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# Happy New Year
in the language of the chinese people.
(I helped save b3ta! underneath the weeping willow, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 12:58, archived)
# Edit...
Could you put that on the post somewhere yourself? I didn't want to change it in a way you wouldn't like.
(Kimbo, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 12:59, archived)
# ...or in the ALT tag...
(I helped save b3ta! Samsonite, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:01, archived)
# OK
changed it.
(I helped save b3ta! underneath the weeping willow, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:08, archived)
# Perfect!
It's great!
(Kimbo, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:10, archived)
# Yay thanks
Almost didn't post it.
(I helped save b3ta! underneath the weeping willow, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:12, archived)
# Easy peasy
:)
(I helped save b3ta! Samsonite, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:11, archived)
# I don't think it is, you know...
Kung Hei Fat Choi is "Happy New Year", isn't it?

So, what is this character REALLY saying?
(the_hammerhead_tart -- In love with a strict machine, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:02, archived)
# Is that Mandarin
or Cantonese though?
(Kimbo, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:03, archived)
# Ah. Good point.
Dunno. Just that I burst into the local chinky this time each year and we all wish the season's greetings to eachother.

Try the duck, it's rubbery.
(the_hammerhead_tart -- In love with a strict machine, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:05, archived)
# cantonese.
(I helped save b3ta! mikeisbrill, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:06, archived)
# that must be
the oldest joke in the Chinese joke book.
(I helped save b3ta! viperrr mostly comes out at night, mostly, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:07, archived)
# Next to:
"Do you deliver?"
"No, we do chicken, pork, beef..."
(Tonto Popadopolous, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:09, archived)
# or the phone book
in which there are so many wings and so many wongs that you're likely to wing the wong number.
(I helped save b3ta! mikeisbrill, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:09, archived)
# Dentist?
@
2.30
*groan*
(I helped save b3ta! Samsonite, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:12, archived)
# I used to tutor an engineering class
of about thirty people which because of the sensible alphabetic class-splitting contained six wongs and three tans. And two of the wongs were twins. Still ... made learning their names easier.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:12, archived)
# And there's the old chinese laundry joke
which was on a range of T-shirts by some American company what got banned:

"Wong Bros. Laundry - two Wongs CAN make it white!"

*groan*

EDIT - it was Abercrombie and Fitch. Read about it here www.snopes.com/racial/business/tshirts.htm

Double edit - and Fine have been doing a similar line of shirts for year now ("Won Gud Lei", etc.) and they've never been banned.
(Tonto Popadopolous, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:17, archived)
# Ah it's
Mandarin. No offence to Cantonese speaking B3tans.
(I helped save b3ta! underneath the weeping willow, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:11, archived)
# Kung hoi fat choi
i seem to remember that meaning something none too savoury.

DO NOT repeat to any oriental peoples, may cause loss of limb.
(Elusive Squirrel, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:28, archived)
# by which you mean putonghua
as opposed to cantonese (in which it would be 'gung hei fat choi'), right?
(I helped save b3ta! mikeisbrill, Thu 22 Jan 2004, 13:03, archived)