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17 lines
570 B
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Subject: Stodgy Dinner
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Al Huang, who teaches Tai Chi in Colorado, tells this one:
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At a stodgy and ostentatious fund-raising dinner, a well-meaning
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American lady tried to be hospitable to the Chinese gentleman
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sitting next to her. She asked him, enunciating carefully,
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"Likey soupee?" He smiled. And later, "Likey chickee?" He
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nodded. Then the man was announced as the keynote speaker of
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the gala event.
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After much applause, he returned to his seat and turned to
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the woman: "Likey speechee?"
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--(Al Huang, _Quantum Ducks_, E.P. Dutton 1963)
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