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China Idiocy Alert

This may well take the cake. I mean, a skyscraper cake with a whole jar of maraschino cherries on top and enough Cool Whip to swim in. What can one say? History has dealt China a dirty hand. It had famine, it had Mongol invasions, it had British... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Fri, Aug 29 2008

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