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Title: China cracks down on striptease funerals
Source:
London Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai ... /news/2006/08/24/ustripper.xml
Published: Aug 30, 2006
Author: Wire Service
Post Date: 2006-08-30 20:46:27 by Peetie Wheatstraw
Keywords: None
Views: 1410
Comments: 7
China is ordering an end to the practice of employing strippers to attract crowds at funerals, the state news service has reported. Local tradition suggests bigger attendances at send-offs bring good fortune to the spirits of the dead. But complaints after state television exposed the practice at a funeral in Donghai county, Jiangsu province, have forced the authorities to act, according to Xinhua news agency. Watched by a crowd of 200 mourners including children, two strippers engaged by the family of a dead farmer gave what the local media described as an "obscene performance." Five people were subsequently arrested as the government demanded an end to the practice across the country. A telephone hotline has been established to gather reports of any further funeral misbehaviour.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Ashes to ashes
Oh hell yes. Thanks for posting this. Needed a good laugh tonight. "Donghai" county, indeed.
- - - - - - - - - - - Y'know "Jiangsu" sounds kind of obscene too---as in Peggy Sue got "jiang'ed"... :P
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Remember the line from the Rolling Stones hit from 1981, "Start Me Up"? You make a dead man come... Or this from Sonny Boy Williamson's "Eyesight to the Blind": I remember one Friday morning,
Words fail me. But in a funny, and somewhat good way.
Dust to dust
If the liquor don't get ya
The women must...
#2. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#0)
(Edited)
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H. L. Mencken
#3. To: Enderby (#2)
"Donghai" county, indeed.
#4. To: Peetie Wheatstraw, *You Gotta Be Shitting Me* (#0)
#5. To: robin (#4)
We was lying down across the bed
Man in the next room a-dying, stopped dying
And lift up his head, and said,
"Lord, ain't she pretty,
And the whole state know she fine!"
#6. To: Peetie Wheatstraw, *You Gotta Be Shitting Me* (#0)
 | What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
#7. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#0)
What a bunch of shit. Those poor Chinese people just can't get a break.
China is ordering an end to the practice of employing strippers to attract crowds at funerals
"War on Terror": The dumbest phrase in the history of propaganda, fed to the dumbest population to ever walk the earth. We get the government, and the wars, that we deserve. -- Francis
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