Verbal game used to completely
confuse one's less
laterally-thinking friends, depending on stresses and the tendency of
Chinese names to involve short
English words. The version of this that I learnt was '
How Hi is a Chinaman', which works the same way.
Person A: How Long is a Chinaman?
Person B: What? I don't know.
Person A: No! How Long is a Chinaman!
Person B: I don't know.
Person A: NO! How Long is a Chinaman!
Person B: I don't fucking know!
Person A: No! How Long is a Chinaman!
Person B: I. Don't. Know. They're all different heights, anyway...
Person A: No, no, no! Howlong. Is a. Chinaman.
...and so forth. Given a suitably stupid victim, this can continue for several hours, increasingly frustrating for the chosen one and hysterically funny for those observing.