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Century-old Hutchinson High School chant abolished <Freep these Nuts!>
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| 02 feb 2003
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Posted on 02/02/2003 7:38:31 PM PST by steplock
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To: Dog Gone
In a world full of political incorrectness one would think that the students could have found a better way to espress themselves without being NIGGARDLY in their use of words.
To: APBaer
Dare we compare it to "The Potato Eaters" by Vincent van Gogh and other paintings of French and Irish peasants?
To: Lunatic Fringe
May this superintendent be plagued with chiggers.
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posted on
02/02/2003 9:08:20 PM PST
by
Marauder
To: judgeandjury
should we ban the word fornicate because of this?No, but shouldn't we ban buck, cluck, duck, luck, muck, pluck, shuck, schmuck, tuck, and truck?
Not to mention Huck Finn, of course.
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posted on
02/02/2003 9:17:20 PM PST
by
Marauder
(Political correctness is a pox on this society.)
To: steplock
"The school board voted unanimously Monday night to do away with the chant after Superintendent Wynona Winn said that at least one phrase -- "hoe potatoer" -- could be considered offensive."
Only if you are a hoe or a potatoe!!
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posted on
02/02/2003 9:18:22 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(Prayers for Columbia.)
To: js1138
I used to sit out in the Wrigley Field left-field bleachers in the early 1970s. We used to do a chant that started like this:
Alabevo! Alabaivo! Alabevo, baivo, bum!
Bum on a rat trap!
Bigger than a cat trap!
At the time, and ever since, I thought this nonsense chant was unique to the Bleacher Bums. But now, because of this thread, I find out otherwise. I just did a Google search of some of the key terms, and I find results (with some variations, of course) all over the country.
The things you learn because of FR. . . .
To: steplock
- "hoe potatoer" -- could be considered offensive... I for one am offended that so many people seem to have become convinced of their own superior righteousness that they can so easily become offended and pass judgment on what others have to say...
To: Lunatic Fringe
I always thought an Irish seven course meal was a boiled potato and a six-pack! ;^)
To: Marauder
"May this superintendent be plagued with chiggers."
Now, now! Don't say "chiggers", say "cheegros"!
To: weikel
The Irish? Maybe that's it. I thought maybe it was a slur against Idaho people or maybe prostitutes. You can't be too careful.
To: steplock
My favorite Kansas cheers are "Rock, Chock, Jayhawk" and:
Rah rah ree,
Kick 'em in the knee,
Rah, rah, rass,
Kick 'em in the... other knee.
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posted on
02/03/2003 2:27:43 AM PST
by
ravinson
To: Nik Naym
Black college, Norfolk State University cheer (Norfolk is pronounced "Nawfuk" by native Virginians, national newscasters never get it right) circa early 1970's:
We are the girls from Norfolk, Norfolk,
We don't drink,
We don't smoke,
Norfolk, Norfolk!
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posted on
02/03/2003 2:45:46 AM PST
by
putupon
To: steplock
I googled up "bulligator" but got virtually nothing but references to the Hutchinson story. What on earth is a "bulligator"?
To: putupon
You are better informed than I.
Anywho, the whole thing IS silly.
Nik
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posted on
02/03/2003 4:46:35 AM PST
by
Nik Naym
To: steplock
My Wife a Hutch High Grad 1991 never even learned the silly chant in fact I just read it to her and she said "you wonder why I never learned it"
None the less these are our publically funded indoctrination camps in full swing.
To: steplock
Who cares. So a welfare school tossed a bunch of nonsense words. Would that more welfare schools follow their lead.
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posted on
02/03/2003 5:33:10 AM PST
by
Spiff
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
You got my ear, and I dropped my hoe.
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posted on
02/03/2003 5:55:33 AM PST
by
APBaer
To: Lunatic Fringe
Why stop there? I propose all words in the Englash language be expunged. We should all become French citizens, during which time we could be become arrogant, cowardly, drunk, smelling like a French sewer, and then surrender to Botswanna!
To: Dog Gone
The word "niggardly" should definitely be banned.
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posted on
02/03/2003 6:08:09 AM PST
by
ladylib
To: Beelzebubba
Whoops, thanks, I forgot. How uncivilized of me :)
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posted on
02/03/2003 6:32:40 AM PST
by
Marauder
(Political correctness is a pox on this society.)
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