Boo Whooooo :(

[gourmettea]

Originally posted by: klah
:roll:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010112.html

the first known use of the term was Harry Houdini's "Chinese Water Torture Cell," a stunt introduced circa 1903 in which Houdini was lowered into a tank of water upside down and had to come out alive. Popik says the drip-drip-drip method of torture, not referred to as "Chinese," is described in Brian Innes's The History of Torture (1998) as having been invented by one Hippolytus de Marsiliis in 16th-century Italy. At some point subsequent to 1903, presumably, someone conflated Houdini's trick with de Marsiliis's torture, and the two have been linked ever since.

Chinese checkers are also not Chinese, the were invented in England in the 1800's.

Good shyt!.....damn Asian stereotypes....

 

[monk3y]

That sucks... I just got off work 🙂 I guess I can gloat now and then you can gloat when I'm working on Monday.

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: InstincT
That sucks... I just got off work 🙂 I guess I can gloat now and then you can gloat when I'm working on Monday.

damn eastcoasters!! well but u do come in 3 hours earlier than us! 😀

 

[DnetMHZ]

We got out at 2:00 🙂

 

[gourmettea]

Originally posted by: dnetmhz
We got out at 2:00 🙂

yeah...thx....rub it in will ya?.....while you're at it why not just pour some salt on my wounds?....

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: gourmettea

Originally posted by: dnetmhz
We got out at 2:00 🙂

yeah...thx....rub it in will ya?.....while you're at it why not just pour some salt on my wounds?....

ok... everyone still gets paid till 5.. 😉 (doesn't matter to me really, I'm salary)