Jury says airline not liable in suit over 'racist rhyme'

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[excalibur1701]

>>...on a February 2001 flight from "Las Vegas" to Kansas
City.

Sounds like they had a losing week in Vegas, and was trying to make up for it. It shouldn't be "Loser Pays" but, "Losing LAWYER Pays", since they accept these frivolous lawsuits to begin with.

[Jeff Chandler]

I have a larger version of that photo set as one of my computers' wallpaper.

[conserv13]

I can see if the attendent really said 'catch a nigger by the toe' how the women would be offended. The attendent did not say that though, so I don't see the point.

At least they weren't being niggardly with the peanuts!

[Jeff Chandler]

Even still, it's ridiculous. It's a way to choose something randomly. How would one catch an African-American person by the toe? And what would one do with them if one did? How does that help make a random choice?

That reminds me of an old joke:

Q: How do you cut off a cat's tail?
A: Take away his Thunderbird.

[Jeff Chandler]

At least they weren't being niggardly with the peanuts!

Or offering them Brazil toes.

[drjoe]

"after all tigers don't have toes"

Huh??? Tigers ceetainly do have toes. Tigers walk on their toes.

[Jeff Chandler]

It's called the Litigation Lottery.

[Jeff Chandler]

Tigers walk on their toes.

Oh, sure. Tigers can walk on their toes, but if you walk on their toes they eat you. Sensitive creatures, those tigers.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I'd heard that she actually had used the n- word.

And you actually believed that?

[Atlas Sneezed]

IIRC, the tune that is now used for "Yankee Doodle" was from British drinking song...

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So's our national anthem.

[Darnright]

"I had a black woman (an engineer no less) in my group quite a few years ago who refused to attend a meeting in a conference room that had the word "white" in it."

I guess this means we don't have to ever worry about this person moving to White Post, Virginia, or White Plains, New Joisy.

Some folks need to get a hobby.

[Freebird Forever]

Imagine having either one of these two women in small business. The possibility of a frivolous lawsuit just because one of them was "offended" is too great a risk to take.

I'd hire a "guest worker" over one of these broads any day.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"You're the pot calling the kettle black" which was said by a white woman (on the Apprentice reality show) to a black woman. The black woman went ballistic.

Wasn't that ludicrous? Omarosa has GOT to go. Unfortunately, she is black and the producers probably have given her protected status.

It took exactly one episode before the race card was played and look who played it.

Her parents taught her well. The poor little victim.

[Freebird Forever]

As the two women struggled to find seats on the crowded plane, Southwest Airlines flight attendant Jennifer Cundiff said over the intercom, “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go.”

Can you imagine what these two would have done if the poor flight attendant had told them there were seats open in the back of the plane.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

No, but I'm just saying that someone in the media said that she'd used the n- word.

[TroutStalker]

LOL!

“There is no justice in America for blacks … ” Fuller said.

[sarasota]

Don't forget she's previously worked for Clinton. As she said last night, she worked her way up from the ghetto to working for the "president"....

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What about that obnoxious song that one guy wrote years ago with the lyrics "short people got no reason to live?"

It was Randy Newman, a brilliant song writer and lyricist.

That was just the refrain of the song, which was meant as a protest against discrimination of all types.

The chorus of the song is:

Short People are just the same As you and I
(A Fool Such As I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It's A Wonderful World)

Though many people didn't take it that way and saw it as a hurtful song.

BTW, I think petite women are the sexiest people on G-d's green earth. The lovely Mrs. B.S. Roberts is just shy of 5 ffet tall.

[Zack Nguyen]

When I was a very young child, I recited the rhyme as "Eenie, meenie, miney mo; Catch a tiger by the toe." Is that racist, too?

HOW DARE YOU?! Have you no shame?! I suppose you keep a hood in your closet too!!