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[The evil penguin]

Ahh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

Just in to Brisbane this morning on a VERY long KAL flight from Soeul.... Only ten hours.... but the hours just drrraagggggeeeddd. crowded plane, screaming babies.... stinky seat neighbour (whitey),... and a very loud bitch of a korean adjuma in front who kept slamming her seat backwards into my knees and squabbling with her husband... Of course she was one of the first people to leap out of her seat (ignoring the stewardesses) before the plane has even halfway finished taxi-ing... I kept note of her progress...watched as she bustled people aside....as if she was back in an aisle of E-mart or something..... queue jumping (leaving her husband wallowing in her wake...) the works....

Her uppance (is that a word??) came at the baggage claim section however.. A sniffer dog became a wee bit overly interested in one of her bags.... And of course the whitey security guard/dog handler had the *gasp* temerity to demand a search. Ahhh the reaction.... priceless.... adjuma arms waving.... high volume blabbering..... Anyway, a packet of that dried fish crap was found in her luggage. More security arrived..... the woman was lead away, still indignantly gesturing and waving arms.....
ah ha ha ha... Welcome to MY country.

[Rteacher]

Possession of stinky dried squid oughta be outlawed in public places (at least anywhere near me...) At one hogwan I taught at I had to hold my nose sometimes to avoid puking while elementary kids happily munched away on those disgusting things in my classroom...(There was a news report a while back that some batches of dried squid had dangerously high levels of bacteria when tested...)

[pegpig]

[peemil]

Welcome back Penguin.

Home always smells so good doesn't it?

[mindmetoo]

At a Korean movie at the Seattle Film Fest I brought some dried squid for a friend about to head to Korea. I wanted him to experience the real Korean movie experience (actually Koreans these days don't seem to eat much squid at movies). Anyway, as soon as I opened the package, some fat 40ish greying woman next to us (the kind of 40ish fat woman that comes to Korea to teach because she loves children but long ago gave up on finding a "decent" man who would marry her) shot up like a rocket and moved several rows over.

Like sorry, lady.

[bignate]

I actually miss the street vendors and the butter ojinga...there was an adjuma that used to sell it on the corner outside my hagwon, but she would often try to leave like ten minutes before class would end...I would stick my head out the window and yell to her "Wait! I'll be down in 10 minutes!" To which my students would be hanging their own heads out the window saying the same thing....She would invariably not pack up shop and I would get the ojinga, and a couple beer for the walk home at the 7-11.....Good Times.....Love that stuff...

[Mashimaro]

very funny

[The Bobster]

I seldom believe The Evil Penguin, but I am often amused. (I have many doubts about whether security dogs have been trained to notice the smell of dried squid.)

Rteacher :

[pegpig]

[mithridates]

Hoju has had its revenge twice on me now.

[peemil]

[Mashimaro]

It's interesting to see how koreans act outside of the homogenous korean womb.

I will always remember the look of sheer dread and regret on an ajoshi's face as he tried in vain to speak korean with the white stewardess on a northwest flight from korea to japan.. you could literally see the thought bubble saying 'if only I'd paid the extra 20,000 won to fly korean air!'

[The Bobster]

double post, and sorry.

[The Bobster]

[mole]

Northwest.. I've never had a pleasant, trouble-free fligh with them.
Northworst is the nickname. Because they suck so much and made us layover in Japan overnight,
they gave us a coupon I'll never use.