And I'm using the racial epithet meaning there.

No, wait, the other one.

Anyway, I had never heard of the phrase before the Tony Snow blow up a couple months ago (I forget: did he apologize?) and am probably unlikely to adopt it for daily usage.

BTW, in a discussion on this subject from Eugene Volokh, I found this hilarious comment from DeezRightWingNutz:

There's a sign near a ravine at a golf course I played with an Asian friend that said, "Caution, dangerous slope."

We spent the next two holes debating whether it would be funnier to complain to management in mock indignation, or hide in the ravine and surprise the next foursome with some belligerent actions.

I'm glad this particular friend was with us, since the rest of us wouldn't have dared "go there" if he wasn't. I probably would have acted like I didn't get the joke.

I know a number of people from college who probably would have loved to steal that sign for his dorm room door (or jokingly put it on the door of another Asian; those Chinese and Koreans on my floor freshman year were hurling slurs at each other all year).

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