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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: warawls who wrote (18861)4/23/2001 12:57:50 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 62549
 
that reminds me...gringo. Years ago in La Paz Mexico, a native told me that at one time there were a lot of US soldiers there. Their uniforms were green. The Mexicans resented them. And so they would say, "green go", which evolved into "gringo". I've never heard any other explanation. Then of course there was the classic Chevy Nova, which did not do well in Mexico because "no va" in Spanish means "doesn't go"
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