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Robber leaves empty-handed when Hispanic clerk cannot understand demands
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| Thursday, July 09, 2009
| JILLIAN KRAMER
Posted on 07/09/2009 10:54:42 AM PDT by SonnyBubba
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To: SonnyBubba
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posted on
07/09/2009 10:55:41 AM PDT
by
mgc1122
To: SonnyBubba
Only in Mobile. Hispanic owns Asian foodstore.
To: SonnyBubba
Please press ‘1’ for robbery in English
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posted on
07/09/2009 10:57:19 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(The emperor has no pedigree.)
To: Hegemony Cricket
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posted on
07/09/2009 10:59:41 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: Hegemony Cricket
"Please press 1 for robbery in English"Or stay on the line for the next available translator.
Were sorry all translators are currenly assissting other robbers your approximate wait is.....5 minutes.
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:00:42 AM PDT
by
sniper63
(Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
To: SonnyBubba
Any landlord coulda told the robber about this anomoly.
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:00:44 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: SonnyBubba
Niiiiiccccce.....
Great "Reality Show": WHEN EBONICS AND SPANGLISH COLLIDE (in an Asian market)!!!
The best screenwriters in Hollywood couldn't make this stuff up.
To: SonnyBubba
Ok, advantages: 1.
disadvantages: 29,374,117.
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:01:41 AM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(What kind of organization answers the phone if you call a suicide hotline in Gaza City?)
To: 6SJ7
He conseguido un fusil, me da su dinero.
To: conservativeharleyguy
There was a line from a dirty harry movie, something about “what do hispanics and pool balls have in common - the harder you hit ‘em the better their English gets.”
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:04:18 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
To: SonnyBubba
"Only in Mobile. Hispanic owns Asian foodstore." My dad (Bless His Soul) used to say that Mobile was owned by the Jews, run by the Catholics and enjoyed by the Ni.....
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:13:38 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
To: blam
Now that right there is funny!
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:18:50 AM PDT
by
badbass
To: blam
A couple of months ago we were driving through Mobile (during a horrendous rain event) and passed a couple of exit markers for “Africatown”......one of the many mental notes I made to Googleize when we got back home to California.
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:19:24 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Impeach now!)
To: conservativeharleyguy
I was thinking along the same lines - after I read the story I thought now this is the kind of sketch SNL would do. And make the perp black who can only speak ebonics/rap speak.
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:19:33 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
To: 3catsanadog
Hah! Read the rest of the story and he was black.
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:21:34 AM PDT
by
3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
To: ErnBatavia
"A couple of months ago we were driving through Mobile (during a horrendous rain event) and passed a couple of exit markers for Africatown......one of the many mental notes I made to Googleize when we got back home to California."Africatown
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:28:30 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Thanks....but we enjoyed visiting my uncle over in Lillian more!
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:29:58 AM PDT
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ErnBatavia
(Impeach now!)
To: badbass
When I retired and moved to Mobile, one of the first bumper stickers I saw said:
"If I had known this was going to happen, I'd have picked my own damn cotton."
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posted on
07/09/2009 11:31:12 AM PDT
by
blam
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