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Students put twist on mascots - The Fighting WHITIES
Argus Leader Newspaper, South Dakota ^
Posted on 03/11/2002 3:43:56 PM PST by chance33_98
Edited on 05/07/2004 9:08:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
Offended? It's hilarious!
To: Balding_Eagle
Sent my request for a T Shirt BTTT!
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posted on
03/11/2002 6:39:41 PM PST
by
bazbo
To: dongha
Dosn't Washington D.C. mean vagina? That's where all the usless pr!cks end up.
Go Whities!!!!!!!
To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
Let's not miss a golden opportunity: let's start naming teams after European ethnicities with all abandon! :-)How about the Rude Frenchmen?
To: chance33_98
Maybe we should change the name to "Thinskins".
To: OKSooner
And there's already a tribute to France - the Horned Frogs!
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posted on
03/11/2002 6:47:46 PM PST
by
Chu Gary
To: 07055
in Sioux FallsIs this where the Souix fell?
To: OKSooner
Tennessee Volunteers
To: fire and forget
My understanding was that a squaw was a female Indian. If terms generally and benignly used for Indians are in fact offensive in their correct definition, we should be educated about that.same understanding here. but, lo, recently we learn that it means something else according to some hyper-technical/hyper-correct etymology (sp?).
the fascinating thing about this, to me, anyway, is that these same language purists have trouble with the word "niggardly," which somehow doesn't seem to rate the same super parsing.
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posted on
03/11/2002 7:33:20 PM PST
by
johnboy
To: chance33_98
I don't get it, are we supposed to find Whities offensive? If I spent my days drinking Wild Turkey on the reservation and had no desirable skills, maybe I would be bored enough to actually contemplate the effect of team nicknames on my life. Fortunately, I'm not like that.
To: Balding_Eagle
I just asked for my shirt!
To: Chu Gary
Actually, the term is "horny toad"!
To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
No, I'm actually laughing at their creativity!
To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington
One more thought..... since I'm Irish, maybe I would be offended if they had used, "Fighting Whitie Irish"?! :-]
To: Squantos
LOL in Illinois! :-]
To: chance33_98
oh brother!
To: chance33_98
They may find that their mascot name might turn out to be an omen. Then they can say they saw it coming, lol.
To: raybbr
I could go on. Oh please do - by all means! I admire (and am laughing at) your creativity!
To: JAWs
This is wrong. It should be the "Flammin' Caucasians!" Or even the "Hooping Honkies"
Hustling Honkies?
Playing Palefaces?
Warrior Whites?
To: Walkingfeather
I thought I was going to be offended and then I remembered I was a redskin.... so never mind. You too?
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