We're all talking about that in detail in Natter.
You're a bloody puppet! You're a wee little puppet man!
Spike ,'Smile Time'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Allyson - Aug 18, 2004 1:33:55 pm PDT #1652 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
DCJensen - Aug 18, 2004 3:24:39 pm PDT #1653 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I haven't caught up in natter, but basically I don't understand what the problem is. The old term is so obscure and the new drink so removed that it's like saying you can't call a flying device a "kite" because it sounds too much like "kike" which I'm told is an old slur on jews.
DavidS - Aug 18, 2004 3:27:18 pm PDT #1654 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The old term is so obscure and the new drink so removed that it's like saying you can't call a flying device a "kite" because it sounds too much like "kike" which I'm told is an old slur on jews.
"Mulatto" is not particularly obscure.
DCJensen - Aug 18, 2004 3:30:43 pm PDT #1655 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
To me it is.
amych - Aug 18, 2004 3:31:35 pm PDT #1656 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
"Mulatto" is not particularly obscure.
Nor is "kike", for that matter.
sumi - Aug 18, 2004 3:32:47 pm PDT #1657 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
And "kite" is a word that has been around for a long time -- whereas Moolatta is obviously a play on something -- if you didn't know it was playing on "coolatta" (if that is what it is) then mulatta is a very obvious choice.
DCJensen - Aug 18, 2004 3:34:35 pm PDT #1658 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Clarification; I have read, in the past the word and it's connotations. I have, however, never in concious memory ever heard it said out loud or in a context that was newer than 30 or 40 years in the past.
In fact there are many supposed derogatory terms I've had to take people's word for because I've apparently led a sheltered life.
DCJensen - Aug 18, 2004 3:42:49 pm PDT #1659 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I figured it was a play on the fact that Moo is a slang for milk from the 90's (?) that I didn't fit the demographic which which to use it.
And Latte being a coffee drink that already contains steamed milk.
I guess I believe that if people forget mulatto and remember MooLatte, we're all better off as a people.
How many people know or care about the origins of "gyp," other than a bunch of Buffistas?
dcp - Aug 18, 2004 3:55:02 pm PDT #1660 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
The school play when I was in 8th grade (1978) was West Side Story. I had to ask what Mick, Spic, and Wop meant.
Then I had to ask "What's a social disease?" I knew (theoretically) what STDs were, but calling them "social diseases" struck me as a twisted form of humor.
I knew "gyp" (as in "The machine took my quarter and only gave me one gumball. I was gypped!") from a very young age, but I didn't make the connection to Gypsies or Egypt until I was in my 20s. I had never heard "Jewed" until about five years ago, in an article quoting some white supremacists.
libkitty - Aug 18, 2004 4:27:46 pm PDT #1661 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I had never heard of "Jewed" until just now, but I'm ok with that. I say, again, though, that buffistas is the most interesting education I've ever gotten.