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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: MegatronYES on Feb 03, 2005, 05:54:24 AM

Title: I don't even know
Post by: MegatronYES on Feb 03, 2005, 05:54:24 AM
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewboardgame...e.php3?id=46742 (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewboardgameimage.php3?id=46742)
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Post by: Bernie AKA on Feb 03, 2005, 11:51:36 AM
Yikes! I have one of my mom's valentines from 1935 with two black kids on it and the little boy has the girl in a chokehold saying, "Woman - kiss me while you's is able!"  Apparently, that was considered perfectly appropriate for an 8-year-old girl to receive from a male classmate back then.  :blink:  
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Post by: ChelseySuzie on Feb 03, 2005, 12:29:50 PM
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http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewboardgame...e.php3?id=46742 (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewboardgameimage.php3?id=46742)
Oh my God!
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 03, 2005, 01:13:19 PM
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Yikes! I have one of my mom's valentines from 1935 with two black kids on it and the little boy has the girl in a chokehold saying, "Woman - kiss me while you's is able!"  Apparently, that was considered perfectly appropriate for an 8-year-old girl to receive from a male classmate back then.  :blink:
They sure don't make them like they used to...
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Post by: blanktoe on Feb 03, 2005, 02:27:48 PM
Oh my, Shoots and Ladders sure has changed over the years.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 04, 2005, 03:04:47 AM
Dude!  What the hell?!  :lol:  
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Post by: Horrified Bernie on Feb 04, 2005, 11:24:09 AM
You thought THAT was bad???

These actually existed (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=394&item=3956145391&rd=1)
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Post by: blanktoe on Feb 04, 2005, 12:15:54 PM
Oh WOW!! I was hoping they had just made that up for the movie Ghost World!
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 04, 2005, 02:46:05 PM
I remember the big thing one year in elementary was to call this 800 number to hear a song about welfare benefits in "Coon Town".  The Klan kept a toll-free number for recruitment purposes, and didn't count on kids calling it and giving the number to their "colored" friends.  Dunno how long it took, but it wasn't up for very much longer after that.

But what makes this worse is that this was something regular people thought was great at the time.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 05, 2005, 01:56:59 AM
This reminds of me of yesterday, when I read a summary of "The Birth of a Nation" thus acquainting myself with the movie for the first time ever.  Yeah, I won't be watching that.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 05, 2005, 04:51:29 AM
It just occured to me.  Was this thread in any way inspired by Black History month?   :mellow:  
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on Feb 05, 2005, 08:19:38 AM
I hope so. Why the fuck isn't there an Asian history month, or an Irish History month? The Blacks in this country act like they were the only ones enslaved ever, which pisses me off.
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Post by: blanktoe on Feb 05, 2005, 01:13:52 PM
I think it's fair to say that Asians and Native Americans deserve their own month but all Irish deserve is 1 day!!
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on Feb 05, 2005, 01:15:42 PM
Don't make me beat you. The Irish have been fucked over all throughout human history, until just recently.
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Post by: Faye Valentine on Feb 05, 2005, 02:46:44 PM
goddamn if i had one penny for every one that has told me "im irish" even tho they were born in the US, i'll be fuckin millionaire and with coke plantations and shiet
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on Feb 05, 2005, 09:55:29 PM
Im part Irish, though I mean the systematic oppression by a majority of cultures, including the USA post civil war.

Mel Brooks said it best, "We'll take the niggers and the chinks, BUT NO IRISH!"
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Post by: MegatronYES on Feb 06, 2005, 12:00:05 AM
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It just occured to me.  Was this thread in any way inspired by Black History month?   :mellow:
It was inspired by how much I love baord games.


And niggers.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 06, 2005, 12:04:44 AM
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/11201...ack=1&cset=true (http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/112010,1,581150.event?ctrack=1&cset=true)

And I don't know about that...
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Post by: MegatronYES on Feb 06, 2005, 12:07:23 AM
What the fuck is thast supposed to be? I'm not signing up for fuckshit.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 06, 2005, 12:17:59 AM
It's the showtimes and description for a show.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 06, 2005, 10:37:07 PM
I'm reminded of a chick in my speech class this past Saturday  who gave a speech of St. Patrick's and Irish oppression or something something but I zoned out.  It was boring.  The crochet lady was more interesting.  It was quite sad that the crochet lady was more interesting than a lot of things.
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Post by: Merla on Feb 07, 2005, 09:03:37 AM
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I'm reminded of a chick in my speech class this past Saturday  who gave a speech of St. Patrick's and Irish oppression or something something but I zoned out.  It was boring.
I bet you would have rather of heard that speech then the one about the Preggos.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 07, 2005, 05:13:16 PM
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What the fuck is thast supposed to be? I'm not signing up for fuckshit.
Again, I'm sorry.  For some reason I don't have to register for those sites like you all have to.  Hope this link works.

http://www.thetowerlight.com/vnews/display...1/41fd9d32c7cd7 (http://www.thetowerlight.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/01/31/41fd9d32c7cd7)
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Post by: MegatronYES on Feb 07, 2005, 09:46:44 PM
Yeah. You fucking should be sprry.

I wanna see that play. I'm unlike Nuri in that I find interest in things.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 07, 2005, 10:42:06 PM
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Yeah. You fucking should be sprry.
 
I am sprry.
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Post by: MegatronYES on Feb 07, 2005, 10:50:05 PM
Yeah. :unsure:


Good.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 07, 2005, 11:04:21 PM
Yeah.  
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 08, 2005, 12:11:25 AM
Dammit.  Hasn't the bitch that wrote that heard of paragraphs?
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Post by: Bernie AKA on Feb 09, 2005, 12:06:19 PM
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goddamn if i had one penny for every one that has told me "im irish" even tho they were born in the US, i'll be fuckin millionaire and with coke plantations and shiet

Don't they mean ancestry?

I never have to say it - people come up to me and say some variation of  "I'll bet you're Irish" all the time.  Even when I'm not drunk.  :P

 :( Wish I wasn't so diluted as to have no claim to my ancestrial digs:

Party at my place! (http://www.bamjam.net/Ireland/Power.html)
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 09, 2005, 06:46:09 PM
I hate how everytime I get asked about my ancestry and I tell them that I'm a quarter Irish, a quarter Scottish and half Spanish, they automatically ask that half came from Mexico.  For one, Spain is a fucking country and secondly I'm WAYYY too white.
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Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on Feb 09, 2005, 07:23:53 PM
What the fuck is wrong with being Mexican? Aside from being treated like a gardener all the time.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 09, 2005, 07:29:58 PM
There's nothing wrong with being Mexican, I was making an observation towards how dumb people can be.  Spanish doesn't mean Mexican.  
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Post by: Phage on Feb 10, 2005, 12:35:25 PM
Instead of introducing yourself as "part spanish" introduce yourself as part Spaniard. Watch the confusion roll over their faces, HEEEE-larious.
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Post by: B E C K on Feb 10, 2005, 12:41:46 PM
Introduce yourself as part Spanglish.
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Post by: Extra Zero on Feb 10, 2005, 02:05:22 PM
Haha, I could.
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Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on Feb 14, 2005, 03:04:24 PM
"Scotch Irish.  My father was from Wales."