"Ching-chong"

[Tom Zurinskas]

Quite a creaker.


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> Poster: James Harbeck
> Subject: Re: "Ching-chong"
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> I didn't see the episode, but I suspect the "ching-chong" was a
> reference to that anti-Asian rant on YouTube ("Asians in the
> library") that made an instant villain of UCLA student Alexandra
> Wallace? It was all over the web a two weeks ago; she imitates an
> Asian on the phone: "Ohhhh! Ching chong ling long ting tong?" See
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQR01qltgo8
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> There's a rather good musical response to it at
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zulEMWj3sVA .
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> It's just on the downslope of meme-of-the-moment now, I think.
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> James Harbeck.
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