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From Flickr user Matthew J. Stinson: “My favorite graffiti here depicts one of the Fuwa as a graffiti artist. It was added about a month ago.”
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curse of the Fuwa. Revenge of the Fuwa!
JK is son of a bitch
Oh…Little FUWAS need a lot of love and caring by others. They have their feelings too. :-)
telegraph.co.uk
“…the five official Olympic mascots, which are known as Fuwa, or “good luck dolls”, in Chinese, have now acquired a far more sinister reputation”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2168554/Beijing-Olympic-Fuwa-mascots-%27have-cursed%27-China-in-unlucky-2008.html?service=print
telegraph.co.uk
“…the five official Olympic mascots, which are known as Fuwa, or “good luck dolls”, in Chinese, have now acquired a far more sinister reputation”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2168554/Beijing-Olympic-Fuwa-mascots-%27have-cursed%27-China-in-unlucky-2008.html?service=print
“Olympic mascots, which are known as Fuwa, or “good luck dolls”, in Chinese, have now acquired a far more sinister reputation.”
http://telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/2168554/Beijing-Olympic-Fuwa-mascots-%27have-cursed%27-China-in-unlucky-2008.html?service=print
so weird but true