I did when I first got here than I do now.
>

I used to be different. Now I'm the same.


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no
simpler."

A. Einstein