There are people who say "Indian", people who say "Native American", and people who prefer the name of their specific nation to either one -- I think it's a case of paying attention to the language the person prefers to use, rather than something that's seen or used as a slur in itself. (Sadly, there are plenty of those, too.)
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
amych - Dec 01, 2008 9:42:26 am PST #2917 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Shir - Dec 01, 2008 9:43:40 am PST #2918 of 10000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Thanks, amych.
erikaj - Dec 01, 2008 9:47:13 am PST #2919 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod. Sherman Alexie mostly says "Indian" so I kind of go with that, a lot. But he also says that Indians don't care if the glass is half-full or half-empty if the beer is good, so Your Maxim may Vary.
Atropa - Dec 01, 2008 9:48:07 am PST #2920 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Glamour mavens: does this (video) look like the right way to put on eyeliner? Could someone challenged (me) be expected to be victorious this way?
It's the way I apply pencil eyeliner, so I say yes. But it seemed like an awful lot of explanation for it.
Trudy Booth - Dec 01, 2008 9:56:54 am PST #2921 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh Shir, that is SUCH an old one. I don't think anybody would even be insulted by it now even if they recognized it.
Even if we had a list it might not have even made it. Seriously.
Vortex - Dec 01, 2008 10:31:19 am PST #2922 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Why don't they do one for false eyelashes? That would be helpful!
And Shir, I don't think that anyone would have been offended. While I know the term, it probably wouldn't have occurred to me if I'd seen it used as a diminutive for a board name.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 01, 2008 10:42:22 am PST #2923 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
No one seemed to mind that Television Without Pity's acronym is pronounced T- WOP. Or maybe that is just me.
sumi - Dec 01, 2008 10:48:12 am PST #2924 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
I think it's silly to pronounce the acronym that way. (In my head I pronounce it as "twop".)
Vortex - Dec 01, 2008 10:58:45 am PST #2925 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I am suddenly getting spam in German. Odd.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 01, 2008 11:00:06 am PST #2926 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh- I never though of pronouncing the "tw" together, although I am not sure why!