talk cork
v.— «“I never been to China.” “All the more you shouldn’t talk cork.”» —“Re: 7th Annivesary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre” by tershan@vol.net Usenet: soc.culture.hongkong June 15, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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