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Funny planet --par Mark Annouchi--
[06/12/2002 15:04]

My taylor is rich...

PEKIN/BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities have decided to declare war
to signs and others boards that flower in Pekin and whose proprietors
think, wrongly, that they are written in a flawless English.

Questionned Friday in the columns of the �China Daily�, the deputy
manager of the Tourist Office of Pekin, Xiong Yumei, admits that �there
has too much words in 'chinglish' in menus, notes of information or
again on tourist sites that often disturb foreign tourists�. When they
do not frankly amuse them.

Mistakes due to the clear ignorance of the language of Shakespeare.
And the most beautiful ones are found in menus of restaurants.

Witness, this Australian tourist, Janet Clause, who was in a chic
establishment with friends. There, it needed a certain time to
understand in a five menu pages full of typewritting mistakes that the
carp had been transformed into �crap�. Similarly, reports the �China
Daily�, "fried prawns" have been transformed into "fried pawns".

The �China Daily� explains that students of the prestigious university
of Pekin have launched a six months campaign to eliminate this problem
on 60 tourist sites the most visited of the capital, essentially
relying on remarks make by tourists themselves.

Till then, accordng to the �China Daily�, more than three millions of
tourists will have visited Pekin.
AP

// "Bad minds" will say that those typos in the menus are not typos
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Beware, jealous woman...

SINGAPORE (AP) - The woman of a secondhand car salesman of Singapore,
that suspected her spouse to maintain a guilty connection, has found a
way to take revenge on him in damaging 18 cars using a hammer.

The police has specified Thursday that the woman, 34 years old,
identified simply as being Mrs You, has broken windshield of Mercedes,
BMW and other Volvo before destroying a computer and a telephone. The
amount of damages is estimated at 100.000 dollars of Singapore (56.500
euros), according to the TV channel NewsAsia.

The auto concession belongs to Robin You, 37 years and to his
irascible wife.

Mrs You was so much persuaded that her husband has a mistress that she
has not even ask any question. �I knock first and then I question�,
has she told to the daily �Straits Times�.

In fact, her conviction rests solely on declarations of friends that
have asserted that her husband had a mistress after having simply
observed that he came back home late in the evening. �In the
beginning, I have thought that it was an error. But a few days ago, he
has returned at dawn. When he did it again on Tuesday morning, it made
me crazy�.

Mrs You has declared that she was about to start a procedure of
divorce and that she feels well better since that she had appeased her
revenge against the flighty husband. �I sleep a lot better. And after
all, it is also my shop, these are my cars, I can make what I want
with them�.

The police has nevertheless opened an inquiry to determine if the
ridiculed wife had not committed a crime characterized in a country
where the vandalism is severely punished. In 1994, an American
teenager, Michael Fay, had copped several knocks of cane to have
blurred cars with paint.

AP

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The squaring of the cercle...

TOKYO (AP) - A team of scientists of the University of Yokyo comes to
establish a new world record of calculation by succeeding to obtain
the value of Pi with not less than 1.241 billion figures after the comma.

One of the "mathers" of the Center of technologies of information, Pr
Yasumasa Kanada, has explained Friday that it has been necessary more
400 hours to a super-computer to get this last result in September.

This new record pulverizes more of six time the preceding record
established in 1999, duly recognized by the Book Guinness of records
and that was 206 billions figures after the comma.

The team of the Pr Kanada has past five years to finalize this
software. The computer used in September, a Hitachi, is able to
achieve 2.000 billion calculations per second, being twice that that
used for the previous record.

AP

// Now, we just need a good long poem to remember all those digits !

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Pigeon vole... or "Icarus was my brother"

OSLO (AP) - Bjorn Ludvig My played with his giant kite last weekend
when a very strong wind gust has left to believe that it was his kite
that was playing with him.

This solid Norwegian of 25 years has been raised to more than ten
meters in the air by his giant kite of a surface of... seven square
metre. Hopefully the guy has been clever enough to drop it but he has
fallen in gravel, in a game field. He suffers of contusions, but of no fracture.

�The air travel has lasted only some seconds. I have hardly had the
time for thinking�, has told My in the columns of the daily
�AFTENPOSTEN� from his bed of the hospital located in Trondheim (400km in
the north of Oslo).

AP