Rumours

[LaurieAK]

Gideon

but this was done without thinking.

In my experience, doing this will always get you in trouble...whether here or in the real world.


Paula~
Yes, we disagree and i agree it is okay. All is well.

I just don't/didn't agree with the label i felt was being placed on me...which come to think of it is ironic, considering the debate.

regards,
Laurie

[mirth]

michael, how many names are you going to use to post in one topic? critic2, mickey-one, perth...

[mickey_one]

My great-great-grandfather on my mother's side was a full-blooded Romany who ran off with a vicar's daughter. A few generations back on my father's side I was French.
When I lived in Yorkshire I spent a couple of years (unpaid) teaching Pakistanis English. We did these things.
I'm not bragging; all I am saying is that there are far more important things in life to worry about than whether 'Frog' is insulting.
Yes, Mickey, I know what NFN stands for. Do you know what NWA stands for?
James

It's a traditional boast of anti-semites that one of their best friends is Jewish, racists/black etc. Few of us carry the identity of 4 generations above. It's like one of the baby trolls here claiming that their 5th cousin, often removed, once wrote a coherent sentence, or read some poetry. This observation does not of course mean you are bigoted, but I felt uncomfortable with your poem.


I just counted and I have 3,000,456 more important things to worry about that this, but as it's the topic of this thread I am happy to give my view and delighted, albeit in the tiniest way, to respond to the delusions of the anti-pc arguments.

I don't know what NWA stands for,

regards

Michael

(I stand for nothing)

[Kush]

SEINFELD: So you won't believe what happened with Watley today. It got back to him that I made this little dentist joke and he got all offended. Those people can be so touchy.
KRAMER: Those people……listen to yourself, Jerry.
SEINFELD: What?
KRAMER: You think that dentists are so different from me and you? They came to this country just like everybody else….in search of a dream.
SEINFELD: Kramer, he's just a dentist.
KRAMER: Oh yeah, and you're an anti-dentite.
SEINFELD: I am NOT an anti-dentite!
KRAMER: You're a rabid anti-dentite! Oh yes, it starts with a few jokes and some slurs. "Hey, denty!" Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools.
SEINFLD: Well, they do have their own schools!
KRAMER: Uh… yeah!....

[LaurieAK]

Kush~

Hahaaa...Thanks for posting this.

I'm not sure if it was this episode or a related one...

The Dentist has converted to Judaism because he likes the humor.

All paraphrasing...

There is a scene with Jerry Seinfeld sitting as if in a Catholic confessional booth speaking to a priest....

Seinfeld tells the priest his dentist has converted to Judaism just for the jokes.

The priest says, and this offends you as a Jewish person?

Seinfeld repies, no it offends me as a comedian.

L

[mickey_one]

James, just shaving and getting ready for the great day (son's 19th) and it came back to me. NWA= Niggers With Attitude?

The Spurs fans are known as the Yids, some Jewish followers like it, some hate it.

So, it all proves what?

regards

Michael

[Gideon]

Michael,
Correct. In case you didn't know, NWA are a black rap group who are definitely anti-semitic and wouldn't like us either.
Happy birthday, son.
Regards,
James

[Kush]

Laurie..I remember that one but I'm not sure either whether its the same episode. There are so many cross-plots going on all the time it tough to keep track of...
Another one I like is when he asks the chinese mailman for any chinese restaurants in the neighborhood...

MAILMAN (pretty mad): Why must I know? Because I'm Chinese? You think I know where all the Chinese restaurants are? Oh, ask honorable Chinaman for location of restaurant.

SEINFELD: I asked coz' you were the mailman, you would know the neighborhood.

MAILMAN (still mad): Oh hello American Joe, which way to hamburger/ hot dog stand?

and later...

SEINFELD: You know, I don't get it. Not allowed to ask a Chinese person where the Chinese restaurant is! I mean, aren't we all getting a little too sensitive? Someone asks me which way to Israel, I don't fly off the handle.

[linda_lakeside]

Oh! That is so good. Many good ones on Seinfeld. The Simpson's also. If one stoops that low. I do. Maybe it should be a Guilty Pleasure. No, it's too good for that.

Linda.

[LaurieAK]

This is off topic but 'connected' in a weird way, so I'm going to share it here....

After reading Kush's Seinfeld post and responding, I sat down to write an essay for my blog. I had the title before I was really sure where I was going with it. The title was: "The ottoman empire..."
chosen because I knew part of where i was going with it was about buying an ottoman. Which happened to be my second in less than a month.

So i write the damned thing and think it is the end of the story. Later in the evening Seinfeld comes on while I am toodling around in the kitchen and i hear him saying something about, The Ottoman Empire!! I stopped in my tracks and he continued on saying something about group of folks who liked to prop their feet up, or some such. I missed the part leading to him uttering 'ottoman empire' and my head was spinning at the strange, synchronicity of hearing what i was hearing.

That's it.
L

[lizzytysh]

~ Find our Synchronicity thread from old, and put that there. It's great!

[mickey_one]

The Seinfeld Diner was really close to where the NY Event was held, great fun to see it, even the awful Kramer portrait on the wall!

[lizzytysh]

Well, dang it! Another thing missed! Was it one of the Scavenger Hunt stops ?

[John K.]

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[mickey_one]

aha! only the outside? that explains it all.....