How sad it is.... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78139,00.html I remember playing eeine meenie back in kindergarten, we played it just like duck duck goose we just changed the words to eenie meenie.
How old is the flight attendant? If she's 30 or so, it's pretty ridiculous because it's highly unlikely she was even aware that the rhyme had any kind of racist history (this is the first I've heard of it). If she's 80 and comes from a long line of Grand Wizards, they've got a case. I'm leaning severely towards the ridiculous side of the argument. OK, the flight attendant was 22 at the time (helps to read all the way through). This is ridiculous.
The fact that Fox News gave this coverage, ever, and hasn't addressed the draft of Patriot Act II, is far more important. PC run amok? How about whore-journalism running rampant?
Re: Re: Political Correctness run amok Oh I'm sorry, did I mistype the title of the thread? Silly me, I thought I was typing Political Correctness run amok.
Re: Re: Political Correctness run amok One fight at a time Uni. Anyway, this is stupid. I've never heard of the racist version either. Okay, we are all in agreement.
Did the flight attendant actually attempt to apprehend the plaintiffs by their toes? Because then they've got a case.
Racist? Nope. (Ever fly Southwest? They seem to encourage their flight attendants to make jokes, probably to ease the tension created by the their "festival seating" approach, which sucks.) However, I definitely heard the racist version of that rhyme quite a few times while growing up. Thing is, I always figured that whoever was saying it that way was doing so because he/she/it was a racist, not because that's the way the rhyme went. I do wonder at Fox News featuring this as one of their "Top Stories." Actually I don't wonder--they go whoring after this WASP-outrage producing tripe constantly. What I wonder at is the outrage itself. Human shields? Puh-frikkin-lease. Relax, Festis. Enjoy the laugh you'll get when this pointless case is thrown out of court. If Fox covers that, of course.
"Pulp Fiction" is the only place I've seen it. And I doubt Southwest treated their passengers the way they treated Ving Rhames. Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.
While the judge threw out the sisters' claims of physical and emotional distress, she is allowing this to actually go to court. She claimed the questioning of the statement was reasonable (reasonable man test) and that is enough to seek a solution. Now, while Southwest has a culture of "fun" set from the top down (Herb is one crazy hombre), they seem to have a culture that doesn't consider the needs and emotions of the customer. They have been working with the INS to set up illegals at LAX. Thay also have abused fat people in requesting them to buy two tickets! Hey, if they want to have the common man fly at a cheap price, they could at least find seats that the average American can use. Airline Internal Memo: Americans are fat. Americans are the airline's customer. Let's charge double! Also, illegals aren't Americans, so we will just have them deported, but be sure to collect the money for the ticket first! No wonder we make money! Buahahahaha! - Southwest BTW, should Fox have used the term "sisters"?
Hebron, By the wy does anybody else know any nursery rhymes that are racist in origin? I never new about this one.
not an old rhyme but, I know that a Paddy Wagon, those big police vehicles used to round up multiple prisoners, has a racist origin. It derived because it was seen as a way of rounding up "Paddies", which of course means Irish. Also on a sexist note the term rule-of-thumb derived from the fact that it used to be legal to beat your wife if the stick was the same width of the mans thumb, learned that from a movie. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that many common terms probably have an origin that would offend somebody if they new its origin.
One of these days, at the start of one of these "emotional distress" compensation claim cases, the judge is just going to say "get a life you stupid bitch, case closed". And that will be a happy day.
There used to be an expression in baseball called a "Chinese homerun". If you hit a homerun straight down the line past the foul pole, it was called a Chinese homerun because it was the shortest possible homerun. When I was a kid, someone gave me an old book that was a dictionary of baseball jargon and I distinctly reading the entry for Chinese homerun. Thankfully, it seems to have been dropped from baseball's lexicon. Murf
"Fuzzy Wuzzy" is a name made up for (I think) Sudanese tribesmen by British soldiers during the the empire. I don't know if the kid's poem "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear..." is connected to, predates, post-dates it or what. Also, if you go by the Kipling poem of that name: "...So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Sowdan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fighin' man; We gives you your certifikit, an' if you want it signed We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined..." it was mixed with a fair amount of respect. But does anybody have any evidence that "eenie-meenie" was racist in origin? I always thought it (like so many other things) got twisted that way, but that was just my impression.