little. yellow. different.

Ernie at little. yellow. different., relating a holiday mishap with a difficult dialect of Mandarin:

[on phone]
Ernie: Dad, I'm at grandma's house with guo tie and...
Dad: What did you just call her?
Ernie: Guo tieh.
Dad: You just called your grandmother's brothers daughter a potsticker. It's gu jie.

And that was Christmas, for the most part. Eating dinner at a large dinner table, trying not to make eye contact with the relative I inadvertantly disrespected by calling her a tasty pan-fried meat dumpling. Hey, "pan-fried meat dumpling!" That should so be a pick-up line.

If you don't read Ernie, you should. He's always good, and funny.

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