Holden McGroin <holden.mcgroin@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
Brad Collins wrote:
Which reminds me of one of my favourite quotes by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh:
"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
Interesting. When I was working in Beijing I heard the entire quote a number of times in Mandarin. In Hong Kong it's usually shortened to something like "the Chinese will eat anything with four legs except a chair", with some pride, I might add. I wonder if the quote is originally Chinese and perhaps heard by the Duke from someone like Governor Wilson (who was known to have some what of a clue about local culture) as opposed to Chris Patton who was only made gov to piss off the mainland. Sorry, I know this is getting even further OT..... b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand