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04-23-2006, 02:43 PM | #1 |
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4/23/2006: Carved gourd
Are you out of your gourd? What does that mean, anyway? A mini gourd engraved with tiny Chinese characters is pictured in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. The common gourd, with the actual size of a table tennis ball, has changed its appearance after 240 ancient Chinese poems with around 5,000 characters are engraved on it by Ruan Wenhui, a master in Chinese handicrafts industry, through three-month-long elaboration, Xinhua news agency said. |
04-23-2006, 03:32 PM | #2 |
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How do you do something like that without wite out? And if you do screw up, do you not tell anyone because you're pretty sure no one will notice?
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04-23-2006, 03:44 PM | #3 |
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Damn fool, he could have done it with a laser in minutes.
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04-23-2006, 04:31 PM | #4 |
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I love gourds. You can't have too many gourds.
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04-23-2006, 05:21 PM | #6 |
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I love goulds.
Howevel, I have nevel lead one.
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04-23-2006, 06:42 PM | #7 |
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thats lacists
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04-23-2006, 07:42 PM | #8 |
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It would be worth buying if those were 240 limericks.
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04-24-2006, 05:32 AM | #9 |
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i met a man once he was a dental technician and could write that small he could write up to 16 characters on a piece of rice (uncooked mind you) i thought that was impressive but nothing compared to this picture.
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04-24-2006, 06:26 AM | #10 |
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The microchip before the microchip =D
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04-24-2006, 06:34 AM | #11 |
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Characters as in chinese/japanese/korean or characters as in A/B/C?
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04-24-2006, 11:49 AM | #12 |
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Oriental languages are idogrammatic. Each character means something, as opposed to the characters simply referring to a sound.
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04-24-2006, 05:01 PM | #15 |
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Welcome to the Cellar, sordid.
So those oriental characters are sounds or syllables?
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