Subj : Re: Saturday morning cart
To   : Daemon
From : Tracker1
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 07:20 pm

Daemon wrote:
>>> What ever happened to the wonderful, gratuitous violence that shows like 
>>> Tom & Jerry and Speedy Gonzales taught us to enjoy?  
>> 
>> Both had racial slurs as part of their comedy, and we can't have that.. ;)
> 
>   *grumble*  
> 
>   People take themselves too seriously.  One of my best friends is Polish,
> 100%, and I'm almost 100% Sicilian, and we used to LOVE sitting there amidst
> large groups of strangers going through endless litanies of scathing ethnic
> jokes at each other, just to watch the reactions of everyone else.

That's why I had the blinky at the end.. ;)  I feel the same way.  In H.S. a 
few of my better friends were black and hispanic, and tended to do some of the 
same stuff.. for some reason the bystanders didn't take so kindly and almost 
came to blows a couple times... who knows anymore.. people are sooo concerned 
about racism etc, that it just gets stupid.

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