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Funny stuff from satirical newspaper, The Onion. They've been ''sold'' to a Chinese fish company. This has been all over Twitter the last day or two, but for those of you who aren't on Twitter, you can find it here. Don't miss the website of The Onion's new owner. It's funnier than the stories.  

It's funny, listenable (if you like country) and tragic all at the same time: As an amateur musician and frequent shipper of expensive things like underwater photography gear, this resonates. H/T @melvinyuan. Note: If you're reading this on Facebook, the video will not display. Follow the link to the original blog post, below.

In 2007, Imagethief actually forked over 160 RMB so he and Mrs. Imagethief could see Mike Bay's first Transformers movie on the big screen at Oriental Plaza. This was before Imagethief Jr. came along and little things like an evening out or even eating a airlie meal in peace became remote luxuries only whispered about in furtive tones. I don't ...

Just went to the bank to convert a year's worth of RMB savings to Singapore dollars (my main savings currency), where I was reminded by the vast complexities involved that the renminbi is not freely exchangeable. Here's the box score:Documents required: Passport, work permit, passbook, employment contract, income statement from my employer, ...

Brings all new meaning to the phrase ''dirty bomb''. And what on earth is that guy on the right holding? The latest installment in our unfolding series of strange photos from Chinese anti-terrorism drills. From this series of photos of China's ''Great Wall-6'' anti-terror exercise. Previously: Introducing the Jinan precision Segway assault ...

Chilling news this afternoon that North Korea may have tested a second nuclear weapon. News reports of this incident came with a photograph released by the North Korean government of the Dear Leader at an Air Force inspection. Long time readers will know that some years back Imagethief invented a device called the Mighty Thought-o-Tronic ...

A funny story from an AP journalist who, along with his wife, was quarantined in China for seven days after a two-hour stopover in Cancun:The Mexican stamps in our passports — my wife is Chilean, I'm American — are enough for authorities to pull us out of line at immigration and send us to a medical room where attendants in white lab coats take ...

It turns out that the plan to have local officials prop up the cigarette market in Hubei has gone up up in smoke. Seems the people were  fuming. From China Daily:The order made headlines in major newspapers around the world after being made public, triggering waves of criticism that it was a complete waste of public money.Local officials ...

Imagethief has been watching with some interest the resolution of the drama concerning the quarantining of Mexican passport holders, some of whom hadn't even been to Mexico in recent months. Given that my own country, the United States, was only recently contemplating the building of a border wall specifically designed to keep Mexicans out even ...

We have to hand it to the Gong'an county government in Hubei, which has hit upon a novel approach to expanding the tax base in these straitened times: Order local officials to smoke more cigarettes: Officials in a county in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being ...