fling poo (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> "the very-faux Chinese collocation Hoo Flung Poo" -- I've only seen
"Who Flung
> Dung"
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> ""One hung low") and others in infantile jokes" -- I've got a postcard
> somewhere of Chinatown with a prominent restaurant sign "One Hung Low"
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> probably 1930s or 40s, if I recall.
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
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> Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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Searching census and immigration records of Chinese from the late 19th
century makes me think that whoever recorded names of the inbound
immigrants had such an infantile sense of humor -- I remember names like
"Fuk me", "won hung low", etc.  It's possible that this is an accurate
transcription of real names, but I doubt it . .  .
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