How far can a tai chi metaphor go? When you practice and art and follow its philosophy long enough, you eventually start to see it everywhere. You may even be tempted to manifest it in places where it probably shouldn't belong. Case in point: tai chi fanatics on a dance floor.

Another case is the natural attempt to apply five element theory to a game made famous by the hit comedy series, "The Big Bang Theory." In the episode entitled "The Lizard-Spock Expansion", Sheldon proposes adding the variable "Lizard" and "Spock" to the classic "Rock Paper Scissor" game in order to increase the randomness of the outcome.
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The Yin and Yang of National Pride at the Vancouver Olympics 2010

2010/03/Tue 02

Speaking as a Canadian, I was watching the closing ceremony and laughing at the cartoonish joking about Canadian stereotypes, I realized that we would have some apologizing and explaining to do. ....
I'm sorry for the heavy use of ironic humour. I know that irony does not work in many parts of the world the way it does in Canada.
........ If there is anything that is typically Canadian, it is our pride in our ability to make fun of our own nationalism. We typically have a low pride threshold, and we are exceedingly proud of that fact.......Every once in a while, we notice that we have done something right, and we will feel really good about it as a nation. Then we wake up the next morning with a nationalism hangover and find ourselves feeling cheap and ashamed of ourselves. ......We did a very good job with the Olympics this year. So the hangover threatened to be quite debilitating and we had to work the next day. So this time we decided to be ironic about it so we wouldn't feel so bad about ourselves the morning.
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