Big Nate by Lincoln Peirce for May 11, 2012
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May 12, 2012
Transcript:
You win. Next! Yo mama's so ugly, people dress up as her on Halloween! Yawn... Yo mama's so ugly, when she looks in a mirror it says "viewer discretion advised." Next! The great ones make it look so easy.
@carl craig: The “chin” joke isn’t racist. Specifically, if you thought it was implying that Chinese people are fat, or that “chin” was a racial epithet, then you clearly didn’t get the joke.
So I’ll explain… “Chin” is (a transliteration into the Latin alphabet of) a rather common surname in China (hence the phone book part). It’s technically not pronounced the same as the English word “chin”, but puns don’t always adhere to strict phonetics.
There is, incidentally, or was at any rate, a racial epithet for Chinese people: “chic”, pronounced like “chick”. I don’t think most young people these days are even aware of it, though, the etymologically unrelated fashion-industry sense of the word “chic” (pronounced “sheek”) meaning dernier cri having eclipsed it rather thoroughly.