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Old 01-06-2009, 11:58 AM   #31
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Oh, you mean that screeching that occurs over the perfectly good music?
No, can't say I've heard it.
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Old 01-07-2009, 06:40 AM   #32
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My uncle had a black German Shepard named Spook when I was a kid. I didn't know he was a racist.... and he didn't know he'd have black grandchildren.
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Old 01-07-2009, 12:09 PM   #33
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Spook? How is that racist?
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Old 01-07-2009, 12:13 PM   #34
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In the same way that eggplant, canadian, or mul(ignan) is.
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Old 01-07-2009, 12:36 PM   #35
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Ok. Eggplant I've heard of. Mul(ignan)?

Oh and Canadian?


[eta] I've never heard black people called spooks before.
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Old 01-07-2009, 12:39 PM   #36
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My husband named our black kitty 'Turbo'. He replaced my beloved Bo, who I had for 13 years. Turbo sort of lived up to his name when he was young...he always dashed around at full speed. Now the name is not quite as apt.
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Old 01-07-2009, 12:49 PM   #37
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mulignan ( pronounced mool in yahn) is italian for eggplant. sometimes degos call black guys moolie for short.
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Old 01-07-2009, 12:53 PM   #38
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Ohhh. Ok thanks.
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Old 01-07-2009, 12:56 PM   #39
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Huh. We sometimes refer to our cats as "eggplants", that being the general shape they take in some forms of repose. Certainly, no racial overtones were implied.
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Old 01-07-2009, 01:01 PM   #40
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My uncle had a black German Shepard named Spook when I was a kid. I didn't know he was a racist.... and he didn't know he'd have black grandchildren.
As a kid, my really nice friendly neighbors down the street had a black lab named Toby. It wasn't until Roots came out that I learned Toby was supposedly a very common slave name. I still wonder about them.
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Old 01-07-2009, 01:02 PM   #41
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Pie, regional... the historical animosity between the Italians and Blacks in the Philadelphia area, has created some unique jargon that other people wouldn't get.
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Old 01-07-2009, 01:09 PM   #42
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As a kid, my really nice friendly neighbors down the street had a black lab named Toby. It wasn't until Roots came out that I learned Toby was supposedly a very common slave name. I still wonder about them.
That's not fair. Suddenly some TV show, movie or newspaper headline will attach a significance to or even stigmatizes a word or phrase that was perfectly innocent to most if not all of the world. Look at the word gay.
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Old 01-07-2009, 01:14 PM   #43
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Ok. Eggplant I've heard of. Mul(ignan)?

Oh and Canadian?


[eta] I've never heard black people called spooks before.
"Spooks" is called "MI-5" in the US.
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Old 01-07-2009, 04:37 PM   #44
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It's also a radar, the SPQ-9B (pronounced "Spook-9B").
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Old 01-08-2009, 04:05 AM   #45
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