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Originally Posted by O- Fender
The brown nosers really went all out on this visit, you'd think the pope, queen and dalai lama were coming. They were actually giddy and walking around whispering "He's here, he's inspecting the parking lot." and "He's here, he's getting the tour of downstairs." You should have seen them panic when I leaned back in my chair and put my feet on the desk. I thought they'd chuckle and see the joke but I guess that was nothing to laugh about.
There's more but I think I'll start my own thread.
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even though i am asian american, i was born here and my father went from an internment camp to the us army and served in world war II
what really gets my goat, but what is somewhat cute and funny is that many asians i run into impose this pecking order...my country better than yours, my village better than yours, etc..
so one day i go into this asian restaurant and they ask me what nationality i am, and since i am so sick of that question on almost a weekly basis, i answer the only asian country that has no enemies...bhutan
and they say where? i say, kind of tongue in cheek and not too accurately, "you know, where the dalai lama is from" ... and the waitress who doesn't speak english does runs back into the kitchen and all i hear is dalai lama, dalai lama
granted, i am younger than him but with my build and shaved head, it's kind of scary since i look like a younger version of him
after that, the restaurant gave me a king's treatment...man, i felt guilty but due to her lack of english skills, i didn't want to go through explaining...now my family calls me the dalai lama :)