Does the earlobe thing have a link to China?

http://www.buddhamuseum.com/ivory/ivory-happy-buddha_136.jpg

http://www.filigallery.com/d/37854-2/Big+Laughing+Buddha+Taichung-1.JPG

Aha!  Interesting.

I once had a mate who's Dad was big in Chinatown... Remembering the old story about how Westerners smell of sour milk to those from the East, I asked him about this, citing Ian Flemming from whom I think I first read the story. He replied that I smelled like a pub carpet. Very rude.

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The diagonal ear lobe crease (Frank's sign) is not associated with coronary artery disease or retinopathy in type 2 diabetes: the Fremantle Diabetes Study. However, belief that large ear-lobe size is a marker of longevity is a result  of feeble-mindedness generally associated with the inability to use the apostrophe and purchase suitable shoe trees.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119934497/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

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