Published by Swiss James on 07 Jun 2007 at 12:17 pm
Working out
Today I received an email asking me to renew a website address that I reserved last year. A name that I considered using instead of the woeful ‘ISpyShanghai’.
It made me wonder what would have happened had I actually gone for the magnificent name- www.ChinaInYourHand.com. I could be a millionaire by now, or maybe one of those guys who wears sunglasses in nightclubs and says to the barstaff
“Give me a Seven-seven. Do it”.
Anyway, we all have to live with this name now, no use crying about it.
There’s a belief here that if you go for a ‘hundred steps’ after your lunch, you’ll live to a hundred. My boss is a big believer in this and religiously completes his post-prandial stroll.
Which leads me to wonder what is going to happen to the guy above, who is foolishly walking backwards after his lunch. Maybe he’s got a death wish.
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Stick with you convictions young man, ispyshanghai was fresh and witty with the clever rhyme and all that. China in your hand, although keeping the “pop” theme of lost seouls doesnt have the same pun or wit. as for the million dollars, pah. mo’ money, mo’ problems my friend, mo’ money, mo’ problems.
It was a theme she had
On a scheme he had
told in a foreign land
To take life on earth
To the second birth
and the man was in
command
Ah they don’t write lyrics like that anymore! Did you also register http://www.HeartAndSoul.com?
what they said
i’ve told you this before … you made a big mistake that day
I used to fancy Carol Decker, her hair is like a big ginger fire.
WoAi- I could only get HeartAndSoul.co.jp and thought it wasn’t worth it
mark- maybe so but even some english people my age didn’t understand the reference and I didn’t want to spend 14 months explaining it to people.
Other names I rejected were ShanghaiLife, ShanghaiSociety, ShanghaiSurprise (I think the .coms had already been taken), DeadShanghai (’dead’ meaning ‘very’, like ‘dead expensive’- but again I thought I’d have to explain it to people). Ah well, you pays your money and you makes your choice.
Carol Decker. she was never all that. I cant believe what tiffany really looked like when you take away the confusion of youth. and – in a rare moment of admission – belinda carlisle for that matter.