Zompist Bboard Again

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.

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.

There is also a Mongolian folk metal band named The Hu.

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.