Remember this beefy butcher whom I had featured earlier?...
Well, someone who has just breezed into town has these im-pec-cable credentials...
She's American and her name is Mama Lou and we are told (above) that she "can bend metal bars, crush apples with her biceps and lift weights with her tongue" (gee, if she grips a whip with her tongue instead, it will give a new meaning to the compound word tongue-lashing!). Here she is...
So, as they say in the Westerns, this town ain't big enough for the two of them. Waddaya say, James? Your place (Bukit Timah shophouse) or her place (Sentosa, Buskers Festival, Sept 1-8). Oh, she's also billed as a busker, so here's some suitable music to go with the Big Arm-twist, ie, if it does happen...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFa1-kciCb4
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(More of) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...
Here's a very good recent headline, from ST:
This one-word headline is very clever, very powerful! Well-known American journalist Fareed Zakaria was recently outed for plagiarism. The headline plays on the German word schadenfreude, which means "taking delight at someone's else's misfortune". The story recounts how there were critics who seemed to have been overzealous in their attacks on Fareed, who had quickly admitted that what he did was outright wrong.
And here're some bad ones...
Why, why, do the media and the ad industry keep trying to pull the wool over our eyes? Singapore does not have seasons in the sense of summer, autumn (fall), winter or spring!
As for this one above, when have we started using the American term "soda" instead of "soft drinks"?
This is an advertorial for the taxman (IRAS). But what exactly does "Taxpayers come first" mean?
This is plain bad headline writing. Just as well, it is from a foreign newspaper, not a Singaporean one.
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As for my candidate for "ugly" (as in boorish), this man in China fits the bill (Reuters story, in TODAY, Aug 31)...
China's 'Eagle Dad' renews parenting debate
QINGDAO -- "Tiger Mother" became a buzzword last year for tough love and parenting in the United States but, in recent months, an "Eagle Dad" in China has sparked a new furore with his own brand of discipline.
Mr He Liesheng created a storm in February when a video of him making his four-year-old son run nearly naked in the snow while on holiday in New York went viral on the Internet, leading to talk about whether Mr He was teaching toughness or being abusive.
Recently, he has encountered similar criticism in the media and on China's Twitter-like microblogs for forcing his son -- He Yide, known as Duoduo -- to sail a dinghy single-handedly. Some said his parenting style risked leaving lasting scars.
Last year, the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Chinese American Amy Chua, similarly prompted furious debate about ultra-strict parenting. Ms Chua has said she meant much of the book to be parody.
But Mr He, who comes from eastern China and has been branded "Eagle Dad" by the Chinese media, has said his extreme parenting is serious and meant to prepare his son for the future.
"The big eagle pushes the young eagle off the cliff. As it falls, the little eagle has no choice but to spread its wings, and learns how to fly," he explained, quoting a Chinese proverb.
He also brushed off comparisons with Ms Chua. "She educated her children by threatening and scolding them," Mr He said. "I would never do that. I use the environment, like the waves, to do it instead."
Mr He Liesheng created a storm in February when a video of him making his four-year-old son run nearly naked in the snow while on holiday in New York went viral on the Internet, leading to talk about whether Mr He was teaching toughness or being abusive.
Recently, he has encountered similar criticism in the media and on China's Twitter-like microblogs for forcing his son -- He Yide, known as Duoduo -- to sail a dinghy single-handedly. Some said his parenting style risked leaving lasting scars.
Last year, the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Chinese American Amy Chua, similarly prompted furious debate about ultra-strict parenting. Ms Chua has said she meant much of the book to be parody.
But Mr He, who comes from eastern China and has been branded "Eagle Dad" by the Chinese media, has said his extreme parenting is serious and meant to prepare his son for the future.
"The big eagle pushes the young eagle off the cliff. As it falls, the little eagle has no choice but to spread its wings, and learns how to fly," he explained, quoting a Chinese proverb.
He also brushed off comparisons with Ms Chua. "She educated her children by threatening and scolding them," Mr He said. "I would never do that. I use the environment, like the waves, to do it instead."
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