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DPP Chairman Crowd Surfs at Campaign Rally, Changes Name ~ TC Lin
KAOSHIUNG | Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Yu Shyi-kun, endeavoring to appeal to younger voters, dived into a crowd at an election-related rally on Tuesday in Kaohsiung.
“Let’s see if James Soong can do this!” the chairman was quoted as yelling before diving off the stage at the rally into a group of confused would-be voters who, fortunately, caught Yu before he hit the ground. The DPP chairman was then passed, hand-over-hand, through the crowd before being returned to the stage, looking a bit rumpled and missing his wallet, but apparently otherwise unscathed.
Yu, whose Chinese name when written in characters confounds many word-processing programs, which simply put question marks in place of the obscurer characters, also announced that he would “follow the international trend,” and in the future be known as “Yu Shyi-?”
The new moniker would be pronounced “You Shi-Whaaa?”
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