Saturday, May 3, 2014

When You Think of China...

You perhaps think of outsourcing and knock-offs.  The list of knock-offs has expanded.
Three people who founded their own city government are being prosecuted for forging official documents in the city of Dengzhou, Henan Province.
In college I tried to set up my own country in my apartment.  I called it the People's Republic of Morefreebeeria.

I issued my own currency, invited some friends over to celebrate our independence day.  We ordered pizza and tried to pay for it with our currency, but the pizza delivery guy insulted our country by refusing to accept our currency, although we voted it fully convertible.

He called the cops.

The cops came, slapped us around until we came up with the USA cash for the pizza.  And then they took one of the five boxes for "wasting their time."

We filed a formal diplomatic complaint with the state department but no one replied.  Then finals came up, and everyone lost interest.  But that Japanese kid went on to start bitcoin.

Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.


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