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status quo

On-Yomi: ジョウ

Elements:

status quo, turtle, chihuahua, dog, large, drop

Heisig story:

Did you ever hear of the turtle who fell madly in love with a chihuahua but could not have her because their two families did not like the idea of their children intermarrying? Like all classic stories of ill-fated love, this one shows how the young upset the status quo with an emotion older and more powerful than anything their elders have devised to counter it: blind love.

Koohii stories:

1) [tomtosh] 31-7-2007(161): It was left to the turtle to make right with the dog and thus maintain the status quo..

2) [decamer0n] 13-12-2006(91): A turtle mounting a chihuahua clearly disrupts the status quo.

3) [dwhitman] 4-12-2007(43): After beating the hare in a race, the turtle is now acknowledged to be the fastest animal. But the chihuahua is challenging the status quo, demanding a new race. And look - the dog is on the right, meaning he's passed the turtle! Hope he doesn't take a nap.

4) [DrJones] 18-12-2007(35): If you gave the sense "a person's back" to the primitive in portent (#235 兆), you can see that a dog, wanting to preserve its status quo among its pals, tries to bite the back of a poor postman.

5) [uchifly] 27-1-2009(28): The STATUS QUO was broken when the TURTLE and the DOG got married! You should have see the offspring… Dogs with shells on!!

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