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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: Hoors everywhere |
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I was in Itaewon last night, going up hooker hill on the way to the foreign food store. Anyway, I noticed this restaurant on hooker hill:
Maybe I'm wrong, but certain people in New York tend to pronounce "wh0re as "hoor". Seemed appropriate for hooker hill. Then on the subway I noticed this Engrish bit of clothing. It's rare you see some good English on a male:
Kansas City Brothel Inspector. Helluva job. |
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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: location, location
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject: Re: Hoors everywhere |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
Kansas City Brothel Inspector. Helluva job. |
As a Korean he would probably be well qualified to deal with all his Korean sisters plying their trade in the US. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| That's right, Mashimaro, get the boot in! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject: Re: Hoors everywhere |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
Maybe I'm wrong, but certain people in New York tend to pronounce "wh0re as "hoor". |
You're wrong. If anything, it would sound more like "hawr".
Ever been to New York? |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| in old movies, a scorcesse movie with Harvey keitel comes to mind, tho I don't remember the title, *beep* is pronounced hoor. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
| in old movies, a scorcesse movie with Harvey keitel comes to mind, tho I don't remember the title, *beep* is pronounced hoor. |
Taxi Driver. And no. It's not "hoor"(hure) it's hawr. It's nuanced and a New York thing. You gotta have the ear. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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No, it wasn't Taxi driver, it was an earlier film, maybe his first.
And it is hoor.
EDIT: I just wikied. The movie is called Who's That Knocking at my Door -- a B&W flick from 1967. Kind of like Mean Streets without the action, but a good movie. |
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zappalives
Joined: 15 May 2006
Location: Gyeongju
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| Kansas City represented in the ROK! I want that patch. Two thousand won for the man who brings me that man's arm! Three thousand with the patch. |
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semphoon
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:14 am Post subject: |
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In Scotland, wh*re = hoor.
And know = ken. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:17 am Post subject: |
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The urban dictionary is a sewer but it seems to back the Scottish theory:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hoor
As Americans think Canadians say "aboot" and "oot" when we say "about" and "out", it may be my Canadian ear that hears "hoor" out of a New York "*beep*". |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| zappalives wrote: |
| Kansas City represented in the ROK! I want that patch. Two thousand won for the man who brings me that man's arm! Three thousand with the patch. |
Are you from Kansas? We were discussing this on my podcast today (up around tuesday-ish). We noticed we had never met anyone from Kansas in Korea and wondered if people from Kansas in Korea keeping hearing the same joke like "you're not in Kansas anymore" when you encounter anything a little confusing. Like the fear of this joke discourages Kansas people from living abroad. |
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zappalives
Joined: 15 May 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| That's funny. I've been surprised at how many Kansans I've met in Korea. For the most part, foreigners associate Kansas with Wizard of Oz. Most Koreans I've talked to think of Dust in the Wind. I don't know which is worse. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| I associate it with being the flatest state of the U.S., and pity anyone having to cross it. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| I've driven across Kansas. The only scenery along the road is hundreds of miles of wheat fields, and all you want to do is drive 100 miles per hour to get to the end of it. |
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maya.the.bee
Joined: 12 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| I've driven across Kansas. The only scenery along the road is hundreds of miles of wheat fields, and all you want to do is drive 100 miles per hour to get to the end of it. |
only wheat fields? what about the miles of sunflower fields. i'd rather drive across kansas than nebraska. plus the staties are much nicer in kansas. there's a reason why colorado has that billboard on the stateline - "we enforce OUR speedlimit" |
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