Posted on 09/24/2008 11:00:26 AM PDT by DRey
The liberal comments to this article are hilarious. They're finally figuring out he's AGAINST THEM!
LMAO!
ping
Bubba’s STD meds must be affecting his brain - but not enough to stop him from going to FL with a pocketful of hundred dollar bills to drag through trailer parks
The Dems are having a sh!#fit. The Jewish vote is running away from them, especially after they ran Lieberman out of their party, and now he’s campaigning for McCain.
I laughed for 3 minutes reading those comments...that is some funny stuff...
Only "crackers" should be permitted to use the term amongst themselves --- not unlike blacks have demanded the exclusive use of the dreaded "N" word.
cracker
Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English - Cite This Source - Share This Main Entry: cracker
CITE THIS SOURCE|PRINT American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This crack·er (krāk'ər) Pronunciation Key n. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States. Used as a disparaging term for a white person. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States. Used as a disparaging term for a white person.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Cracker, Southern U.S. derogatory term for "poor, white trash" (1766), is from c.1450 crack "to boast" (e.g. not what it's cracked up to be), originally a Scottish word. Especially of Georgians by 1808, though often extended to residents of northern Florida. "I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode." [1766, G. Cochrane]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper CITE THIS SOURCE|PRINT WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This cracker
2. a poor White person in the southern United States [syn:
which in Middle English meant an obnoxious person (e.g., "What cracker is this same that deafs our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?" -- Shakespeare's King John, Act II, Scene I) and in modern colloquial American English survives as a barely gentler synonym for "white trash". 5. A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. --Bartlett.
“”I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.” [1766, G. Cochrane]”
Cool.
Now I’m a hillbilly cracker...:)
Bumping because this made me laugh harder than anything else did today!!!
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