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Elections 2012: Congressional and Gubernatorial

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The older generation rears its head. I'm honestly curious to know where those terms for the NVA/Vietcong came from. :D

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Actually I was just having some fun. Hoping for the ladies to get the vapors.

"Beulah, peel me a grape."
 
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Old Pio said:
Everyone knows the term "gook" is properly applied to North Koreans. "Dink," "zipperhead" and "slope" are more appropriate for NVA and Vietcong scum.
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In my group of friends we have a couple with those nicknames. One is a surgeon, another a gastroenterologist and the third is just a jerk.;)
 
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Sounds like we need to update George Carlin's routine on the seven words you can't say on television: nowadays it's the n-word (unless you're a black comedian), the r-word, the word that starts with "d" and rhymes with "like", and I'm sure we can come up with four more....

One of the candidates for local office referred to herself as a New Age politician, and there was a letter to the editor in the weekly community newspaper from a woman complaining that this slogan was a slur against the elderly. While this sounds like Emily Litella from Saturday Night Life, it was not a joke, as far as I could tell.

I had to laugh the other day when I heard a TV news person refer to "paddy wagons." I'm sure she had no clue that this term was supposed to be a slur against the Irish. Problem was, the Irish didn't get offended by it! They took it as a point of pride instead.*



* they were called "paddy wagons" because they were used for mass arrests and so many Irish were arrested at once and every third Irishman is named Patrick or Paddy. After having been beaten and starved by the English for centuries, the police tactics here were fairly mild in comparison.
 
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FreshFish said:
Sounds like we need to update George Carlin's routine on the seven words you can't say on television: nowadays it's the n-word (unless you're a black comedian), the r-word, the word that starts with "d" and rhymes with "like", and I'm sure we can come up with four more....

One of the candidates for local office referred to herself as a New Age politician, and there was a letter to the editor in the weekly community newspaper from a woman complaining that this slogan was a slur against the elderly. While this sounds like Emily Litella from Saturday Night Life, it was not a joke, as far as I could tell.

I had to laugh the other day when I heard a TV news person refer to "paddy wagons." I'm sure she had no clue that this term was supposed to be a slur against the Irish. Problem was, the Irish didn't get offended by it! They took it as a point of pride instead.*



* they were called "paddy wagons" because they were used for mass arrests and so many Irish were arrested at once and every third Irishman is named Patrick or Paddy. After having been beaten and starved by the English for centuries, the police tactics here were fairly mild in comparison.
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R-word? You're going to have to help me with that one.

We can add a different F word, the one that rhymes with "bag". And since the F-word in George Carlin's original routine appears in two words, might as well add "got" to the end. That takes care of two more.
 
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FreshFish said:
Sounds like we need to update George Carlin's routine on the seven words you can't say on television: nowadays it's the n-word (unless you're a black comedian), the r-word, the word that starts with "d" and rhymes with "like", and I'm sure we can come up with four more....
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So are you saying you feel left out not being able to hear those words on your telly? Or perhaps even say those words? Would their usage enhance your viewing experience or perhaps your interpersonal relationships? Shakespeare wrote a play about that.
 
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Slap Shot said:
So are you saying you feel left out not being able to hear those words on your telly? Or perhaps even say those words? Would their usage enhance your viewing experience or perhaps your interpersonal relationships? Shakespeare wrote a play about that.
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"Objection! - relevance". Consenting adults should be able to say and listen to whatever they want, and have the right to be offended or not. This is why we have cable networks that are looser in their programming and (in theory) decent parenting (though in practice, that is increasingly rare).
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
"Objection! - relevance". Consenting adults should be able to say and listen to whatever they want, and have the right to be offended or not. This is why we have cable networks that are looser in their programming and (in theory) decent parenting (though in practice, that is increasingly rare).
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Yeah, that doesn't negate anything I said as I wasn't arguing for censorship.
 
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OK. This one is just real odd. In a debate for between Jeff Flake and Richard Carmona for the open AZ Senate seat, at one point the moderator said that they knew how Candy Crowley felt during the presidential debate. Carmona's response was to tell the moderator that they are prettier than Candy Crowley. So, that in of itself should get the womens rights groups agitated. But, get this, the moderator is a guy. So Carmona tells a male moderator that he's prettier than a female moderator. That's just odd. Carmona claims he now claimed he was just trying to be funny. Uh, yah.
 
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Bob Gray said:
OK. This one is just real odd. In a debate for between Jeff Flake and Richard Carmona for the open AZ Senate seat, at one point the moderator said that they knew how Candy Crowley felt during the presidential debate. Carmona's response was to tell the moderator that they are prettier than Candy Crowley. So, that in of itself should get the womens rights groups agitated. But, get this, the moderator is a guy. So Carmona tells a male moderator that he's prettier than a female moderator. That's just odd. Carmona claims he now claimed he was just trying to be funny. Uh, yah.
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He has a point. In the parts of the debate I did see, Candy does look like a cow. She has bad hair.
 
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Bob Gray said:
OK. This one is just real odd. In a debate for between Jeff Flake and Richard Carmona for the open AZ Senate seat, at one point the moderator said that they knew how Candy Crowley felt during the presidential debate. Carmona's response was to tell the moderator that they are prettier than Candy Crowley. So, that in of itself should get the womens rights groups agitated. But, get this, the moderator is a guy. So Carmona tells a male moderator that he's prettier than a female moderator. That's just odd. Carmona claims he now claimed he was just trying to be funny. Uh, yah.
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Candy Crowley is not an attractive woman. It wouldn't take much for a man to be prettier than her.
 
Slap Shot said:
Rover, you quoting the Old PO'd justifies the ignore feature. Every tantrum he has reminds me all the more of, "You can't handle the truth".
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I always think of him as wanting to be Sgt. Hulka from Stripes, but like the Col. Jessup reference too. Bottom line is the guy wants to waive the bloody shirt when it benefits Republicans, but when its an attack against Democrats its anything goes. Want proof? Whenever he talks about a Dem's service, its always "he served honorably....as far as I know!".

Funniest is his point about flying a plane. Sure its dangerous, but should we give service medals to all those crop dusters who patrol the skies over Texas every day too?

Look the guy's a laughingstock. That has nothing to do with whether or not he's a vet, it just is! I'm looking forward to his next rant...
 
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Rover said:
I always think of him as wanting to be Sgt. Hulka from Stripes, but like the Col. Jessup reference too. Bottom line is the guy wants to waive the bloody shirt when it benefits Republicans, but when its an attack against Democrats its anything goes. Want proof? Whenever he talks about a Dem's service, its always "he served honorably....as far as I know!".

Funniest is his point about flying a plane. Sure its dangerous, but should we give service medals to all those crop dusters who patrol the skies over Texas every day too?

Look the guy's a laughingstock. That has nothing to do with whether or not he's a vet, it just is! I'm looking forward to his next rant...
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You ladies, natter, natter, natter. BTW, idiot, there's no crop dusting over the Gulf of Mexico, especially at night. And customarily, it's not done in single seat jet fighters.

"That's funny, that plane's dustin' crops where there ain't no crops."
 
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