super-panda wrote:...
It's true I haven't been posting in a while, but I still take a look at the forums and stuff sometimes...
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Oh, here you are! I've been missing you all this time being away from this place! )
I belive there are some thousands of new people on the forum registered, but I still wonna hug all of you, guys! After I've got the invitation I'm having a wide and silly smile on my face. Feeling like I met my first love from school! )))
A good story about pandas. So in Chineese the animal is called something like xyun-mao (cat-bear or bear-cat). While you reading this, btw, please consider my constant mistakes and not knowing totaly neither English nor Chinees. So, how for God's sake, xyun-mao turned into panda?
In the beginning of negotiations between China and Europe some guys from Europe were camping in jungles of China and saw an outstanding (on their taste) animal hanging on a tree. And they asked local buchman-tracker "What is this animal?" "Which one?" asked the tracker. "Over there, hanging on the tree!" The tracker has been staring for a minute in the direction. There were bloody million of animals around and more then half of those were hanging on trees. The tracker directed his finger on one of the animals and asked by mistake on Chineese "Pangde?" which meanse "That fat one?" And Europeans started to call the animal "panda".
I'm not sure that it is true, but it is funny for sure! ) As well as kengooroo story! )))