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9.25.06
i quote brett harkey: "blogging is so 2005"
for those who have ever lived below someone:
Apparent Passions of
My Upstairs Neighbors.
BY GLENN LINGLE
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Moving furniture
Rolling bowling balls off of tables
Keeping time to music by beating a staff
Picking up anvils, and then dropping them
Riverdance
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9.23.06
the bear in nepal. we miss you, jordan. but i find your blog far too entertaining to ask you to come back. that and the jesus thing that got you over there.
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9.22.06
BEIJING - A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal's back, state media said Wednesday.
Zhang Xinyan, from the central province of Henan, drank four jugs of beer at a restaurant near the zoo before visiting Gu Gu the panda on Tuesday, the Beijing Morning Post said.
"He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand," and jumped into the enclosure, the newspaper said.
The panda, who was asleep, was startled and bit Zhang, 35, on the right leg, it said. Zhang got angry and kicked the panda, who then bit his other leg. A tussle ensued, the paper said.
It bit the fellow in the back,I Zhang was quoted as saying in the newspaper. "Its skin was quite thick."
Other tourists yelled for a zookeeper, who got the panda under control by spraying it with water, reports said. Zhang was hospitalized.
Newspaper photographs showed Zhang lying on a hospital bed with blood-soaked bandages and a seam of stitches running down his leg.
'No one ever said they would bite'
The Beijing Youth Daily quoted Zhang as saying that he had seen pandas on television and "they seemed to get along well with people."
"No one ever said they would bite people," Zhang said. "I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don’t remember much."
Ye Mingxia, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Zoo, confirmed the incident happened but would not give any details. She said Gu Gu was "healthy."
"We’re not considering punishing him now," Ye said in a telephone interview. "He's suffered quite a bit of shock."
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