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).
I, for one, have no problems pointing out the humor of these things to anyone. If you don’t have a sense of humor, you are just another dumb, monkey faced liberal. Political correctness is for pussies (apologies to any cats reading this blog).
“De videnskabeligt uddannede Holocaust-benÊgtere har ofte en meget
stor viden om Holocaust, derfor er de ogs svÊre at argumentere mod.”
I whole-heartedly agree with Eva. It was about damn time somebody went ahead and said it. “benÊgtere har ofte en meget tor viden om” is, of course, a time-proven concept, and I don’t know why people don’t have forgotten this proverb. shame on you. shame on you all.
I guarantee my Army buddy, a kid of Korean descent from California, would have stolen that sign the first chance he got. One of his favorite pastimes was to tell bad jokes in broken “Engrish” and cackle at the botched up punchlines. It was particularly funny when done in a group that had never heard him speak his natural So-Cal surfer dude accent; he’d get polite chuckles, sometimes a tentative attempt to help him get the joke right. Funny stuff.
captamerica said “If you don’t have a sense of humor, you are just another dumb, monkey faced liberal.”
Truer words are rarely spoken.
I’d like to add ‘, that needs a vigorous punching.’
I do think Romney can make up for the whole issue by emphasising his niggardly approach to his state’s budget crisis.
See, this wouldn’t be a problem if Strom Thurman had been elected president.
I never knew the word “tarbaby” was a racial epithet. Maybe because it’s a term that I have only heard used in the old stories about Brer Rabiit and Brer Fox of “Don’t throw me in that briar patch…” fame. I remember reading those as a kid. However, looking back, the whole story appears to be a racial epithet.
Sorry for the double post, but this is actually a better representation of what I read as a child.
duuuuuuude… that kind of humm… humi…
that kind of funny is not cool.
lights up bong of indignation
^ (is me making fun of leftard moonbats)
(and hippies)
My roommate last year was an asian guy who loved to crack asian jokes. It was awesome. One of his favorite was,
Guy 1: “Oh man, my house was robbed by Asians this weekend!”
Guy 2: “Well, how did you know they were Asians?”
Guy 1: “Well, when I got home, my homework was done, my computer was upgraded, and they were still trying to back out the driveway!”
So hilarious.
‘Course he told lots of other racist jokes too. Being in California, he knew several good Mexican ones. I lol’ed.
Now I have really clear sinuses (exit coffee) after reading para. 2 // next two holes debating //.
A good joke will always put a chink in the armor of even the hardest heart…
My first boss at (unnamed large Pharma company) once told me that “Blackbeard the Pirate” was an example of a racial slur along with calling a wall street crash “Black Tuesday”.
However, until I read IMAO today, I honestly had no idea that a nice word like “slopes” really had a racist meaning.
Anyone know the over/under on the time at which the last innocent word picks up an offensive meeting? I want to bet the under.
Brian: What is the over/under on that? Ahh, it doesn’t matter, I’d bet the under too.
The “slope” Joke is Woppingly funny. I agree that a good joke would put a chink in even the hardest political armor.
That is if the Left wasn’t so niggardly with their praise. Then they start to get all high-pitched and indignant and their voices start to sound all honky.
But the slope joke had my laughing so hard my nostrils are ow spic and span fron the Mt. Dew cleansing.
— that hould offend abut everyone, except the Arabs… because it’s never okay to make fun of an Arab.
I was waiting for someone to make the spic & span joke. Couldn’t let the whole dago by without it.
OMG DesertElephant you said “niggardly!” Ban!
Yeah, DesertElephant. What were you thinking?
Heh! Alan said dago. He gets a nice, bright Shienie star!
I’m not up-to-date on what a “Shienie” is… is it like a Shebrew?
I heard Sheinie, which I’m sure I spelled wrong, as a slur against Jews in the film “School Ties”
Just keeping the Riff Going.
Apparently, in these trying times, one must be niggardly with their use of unusual words which may offend the stupid.