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UA President Asks Grads Not to Toss Tortillas (Culturally Insensitive Wacko Police)
Arizona Daily Star ^
| May 9, 2002
| Inger Sandal
Posted on 05/09/2002 6:54:15 AM PDT by codebreaker
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To: codebreaker
It's all very silly, isn't it?
And yes, I think our olympians should be very hurt by the Koreans' sale and consumption of dog meat, and we should all be very disappointed and perhaps even a little shocked at the Koreans' insensitivity. If we can quit throwing another culture's cultural icon, surely they can quit eating one of ours.
To: codebreaker; Yardstick
To: codebreaker
FREE JUAN TORTILLAS.
I actually had a very small part in the birth of this tradition.
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posted on
05/09/2002 7:39:14 AM PDT
by
discostu
To: stainlessbanner
To: discostu
Do tell!
To: Yardstick
To: albee
To: codebreaker; dighton; aculeus
May I suggest an alternative? Italians would love it.
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posted on
05/09/2002 7:51:50 AM PDT
by
Orual
To: codebreaker
Sombreros really highlight the gringo in gringos.
To: Yardstick
How many Arizona freepers do we have in Tempe?
This could be a really fun freep.
To: codebreaker
About 13 years ago I was involved in a small group of people loosely affiliated with The Church of the Subgenious. TCOTS is an aknowledged fake religion that revolves around it's mystic leader (JR "Bob" Dobbs) and the concept of slack. SubG preach sessions are known as rants, it's a chance to do spontaneous live theater and can be a lot of fun (the big ones are known as devivals). Anyway we used to do our rants on the UA mall (big open grassy areas frequented by sorority girls in bikinis) competing with Dave (a CA lawyer and Calvinist, nice guy, he actually liked us we gathered a crowd). Once we had a three way going with Reverend Slick (aka Ishuah 666, leader of the local atheists group... not as nice a guy and I don't think he liked us... we were funnier). (note I was just one of the small banana dudes, only did a couple of rants, mostly I did maual labour and was an audience shill)
Anyway we decided to do an actual devival in a warehouse. We made fliers with clippings from The Weekly World News. When we were hanging them we found that somehow the words "free" and "tortillas" wound up stacked in a very logical order. We were scared, we thought people would now expect free food. Our ring leader came up with a brilliant plan.
During the devival he slowed things down for some "serious talk" with the audience (well attended actually). In this segment he told the audience about "Juan Tortillas" (pronounced properly, for you gringos: hwan tortiyas), a "soldier in the slack wars" going on in central America, Juan had been taken prisoner by the Pinks (soldiers of the conspiracy... that part is right out of the SubG stuff) leaving his wife and kids to starve. "And so, in order to send good vibes to Juan and his family, to increase their slack and hopefully get Juan freed, please join me in this chant
Free Juan Tortillas
Free Juan Tortillas
Free Juan Tortillas
FREE TORTILLAS {start throwing those little cheap ass corn tortillas at the audience)
FREE TORTILLAS
FREE TORTILLAS..."
Start waving your arms around to get the people in a big frenzy and get the hell off stage because things are gonna get crazy (you have armed them with flying disks after all).
That actually became the traditional ending to our rants. A couple of years later the group fizzled (as these things are wont to do), a couple of years after that I first heard about tortillas being thrown at UA graduation. We have no "proof" that it's our fault, but given the timing of it all we take the credit, and we're proud.
PS to the best of our knowledge the story of Juan Tortillas is completely made
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posted on
05/09/2002 7:59:15 AM PDT
by
discostu
To: codebreaker
UA president Peter Lykins is urging students not to bring the discs to fling into the air at Saturday's ceremonies because it's a waste of food and culturally insensitve to some people. Another spinless WHITE liberal flack-catcher.
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posted on
05/09/2002 8:00:22 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
To: discostu
Can you get injured with a flying tortilla?
To: codebreaker
The ironic thing is, Speedy is well loved in Mexico is still shown on TV down there.
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posted on
05/09/2002 8:02:08 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
To: Orual
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posted on
05/09/2002 8:02:10 AM PDT
by
dighton
To: Clemenza
What is worse is that he is imposing his own social agenda to supposedly 'help the children.'
What a sham.
To: Clemenza
Exactly, that is what the article said!
He is the most beloved cartoon among Hispanics..
To: dighton
'We don't need no stinking administrators telling us where to put our Tortillas..'
To: codebreaker
Geez! I wish I'd thought of this. When I went through my Master's graduation in San Jose in '96, the guest speaker was some Hispanic pol/activist on crutches, last name Gil-Osorio, who spent nearly an hour whoring for votes for Bill Clinton. The whole speech was political, and totally inappropriate for a graduation. I was embarassed to have dragged my folks there to listen to this crap. A few frisbee tortillas would have been perfect. LOL!
To: codebreaker
Tortillas are cool
Flying high like a frisbee
Lykins is a putz.
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