Le Fringe

Hey howdy hey everybody!

So, I was just thinking about how it's getting closer and closer to the end of the month, and some of us had discussed going up to Edmonton for the Fringe Festival (since Calgary's sucked last year, although "Do You Bite Your Thumb At Me, Sir?" was pretty awesome, in my opinion). I just wanted to give a general poke about it, get talking, make some plans if everyone's still up for it. I need to give notice at work, and I'm sure others do as well, so better early than late, eh?

Tickets and the program for the entire event apparently go up around August 2, so I guess discussion about what to see/do will have to wait until then. But, from the 16th-26th, are there any days that are looking particularly viable? I'm thinking we go up for 3ish days to hang out and get a full experience, but I'm definitely flexible.

Thoughts?

Pandemic Cookies, anyone???

When I took the trip back to Guangzhou (Canton) and Beijing three years ago, my brother and I found much entertainment at the horrible, horrible English on Chinese signs... everything from packaging, to notices, to official signage in airports and hotels....

I recently found this youtube video that captures a lot of the hilarious signs that I saw in China, and I hope you all will enjoy it as much as I did...

Some awesome snippets include:

-"Cashier's Table" in Chinese being translated as "Accept the set of silver" in English
-Olino cookies made by the Pandemic Cookie company, which looks like the Chinese counterfeit version of Oreos...
-Soup Oprea
-Bang Pai bandages (which looks the Chinese counterfeit version of Bandaid brand bandages)
-And my personal favourite: the Office of Mayhem Evaluation

Oh Chinese Mandarin English.... I can imagine the 2008 Beijing Olympic blooper reels already and the sea of confused foriegners.....

Hope you enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2N-MkJ5yuk

On behalf of Duke Rubin,
The Office of Mayhem Evaluation of Higherton Shire