Notes » March 2006

Delay No More

Back in 2004 I mentioned a tacky product sold at a local shop called Goods of Desire.

View large image The folks over there still haven't grown up.

This phrase isn't the only way to invoke someone's mother when cussing; A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang lists 14 variations on the theme, but this epithet is by far the shortest, and the only one that can be made into an English/Cantonese pun.

I wouldn't recommend saying it aloud in Mong Kok, but then a lot of people in Mong Kok say it, so you might fit right in.

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