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This a a genuine advertisment that appeared in the South China Morning Post in 1996 - you can't make this stuff up!
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Steady on now Mr. FM.....Sai Kung is my home town. Well, it was until July anyway and everyone knows that it's all in the pronunciation: Fuk Man is pronounced Fook Man and Wan King is Waan Ging in Cantonese.....
Sadly, Yours in Pedantry. Tricky.
Posted by: Tricky | December 14, 2005 9:58 AM
OK, I'd better own up ... my bank branch is in Wan King Path......
Posted by: Tricky | December 14, 2005 10:00 AM
I'm pretty certain it's pronounced "fook" in Glasgow as well
Posted by: MP | December 14, 2005 5:07 PM
There's a chinese restaurant in Fulham called Ho Lee Fook. Just thought I'd mention it.
Oh, and also Wang Kei's in Wardour Street.
Posted by: Misty | December 14, 2005 5:34 PM
"There's a chinese restaurant in Fulham called Ho Lee Fook."
Don't know where Fulham is, but I was in London once. Walkin' through the streets of Soho in the rain...to be precise. When I came upon a place called "Lee Ho Fooks". I felt compelled to go in and have a big dish of beef chow mein. Really. I still have the pictures. And the chopsticks.
Ah-oooo!
Posted by: Hog Whitman | December 14, 2005 6:10 PM
I'd like to meet your tailor.
Posted by: MP | December 14, 2005 6:23 PM
Been to Trader Vic's recently as well?
Posted by: Misty | December 14, 2005 10:20 PM
"Been to Trader Vic's recently as well?"
Not recently, but several times back when the one here in Portland, Oregon was still open.
And I don't even like Pina Coladas, but proper decorum is, well, proper decorum.
Bip!
Posted by: Hog Whitman | December 14, 2005 11:32 PM
Nice. We went from Sai Kung to Warren Zevon to Portland. Good to see some folks with taste. I bet his hair was perfect.
Posted by: Tricky | December 15, 2005 11:10 AM
I'm just pleased to know that there are other werewolves of London out there.
And yes, my hair is perfect.
Posted by: Misty | December 16, 2005 1:49 AM
"I'm just pleased to know that there are other werewolves of London out there.
And yes, my hair is perfect."
Hut! Draw blood now...
Posted by: Hog Whitman | December 16, 2005 9:03 PM