These words — mild, silly, inoffensive — are part of the subversive lexicon being used by Chinese bloggers to ridicule the government, poke fun at Communist Party leaders and circumvent the heavily censored Internet in China.
This entry combines learning the functions of government with a fun party game.
Charlie Hebdo was the successor to the satirical weekly Hara Kiri Hebdo, which was banned by the French government after making fun of the response to the death of Charles de Gaulle, in 1970.
were inspired by the James Bond movies, but they were also symbols of cold war confidence, back when mutually assured destruction was a kind of safety-in-millions security blanket, and networks, and their viewers, felt enough confidence in the government to poke fun at its secret agents.
Heroising the murdered Charlie Hebdo staff, as French president François Hollande did, is inimical to Ali. "I knew the magazine in the late 60s, and it was very radical – they were banned by the French government for making fun of De Gaulle the day after he died.
"Bein' in the government is so fun.
All this is far more fun than government bonds.
I don't trust this government's idea of fun in any case.
Some people suggested the attack may have stemmed from Mr. Xu's writings, many of which take swipes at government corruption or poke fun at the ruling Communist Party.
Finally, we could make a rule that it is unacceptable for people who are collecting large government pensions to make fun of retirees who want to keep Social Security benefits the way they are.
