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Is it racist to call them ‘jimmies’?
Boston Globe ^ | June 21, 2015 | Sara Morrison

Posted on 06/23/2015 7:52:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: ConservativeStatement

Jimmy Crab


21 posted on 06/23/2015 8:19:08 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: OldSmaj

Ross Perot. I know you.


22 posted on 06/23/2015 8:19:57 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: headstamp 2
So in other words they’re both stupid.

Maybe. Maybe they are just seeing how many people they can get to pick up the term off the webs and start using it that way.

If Nabisco didn't change the name of a certain cookie, I really don't think the sprinkles need to be renamed.

And they can leave my Brazil Nuts alone while they are at it.

23 posted on 06/23/2015 8:20:55 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Is it racist to call them ‘jimmies’?

No. Not at all. Why do you ask?

24 posted on 06/23/2015 8:22:11 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: ConservativeStatement

What a ridiculous speculation!! Jimmies predate the racist accusations that have been in vogue for decades. Sadly, at the end of the article, one of the Millenials says he won’t be calling them ‘jimmies’....... Too risky, he says. What has the Left done to our children????


25 posted on 06/23/2015 8:24:46 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Not my circus, not my monkeys.......)
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To: ConservativeStatement

We always called them shots. Guess that wouldn’t be allowed now due to zero tolerance.


26 posted on 06/23/2015 8:25:27 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: SolidRedState

**He called us his “porch monkeys”.***

Somewhere in my vast files of irrelevant info given out at construction sites 40 years ago is a copy of a “License to hunt PORCH MONKEYS. It goes into legal and illegal bait, and is signed by I.M. White.


27 posted on 06/23/2015 8:26:44 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ConservativeStatement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8i5NLyXZdc


28 posted on 06/23/2015 8:28:30 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: ConservativeStatement

I thought jimmies were underwear.


29 posted on 06/23/2015 8:32:39 PM PDT by onedoug
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““I already stopped saying it,” Young said, digging into her coffee cookies ‘n’ cream. “It’s not a particularly pleasant word anyway ... I don’t think I’d start again.”

““Too risky,” said Shapiro.”

Is it racist to call these two dunderheads complete wussies?


30 posted on 06/23/2015 8:37:31 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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What did Sonny say to Michael in the flashback scene at the end of Godfather II? "What did you do, go to college to get stupid?" It fits.
31 posted on 06/23/2015 8:41:19 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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“Kick me in the jimmies”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kick+me+in+the+jimmies

A game played to test the personal threshold of pain. Also known as “Kick me in the Jimmy” Or “Jimmy Kick”. The male seeking to master pain tolerance will ask another person to “kick me in the jimmies.” That person will then kick the kickee multiple times in the crotch. The kicking only ceases when the kickee (one being Kicked) gives in.

Kick me in the jimmy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzCnrpfUaAk


32 posted on 06/23/2015 8:43:51 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: smoothsailing

it looks like a maryland blue crab to me.


33 posted on 06/23/2015 8:45:52 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: onedoug

I thought it was my...ahem...willie the one eyed wonder worm.
I’ve heard that since I was a kid. “Tuck your jimmy back in, it’s showing out it’s nest”.


34 posted on 06/23/2015 8:49:28 PM PDT by rikkir (Anyone still believe the 8/08 Atlantic cover wasn't 100% accurate?)
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To: posterchild

In the Tidewater area we called them blue channel crabs.

The jimmies were the males. The females were sooks, the young ones sallys.


35 posted on 06/23/2015 8:59:45 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: ConservativeStatement
Top Jimmy?
36 posted on 06/23/2015 9:05:41 PM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: W.

Oh yeah. And there is “Jimmy Jimmy” by Ric Ocasek. The early days of MTV. :-)


37 posted on 06/23/2015 9:10:27 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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#Seinfeld
38 posted on 06/23/2015 9:24:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
said Carly Fishkin, 25, who grew up in Wellesley

I've heard that the name "Carly" has racist origins, as does the name "Fishkin", and don't even get me started on "Wellesley"...

39 posted on 06/23/2015 9:26:39 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: headstamp 2

Ask those minds of mush which party authored the Jim Crow laws.


40 posted on 06/23/2015 9:29:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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