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2011-09-30 China-Japan-Koreas
Snafu as China space launch set to US patriotic song
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Posted by tipper 2011-09-30 10:46|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 Well...at least they didn't broadcast a successful space walk before the launch.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-09-30 11:00||   2011-09-30 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I would have used "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen" instead of "America the Beautiful", but that's just me.
Posted by SteveS 2011-09-30 11:50||   2011-09-30 11:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Does this make up for that Chinese pianist playing that nationalist Red Chinese piece for President Obama at the White House? Can the argument be made that this is what happens when the Chinese play face games? (Because this is what happens -- had they not started it, nobody would really care.)
Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-30 13:54||   2011-09-30 13:54|| Front Page Top

#4 What really hurt was that Obama sang along.
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-30 14:06||   2011-09-30 14:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Seems appropriate since their space program is based on technology from Loral. Thanks again, Bernie (Schwartz).
Posted by rwv 2011-09-30 16:17||   2011-09-30 16:17|| Front Page Top

#6 besides fire crackers and chopsticks, what else of origin comes from them?
Posted by jack salami 2011-09-30 17:41||   2011-09-30 17:41|| Front Page Top

#7 what else of origin comes from them?

The cheap-ass electrolytic capacitors that keep blowing up in my electronics.
Posted by SteveS 2011-09-30 17:52||   2011-09-30 17:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Jack, are you talking about China or Georgia?
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-09-30 18:43||   2011-09-30 18:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Fireworks are illegal here we have to go Tennessee or 'Bama
Posted by Georgia Cracker 2011-09-30 18:49||   2011-09-30 18:49|| Front Page Top

#10 "Junior Birdmen" > Gaaawd, suddenly I feel old.
Posted by  2011-09-30 21:13||   2011-09-30 21:13|| Front Page Top

#11 You'll have to join the Senior Birdmen then.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-30 21:49||   2011-09-30 21:49|| Front Page Top

#12 what else of origin comes from them?

ice cream ;)
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2011-09-30 21:54||   2011-09-30 21:54|| Front Page Top

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