# The Levitating Chinese Officials

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 30, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359 "2011-06-30T04:38:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359/1 "2011-06-30T04:38:12Z")

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See them [here](http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20110629_1.htm).

Three Chinese officials inspected a road in Huili County, and a photo was taken. It was decided the background “did not look very good,” so an inept attempt was made to Photoshop them onto a different road. People have been taking it from there ever since. 😃

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**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359/2 "2011-06-30T04:50:41Z")

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Some of those parodies actually have pretty good Photoshop work.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359/3 "2011-06-30T05:34:51Z")

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Anyone seen the original of that last one. I need to do some… research.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359/4 "2011-06-30T12:08:34Z")

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Oh what a tangled interweb we weave when we practice to deceive.

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**Author:** ![humanafterall](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/humanafterall/32/19654_2.png) [@humanafterall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/humanafterall)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359/5 "2011-06-30T17:53:12Z")

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I knew it! Chinese people _are_ magic!

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359/6 "2011-07-01T02:31:37Z")

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Crouching Tiger Flying Bureaucrat.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359/7 "2011-07-01T02:48:58Z")

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> [@appleciders](#):
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> Some of those parodies actually have pretty good Photoshop work.

Yes, the county needs to hire them to handle their deceptions instead of assigning the janitor.

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-levitating-chinese-officials/587359/8 "2011-07-01T14:42:27Z")

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If all of the Chinese do this at once, the Earth will fly off its axis.