Sisters Suing Southwest Over 'Racist Rhyme'

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[Sir Gawain]

KANSAS CITY, Kan.

[SerpentDove]

>>I distinctly recall an episode when Sylvester the cat was hanging from his toes on a high wire. Tweety comes along and says as he lifts up each toe: "eenie, meenie, minie ..." (Sylvester has only 3
toes and falls.)

"What do you know, they ain't no mo'", Tweety says.<<

That's like the one where Tweety has Sylvester in the same predicament.

Tweety says, "This widdle piddy went to market...this widdle piddy stayed home...this widdle piddy had woast beef..."

(Sylvester falls)

"How do you wike that? I'm all out of widdle piddies!"

[SouthernFreebird]

They should see something like this coming.

How could anyone possibly see this comming? These 2 women are common thiefs looking to steal from the Airlines.

[The Lake City Gar]

Welcome to FR, newbie. You don't get to start setting the standards for this forum on your second day here.

Please...Congratulate yourself. You're the first eletist to tell me this. Does it make you feel like a big man? A cool dude? One of the "In-crowd"??

Do you REALLY beleive that Black History Month is "NOTHING" but a month devoted to racism?? Or do you consider that a gross over-generalization?

Ps...I'm sorry that I lurked so long before signing-up. I hope you'll forgive me for this grotesque offense I have made.

[laurav]

Maybe you don't get to set the standards, but the newbie was right that claiming Black History Month is just a month devoted to racism doesn't cast this forum in a good light. Neither do some people's comments on here that ALL minorities do is just complain and they should go back to wherever they came from. You can think these women are silly without lumping in other prejudices and embarrassing the rest of us.

[Let's Roll]

I grew up in the rural midwest and our version used the "N" word but everyone knows it's by his toe not the toe.

[The Lake City Gar]

How could anyone possibly see this comming? These 2 women are common thiefs looking to steal from the Airlines.

If I worked for them, I would have seen it coming. Based on my experiences with the rhyme detailed above.

It's along the same reason why we can't hire an attractive female in my office. It's just not worth the risk of potential sexual harrassment charges.

Sad but true.

[The Lake City Gar]

I grew up in the rural midwest and our version used the "N" word but everyone knows it's by his toe not the toe.

Yep!

[Kryptonite]

Yeah, I caught that, see my post 63.

Screwed up big time with Souter too.

[billhilly]

"She didn't say either one. These crazy women heard her say "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go," and it REMINDED them of the racist version they'd heard somewhere, and they ASSUMED it was directed at them, and they ASSUMED other passengers' giggles were directed at them. And now they want to get PAID for all this stuff that happened entirely inside their own heads!"

Exactly! It reminds me of the old lady who called the police and reported that a peeping tom had been watching her while she was in the bathroom. Arriving at the lady's apartment, the policeman asked her to show him where she observed the peeping tom. Leading the policeman into the bathroom, she announced that it was from here that she saw the peeping tom. The policeman looked around and said, "I can't see into any of those windows from here, where upon the lady pulled out a step ladder and said, Climb up here and you can.

[aristeides]

I wonder if U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil is a Clinton appointee.

[Paulus Invictus]

Lawyers are the scum of society and their clients, like these idiots, demonstrate what's wrong with suits like this one. Tort reform now! And a new law that will penalize those who bring such suits and lose them.

[Fzob]

"It was like I was too dumb to find a seat,"

Not too dumb to initiate a frivolous lawsuit though. If this were a parody it would be funny. The judge that allowed this to be heard should be disbarred.

[SouthernFreebird]

It's along the same reason why we can't hire an attractive female in my office. It's just not worth the risk of potential sexual harrassment charges.

I can't begin to tell you how assinine that is.

[NativeSon]

I'm 38 and the "Tiger" version still sounds weird because I had grown-up on the offensive version

I've never heard that before, I grew up in Philadelphia and whenever I heard that rhyme it went "catch a doggy" by his toe. Not everyone is a hood wearing nightrider (ala Byrd), sometimes things are what they are.

And on your Dad's feelings, so what? I cannot imagine that saying a word can harm someone, so who cares what he says. If you don't like his talk ask him to curb it around the kids.

If your father really dislikes black people, this kind of pandering only strengthens his opinion.

[NEWwoman]

Yes, that brings back memories. Poor Sylvester.

I'm just waiting till they find something wrong with the "This little piggie" nursery rhyme - such as it is insensitive to those who are caloric-challenged.

[In The Defense of Liberty]

Ha! That is exactly what I thought when I read this.

You know, having been raised in the 50's and 60's by a very southern father, I didn't even know that a Brazil nut was even called a Brazil nut until after I went away to college! I just always thought that... ahem... *that*... was what they were called. I got so used to them being called *that* that I do have to be extra careful around my children, as it's obiously not something I want to pass on to my two boys.

[DeathfromBelow]

I guess "Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" never made it big. LOL

[GovernmentShrinker]

Maybe you should check out the details of what's actually being done around the country in the name of Black History Month. Sure, you can find isolated instances where of some observance isn't riddled with reverse racism, or anti-white revisionist history, or promotion of socialism/communism painting blacks as "oppressed" people who should blame the "racism" of whites for all their problems -- but it's pretty darn rare.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Roses are red
violets are blue
off with my head
if either's your hue.

These sisters must think of themselves as the center of the universe, to assume that out of an aisle full of people, the poem was addressed to them. I've always heard it as, "catch a monkey by the toe." Give the gals a banana.

Oversensitivity has become the most profitable mania in America.

[AlwaysLurking]

I got it!!!

LOL!!!