To: Dr. Thorne
It has changed again. The current entry is:
Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is an southern American slang term for the behavior of joking and acting facetiously.
It seems someone replaced 'African' with 'southern' but neglected to change 'an' to 'a'.
I have since corrected the syntactical error.
9 posted on
10/25/2012 11:24:38 AM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 1)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
The hillbillies say it all the time and we don’t even *have* black people here.
I have no idea where/when/how the phrase originated.
20 posted on
10/25/2012 11:33:34 AM PDT by
Salamander
(I think I need some rest but sleeping don't come very easy...in a straight white vest.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
We should change to read: " Shuckin' and jivin' (or shucking and jiving) is a southern American slang term for the behavior of joking and acting facetiously. Talking "jive" was made popular in the pop lexicintently the 1980s Bee Gees hit "Jive Talking" and was firmly planted in the hit movie Airplane when Barbara Billingsly declared, "excuse me stewardess, I speak jive." However, the term is widly viewed as a racial epithet when uttered by a conservative."
35 posted on
10/25/2012 12:58:31 PM PDT by
JaguarXKE
(If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!r)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
45 posted on
10/25/2012 5:17:15 PM PDT by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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