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23 February 2003 22:29"And about the Cars with Kickass Sound Systems:
My ultimate dream (in relation to cars and stereos) is to hire a supra, or skyline, or one of those sooped up cars, with a mega sound system, and go crusing in every city and town, playing good ol' DIXIELAND JAZZ, with the bass system pumping out the tuba, and the tweeters screeching out the lovely sounds of the BANJO.
anyone want to fund this well worthwhile scientific expedition?"
I wish I'd thought of that. Give the rice-powered boom-boyz something to complain about.
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Date: 23 Feb 2003 15:39 (UTC)SBS here broadcast all 135 hours of a Chinese Opera called something like "The Red Lotus Flower", or "The Cherrywood Box" or "What I did last summer" or something. (Woman misses her soldier husband and dies, goes to heaven, decides that she doesn't want to die, is sent back, not recognized by her lover. Hilarity ensues.) The actors spoke/sang is a high-pitched wail that dragged words up and down.
SBS provided subtitles, but to my uneducated western ears it went something like this:
*subtitle: "Who is this woman?"*
*subtitle:"She is my wife."*
(audience laugh)
Things would have gone badly but I was saved by having to rescue a wallaby.