So who *were* Gubo and Palanka?

Language Learning Chinese
1

Was Gubo = “Goober”? That’s what we called him. And was he slipping Palanka the 熱 牛肉 注射 ? Or did that honor go to Ding Yun?

2

Gubo (Cooper?) was having relations with Ding Yun, because they had a kid together, apparently.

3

I much preferred the original orange textbooks that featured a US congressman visiting the Chinese countryside and lauding the “Four Modernizations”. Anybody else start with those?

4

My PCRs were green and in short-form. Were the long-form ones orange?

No idea who Gubo and Palanka were. It’s a 30-year-old mystery. But I’m sure some student of Chinese somewhere has named his/her kids after them…

5

I remember hearing that they were Hungarian names.

6

Gubo used to post on Forumosa. He was funny.

7

Lol…my Chinese textbook in the states used those names too. We always joked that some idiot foreigner had told the publishers that those were normal English names because he was drunk/bored/stoned.