Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
Actually the acceleration bit is 9.8 m/s^2. Thats the calculation we learned in applied physics, but we always rounded to 10 cause my teacher preferred the easiness of 10 as the number typically multiplied. No complaints here.
I don't find it racially offensive whatsoever
i've been to many dinners at my in-laws mr. matt and i have yet to see any purple, bumpy, white inside with black seeds looking things, so i'm gonna say vietnamese.
you have one of them mail order oriental brides, papa?
Did the watermelon land in her collard green patch?
What the HELL kind of question is that?
Well, at least it's not Thai. I hate Thai food. They can drop that crap from the top of a building for all I care.
no way, robbo. i met her the old fashioned way, dammit. in a bar!
Oooooooh lawsy!
Massa Bush ain't gunna be nun to pleesed with what I gone dun to the fruit bowl!
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is my best Oscar Hammerstein circa 1928 impression!
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
Let's have a watermelon seed spittin contest at the next BWW pick-a-nick.
Try this explanatory article, kiddies.
watermelon fun
Honestly, I didn't know about a lot of "racially insensitive" phrases/words/stereotypes until I came to college. I definitely wasn't sheltered in the traditional sense (I grew up in a public school system with no racial majority) but I think times are changing. Or, at least they had where I was growing up, because they honestly never came up in any context. I mean, maybe I was just naive because I couldn't have been the target of any of them, but I honestly don't even remember hearing some of these words growing up.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
Now, if her pack of Newports fell out of her pocket just as she was shovin that watermelon over the side, which one would hit the ground first?
well Rath, there's:
Condoleezza Swanson
Condoleezza Wittstein
Condoleezza Ali Bahom
Condoleezza Martinez
Condeleezza Kai Shek
Condeleezza Jorgenbergenboomenjoven
I mean there are a lot!
I guess as long as the watermelon lands on whitey, the rest doesn't really matter.
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
I agree, Skittles. I definitely was blissfully ignorant to almost every racial stereotype until I got to college and took an Ethnic Studies course. Most of them surprised me.
And I couldn't see how this was insensitive until like, the third time I read it. Then I got it.
Now, if she was throwing Donald Rumfeld off the roof, well, that would be a good math problem with an even better solution.
I guess I could take it as good news that some did not realize the racial stereotype that was the premise of this thread.
YWIW, I also found it oddly encouraging.
9.81 m/s^2 = 32 ft/s^2
Margo - The carefully stubbed half-smoked one with the lipstick stain.
robbiej - Now do Andy Rooney in Babes on Broadway!
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