"Ching-chong"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wasn't his name "Ching Chow"?

His observations were skeptical and ironic.

JL

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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."
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> 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."
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