One last that on fur babies, it's too reminiscent of tar babies which... I just... can't.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
gives new meaning to bedknobs and broomsticks, I'll tell you.
OMG, the tar baby conversation on gawker or jezebel or some other sight where people clutch their pearls quite uselessly.
Which reminds me of a question: who here doesn't know that spade was at some point slang for a black person? And not in a particularly cuddly way?
I kept wondering how I would feel if, in a passionate moment, I was suddenly staring at Darth Maul's face.
I wondered that during the movie, and knew the answer straight away.
Round brass doorknob in her bedroom. She was in high school and just really horny.
who here doesn't know that spade was at some point slang for a black person?
I'd never heard that. So is "call a spade a spade" racist then? I always assumed it meant spade=shovel.
I'm studiously avoiding the doorknob conversation today.
I had never heard that either, about spade.
Spade vaguely tings a bell as a racist term to me. I would guess it has to do with cards? (I also assumed "call a spade a spade" was related to cards, not shovelry.)
I had never heard that either, about spade.
Huh. I thought it was something most people knew.
It's in the lyrics to a song from Hair.
eta: I think.
Spade from "black as the ace of spades" is racist.
"Call a spade a spade" is way older than playing cards. The first use is a Greek play.
Then there's Oscar Wilde in "The Importance of Being Earnest:"
Cecily: When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen: I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
I knew about "spade", but I've only encountered in 19th-century texts. Unlike some other nasties, which you would think would be dead and then keep coming back.
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