Alexander the Great says he's an Asian superstar

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

Leaf sniper Alexander Mogilny joked after scoring his 1,000th and 1,001st points against the Buffalo Sabres Monday night that he had become the highest-scoring Asian to play in the NHL.

He explained that because his hometown Khabarovsk is so far east in Russia that he could honestly claim to be Asian. Khabarovsk is in Siberia.

Sergei Fedorov, with 1,011 points, tops all Russian scorers.

Boston Bruins defenceman Sergei Gonchar laughed when he heard Mogilny's claim of being Asian.

Gonchar offered that he could lay claim to being the highest-scoring Asian defenceman in the NHL because the boundary dividing Europe and Asia goes down the middle of the main street in his home city of Chelyabinsk.

Gonchar has 146 goals and 274 assists.

RICK MATSUMOTO - Toronto Star

[Skilly]

Crap .....

I never thought Rod Langway was going to lose claim to that title. He had 329 points and was actually Asian. (born in Taiwan)

So are they Asian, ? Nah ... you josh me .... Ol Roddy's record is safe ... *whew*

[Skilly]

Mr. said:

Gonchar offered that he could lay claim to being the highest-scoring Asian defenceman in the NHL because the boundary dividing Europe and Asia goes down the middle of the main street in his home city of Chelyabinsk.

I must research this tidbit of information. So is Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains? I always thought the Ural mountains was the dividing line .... So hard to know from reading if this was jest or not.

[Habs_fan_in_LA]

Skilly said:

I must research this tidbit of information. So is Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains? I always thought the Ural mountains was the dividing line .... So hard to know from reading if this was jest or not.

I thought Bonavista was far enough East. Do you claim to be Asain too Skilly?

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

Skilly said:

I must research this tidbit of information. So is Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains? I always thought the Ural mountains was the dividing line .... So hard to know from reading if this was jest or not.

'struth.

The Ural Mountains are indeed the conventionally accepted boundary between Europe and Asia. However, the vast geographical bulk of the Russian Federation falls on the Asian side.

There is also the matter of the Russian Slavs' forced genetic inheritance as a result of the historically repeated and rapacious Mongol invasions (which incidentally goes a distance in explaining what seems to many Westerners as the Russians' paranoid modern day political stance vis-à-vis the Chinese).

[Skilly]

Chelyabinsk is on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains. So is he Asian? On the maps I looked at I did not see any dividing line of Europe and Asia in regards to Chelyabinsk.

I am a bit of a geography buff so excuse my indulgence on this topic.

[Montrealer]

Skilly said:

Chelyabinsk is on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains. So is he Asian? On the maps I looked at I did not see any dividing line of Europe and Asia in regards to Chelyabinsk.

I am a bit of a geography buff so excuse my indulgence on this topic.

The Urals are often accepted as the boundary between the two continents, and Chelyabinsk is certainly on the right side of the mountains...

www.aeronautics.ru/img003/russia-physical-map.gif

[Strummerman]

ISNT PAUL KARIYA HALF JAPANESE

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

Strummerman said:

ISNT PAUL KARIYA HALF JAPANESE

YES. AND WE'RE NOT HALF DEAF. WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?

[Deleted]

Strummerman said:

ISNT PAUL KARIYA HALF JAPANESE

Sou desu ne.

[Skilly]

It would appear to me that he joked about being Asian, so he must consider himself European. "The line dividing Europe and Asia goes down main street " hmmmm If this is the case I would certainly like to visit there ...... well if it wasn't for all that nuclear radiation they have in the ponds and soil in Chelyabinsk.

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

Skilly said:

It would appear to me that he joked about being Asian, so he must consider himself European. "The line dividing Europe and Asia goes down main street " hmmmm If this is the case I would certainly like to visit there ...... well if it wasn't for all that nuclear radiation they have in the ponds and soil in Chelyabinsk.

Genetically we're all African.

Btw, Perezhogin was born in Ust Kamenogorsk, Kazakistan, a stone's throw from the Chinese border.

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A Fight Over Spaghetti Turns Political

By Oksana Yablokova
Staff Writer

CHELYABINSK, Ural Mountains -- Until recently, businessmen Mikhail Yurevich and Alexander Berestov only fought over who could sell more spaghetti.

Now the two Chelyabinsk-based pasta magnates are fighting for State Duma votes in this heavily polluted industrial city. Their closest rival is a former prosecutor who poses as a camel in campaign advertisements...

..."They are both very energetic businessmen worth admiring. But it is clear that the two will be most interested in trying to solve their own business interests, so it really does not matter which of them crawls into the Duma," Lidia, a slim 36-year-old woman wearing expensive diamond jewelry, said over a bowl of spaghetti at Pomidor, the city's only Italian restaurant.

- www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/12/03/003.html

[Skilly]

And Richard Park was born in Seoul, Korea

[M. Beaux-Eaux]

Mattias said:

Sou desu ne.

Life Imitating Art or I Thought This Was Just A Movie

Maiko Covington once wrote a series of textfiles for R.A.A. that described growing up in Japan, and life in high school. A lot of that information is embedded in many anime series and OAVs (from Ranma ½, and KOR, to Project A-Ko and Battle Royal High School. Since I've come here in June 30, 1992, I've noticed a number of things that are integral to Japanese life and culture that, if they haven't slipped into anime or manga already, are bound to do so eventually. Some of these traits are so firmly ingrained, that they appear simply as a matter of course, and not because the director consciously chose to do so.

- robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/hoffmann-faqs/lifeimitatingart.html

[jkr]

He may or may not be Asian but he is no longer a superstar. He was a superstar in his Buffalo / Vancouver days but no longer. Age & his arthritic hip have taken its toll.

[franko]

Leaf fan would beg to differ -- age improves you -- look at the roster!