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The Bus Uncle is still very much alive in the minds of the Hong Kong media. EastSouthWestNorth speaks of several incidents:
Continue readingThe Bus Uncle Saga Continues…
Beep beep: reporting from Hong Kong.
Bus Uncle (巴士阿叔) has managed to break into the mainstream media in Hong Kong. For example, ESWN posts a cover scan of the current issue of Next Magazine featuring a giant mug shot of Bus Uncle:
Inside the magazine is an interview with him (ESWN translation here…
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巴士阿叔, or Bus Uncle, has become the latest internet-video hit, according to ESWN, the HK Cable TV channel, the HK paper Apple Daily and 1.9 million Youtube viewers!
The video clip takes place on the 2nd floor of a public bus in Hong Kong.
The story involves a teenage boy who tells the man in…
Continue readingBus Uncle: he swears, he points fingers and he’s under alot of pressure
《猪都笑了》, “Even Pigs Laugh”, is a Flash MTV that at first pokes light fun at the peoples of various Chinese provinces. For example:
“Beijing people say they have a lot of sand & dust, the Mongol people laugh at them.”
“Hong Kong people say they have many wives, the Taiwan people laugh at them.”
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The original internet spoof of the grandiose Chinese movie, the Promise (blogged previously), called 《一个馒头引发的血案》 (The Murder Caused by a Bun) has inspired multiple sequels in the past few months.
The first is called 《一个馒头引发的麻烦》 (The Troubles Caused by a Bun) and uses film clips from movies with the Hong Kong star Stephen Chow:
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Continue readingThe Bun Murders Sequel (馒头 Strikes Back!)
What does “orz” mean?
Hint:
Selective translation from 十八摸狗日报 (above image also from there):
“orz” (also written as Oro, Or2, On_, Otz, OTL, sto, Jto, ○|￣|_) is net lingo (or an emoticon) that was created in Japan in 2004 and has since become adapted by the Chinese and Taiwanese. It represents for a person…
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Before any of you get excited, the reference to “mao” is a transcription of the word for cat:
TVMAO is a website that has plot summaries for more than 50,000 shows on more than 300 channels in China. Some sociologist could probably mine it for some funny data, but what I’m concerned about is: why Garfield!?…
