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To: Mr. Jeeves
Easy to find out. I'm sure there is a manifest of all passengers on board. Track them down and find out what was said. If she used the "n" word then the company should pay, but from what it sounds like she said "tiger".

I've never heard that the rhyme comes from slave days. I doubt these Plaintiffs did either till they talked to a lawyer.

19 posted on 02/10/2003 1:27:19 PM PST by frmrda
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To: frmrda
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!
38 posted on 02/10/2003 1:37:41 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: frmrda
Easy to find out. I'm sure there is a manifest of all passengers on board. Track them down and find out what was said. If she used the "n" word then the company should pay, but from what it sounds like she said "tiger".

You obviously didn't read the article. No one accused the girl of saying either word. Just the use of the rhyme, or any part of it, is supposedly offensive.

62 posted on 02/10/2003 1:52:30 PM PST by The Lake City Gar
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To: frmrda
She didn't say either the "n" word or "tiger." She said, "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe; pick a seat, we gotta go."
167 posted on 02/10/2003 3:45:27 PM PST by Under the Radar (Oops, did I forget to close my /sarcasm tag again?)
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To: frmrda
If she used the "n" word then the company should pay, but from what it sounds like she said "tiger".

What about the 1st Amendment? It would be a stupid thing for anyone to say, but the courts shouldn't be involved even if they did use the n word. But in this case, she didn't even use the offensive word.
260 posted on 02/10/2003 7:26:57 PM PST by gitmo ("The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain." GWB)
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