Gook (???) (1912) -- Goo-goo

[sagehen]

>At 4:49 PM -0500 3/16/05, sagehen wrote:
>>  >Thanks, Doug. So, "gook" rather coincides with "wog." In my youth,
>>>Aussie friends applied the latter term to anyone who wasn't
>>>sufficiently fair-skinned as to merit inclusion into the WASPocracy,
>>>yet not so dark-skinned as to be considered a nigger. Hence, "wog"
>>>was applied to Southern Europeans of all nationalities, Asians,
>>>Indian Indians, etc., unless such a person's speech revealed him to
>>>be an American. In that case, all bets were off.
>>>
>>>-Wilson Gray
>>  ~~~~~~~~
>>Wasn't the slogan of this point of view "The wogs begin at Dover"?
>>AM
>>
>I thought they began at Calais ("their" side of the Channel crossing)...
>
>Larry
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You trine 'a be *reasonable*?  Think INSULAR, man!
AM

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