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Fran Blinebury signed with Chinese media Titan Sports

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by RockingRox, Mar 30, 2009.

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    Titan is a nation wide weekly sports newspaper. very popular, all kinds of sports news and comments and views. in fact "Titan" here doesn't mean the giant god. it is a chinese combo word read [ti:ta:n], means "sports world".
     
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    Fran can write chinese awesome
     
  3. LabMouse

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    Fran got the job due to the Yao effect, a good point. I am happy for anyone who lost the job and get the job back in this tough recession time.
     
  4. Lonestar

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    Welcome to china :cool: :cool:
     
  5. topfive

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    That's Fran's writing, all right. :D
     
  6. crunch

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    How ironic! Even more fittingly, that very same page is running this amazing ad:

    ***********I am happy I lost my job...********************

    After I got laid off, I found a easy way to make $7k a month online...

    http://coreyhasmoney.com/ca
    ***************************************************


    Amon!
     
  7. crunch

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    I missed his Chron blog. He is knowledgeable, funny and painfully honest.
     
  8. Patience

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    Nah, Its cleary a fake.

    A column by Fran would be a bunch of filler lyrics from a Bruce Springsteen song, followed by "I hate Tracy McGrady."
     
  9. rocketsjudoka

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    So Blinebury takes a job away from a hardworking Chinese sportswriter. Ahhh globalization.. ;)
     
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    Yao Ming, the one man stimulus package. He reminds me of those special citizens in the Civilization games, where planting him somewhere can usher in a golden age or give you the next researched technology instantly. Maybe if we put him in Detroit, Chrysler and GM won't go bankrupt?
     
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    I am sure Google Bablefish forgot to translate the first paragraph of that Titan article. Here let's add it back on:

    _______________________________
    At 60, I become a columnist for Titan
    by Fu Lan

    Walking home from Macy's had to dry my tears
    Cause I only had 1 week to pay the rent it was clear
    I had to get another gig quick asking at church
    "Is anyone hiring?" and it worked
    I got a job in downtown as a stock clerk
    Shelving and alphabetizing files like a doctor
    On a patient but my boss wasn't playing with time
    Brother wanted his files then now and future in line
    And you know I'm not good under preasure
    I act like Radio and Rain Man together
    Started messing up loosing important files and such
    And finding them too late when in a crutch
    My boss brought me his office for a little pep talk
    "John you can do it if you don't talk but walk"
    I said "That's right" but I knew I was wrong
    I was so scared and behind these throngs of files
    They could've been anywhere in the aisles
    Under the desks behind the printers in piles
    And it way past due I turned my files in last
    Not good enough I felt my job just pass
    And then I sang

    Chorus:
    Oh my God I lost my job to affirmative action
    I got fired on the spot yo when will it ever end?

    Outro:
    You're gonna be ok my little boy
    Just shake shake it off and go home
     
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    lmao "fu lan" ???? :eek: :confused:
    that means decoy or decompose in chinese :D
     
  13. HeyJude

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    In fact,we call Blinebury "不男不女",just means "not male and not female" :D

     
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    so glad to hear this~
     
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    us taxs the world by printing more papers. yet china is happy to hire anyone . thank you, yao.
     
  16. Eric Wong

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    What??? U translated by Google, but it is not exact, why not learn Chinese??? :cool:
     
  17. BaiHua

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    We are just doing exactly the same thing as what Japanese did in the state during the previous economic crisis. It is the time to bring your memory back :D The next step we are going to do is to uproot clutchfans up and set the tone that all the threads must be in Chinese :D

    ughhh, just kidding :p
     
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    I never heard about this. Can you confirm it?
     
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    Man. that's crazy! Yao fattens everybody's wallets from shoe deals for scrubs to new jobs for fired sportswriters and translators(Colin Pine). The only guy left out is the Franchise. He needs a job now.
     
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    I forgot about new basketball careers in China for Bonzi Wells and Mike Harris.
     

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