Friday, October 22, 2004
While I admire their enthusiasm, somehow I don't think the Chinese have this capitalism thing down quite yet...
Just read an article where Olympic hurdling gold medalist Liu Xiang has signed a deal with the Baisha Group.
The Baisha Group is China's largest manufacturer of something I'm sure is on every Olympic training table around the globe:
CIGARETTES.
At least they have good reasoning for signing a runner to puff for profits:
"Everyone likes Liu Xiang and hopes he will 'soar' higher and faster, and maintain his sunny, healthy, progressive image," Baisha CEO Lu Ping said, according to the company Web site Thursday.
Name ONE smoker you know with a sunny, healthy, progressive image. You can't. At least not after they've been sucking away on filter tips for five, ten years.
It goes on to say that Liu, who won the 110-meter hurdles in Athens, is appearing in print ads and TV commercials.
I wonder what those are like:
Before you light up the track, light up a YingTong!
Overcome any hurdle...short of Lung Cancer! Smoke YingTong!
Indeed, how can people worry about stuff like Iraq and voting when there are stories like this out there?
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I desperately have to pee.
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So it's DEFINITELY Red Sox vs. Cardinals. Watch for scores of interviews with guys who were in the last Sox/Cards series in '67. Yaz, Gibson, hell, probably even Rico Petrocelli. Is that a great name or what?
Baseball used to be full of cool names. Clete Boyer. CLETE! Is there a more perfect name for a guy who played in a time where getting spiked by a guy's cletes was pretty much de rigeur?
Choo Choo Coleman. Not the worst ballplayer ever, but close.
Not the biggest conversationalist, either.
Actual interview:
Reporter: Why do they call you "Choo Choo," Choo Choo?
Choo Choo: I don't know, Ralph.
Reporter: What's your wife's name?
Choo Choo: Mrs. Coleman.
I can just imagine THAT double headstone:
Here lies
"Choo Choo" Mrs.
Coleman Coleman
What a guy.
Go Sox.
Have a nice weekend. I plan to.
TT
Just read an article where Olympic hurdling gold medalist Liu Xiang has signed a deal with the Baisha Group.
The Baisha Group is China's largest manufacturer of something I'm sure is on every Olympic training table around the globe:
CIGARETTES.
At least they have good reasoning for signing a runner to puff for profits:
"Everyone likes Liu Xiang and hopes he will 'soar' higher and faster, and maintain his sunny, healthy, progressive image," Baisha CEO Lu Ping said, according to the company Web site Thursday.
Name ONE smoker you know with a sunny, healthy, progressive image. You can't. At least not after they've been sucking away on filter tips for five, ten years.
It goes on to say that Liu, who won the 110-meter hurdles in Athens, is appearing in print ads and TV commercials.
I wonder what those are like:
Before you light up the track, light up a YingTong!
Overcome any hurdle...short of Lung Cancer! Smoke YingTong!
Indeed, how can people worry about stuff like Iraq and voting when there are stories like this out there?
---------
I desperately have to pee.
---------
So it's DEFINITELY Red Sox vs. Cardinals. Watch for scores of interviews with guys who were in the last Sox/Cards series in '67. Yaz, Gibson, hell, probably even Rico Petrocelli. Is that a great name or what?
Baseball used to be full of cool names. Clete Boyer. CLETE! Is there a more perfect name for a guy who played in a time where getting spiked by a guy's cletes was pretty much de rigeur?
Choo Choo Coleman. Not the worst ballplayer ever, but close.
Not the biggest conversationalist, either.
Actual interview:
Reporter: Why do they call you "Choo Choo," Choo Choo?
Choo Choo: I don't know, Ralph.
Reporter: What's your wife's name?
Choo Choo: Mrs. Coleman.
I can just imagine THAT double headstone:
Here lies
"Choo Choo" Mrs.
Coleman Coleman
What a guy.
Go Sox.
Have a nice weekend. I plan to.
TT
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