Funny, I never saw any Chinese people when I was there.

"George_Kleist" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Funny, I never saw any Chinese people when I was there.
Chinos are also a type of pants. ;-) KM
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"Funny, I never saw any Chinese people when I was there."

The original name was the Barri Xines, which comes from the Catalan
name for Saint Gene. It has nothing to do with China or Chinese people.

Iceman wrote:
    > "Funny, I never saw any Chinese people when I was there."
    > The original name was the Barri Xines, which comes from the Catalan
    > name for Saint Gene. It has nothing to do with China or Chinese people.

Thanks for the explication. I never would have guessed, and judging
from the kinds of Spaniards that I met in the "Barrio," I doubt any of
them were/are aware of the philological significance of the name. I
was offered "gloria" by several natives as I sojourned about... I took
that to be "heroin" or some other serious hard drug... I declined!
This was quite a while ago... Franco Sr. was still in power, and the
ubiquitious poverty of most of Spain was very apparent. On the train
to Madrid, I encountered guitar-playing gypsies from Analucia... what a
trip that was! I was befriended and offered wine from a gourd, and
enjoyed their hand-clapping, flamenco/rhumba-like music (with its
Arabic overtones)... much to the consternation of the blue-eyed, blonde
young Spanish gal, who was dulling my brain by practicing her (very
bad) English, attempting to communicate with me about anything and
everything. Many nothern Spaniards don't seem to take too kindly for
their "Moor-raped" compatriots from the South. Other than that, the
only "bad experiences" that I had were as I entered Spain by train
along the "Costa Brava," during which a young peasant girl threw
herself in front of the train (I took it to be a case of poverty and
illicit pregnancy under the weight of Catholicism), and again in San
Sebastian when I regrettably got drunk on "vino negro" mixed with Coca
Cola, collapsing on the beach and throwing up.... "Por favor, deme un
(th)zumo de tomate, ahorita!"

"Herr_Kleist" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Iceman wrote:
    >> "Funny, I never saw any Chinese people when I was there."
    >> The original name was the Barri Xines, which comes from the Catalan
    >> name for Saint Gene. It has nothing to do with China or Chinese people.
    > Thanks for the explication. I never would have guessed, and judging
    > from the kinds of Spaniards that I met in the "Barrio," I doubt any of
    > them were/are aware of the philological significance of the name. I
    > was offered "gloria" by several natives as I sojourned about... I took
    > that to be "heroin" or some other serious hard drug... I declined!
    > This was quite a while ago... Franco Sr. was still in power, and the
    > ubiquitious poverty of most of Spain was very apparent. On the train
    > to Madrid, I encountered guitar-playing gypsies from Analucia... what a
    > trip that was! I was befriended and offered wine from a gourd, and
    > enjoyed their hand-clapping, flamenco/rhumba-like music (with its
    > Arabic overtones)... much to the consternation of the blue-eyed, blonde
    > young Spanish gal, who was dulling my brain by practicing her (very
    > bad) English, attempting to communicate with me about anything and
    > everything. Many nothern Spaniards don't seem to take too kindly for
    > their "Moor-raped" compatriots from the South. Other than that, the
    > only "bad experiences" that I had were as I entered Spain by train
    > along the "Costa Brava," during which a young peasant girl threw
    > herself in front of the train (I took it to be a case of poverty and
    > illicit pregnancy under the weight of Catholicism), and again in San
    > Sebastian when I regrettably got drunk on "vino negro" mixed with Coca
    > Cola, collapsing on the beach and throwing up.... "Por favor, deme un
    > (th)zumo de tomate, ahorita!"
Very interesting anecdotes - thanks for sharing. I think I enjoyed reading
that more than anything I've ever read in this newsgroup! Bravo! KM
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alohacyberian wrote:
    > Very interesting anecdotes - thanks for sharing. I think I enjoyed reading
    > that more than anything I've ever read in this newsgroup! Bravo! KM

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They're back in style it seems. Now, instead of wearing their pants so
low that you can view the "crack_of_their_ass_smile, they're pulling
them all the way up to where they bottom-out on the crotch, with no
pubic hair exposure. I never liked the previous "fashion statement,"
if it can be called that. In the Slick 50's, low-riding pants were
also popular with teenage "bad boys." Hollywood hadn't been completely
liberated from social mores at that time. I suppose that's why all the
"juvenile delinquents" in the classic James Dean Movie ("Rebel Without
a Cause") all looked like Leave-it-To-Beaver types with suburban snot
nose attitudes.