Random opposites

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keenir wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 11:33 pm

very cool, both of them; its also more proof that Kelly Hu would have been an awesome Doctor Who.
I suspect that most of those Chinese and Chinese-descended people who live in the West and have the surname "Hu" have heard the predictable "So you're the one who let the dogs out!" joke a bit too often to still find it funny by now.
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Raphael wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 8:01 am
keenir wrote: Tue May 13, 2025 11:33 pmvery cool, both of them; its also more proof that Kelly Hu would have been an awesome Doctor Who.
I suspect that most of those Chinese and Chinese-descended people who live in the West and have the surname "Hu" have heard the predictable "So you're the one who let the dogs out!" joke a bit too often to still find it funny by now.
true. but she is a great actress.

EDIT: in truth, I was going by the Romanization, not the pronounciation.
bradrn wrote: Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:32 amIn Hebrew too. (Where, for good measure, ‘he’ is hu, cf. ‘who’.)
...though I misread the line above that, thus thinking erroniously that hu was also Welsh.
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There is also a Mongolian folk metal band named The Hu.
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WeepingElf wrote: Wed May 14, 2025 11:31 am There is also a Mongolian folk metal band named The Hu.
The Hu to me sounds like a The Who cover/tribute band.
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