LOL Hopefuly the tour guide did not try to prove it to tourists during summer.
:) Peace and best wishes. Xi On Jan 8, 5:05 pm, CincyBabe <cincyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perfect? Well, almost perfect, maybe. He has enormous hands and feet > for his size, which is probably because the statue was meant to be on > top of the Duomo in Florence, and the perspective would be different. > > When I was in Italy our guide showing us the David statue was an > Italian man, and he said that he was the original model (uh-huh), but > that it was very, very cold that day, so it doesn't accurately depict > certain parts of his anatomy. I laughed until tears ran down my > face! > > There are David statues all over Italy, by the way, but the original > is in a museum in Florence (can't think of the name, not the Uffizi). > > On Jan 8, 8:09 am, "Mercury.Sailor" <bluebun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Nudity has been around since well forever! The human body is > > beautiful, and that is why people enjoy looking at it. Now look at > > David, He is perfecto! :o) > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Michelangelos_David.jpg > > > I don't see anything wrong with the ladies taking thier clothes off to > > pose in the nude for some calendar. > > > On Jan 7, 9:12 am, "xieu.l...@gmail.com" <xieu.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I had to hear it several times :) > > > > The end 非常高兴, fei chang gao xing, and the previous one that obviously > > > is 照片, zhao pian, are clear. The rest is unclear, her speech does not > > > use tones and ties (is that correct? the way we tie one word with the > > > next one) for me to understand good enough. > > > > The overall meaning is that they (she?) (that corporation?) though > > > deeply and later they are very happy with the pictures that they did. > > > > My bet is that she told 回忆看过的这个照片非常高兴 (hui yi kan guo de zhe ge zhao > > > pian fei chang gao xing). (she? that corporation?) > > > > I guess that you meant that at some point she might say 中国 (zhong > > > guo), but I think that she says 看过 (kan guo). > > > > Peace and best wishes. > > > > Xi > > > > On Jan 7, 9:38 am, antidefm <spencer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I guess she said something in Chinese, something like "China or > > > > Chinese ...." > > > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfHf2TsHDOE > > > > > She is supposedly a Chinese translator. > > > > > What exactly she said?!- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World-thread" group. To post to this group, send email to world-thread@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to world-thread+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/world-thread?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---