Soy Sauce from Hair

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WantChinaTimes [Taiwan]

27 December 2013

Soy sauce from hair myth leads bargain hunters to the barber

    Staff Reporter

An urban myth that hair can be used to make soy sauce has led many in China to buy discarded hair from barber shops at low prices, reports the People's Daily. […]

A food safety expert surnamed Shi told the paper that is indeed true that hair can be fermented to make soy sauce. However, Shi said this is prohibited as hair can contain excessive amounts of heavy metals. "This existed years ago but is rare now. Some small factories still do it illegally," Shi added.

The President & the Panty Raid

Neil Steinberg, If at All Possible, Involve a Cow (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), p. 207.

Denison College reports mass raids on the women’s dormitories in 1936, 1942, and 1946, producing what may be the best moment in panty raid lore: As hundreds of shouting boys surrounded Stone Hall, President Shaw raced to the scene to assess the situation. The besieged head resident of Stone, seeing Shaw hurrying toward the door, reportedly exclaimed, “Oh no, Dr. Shaw, not you, too!”

"I'm Sorry Three..."

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Bernama [Malaysia]

6 December 2013

"I'm SorryThree, Five, Seven," Tickles Delegates During Debate On Economy

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 (Bernama) -- An anecdote from a Malay student trying to master the English language while preparing to further his studies abroad had the delegates in stitches during the debate on the economy at the Umno General Assembly 2013 today.

The delegate from the Federal Territory, Afendi Zahari, said the incident occurred at the airport when the student from the East Coast accidentally bumped into a foreigner and tried to apologise in English.

"The student bumped into the 'white man' near the staircase at the airport and said 'I am sorry'. The man responded: 'I am sorry too'. When he heard the word 'too', the student replied 'I am sorry three'.

"Puzzled at the reply from the student, the man asked 'what for?', the boy later responded 'I am sorry five'," said the Titiwangsa Umno division deputy head.

Following the endless apologies from the student, he said the foreigner began to get annoyed and said: "I'm sick of this."

Continuing his anecdote, Afendi said that without realising he (the student) had annoyed the foreigner, as a courteous Malay, the student continued to apologise saying: "I'm sorry seven."

"This is the problem when we don't know how to speak in English," he said to loud laughter from the delegates. […]