[Ads-l] Small China

Martin Kaminer martin.kaminer at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 14 19:17:23 UTC 2020


I was helping my Dad pack up his apartment this morning and saw that
the medium-sized boxes supplied by the mover came labelled "SMALL
CHINA".
I imagine my kids would be mystified; presumably for them "China" is
more suggestive of spontaneously combusting hoverboards than porcelain
tableware.

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