Word For The Day 6/27/03

The Verbivores | 6/27/03 | Hobbes (There is No Substitue ;)

[secret garden]

Yes, I see I finally received a grade. :-)
Now I have to go out and play. Is it recess?

[Conspiracy Guy]

GOt to go to a dang meeting. I'll be back

[hobbes1]

Now I have to go out and play.

Hmmmm...In a post to yourself...does that mean you will be playing with......nevermind

[secret garden]

Smack you later! ;) Bye!

[VRWCmember]

Now I have to go out and play. Is it recess?

Recess activity today is basketball. Croqs are shirts and the gals are skins today.

[secret garden]

Please tell me the shirts aren't those fishnet tank tops y'all are so fond of.

[VRWCmember]

Please tell me the shirts aren't those fishnet tank tops y'all are so fond of.

Nope, we were sleeveless cotton T-shirts.

[VRWCmember]

Actually, I meant to say "Nope, we wear sleeveless cotton T-shirts."

[TheGrimReaper]

Would have been here, but was unnotified.
- TGR, the un-pinged.

[hobbes1]

SorryGrim...I don't have a ping list.....

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'm in.

[Conspiracy Guy]

4L Lula Belle would be ape sh!t.

[Conspiracy Guy]

She doesn't put coffee in those.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Are baby democraps called curtain clymers? Or are they called porch monkeys?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I used to wear one of these. At SAC peace was our profession, war was our hobby. Curtis Nukem Lamay would be saddened by the demise of SAC.

[hobbes1]

curtain clymerss...ROTFLMAO!

[white rose]

While noting the passing of our American political figures, let us also say a few words commemorating "Mr. Margaret Thatcher," a bloke who was thoroughly unclymer-ish.

That reminds me...

...You have to give the Brits credit, their political scene is seldom dull.

[hobbes1]

One wonders how Adam Clymer missed this bit of info about Senator Thurmond...(excerpted from an article about Jesse going off to pasture, written in 2001)

This was not my initial impression of Mr. Helms, when as a young boy in North Carolina during the civil rights movement I listened to his anti-integration, anti-Martin Luther King commentaries on WRAL-TV. But once the civil-rights legislation of the 1960s was enacted, Mr. Helms--along with some of his erstwhile segregationist colleagues like South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond--did something very revolutionary for Southern white populists.

They accepted the laws and obeyed them.

This is not how Southern politicians responded in the 1870s and 1880s. Populists like South Carolina's "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman did not just fulminate against civil rights laws. They led movements of armed, organized resistance, intimidating black voters at the polls, defending racial lynchings and, in Tillman's case, being directly and openly involved in the murder of black political leaders.

Even as the passions of the civil-rights movement were at their height, Messrs. Helms and Thurmond (whose father was Ben Tillman's lawyer) shunned violence. Without ever losing their credentials as hard-core defenders of Southern values, they hired African-American staffers and gave African-Americans the same level of constituency service they gave whites. Even their opposition to affirmative action is based on their claim that these principles violate what ought to be a color-blind stance on the part of the government.

That is something no white Southern politician, and especially one representing Mr. Helms' core supporters of farmers and small-town whites, would have ever said before Jesse Helms came along. It is something they all say now.

[SCalGal]

No one pinged me, either.

[hobbes1]

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