strip: Ancient Chinese Secret
Come on.. don’t play dumb with me people… you know it’s coming… 
Yirblog Briefs:
For the 80s Ladies…
Thought you all might like this. LINK
Amman Jordan not registering on the Yirmumah Map?
Got an email a reader in Amman who says while Jordan is selectable as a country, it won’t let you register Amman on the map. Anyone figures that out, let me know. I don’t want our friends in the middle east left out. Maybe I should e-mail frappr? A couple weeks ago, someone from Iraq said the same thing. What up Frappr? No love for the Middle East, yo? Heh… if you haven’t done so, post your location. I think it goes by postal code… so if you live in a tree in the middle of nowhere, your SOL. LINK
topic of the day: Chinese Food
Actually, I friggin love Chinese food. So there is proof positive that I am not Drew Price. It seems we have some of the best I’ve tried right here in Fayette-Nam, PA. I guess it doesn’t matter where you live in the US, chances are your restaurant is being run by authentic Chinese folk, and I tell you we lucked out here I think. Sometimes the chicken DOES taste funky, but that’s just how it rolls!
November 30th, 2005 at 3:53 am
I still love my General Tso’s chicken & Egg Foo Young.
If loving chinese takeout is wrong, then i don’t want to be right.
November 30th, 2005 at 4:42 am
I second that motion - although replace Egg Foo Young with Szechwan beef.
(Actually I’m starting to think the stress of Retardakitty is getting to Drew - perhaps he needs to look at his medication … which I assume is a bottle of Jack Daniels hidden in a tiki …)
November 30th, 2005 at 6:07 am
It’s sesame chicken for me… addictive stuff.
Although I’m not too worried for now. Bruce Lee set their evil plan back by at LEAST 20 years by starting to teach some of us kung fu. That was the main backbone of their athletic-warrior vs. fat american slugs plan. Granted, very few of us know it, but the number of us who know karate almost make up for the lack probably.
Although those tai kwan do guys ARE kinda weighing us down. I think they’d go down even faster than the out of shape chinese-takeout eating americans.
November 30th, 2005 at 8:25 am
Yeah, I am alls about the Sweet and Sour Chicken, and General Tso’s. I actually love Chinese food, while Drew believes it’s a communist plot.
November 30th, 2005 at 9:27 am
“Although those tai kwan do guys ARE kinda weighing us down. I think they’d go down even faster than the out of shape chinese-takeout eating americans.”
You mean Tai Chi, right? Tai Kwon Do is actually pretty kick-ass (literally! har!). Tai chi is the one where you move all slow.
November 30th, 2005 at 10:11 am
No, I think he was referring to the general ineptitude of the usual practitioners of TKD. TKD never stands against Aikido: I can tell you that from personally handing the hats of many TKD-ka to them as they lie (like dogs) on their backs, stunned and awed (but uninjured - that, probably *more* surprising to TKD-ka). Heh heh.
Anyone else notice how much DJ’s in denial about being Drew? ^_~ He keeps saying it, and we keep not listening. We know he’s REALLY just eating their food to get a deeper understanding of THE GREAT ENEMY! Remember that old standard with the pencil-brush-chucks? Oh yeah! It’s ON!
November 30th, 2005 at 10:24 am
The only time I eat Chinese is in food courts, and sometime I just need some shanghai noodles and anonymous greasy vegetables. Mmm…
But personally, I go for Japanese food instead. Mmm…tempura lotus roots….
November 30th, 2005 at 11:54 am
I think you’ll find that it’s 2008 not 2010. Don’t forget the Russians too.
November 30th, 2005 at 12:12 pm
There needs to be a little word balloon coming from the carton Calypso’s eating out of. It needs to say “~MURCH~”
November 30th, 2005 at 12:46 pm
There was a mistake MURCH on this strip when it was in the club section, but i fixed it. WHEW!
November 30th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
(probably misspelled) useful phrase for a land war in China: “wo meitien chi hen duo shucai” (translation: “Please don’t shoot me”)
November 30th, 2005 at 1:06 pm
General Tso’s yeah yeah. Every place i’ve been makes it different. EVERY!
House of Dragon is best.
November 30th, 2005 at 1:13 pm
The only chinese around here is Panda express and there’s not a single chinese person working there. Just a bunch of white highschool girls and a few mexicans. Where’s the authenticy? I want some hole in the wall grease joint with a barely hidden cockroach problem and some greasy general’s chicken and rice. Come on people. Panda Express does not have general’s chicken, what’s up with that?
November 30th, 2005 at 1:14 pm
The funny thing is, if you got to China you’d be hardpressed to find anyone other than we round-eyes eating shit like chicken balls and egg rolls. In fact, most of the stuff you eat at your local Chinese food take-out place is just an export prepared specifically for North Americans.
Jesus.. Maybe Drew is right..
*hides under the couch*
November 30th, 2005 at 1:45 pm
Yeah, real chinese food is a far cry from most of the stuff we eat overseas. Still good shit though, even if every bit of it in Northwest Arkansas (where I be) is cooked by mexicans. The places are still Chinese owned, so the shiz be good in some places.
The real mind twister is that our bigtime Japanese Steakhouse is owned by Koreans
November 30th, 2005 at 2:13 pm
http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/archive.php?id=161
November 30th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
I would say that being in the Pacific Northwest (where the Asain population is quite large as many of you know) affords you to sample a lot of the foods in they way they’re meant to be prepared and taste.
In fact, one of my jobs is a five minute walk from the Asain section of the city, where in most places you HAVE to order your meal in the native tongue because the people don’t speak a lick of English except for “You want Coke?”
November 30th, 2005 at 6:37 pm
“You mean Tai Chi, right? Tai Kwon Do is actually pretty kick-ass (literally! har!). Tai chi is the one where you move all slow.”
No, I meant Tai Kwan Do.
In the time it takes for a TKD black belt to do his fancy triple flying spin kick, any tai chi practitioner who knows what he’s doing will have knocked the tai kwan do black belt on his ass and stepped on his nutsack.
Seriously though, all the other martial arts laugh at TKD. It looks great on film, but it’s pretty useless as a martial art. (and really tough on the knees in the long run with all the jumping and crap)
As far as tai chi goes, the meditative form of tai chi is all slow, yes, but the actual martial art tai chi isn’t. Tai chi is all about keeping your balance and knocking the enemy off of theirs. And when they’re off balance, then you strike, usually very fast.
November 30th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
The best Chineese food in Toronto is from “New Ho King” it is the shit at 3 in the morning.
November 30th, 2005 at 11:59 pm
But what’s it say in the fortune cookie? Are the lucky numbers secret codes for the coming invasion? Suddenly it all makes sense; the oily sheen on the chicken, being hungry again in an hour, lucky numbers that never win the lottery, and the mad rush to the bathroom as the “barbecue pork” prepares its explosive early morning exit.
December 1st, 2005 at 9:37 pm
Regarding the dude from Jordan, I didn’t appear on the map till I clicked on my name in the list.