bunga-bunga

[Wilson Gray]

So, these are the kinds of jokes hat y'all tell, when don't none of
y'all colored friends be around.

It's what Hugh Masekela was referring to, when he facetiously titled
his first album

"The Americanization of Ooga-Booga."

Of course, as an African-American sensu stricto, he was unaware that
such had long since undergone Americanization. Abstracting away from
the possibility that _ooga-booga_ may be of American origin.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain



On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
> I don't get out enough, so I didn't hear this one until less than 30
> years ago. I think I heard it only once. The arbitrary 'foreign phrase'
> might have been "bunga bunga" or something similar but I can't remember.
>
> There is also the 'wrong hole' golf joke, which I've heard several times
> with 'African' locale and "oonga-boonga" and/or similar 'foreign phrase'
> which I can't exactly remember ... surely might have been "bunga bunga"
> or so sometimes. On the Web I see the same joke with variations
> (sometimes set in Japan, etc.): here is one which is close to what I've
> generally heard although with a different 'foreign phrase':
>
> http://forum.lelong.com.my/bbs/thread-15450-1-1.html
>

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