My impression was that "cracker" was more about racism than income, but that may be based solely on Bernie Mac in Ocean's 11.
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - May 01, 2009 3:38:48 pm PDT #17706 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
javachik - May 01, 2009 3:47:56 pm PDT #17707 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh, it's totally racist but it has overtones of "white-trash", too. I just think it's a funny sounding "insult" and am not personally at all insulted by it.
Trudy Booth - May 01, 2009 3:51:56 pm PDT #17708 of 30000
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, it's totally racist but it has overtones of "white-trash", too. I just think it's a funny sounding "insult" and am not personally at all insulted by it.
Yeah. I can't remember it precisely, but I think it was Richard Pryor who had a bit about how "Honky never caught on like it was supposed to..."
sarameg - May 01, 2009 3:54:58 pm PDT #17709 of 30000
I can't find the rest of my towels. I have no clue.
Typo Boy - May 01, 2009 4:02:04 pm PDT #17710 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I seem to remember an f 18th century literature novel that sued the term crackers as term for poor southern rural people.
Typo Boy - May 01, 2009 4:05:48 pm PDT #17711 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Wikipedia comes through: [link]
The original root of this is the Middle English word crack meaning "entertaining onversation" (one may be said to "crack" a joke); this term and the alternate spelling "craic" are still in use in Ireland and Scotland. It is documented in Shakespeare's King John (1595): "What cracker is this same that deafs our ears with this abundance of superfluous breath?"
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By the 1760s, this term was in use by the English in the British North American colonies to refer to Scots-Irish settlers in the south. A letter to the Earl of Dartmouth reads: "I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode".
Kathy A - May 01, 2009 4:06:57 pm PDT #17712 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I think it was Richard Pryor who had a bit about how "Honky never caught on like it was supposed to..."
I think the first time I ever heard the word "cracker" with that meaning was in the SNL skit "Word Association" with Pryor and Chevy Chase.
Trudy Booth - May 01, 2009 4:08:05 pm PDT #17713 of 30000
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
DEAD honky!
§ ita § - May 01, 2009 4:12:49 pm PDT #17714 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think we just had an earthquake--off to check.
bon bon - May 01, 2009 4:12:50 pm PDT #17715 of 30000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Tiny earthquake here -- our first since moving.