Posted on 06/23/2015 7:52:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Summer is here, which means reviving the contentious debate over whether or not a favorite ice cream toppings name has racist origins.
Ive heard them called jimmies ... Its after Jim Crow, said Carly Fishkin, 25, who grew up in Wellesley and prefers to call them sprinkles. Her nearby friend, Izak Shapiro, also 25, agreed.
They are two of many who have heard that the word jimmies has deeply racist connotations.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Ross Perot. I know you.
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.
No. Not at all. Why do you ask?
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????
We always called them shots. Guess that wouldn’t be allowed now due to zero tolerance.
**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.
I thought jimmies were underwear.
“I already stopped saying it, Young said, digging into her coffee cookies n cream. Its not a particularly pleasant word anyway ... I dont think Id start again.
“Too risky, said Shapiro.”
Is it racist to call these two dunderheads complete wussies?
“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
it looks like a maryland blue crab to me.
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”.
In the Tidewater area we called them blue channel crabs.
The jimmies were the males. The females were sooks, the young ones sallys.
Oh yeah. And there is “Jimmy Jimmy” by Ric Ocasek. The early days of MTV. :-)
I've heard that the name "Carly" has racist origins, as does the name "Fishkin", and don't even get me started on "Wellesley"...
Ask those minds of mush which party authored the Jim Crow laws.
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