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#102 Being Modest about ***

Posted December 3rd, 2008 by Shaun · 21 Comments

*Warning: this piece may be a little PG-13, if you know what I mean. If you are under 13, SAPL does welcome you warmly, but perhaps you should look away now…* Yeah you know what I’m talking about. ***. Yes that’s right, this piece is about ***. To be totally frank, *** is a perfectly [...]

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#92 University of California

Posted September 24th, 2008 by ryanfriday · 25 Comments

Davis, Berkeley, UCLA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine; the Big 6 is what people like to call the Universities that Asians absolutely like. Well, on the horizon of graduating high school, Asians have the aspiration to attend one of these colleges. The evidence can be seen in plain statistics: pretty much a majority of the [...]

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#82 Mangosteen

Posted July 17th, 2008 by kvietgrl · 28 Comments

Since I’ve received fairly good responses for the durian post, I expect an even better response for the Mangosteen (my all time favorite fruit). Yes, Mangosteen. And no, it looks nothing like a mango, neither does it smell like or taste like it! If you don’t know what it is and how delicious it is, [...]

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#81 National Scatology

Posted July 8th, 2008 by Peter · 14 Comments

Disclaimer: Excuse the language, this was an article suggested by one of our loyal readers. This post is better suited at the Korean crowd. Enjoy. One of Korean school kids’ favourite games is 똥침, or ‘ddong ch’im,” which translates roughly as ‘shit needle.” It’s not complicated; all you do is run around with your two [...]

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