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James asked me to fill in for the estimable Mr. Dill and handle the OTB Caption ContestTM during his vacation. This being an area in which I have some experience, I was only too happy to accept.

So, take aim at this:



REUTERS/Steven Shi (CHINA)

Winners will be announced Saturday PM

About the Author: Dodd, who used to run a blog named ipse dixit, is an attorney, a veteran of the United States Navy, and a fairly good poker player. He can kill a mime using only his thumb.

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In mangled English: Beijing opens The Happy Bowel Noodle Shop instead of the Happy Bowl.

Posted by John425 | July 2, 2008 | 07:13 pm | Permalink
 

Targeting the American market, reasoned Hiromoto, was a simple matter of removing all obstacles to continuous eating.

Posted by Caliban Darklock | July 2, 2008 | 07:14 pm | Permalink
 

They recognize the problem with Chinese food. An hour later, you're hungry again.

Posted by John425 | July 2, 2008 | 07:19 pm | Permalink
 

Being the middle man (or woman)

Posted by Don Singleton | July 2, 2008 | 07:23 pm | Permalink
 

Emulating Mexico's "Montezuma's Revenge", Beijing plans to introduce the Mao-Tse Trots.

Posted by John425 | July 2, 2008 | 07:23 pm | Permalink
 

Something got lost in translation as the restaurant chain's translation in Chinese was "Trough and Poo".

Posted by charles austin | July 2, 2008 | 07:29 pm | Permalink
 

One billion Chinese can be wrong.

Posted by charles austin | July 2, 2008 | 07:31 pm | Permalink
 

Photographer: Steven Shi? Is that a typo?

Posted by charles austin | July 2, 2008 | 07:35 pm | Permalink
 

No Peking, Beijing.

Posted by charles austin | July 2, 2008 | 07:36 pm | Permalink
 

The Forbidden Sh*tty

Posted by charles austin | July 2, 2008 | 07:37 pm | Permalink
 

Stalls are bourgeois and were destroyed in the cultural revolution.

Posted by charles austin | July 2, 2008 | 07:40 pm | Permalink
 

Avoid the Loo Mein.

Posted by charles austin | July 2, 2008 | 07:45 pm | Permalink
 

What goes up, must come down? No, no. What goes in, must come out!

Posted by Maggie Mama | July 2, 2008 | 09:11 pm | Permalink
 

No wonder we always hungry after an hour.

Posted by Maggie Mama | July 2, 2008 | 09:13 pm | Permalink
 

Ah so. Moo goo gai poops.

Posted by Maggie Mama | July 2, 2008 | 09:14 pm | Permalink
 

Sorry John 425...about the hungry after one hour...stepped on your toes...I wrote before I read.

Posted by Maggie Mama | July 2, 2008 | 09:15 pm | Permalink
 

Heaven?

Posted by Paul Barnes | July 3, 2008 | 12:43 am | Permalink
 

The shortage of sit-down toilets for the Olympics was explained today.

No wonder that stuff made in China is so cheap. Their workers are taking half the number of breaks as Americans.

Don't get the number two. That stuff will go right through you.

Don't ask, don't tell. The smart policy in regards to how they clean the utensils in a real Chinese restaurant.

Why bulimia rehab in China isn't working.

Why do they call it the 'Royal Dragon Restaurant'? Because you get to sit on the throne.

I always wondered why women spent so much time in the bathroom.

Posted by yetanotherjohn | July 3, 2008 | 11:00 am | Permalink
 

The trendy new Japanese "Soup and Poop" franchises are the real reason Starbucks is forced to close 600 shops.

Posted by William d'Inger | July 3, 2008 | 12:35 pm | Permalink
 

UC scientists are the first to actually test the Garbage In - Garbage Out theory.

Posted by William d'Inger | July 3, 2008 | 01:10 pm | Permalink
 

Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie had to scrap their original reality show, The Bulimic Life.

Posted by brainy435 | July 3, 2008 | 02:49 pm | Permalink
 

Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks?

Posted by Bithead | July 3, 2008 | 03:00 pm | Permalink
 

No more lost time in the bathroom, and no more reading the newspaper on the job!

Posted by mannning | July 3, 2008 | 04:32 pm | Permalink
 

Photograph by: Steven Shi
Restaurant fixtures designed by: Yew Shi Ting

Posted by John425 | July 3, 2008 | 06:36 pm | Permalink
 

Illegal Immigrant Jobs American's Don't Want To Do #137: Ex-Lax Tester.

Posted by rodney dill | July 4, 2008 | 10:12 am | Permalink
 

"Whatever you do, don't ask for shitake mushrooms!"

Posted by Wyatt Earp | July 4, 2008 | 12:58 pm | Permalink
 

Recycling, taken to the next phase.

Posted by Bithead | July 4, 2008 | 01:18 pm | Permalink
 

Toto just isn't in Kansas anymore.

Posted by rodney dill | July 5, 2008 | 09:27 am | Permalink
 

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