Posted on 01/02/2014 4:41:24 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Tom opens a laundromat that specializes in washing white clothes and then cluelessly gives it a series of unfortunate names.
I was first going to say, that with the horrible state of our educational system, how come more people aren’t stupid enough to make this kind of new America speech code mistakes.
but then I realized the kids graduate with doctorates in diversity.
Very clever! Unfortunately satire only works when you are smart enough to realize it’s satire ;-)
Belly laughs for me and mrs. jimfree. Thanks for sharing.
My impression was that it allowed only white fabrics, but I could not understand why. I quickly realized that it was a play on words.
Doh!
You mean I can not wash my black hijbab in your establishment?
Perhaps we will encourage you to make an exception for us.
IBToZone
Thank you for my daily smile!
Wong and Wong Chinese Laundry - Two Wongs Make It White!
Oh, yellow man, oh, yellow man We understand, you know we understand He keeps his money tight in his hand With his yellow woman he's a yellow man Got to have a yellow woman When you're a yellow man
ROTFLMAO!
You mean it was a joke? Darn.
Loved it! Reminds me of the old SNL skits back when SNL was funny.
I showed this to Wifey, and she went into hysterics.
So help me Hannah, this story is true as it happened to my wife and sister.
Back in the ‘60s we had to relocate to help out my mom, who lived on Columbia, S.C. My sister had also just arrived.
One day they both go to the laundromat and are back in a few hours. Now my sister and I were brought up in the North (NYC) and just outside of Philadelphia for my new wife.
I asked them how everything went (navigating in a new city, etc.). Wifey said the people down here are freaking weird and stared at her and my sister the whole time. I asked them how they acted or what they said. Sometimes, down there, you got a negative reaction when they heard a Northern accent.
WTH??? Later on during supper, it came out that when they saw the “white” and “colored” signs over the washers, they thought it kind of odd, but separated the clothes accordingly and loaded the washers.
To this day, we still kid them about their naivete, but it just shows you the ridiculous extremes that were gone to in those days.
Follow up:
I showed this post to Wifey and she added that the whites just glared at them, but when they were unloading the colored clothes, a black lady came over and chewed them out for using those washers. Wifey takes out the colored clothes and shows them to the woman and says, “But we did just what it said.” The humor was lost on both sides.
True story from the late 80s: An upscale tennis club in Toronto posted a ‘Whites Only’ sign, meaning white tennis attire. The fallout was predictable and hilarious.
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