To: sarasota; MotleyGirl70
***** Seinfeld reference alert!
The "Cigar Store Indian" was a great episode treating the hazards of innocent racial-ethnic references. I'll look for some quotes.
To: Larry Lucido
[Street outside Winona's (an Indian, er, Native American girl)]
WINONA: It's just that it's a very sensitive issue for me.
JERRY: And well it should be. I think if you spent any time with me at all,
you'd see I'm very sensitive to these matters as well. You wouldn't be hungry by
any chance, wouldya?
WINONA: (smiling) I guess I could go for a bite.
JERRY: You like Chinese food, 'cos I once went to a great Szechwan restaurant in
this neighbourhood. I don't remember the exact address... (he spots a mailman
crouched emptying a box) Uh, excuse me, you must know where the Chinese
restaurant is around here.
The mailman stands, turns and is revealed as Chinese. He takes offence.
MAILMAN: Why must I know? Because I'm Chinese? You think I know where all the
Chinese restaurants are? (adopts hackneyed Chinese accent) Oh, ask honolable
Chinaman for rocation of lestaulant.
JERRY: I asked because you were the mailman, you would know the neighbourhood.
MAILMAN: Oh, hello American Joe. Which way to hamburger, hotdog stand? (storms
away)
JERRY: I didn't know that...
WINONA: You know, it's late. I should probably just go home.
JERRY: I, I had no idea.
A cab drives by. Kramer leans out the window, along with the top of the Indian.
KRAMER: (yells) Hey Jerry! (thumps cab door with his palm) Look what I got!
(begins doing war-whoops)
Winona looks offended again. Jerry is mortified, and can find nothing to say.
Winona storms back into her building.
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