Stories about Humor from September, 2006
The Kannada Context: Post-modernist. Post-9/11. Concerns.
Firstly, let us remember the victims of 9/11. Let us wish that the world leaders gather enough sense and courage to fight the root cause of terrorism, and not just resort to paranoiac ways like “racial profiling”. Like they say do not attribute malice to that which can be sufficiently...
Lebanon: Field Trips, Wardrobe Personification and Poetry
Have you wondered why most women like shoes? Or can blogging be life threatening? Then read on and see what answers the Lebanese Blogosphere has. This week’s blogs have topics that are as serious as a threat to a fellow blogger for his political cartoons and as light hearted as...
South Asia Blog Buzz
The latest from the South Asian blogs: Bangladesh: - Rajputro writes a satirical piece on how the load shedding (power cuts to manage shortage in electricity supply) in Bangladesh can be counterproductive. - Shafiur of imperfect|world|2006 is amused with the political dramas set out in Bangladesh as a form of...
China: Golf court and Peking University
As part of the package to be the first grade international university, Peking University has been proposing to build a golf court. According the Xue yong, the proposal has been banned. But the blogger continues to explain what is the relation between 1st grade university and golf court: “the mission...
Guyana: Alien kidnapping
Guyana-Gyal hasn't heard from her brother in over week. “I hope them aliens ain't kidnap he again,” she says.
Serbia: A Yugo in the US
D.R. Fairday of A Yugo in the US is blogging about stereotypical Serbs in the United States – and about himself: “*You have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name. Close. It's 6:4, but Amers can't pronounce two of them, and they never put the accent where it...
China and Hong Kong: toilet stories
Simon World puts together two toilet stories, one from Beijing (bomb proof toilet) and one from Hong Kong (golden toilet).
China: positive report
Wang Xian-feng explains what is positive report: if we say “coal mine explosion in Shanxi caused 40 death” it is negative report and will have very negative effects on the society. So, how should we change it into positive report? we can change the headline to “coal mine explosion in...
Russia: “Chandeliers From Hell”
Konstantin Dlutskiy of Russian Marketing Blog writes about an unfortunate name choice for a store.
China: how to buy an apartment in Beijing
WangXianfeng puts up several proposals on how to buy an apartment in Beijing, it turns out none of those are realistic (zh).
Lebanon: Peace, Art, Humor and Politics
Topics discussed in the Lebanese blogosphere this week involved, among others, literature, war-art, the art of souvenir production and war-humor. Peace is a topic that is almost always present. A few samples discussing and dissecting the concept of peace with Israel has been selected for this week’s roundup. In addition to these we have historical account, from a personal view point, of one blogger who lived the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and what followed.
China: foreign journalist notes
Laowiseass puts up a foreign journalist notes on his interview with Panyu government official regarding Taishi village: “They refused to let me use the restroom in privacy saying they were concerned I might fall into the toilet hole or slip and break something”.
China: Lists
Blogger's block, we all get it sometimes. Ruthless readers, our editors, don't have time for excuses. So what's a blogger to do? Lists! Here are few from the last few days of the Chinese blogsphere, ordered with a certain amount of thematic continuity:
India: The Silly Photo Meme
A Silly-Photograph meme has caught the fascination of quite a few bloggers in India.
