[thechat] I'm Having Uncle Ho and Chairman Mao over for dinner

[Martin Burns]

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 06:09  pm, Luther, Ron wrote:

> One of the folks on the show was a young girl who was collecting (for
> herself or a friend - I dunno) odd memorabilia.  She bought a weird
> analog alarm clock with Mao on the face where the 'second hand' was
> some woman in the crowd waving her little red book back and forth. It
> was pretty odd looking.
>
> Later they showed her at a shop in Italy trying to pick up some 'Il 
> Duce'
> commemorative items.
>
>
> People collect the wierdest stuff,

Heard the tail end of a radio news report this morning. It sounded like 
Cuba are trying to get royalties on all the reproductions of *that* 
image of Che.

Cheers
Martin