China unveils high-speed railways
pippa.moran
over the next three years.
Tian
In my kitchen there are more than 42 pieces of china. China has nothing
to do with most of them. Especially the margarine tubs and glass jars,
which came from exotic places like Arkansas, California, and Illinois.
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Tian
http://tian.greens.org
On a window sill of Mountain View's city hall sits a yellow rubber duck.
On the breast of the duck is this black text: "City of Mountain View".
Lloyd Gilbert
>pippa.moran wrote:
>> China has announced plans to build 42 new high-speed railway lines
>> over the next three years.
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8246600.stm
>
>In my kitchen there are more than 42 pieces of china. China has nothing
>to do with most of them. Especially the margarine tubs and glass jars,
>which came from exotic places like Arkansas, California, and Illinois.
I don't think you can classify glass jars as being china. It's my
understanding that things need to be made out of porcelain, rather
than glass, to be so named.
Lloyd
--
"In fact, everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade'
appears to be missing" -- Svlad Cjelli
Tian
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:11:04 +0000, Tian <tnha...@aceweb.com> wrote:
>
>> pippa.moran wrote:
>>> China has announced plans to build 42 new high-speed railway lines
>>> over the next three years.
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8246600.stm
>> In my kitchen there are more than 42 pieces of china. China has nothing
>> to do with most of them. Especially the margarine tubs and glass jars,
>> which came from exotic places like Arkansas, California, and Illinois.
>
> I don't think you can classify glass jars as being china. It's my
> understanding that things need to be made out of porcelain, rather
> than glass, to be so named.
>
I'm not sure if I should count the teapot and lid as two pieces or one.
Lloyd Gilbert
>Lloyd Gilbert wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:11:04 +0000, Tian <tnha...@aceweb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> pippa.moran wrote:
>>>> China has announced plans to build 42 new high-speed railway lines
>>>> over the next three years.
>>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8246600.stm
>>> In my kitchen there are more than 42 pieces of china. China has nothing
>>> to do with most of them. Especially the margarine tubs and glass jars,
>>> which came from exotic places like Arkansas, California, and Illinois.
>>
>> I don't think you can classify glass jars as being china. It's my
>> understanding that things need to be made out of porcelain, rather
>> than glass, to be so named.
>>
>In that case I have about twenty pieces of china. I say about because
>I'm not sure if I should count the teapot and lid as two pieces or one.
I've no idea how many pieces of china we've got. There's a cupboard
downstairs full of stuff we got as wedding presents that I suspect
count, and probably in the region of 10 or so pieces in the kitchen
amongst the general every-day crockery. I don't propose to tally them
all up, however.
Tian
grandmother. No way am I pulling that out to count. I don't think things
not in a daily use closet should be counted anyhow...