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' ... she ate my laundry.' Excuse me, what?


Norman Fell (aka, Mr. Roper) tells a supposed funny story to his passenger/drink buddy: "I went out with a girl who was half French and half Chinese. I came home late one night, [and] she ate my laundry."

What in the world does that mean?

Thanx!

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A sterotype (lame) joke about (Chinese = laundry shops)

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I've wondered that myself

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I suppose the joke, such as it is, is that the French are always eating and the Chinese are always doing laundry, so this girl of his simply combined the pursuits.

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I don't know, but I was at the track the other day and I had a horse so slow that the jockey kept a diary.

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