Re: FW: Another Modest Proposal: Bomb China

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

From: Bill Humphries (bill@whump.com)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 12:25:10 PDT

Ian Andrew Bell <fork@ianbell.com> smirked:
>Next we'll force the UN to embargo all trade between China and the rest of
>the world. This means no giveaway rubber balls at Pizza Hut, no fortune
>cookies, no Mu-Shu Pork, no Rice... and none of those tasty little Mandarin
>Oranges that the Florida Orange Growers' Association is always complaining
>about.

I know your piece is satire, but --

fortune cookies are a Californian invention [1], and most of US rice is grown in Arkansas [2].

[1] http://www.chcp.org/Vfortune.html
[2] http://www.riceland.com/rice/production.html

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri May 11 2001 - 12:34:51 PDT