Tony Blews

Today, while searching for pictures of Tony Gubba (for an animation which will appear soon), I stumbled upon a list of ethnic slurs on wikipedia. It truly is fascinating stuff.

Did you know that the Austrailians referred to the Viet Cong as “Nigel”, rather than “Charlie”? (I was a PFC on a search patrol, hunting Nigel down. It was in the jungle wars of ’65.)

“Eskimo” is offensive?

“Honky” was derived from an African-American pronunciation of “hunky”, the disparaging term for a Hungarian laborer?

And finally, that “Gubba” is an Aboriginal pejorative term for white people? (not just the sandy haired clowns).