"Ching-chong"

[Wilson Gray]

This string was spoken on last night's Daily Show. Back in the day,
_Ching-Chong_ was the name of a cartoon "Chinese philosopher." An
article about Sweden in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch noted that
_Kipp-Koepp Kinaman(sp?)_ was the Swedish equivalent of "Ching-Chong
Chinaman."

I really miss the olden, pre-politically-correct days! These days,
interesting little factoids, such as the above WRT Swedish, would be
suppressed in the name of inexistant abstraction: "social equality."

--
-Wilson
-----
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

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org