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Phileas Fogg
Phileas Fogg
Well-Connected

Mar-25-2005 17:45

Maybe I'm a bit slow - has the Shanghai Shoe maker always been "Larry Mills"?

I know some people aren't fond of not knowing the gender of people with foreign names (just pay attention!! :-P ), but - Larry Mills?????

Heh.

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Connor O'Toole
Connor O'Toole

Mar-25-2005 18:11

I think Larry is the guy who used to own the shoemaker shop in London a few years back (before we got there), but then met this hot little Asian number in an online chat room and moved to Shanghai to be with her and opened another shoemaker shop there, to support the new wife....hence the English name in Shanghai


Sly Spy
Sly Spy

Mar-25-2005 18:58

Maybe it's Larry the Toe's home? Like he has a an apartment upstairs or something.

Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn

Mar-26-2005 14:05

Larry Mills used to live in New York until he got (dare I say it?) Shanghaied!

Akano
Akano
Old Shoe

Mar-26-2005 14:57

I was waiting for someone to say that...

James_Lee
James_Lee

Mar-26-2005 20:29

i dont know, he seems like the gambling type

Graham Wellington
Graham Wellington

Mar-26-2005 21:36

Wasn't Shanghai, like, a British colony at one time?

Andy702
Andy702
Pinball Amateur

Mar-27-2005 02:49

Shanghai was never a British colony, though it was divided into concession areas and occupied by several people foreign to the region, including the British.

My guess is the name is a side effect of the fact that Shanghai was under foriegn rule for about 100 years; and if I remember right, the rulers were mostly European. I think the European rulers were mainly British and French, and that this rule (along with the fact that the city developed into an international financial center and a commercial port under foreign rule) is the main reason Shanghai was once called the Paris of the Orient.


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