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    <title><![CDATA[Comments on: Ping Pong Nation]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Perhaps known to you as a 1970's rec room relic, the ping pong table is a veritable altar of worship for the Chinese.  The ball may look pansy-ish--until it's coming at your face at 100km per hour. An exhibition round of 'beer pong' to slow your adversary's reflexes would have been prudent. So warm up your paddle arm, jinx your opponent with a case of ping pong elbow, and learn about the passion of the game in this Mandarin lesson.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2008-04-17 18:00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: isthatme]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74495]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gotta love the han4zi for ping1 pang1.
Oh, yeah...di4yi1ci4!!]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Gotta love the han4zi for ping1 pang1.
Oh, yeah...di4yi1ci4!!]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: chillosk]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74496]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[is that Forrest Gump in the picture?? :)]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[is that Forrest Gump in the picture?? :)]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: dave]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74498]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[altar]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: auntie68]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74504]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here's some food for thought: The core members of Singapore's national table tennis team are all former PRC citizens: Wang Yuegu, Li Jiawei, and Feng Tianwei. 

The ink on their naturalization papers is barely dry (it's a fast-track "medals for citizenship" process), but these ladies are our only hopes for NOT embarassing ourselves utterly in international sports. So I always cheer for them, despite the shame of having to "import" sporting stars. 

I think that other countries -- Eg. Germany -- also depend on the PRC-born members on their teams?

Singapore sucks so badly in every sport except for sailing, fencing, shooting, and -- sometimes -- swimming!]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here's some food for thought: The core members of Singapore's national table tennis team are all former PRC citizens: Wang Yuegu, Li Jiawei, and Feng Tianwei. 

The ink on their naturalization papers is barely dry (it's a fast-track "medals for citizenship" process), but these ladies are our only hopes for NOT embarassing ourselves utterly in international sports. So I always cheer for them, despite the shame of having to "import" sporting stars. 

I think that other countries -- Eg. Germany -- also depend on the PRC-born members on their teams?

Singapore sucks so badly in every sport except for sailing, fencing, shooting, and -- sometimes -- swimming!]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: guolanusa]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74511]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[除了美国大学的橄榄球以外，我关于体育比赛什么都不知到。说国际体育比赛，我只知道巴西的足球好，美国的篮球好，现在知道中国的乒乓好。北京的奥运会快开始，看起来我需要认真学习各个国家的体育成绩，避免我无知地看奥运会！]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[除了美国大学的橄榄球以外，我关于体育比赛什么都不知到。说国际体育比赛，我只知道巴西的足球好，美国的篮球好，现在知道中国的乒乓好。北京的奥运会快开始，看起来我需要认真学习各个国家的体育成绩，避免我无知地看奥运会！]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: changye]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74514]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Let me show you Japanese people’s deep love for ping-pong. I guarantee that these three video clips are really funny and worth seeing. 

(1) Ping-pond “THE MATRIX” from a TV show.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Jig9AtEbbsE

(2) Sapporo Beer CM, ping-pong version.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5hpw9pfu0

(3) Sapporo Beer CM, ping-pong “revenge” version
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZFk__EZsQ&feature=related
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Let me show you Japanese people’s deep love for ping-pong. I guarantee that these three video clips are really funny and worth seeing. 

(1) Ping-pond “THE MATRIX” from a TV show.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Jig9AtEbbsE

(2) Sapporo Beer CM, ping-pong version.
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=vm5hpw9pfu0

(3) Sapporo Beer CM, ping-pong “revenge” version
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZFk__EZsQ&feature=related
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        <title><![CDATA[By: annk]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74518]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[annk]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the vocabulary panged... mine are all doubled!]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[I think the vocabulary panged... mine are all doubled!]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: rrrandy]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74520]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[rrrandy]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[auntie68,

are you from singapore or something?]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[auntie68,

are you from singapore or something?]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: auntie68]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74528]]></link>
        <author><![CDATA[auntie68]]></author>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes. I am a Singaporean living in... Singapore. ]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Yes. I am a Singaporean living in... Singapore. ]]></content:encoded>
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        <title><![CDATA[By: henning]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://chinesepod.com/lessons/ping-pong-nation/discussion#comment-74536]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[A small question regarding an idiomatic structure in the Expansion:
笼子里的鸡怎么一夜间全死了？

全死了??
Could you alternatively just "die a little bit"?

(You might do so in French, but in Chinese)]]></description>
        <content:encoded><![CDATA[A small question regarding an idiomatic structure in the Expansion:
笼子里的鸡怎么一夜间全死了？

全死了??
Could you alternatively just "die a little bit"?

(You might do so in French, but in Chinese)]]></content:encoded>
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