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Just a simple kitchen timer.

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People don’t appreciate enough that in Vietnam you get to say stuff costs hundreds of thousands of dongs.

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I have a little Vietnamese store next to my house and the sign that says bong dong cracks me up.

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I’m gonna start calling the thing where you put the downstem into the bong “bong dong”"

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There used to be one in my town called “Dong Hung.” Always made me laugh.

They’ve since changed their name. I suspect someone finally told them what that means in English.

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