"The ping heard round the world, " Time magazine intoned in its cover story.

CNN: 'The ping heard round the world' revisited

This will mean the Lords cannot send the same amendments back to the Commons when they re-consider the bill for a final time, preventing what is known as "ping pong" between the two chambers and effectively ending parliamentary opposition.

BBC: MPs reverse Lords welfare defeats

The first time I saw Cuponk, the game that requires players to bounce a ping pong ball into a plastic cup, all I could think of was drunken college parties and matches of Beirut, the game otherwise known as known as Beer Pong.

FORBES: Beer Pong For Kids

The linchpin of the action is Jiang Cheng, a young travel agent and, in his spare time, a female impersonator, who is having an affair with Wang Ping, a college student and a married man whose wife hires a private eye to follow him.

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