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#65093 04/18/02 11:11 PM
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are ya'll still allowed to use terms like "coon's age"?


#65094 04/19/02 12:01 PM
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What do you mean are we still allowed??


#65095 04/19/02 12:20 PM
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still allowed

We cain't use niggardly no more.


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I may be wrong in assuming this by your post Faldage, but was coon a word used to describe black people? I've never heard that. It is short for racoon here.




#65097 04/19/02 07:23 PM
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was coon a word used to describe black people?

Good deductive leap, belM. You make top-notch conceptual detective.


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You make top-notch conceptual detective

Perhaps she should change her name to Dirk Gently by deed poll and consider further concepts during the long dark teatime of the soul ...



The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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