--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 07/14/2013 03:13 AM, raunchydog wrote: > > An awful story just got a little more awful yesterday when San Franciso > > station KTVU-TV (a Fox affiliate) identified the pilots of the crashed > > Asiana Airlines plane as "Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk," and > > "Bang Ding Ow." > > http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/san-franciscotv-station-ntsb-apologize-pran > > > > > > I posted about this Friday afternoon in "The harzards of teleprompters": > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/349673 > > You all must've been too busy masturbating to notice. >
Ah shucks. All you needed was a snappy subject line and I would have unplugged my vibrator. > I heard about it while listing to Karel's radio show on Friday where > Kristine Kraft a former TV news anchor herself was subbing for Karel. > She thought it was hilarious and thought that someone was having fun > with the Chyron machine and it unintentionally got on the air. > > There has been some chatter of it being offensive to Asians though I > haven't heard any Asians chime in on it. Cultures are different and my > brother-in-law once chided me for imitating an Indian accent. I > explained to him that many Indians I know thought that white folks doing > an Indian accent was funny and not offensive at all. And in fact some > took it as flattery that Indian culture was being recognized. > > Someone also pointed out that the mock pilot names aren't even Korean > dialect. BTW, did you know that Korean is called "the morning language" > because it can be learned in a morning and like Sanskrit is an > engineered language. Apparently some time in the past a king in the > area decided there were two many different languages so had a new easy > to learn language created. Where's that guy in the Internet age? > > I used to joke about Wo Mutt's Chinese Emporium as a reference to > Walmart. Some of my Asian friends found it funny. >
