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2016/07/14 17:23:02
Subject: Re:China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
Seriously, that is a pretty cool statue. Made even cooler to me by the fact that I know who Guan Yu is thanks to playing SMITE.
Something like- this?
I can't believe the opportunity to use that EVER came up naturally. It is a mighty statue!
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2016/07/14 17:33:11
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
Frazzled wrote: Technically Crazy Horse was an enemy combatant.
You say enemy combatant, I say freedom fighter.
Potato, potato.
However, this statue is pretty amazing. I wish more projects like this could be funded around the world.
Yera but he lost. This is America. We only celebrate winners!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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2016/07/14 17:44:02
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
Frazzled wrote: Technically Crazy Horse was an enemy combatant.
You say enemy combatant, I say freedom fighter.
Potato, potato.
However, this statue is pretty amazing. I wish more projects like this could be funded around the world.
Yera but he lost. This is America. We only celebrate winners!
Winners like.... North Vietnam?
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2016/07/14 17:44:43
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
Frazzled wrote: Technically Crazy Horse was an enemy combatant.
You say enemy combatant, I say freedom fighter.
Potato, potato.
However, this statue is pretty amazing. I wish more projects like this could be funded around the world.
Yera but he lost. This is America. We only celebrate winners!
Winners like.... North Vietnam?
Exactly. We need a giant statue of Giap with a radio, that is one foot taller.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2016/07/14 17:55:44
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
Exactly. We need a giant statue of Giap with a radio, that is one foot taller.
Technically Nguyen Giap was an enemy combatant....
We were once so close to heaven, St. Peter came out and gave us medals; declaring us "The nicest of the damned".
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
2016/07/14 18:00:34
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
2016/07/14 23:27:54
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
China should have built that bad boy on one of those man-made reef islands they've been tossing up in the South China Sea. "Hey Philippines, I've got your Hague Court decision right here!"
2016/07/14 23:50:20
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
Yeah, I wonder what was there before the party decided to level it and erect a huge manga warrior. I totally love it, its supremely cool! But I'd be sad to hear that it used to be a little fishing village that they just evacuated and bulldozed in the name of progress. Who knows, maybe its all just reclaimed swampland fortified with a garbage and concrete.
It's so awesome though.
Celebrity death-match Liberty vs Gang Yu, then both of them get double-clothes-lined by Rio Jesus!
Everyone knows Guan Yu is the best DW character, with the possible exception Zhu Rong, because redneck Chinese barbarian women are inexplicably awesome.
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2016/07/17 23:23:56
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
squidhills wrote: Everyone knows Guan Yu is the best DW character, with the possible exception Zhu Rong, because redneck Chinese barbarian women are inexplicably awesome.
Nothing inexplicable about that.
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2016/07/18 00:22:08
Subject: Re:China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
I can see a movie that's done by China featuring their version of Super Hero's. That's their HQ
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2016/07/20 15:09:42
Subject: Re:China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
Check Out Brooklyn's Big-Ass Captain America Statue
Fun fact about the recently announced, 13-foot tall statue of the Brooklyn’s favorite (fictional son): It’s not actually in Brooklyn at the moment.
The statue is being revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, of course, and then will be shipped across the country to debut in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on August 10. Here it is in all its star-spangled glory:
Another fun fact: Only the movie Captain America was born in Brooklyn. The Steve Rogers of the comics was born in Manhattan, meaning this is a statue specifically of a 5-year-old movie character, but which celebrates 75 years of a comic character, who was actually born across the East River. I assume that, much like Cap’s recent dalliance with hailing Hydra, that the reality-altering Cosmic Cube is behind this strange turn of events.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the statue will spend August in the park, then September at the Barclays Center, ending up at Sunset Park in October. There will also be an exclusive Captain America comic released at Comic-Con, in which Cap basically hangs out with his own statue:
Seeing as that’s classic Marvel comics Nick Fury, this is clearly set in some portion of the comics continuity. So, question: why is comic Captain America, who was born in Manhattan., fighting next to a statue of himself that claims he’s “just a kid from Brooklyn” when he absolutely isn’t? This is so messed up, you guys, and that’s before we start wondering why SHIELD is trying to kill Cap. Is this comic happening while Cap thinks he’s a Hydra agent? Because that’s going to make this shiny new statue pretty goddamned awkward
Nice try USA but this round is going to China !
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We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
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2016/07/20 15:14:40
Subject: China Unveils Incredible Statue of Deified General, Guan Yu
Check Out Brooklyn's Big-Ass Captain America Statue
Fun fact about the recently announced, 13-foot tall statue of the Brooklyn’s favorite (fictional son): It’s not actually in Brooklyn at the moment.
The statue is being revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, of course, and then will be shipped across the country to debut in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on August 10. Here it is in all its star-spangled glory:
Another fun fact: Only the movie Captain America was born in Brooklyn. The Steve Rogers of the comics was born in Manhattan, meaning this is a statue specifically of a 5-year-old movie character, but which celebrates 75 years of a comic character, who was actually born across the East River. I assume that, much like Cap’s recent dalliance with hailing Hydra, that the reality-altering Cosmic Cube is behind this strange turn of events.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the statue will spend August in the park, then September at the Barclays Center, ending up at Sunset Park in October. There will also be an exclusive Captain America comic released at Comic-Con, in which Cap basically hangs out with his own statue:
Seeing as that’s classic Marvel comics Nick Fury, this is clearly set in some portion of the comics continuity. So, question: why is comic Captain America, who was born in Manhattan., fighting next to a statue of himself that claims he’s “just a kid from Brooklyn” when he absolutely isn’t? This is so messed up, you guys, and that’s before we start wondering why SHIELD is trying to kill Cap. Is this comic happening while Cap thinks he’s a Hydra agent? Because that’s going to make this shiny new statue pretty goddamned awkward
Nice try USA but this round is going to China !
Did they mispell 'lad' in the quote? It says 'ldd'. Maybe i'm wrong here. That's such an awful error. Oh it says 'kid'. Jesus i feel like i'm granny who forgot their reading glasses over here.
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BigWaaagh wrote: China should have built that bad boy on one of those man-made reef islands they've been tossing up in the South China Sea. "Hey Philippines, I've got your Hague Court decision right here!"
Maybe they'll make a Houyi statue there with real working arrow shooting action!
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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