What am I missing here?

[mnaz]

Unbelievable.

Woww...

[jimboloco]

sticks and stones will break my bones
but names will never hurt me nya nya na nya naaaa

but really, deb
we gon break on thu to da other side
like i agree with your opinion about this issue
but your aingst is way overboard
your aingst walked the plank
gestalt is in the tank

when she was good she was really really good
and when she was bad she was horrid

really hester
i want you to appreciate my growth thru this ordeal
like a birthing by fire
this is not patronizing you
i am being like cognitive from my safe place
mnazz said it perfectly
just what i was thinking at the time
like, what is it i have kearned,
ah ha, uh, um, er, well,
like wow,
because someone says something that does not perfectly jell with your preconception of an issue,
don't become indignant and erst·while , babes,
like keep up with the flow,
ya know

it all comes down to basic respect
the baseline

[jimboloco]

i don't know if a new piece for the greater good will replace don imus
that would be the hopeful vision
but the best i've seen so far is that lady from LA radio stephanie
and coffee joe scarboro

erst·while
friends
around the bend
i got the bends
unbending
bending again
less contorted
less distorted
more comforted
than before

[the flaming ace]

deb and jimbo should kiss and make up
if she'll bring the kiss he'll bring the makeup
and a pat on the back for jack
and a tip of the hat for mnazz
and a curtsy for deb

Over the years, Imus and, especially, his sidekicks regularly trafficked in minstrelsy, anti-gay patter, and ethnic stereotyping, of degrees ranging from the mild to the execrable. He or his minions have compared Patrick Ewing to an ape, said that pictures of Venus and Serena Williams belong in National Geographic rather than in Playboy, and are reported to have said of Gwen Ifill, then a Times reporter, “Isn’t the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.” More broadly, they have regularly deployed an array of slurs (Jewboy, towelhead) and a cast of crude voice caricatures (Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as José Jiménez, Cardinal Egan as an Irish bigot) that, at best, skirted the line. But finally, two weeks ago, Imus crossed it, or at least got called out for doing so. In a discussion of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, after its appearance in the N.C.A.A. finals, Imus remarked that the players, most of them black, were “rough girls.” “Some hard-core ho’s,” his sidekick and producer (and designated line-crosser) Bernard McGuirk replied. Imus added, inexcusably, “That’s some nappy-headed ho’s there.”

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somewhere over the rainbow birds fly high

[mnaz]

Thank you Jimbo.

And now I must leave this pathological thread. Have fun y'all.

Oh and Deb, we're still waitin' on that apology of yours.

[Arcadia]

hi everybody!!!!!!! I have internet at home again after more or less fifty days...wow!!!
I can´t believe you were serious saying most of the things you said here... I can´t avoid laughing at times... but humor is a delicate thing.
I googled Imus and the first reference was wikipedia: shock jock, media circus, media hype, alcoholism, cocaine a ranch and nappy-headed hos... Something similar happened yesterday at school: a girl had lost her ruler with her name the day before, the day after a kid from the same curso gave it to her, saying I found it somewhere so... the ruler had a big inscription with indeleble crayon "reputa mejor", the kid and most of his friends found that funny... the ruler owner certainly not... but they are kids and they don´t have their own radio programme. As I said humor is a delicate thing... to treat women as only whores or stupid beings is an old common place, it´s incredible that some adult people still need that in order to relax, feel they are somebody, or laugh...My sense of humor (specially political) have been damaged during the nineties... the only tv programme that make me laugh now is Capuzzotto (ex Cha-cha-cha) at 11 pm each monday making parody about himself and national rock music (I love so much the songs that I can laugh about it without guilt). Our mind is both complex and linear..
I laugh a lot here, and I also have the vacuum-time to see in perspective about what I´m laughing about... that´s great!!
And I consider each one of you my friend, why not?
(And I also have the last word tendency..!)

[whimsicaldeb]

Arcadia, those are some fine last words. And thank you.
Flaming Ace ~ loved it!
mnaz ~ whatever floats your boat.
Jimbo ... omg (pleasant memories!); my parents used to say that Longfellow poem about me all the time. Gee, I wonder why? ~laughing!~

There was a little girl
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

Notes

1] Longfellow's second son Ernest says of this poem: "It was while walking up and down with his second daughter, then a baby in his arms, that my father composed and sang to her the well-known lines .... Many people think this a Mother-Goose rhyme, but this is the true version and history" (15-16).

Source:
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1345.html

Bad Debby, BAD! No cookie!

[hester_prynne]

Jimbo said,
".....because someone says something that does not perfectly jell with your preconception of an issue,
don't become indignant and erst·while , babes,
like keep up with the flow,
ya know

it all comes down to basic respect
the baseline"

Jimbo I have no idea of what you mean here.
Preconception of an issue....?
Indignant and erst-while, babes,?
like keep up with the flow.....?
and you said you weren't being patronizing?
You seem to say one thing, and then contradict it.
It's confusing to me.

As far as this thread? Well, I've read the whole thing several times and it is funny in some parts, just like Arcadia said.
But there are some parts that aren't funny at all.
Some that are indeed very sobering, sad, and yes enlightening. In that respect, it's all good.
But not for the reasons some of you may think....

(In case you hadn't noticed, basic respect is what I was asking for from the very beginning of this "pathologically hijacked" (good description mnaz) thread.)
H

[jimboloco]

hester i am at a loss
in a quandry
you are stretching me
i am saltwater taffy under your spell
but it's ok
i am greatful for your reply

".....because someone says something that does not perfectly jell with your preconception of an issue,
don't become indignant and erst·while , babes,
like keep up with the flow,
ya know

it all comes down to basic respect
the baseline"

Jimbo I have no idea of what you mean here.

ok i will drop the "erstwhile, babes"
it doesn't work

i am trying to explain to youall what i have learned here
for myself and so if i had to tread thru this pathetically hijacked thread to do that, so be it
i mean my attitude before was that if i started a thread
nobody should deviate from my intent
now i don't have that ego concern

plus the basic respect is something that
i have to be more sensitive about
and shall practice at it
like, when somebody does not assume my invested opinion and attitude about an issue, person, etc
like texas jack thinks my man al sharpton is a hypocrite
cause the rev don't like mormons
hell, he'll never get on msnbc either
ya can be sure of that
but now i ain't gonna call jack nasty names
it's absurd, but we kissed and made up

so for me that is a great big opening
thanks to youall for this
like hari-kari but i lived

deb thanks for posting the poem
a nursery rhyme for my anima
saludos
adieux

[whimsicaldeb]

deb thanks for posting the poem
a nursery rhyme for my anima
adieux

Farewell
~in peace~

[stilltrucking]

like texas jack thinks my man al sharpton is a hypocrite

The Race Pimp
You don't seem to want to look at what is on the end of Sharpton's fork.







good bye deb

[jimboloco]

very interesting trucker
you got your swinging tree back
looks like rev al is a race baiter
according to this urban bligger
i'll have to check it out
there's another spin for you
adios

[whimsicaldeb]

good bye deb

I'm not going anywhere, I was responding to Jimbo.

[Totenkopf]

pictures of Venus and Serena Williams belong in National Geographic rather than in Playboy

Racism is happening on all sides, and Imus' variety is pretty tame. You want racism try translating some arabic words for like western secularist.

[Doreen Peri]

That's funny? no!

Who are you quoting, Totenkopf?

When you use quotes, you need to cite your source.