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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:13 PM
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Why do Obamistas think "shuck and jive" is a slur but "si se puede" isn't?
:shrug:
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:14 PM
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1. Wow, you just won't let it rest, will you?
If it has to be explained to you, then I wonder whether or not you even type your own posts.

Seriously.
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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:15 PM
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4. "If you don't know I'm not going to tell you"?
Why not. It's a serious question.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 10:38 AM
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57. Seems less like a serious question and more like a "gotcha" question
Seems less like a serious question and more like a "gotcha" question-- the kind we hear on A.M. talk radio stations.

But then, as I've neither chosen nor ruled out a candidate yet, I'm probably blinded by a sense of neutrality...
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:09 PM
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38. Amen -- what an UTTERLY spurious equivalence!!!!! nt
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:15 PM
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2. Sí se puede
Sí se puede
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Sí se puede (Spanish for "Yes, It can be done!") is the motto of the United Farm Workers. In 1972, during Cesar Chavez's 25 day fast in Phoenix, Arizona, he and UFW's co-founder, Dolores Huerta came up with the slogan.<1>

The phrase drew widespread political and media attention as a rallying cry during the 2006 U.S. immigration reform protests.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%AD_se_puede
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:15 PM
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3. Si se puede means "Yes we can"
Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 09:24 PM by rox63
How could that be seen as a slur? :shrug:
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:18 PM
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9. I don't get it either. Should we thank him for playing "Really Bad Analogies" ? n/t
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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:19 PM
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11. and shuck and jive is an expression used primarily by blacks to mean "slick"
why is an Italian guy using African American originated slang "racist" but "si se puede" by a black candidate isn't?
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:23 PM
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22. Unless Obama used "si se puede" to attack Richardson, the analogy is meaningless. n/t

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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:26 PM
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30. He was talking to union members, and this phrase has a history with organized labor
This the lamest anti-Obama complaint I've heard all day. :eyes:
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:17 PM
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41. maybe a daily "lamest anti-Obama protestation" award should be given out at DU... nt
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:16 PM
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40. OK -- here's the fallacy ....
Shuck and jive is not MERELY a use of black slang. It is a use of a black slang PERJORATIVE (and stereotype) by a non-black major public figure about a major African-American political figure. Hearing the use of the phrase, it is hard at least for many people (not needing ANY connexion whatsoever to the Obama campaign, as HRC has implied) not to think of race and about Obama. It is a reminder, in a negative AND KNOWINGLY PROVOCATIVE WAY of Obama's being African American.

The provocative issue is key because, like the 'minstrel show' GOP Convention in 2000, it predictably spawns a lot of discussion BY OTHERS of the 'race' issue, and therefore puts it front and center in the minds of voters (of whom the vast majority are white).

Aside from the MORALITY of the issue, it seems to be a dangerous game to try and play within the Democratic Party, but maybe I am naively optimistic here. But note how raising the immigration issue for reasons of pure heat and no light in 2006 didn't do the Repugs much good.
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 07:52 AM
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52. Earlier on this thread, I had likened that phrase to an Amos and Andy style stereotype,
that would be relatively benign. But I'll now go for your use of the word: "pejorative". And I'm now starting to get PISSED at the implication expressed earlier that: "Si Se Puede!", was just a Hispanic "ethnic thing"! As another poster commented, it's strongly grounded in unionism AND justice! It happens to be the ONLY Spanish phrase that not only stirs my blood, but comes to my tongue naturally. I can say it in my sleep.

"Si Se Puede!"

pnorman
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ellacott Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 08:03 AM
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53. shuck and jive means slick? That's a new one for me
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:21 PM
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16. Yes, he or she can. Or the generic 'one' can. Or even "It's possible" in a loose meaning. Not 'we'
To be excessively technical....

Si, podemos....!
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:19 PM
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42.  ... or the slang expression "Way" (as in SNL's Aurora Ill routine) nt
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:22 PM
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18. Consider the source of the OP
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:10 PM
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39. all it takes is a little imagination -- not to mention patriotism! nt
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 11:16 PM
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45. He's quoting Cesar Chavez
Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 11:25 PM by GalleryGod
40 years from now...the greatest boast will be..I marched with Cesar

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RoveRage Donating Member (322 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 10:47 AM
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60. I thought it meant, "yes you can".
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Didereaux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:15 PM
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5. because rational thought is a sign of intelligence?
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:16 PM
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6. Toda Su Base Es Pertenece A Nosotros! n/t
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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:21 PM
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15. ROFLMAO
Thanks for the laugh. The OP is so insane on this topic, it needs a little life.
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:17 PM
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7. Joke, right?
Gawd, I hope so.
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Essene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:17 PM
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8. shuck and jive by itself isnt a slur. But using the phrase to diss a black politician... is
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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:20 PM
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12. So African Ameircan slang can only be used by African Americans? bwaa
That's why the race card is backfiring.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:21 PM
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14. The left wing and their political correctness.
PM me if you want more details.
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:23 PM
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20. "left wing and Their Political correctness"
oh brotha
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Essene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:48 PM
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34. spare us your insincere apologist banter, for race baiting
I love apologists for racism.

Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General for the State of New York... made very obnoxious and unacceptable comments directed at a black presidential candidate. You may think that's funny or nothing to be upset about, but it was done explicitly to divide and conquer as race baiting.

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Essene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:49 PM
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35. oh... and yes, the power of words has everything to do with context
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knowledgeispwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:54 PM
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37. Nice strawman
That's not what the post you replied to said. S/he said when used to dis blacks.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:23 PM
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21. Gotta admit, my Aussie partner thought so, too
even though I explained to her that it's a phrase that's often used in a general sense, without any racial connotations whatsoever.
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 09:15 AM
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56. Okay, but Cuomo didn't use it to diss a black politician.
He wasn't talking about Obama at all.
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:18 PM
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10. If he hadn't all ready, this poster just jumped the shark.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:20 PM
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13. You comments are more of a reason to abstain should...
Obama (Empty Suite-Illinois) get the nomination.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:25 PM
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:26 PM
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29. Obama supporters speak of inclusion but..
don't want anyone who is not like them.
I am a moderate Democrat.
To bad the Obaministas don't want others in their camp.
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Joe the Revelator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:29 PM
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33. You know not what you say....
Obama's campaign has welcomed independents, and recovering republicans into their camp. Hillary has continued to supress votes. Now who is it again that doesn't want voters who are not like them?
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cloudythescribbler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:22 PM
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43. Here is another WONDERFUL illustration of some trends at DU I've been noting ...
The absolutely most PREPOSTEROUS claims and protestations AGAINST Obama are sure to find someone(s) who have their back

It's time to raise this issue within DU, and to talk about PROGRESSIVE AUTHENTICITY............
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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:21 PM
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17. Si se puede isn't a slur!
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PresidentObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:22 PM
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19. This has to be the dumbest OP in DU history.
How is "Yes We Can" in Spanish EVEN somewhat similiar to the bullshit line of "Shuck and Jive"
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:25 PM
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26. While the OP rates pretty high on the OMFWTF-scale, it is hardly the DUMBEST post EVER on DU.
I'd link to some examples, but most of them just say, "You are ignoring this poster."

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PresidentObama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:28 PM
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32. Fine, it's on the list of dumbest posts.
How is "Yes We Can" a slur? And how is it ANYWHERE close to the "Shuck and Jive" bullshit?

Boggles the mind, huh?
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:27 PM
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44. LOL!
It says a lot about the OP doesn't it? Oh well, at least it is entertaining watching him reveal himself to everyone.
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:24 PM
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23. Obamistas? What are you, about 12 years old?
Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 09:25 PM by bowens43
Grow up.
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:24 PM
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24. "Yes, we can!"
That's an activist slogan, and referring to the power of hitherto "powerless" people uniting and finding power. WHO could regard that as a "racial" slur?

But "Shuck and jive"? Probably not a "slur", but an Amos & Andy style stereotype!

pnorman
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 11:18 PM
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46. Quoting Cesar Chavez.
Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 11:26 PM by GalleryGod


40 years from now..the greatest boast will be, I Marched with Cesar
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pnorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 01:08 AM
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49. I never marched with Cesar Chavez,
but I used up a lot of shoe leather marching in behalf of his Farm Workers Union. A souvenir of one such march, is a cassette tape labeled: "Si Se Puede!"

Solidarity Forever!
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong.

CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.

Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.

It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong.

All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
While the union makes us strong.

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiKdJoSsb8

"Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong."

pnorman
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Barb in Atl Donating Member (254 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:25 PM
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27. Two part response...
First: Obamistas? Are we all serving lattes as we support the senator? Ya want foam on that?

Anyway, unless someone is trying to be "hip" or riffin' on that whole 70's Good Times thing, I very rarely hear shuckin' and jivin'. I can't imagine why anyone would refer to the campaign strategies of opponents as shuckin' and jivin' when one of the opponents is of color unless they were high or had a particularly bad head bump in the not too distant past.

Mind you, didn't pay attention to local campaigns until the last couple of years, so I may have missed previous uses of this oh so common phrase.

And si se puede is the spanish version of his campaign slogan, isn't it?
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:26 PM
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28. For the second day in a row, P2BA, today's WORST PERSON IN THE WOOOOORRRLLLDDDD!!!!
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 11:20 PM
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47. YUP

On the list!
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:27 PM
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31. You've out done yourself
:applause::applause::applause::applause:

Congrats, I didn't think I could see a sillier thread.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 11:33 PM
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48. You didn't see this one then:
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 01:11 AM
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51. You know, that's the second Freemason thread I've seen lately
strange coincidence.


:)
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:49 PM
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36. Wow.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 01:10 AM
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50. Put down the bong, dude.
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Bishop Rook Donating Member (252 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 08:17 AM
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54. Five words
Negative connotation versus positive connotation.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 09:13 AM
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55. Maybe because we don't speak Spanish and haven't a clue what it means? nt
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TerwilligeRedux Donating Member (63 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 10:45 AM
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58. How is "Yes, We Can" a slur?
I have a problem with the fact that Andy Cuomo can't say "shuck and jive" solely on the basis that Obama is black. I would say "shuck and jive" repeatedly referring to most politicians.
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Hello_Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-14-08 10:46 AM
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59. I'll take Inapt Analogies for $500, Alex! nt
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