Hu’s on first

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Chinese premier Hu Jintao didn’t get anywhere near the cordial reception on his Washington visit that Manmohan Singh received last year. Hu’s on first but Singh’s on third, sucking face with Dubyita Applebaum. Chhi!

China India
Got a state lunch Got a state dinner. Stayed for chai.
Says Iran isn’t a threat Joined U.S. in censuring Iran
Sold Iran nuke tech Will buy nuke tech from the U.S.
Falun Gong heckler One-Track Uncle
Criticized by Dubya for human rights Praised by Dubya for democracy
Mistakenly called by the official title of Taiwan Dubya finally stopped mixing it up with Indiana
Bill Gates bought leader dinner Bill Gates gave country two billion dollars
Left with vague promises Left with nuclear energy deal
Ordered some more Boeings Ordered half the world’s new airliners
Stock index just hit 1,400 Stock index just hit 12,000
Leads the world in executing the poor Leads the world in poor execution
Leader wore a suit Leader wore a turban and a Nehru collar. Phataak! Dishoom!

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34 thoughts on “Hu’s on first”

  3. funny post.but still….singh is a poodle to soya and is a yes-man to ,,,bush, hu is the original chinese,LEADER not a poodle.

  5. Hilarious! I can’t stop thinking of Dubyita saying “and if you need em I got CRAZY profelactics” in that cute accent of hers.

  6. Bhai sa’ab, Very funny! I loved the comparisons. On a more serious note, I hope the US (at last) starts seeing India as a counter to China.

  7. Leads the world in executing the poor — Leads the world in poor execution

    I loved this one 🙂

  13. Quiz for today: Forget Hu. What does Chinaman mean in cricket?

    Its a kind of a “googly” isnt it? I have to look it up in Wiki. I knew this, but dont seem to recall completely.

  14. You are partly correct. A ” Chinaman ” is a googly as delivered by a Left arm wrist spinner.

  17. Kush and others,

    Isn’t Chinaman supposed to be derogatory term ??

    Just asking.

    Regards

  19. Kush: I know you mean well but the above is kinda racist.

    ALM, It is a very famous bollyoood song by Geeta Dutt from around 1958. Should we even stop singing songs? Recently, from India Night at Corvallis where they played this on audio-visual on Bollywood history, it has been playing in my head. It also has very Elvis-like dance sequence. It is one of most common wedding and antakshri songs.

    BTW, my sister-in-law (my twin brother’s wife) is a Chinese (Taiwanese)-origin American.

    I still xatch John Wayne movies, Gone with the wind, etc. We can’t live without such things.

  21. Isn’t Chinaman supposed to be derogatory term ??

    Yes, but not in cricket at all. It is very well established term. Even though the origins of chinaman in cricket might slightly goofy, but now it is an established term. Here is the history:

    During the Trent Bridge Test match Richie Benaud gave the following explanation of its origin. “It started with EE Achong, the chinese left arm spinner from the West Indies. He bowled orthodox but he also bowled over the wrist and he had Walter Robins stumped by about six yards at Old Trafford in the 1933 Test match. “As he walked back to the side-on pavilion he said to Joe Hardstaff Snr, the umpire, ‘fancy being done by a bloody chinaman’, and that’s where the thing started. And from that point on that type of bowler has always been known as a Chinaman.”

  23. Funny, Funny, Funny. A great start to the weekend…………

    Kush – I agree, the song is one of the best ever. Let us not lose it to the PC police.

  24. The Dude: Walter, the chinaman who peed on my rug, I can’t go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?

    Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I’m talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT… Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please. The Dude: Walter, this isn’t a guy who built the fucking railroads here. This is a guy…

    Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The Dude: Walter, he peed on my rug! Donny: He peed on the Dude’s rug.

    Walter Sobchak: Donny you’re out of your element! From Big Lebowski.

  25. funny article. O! before i forget just a reminder on the tab the presentation could be better but the peking duck is still $770 a serving. the samosa appetizer had some zingy chitney but is a relative bargain at $50.

  27. Kush: I know you mean well but the above is kinda racist.

    in the US, it would definitely be considered racist. maybe not as much in india a few years back. while i am not sure about the attitudes today, half a dozen years ago, i hardly ever remember even talking about chinese in any case in india. leave alone make derogatory comments. at that time, china was not on the radar like it is now.

    it is like the discussion about “pakis” on another thread. in india, the word paki is neither racist nor derogatory in itself but just a short form. if i am not mistaken, cricket commentaries sometimes use the word too!

  28. The nuclear is super-over-rated. Why did India need it? As a matter of fact, the US needed it to get Indian military secrets out with no troubel…

    And why should anyone worry about Brownie Points from Yummrikka, or anywhere else for that matter?

    Unless this was supposed to be a joke, of course…

  29. The nuclear is super-over-rated. Why did India need it? As a matter of fact, the US needed it to get Indian military secrets out with no troubel…

    Tell this to the people who suffer unexpected blackouts – a.k.a “transformer outages” – and go without power for hours in my good, old hometown of Bangalore..

  30. Excuse my punctuation on my previous comment. I think I’ll go and buy the “eats, shoots and leaves” now.. ciao.

  31. Haha funny post..

    But funnier was when hu was getting heckled and dubya commented “You’re okay!”

  33. hmm yet another Indian feeling good about being flattered and fooled by smart negotiators. Chinese will and are getting much more practical and significant concessions than empty words.