Posted on 08/30/2023 10:54:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ever say “the jig is up”??? Ummm
are you seriously trying to argue that “jigaboo” is not racist?
Oh, dear God, you’re not trying to peddle the notion that “jig” refers to “jigaboo.” “The jig is up” taken literally “the dance is over.”
Happens at every fair I’ve been to. Controversial names all over. Never had anyone ask the exhibitors to change or hide the name. (Lots during the Obama years) Guess you gotta find the correct activist to make a scene.
A cow named jigaboo,
that is funny.
my wife would not let me name our ring tailed cat Coon for some reason. Something about going outside to call him?
There was a farmer nearby (now deceased) who used to raise a few beef cattle for market. He had one exceptionally long legged cow he named, wait for it,
High stakes.
Thanks.
Another aspect of the story brought back nice memories for me.
My father loved horse racing, and routinely went to the track. When he did well, he’d come home with his pockets full of candy for the kids on the block, and two-dollar bills for me and my brother. He used to employ me to calculate from the newspaper racing results what the daily ‘number’ was. (He’s long dead and so is his bookie, so I guess it’s ok to tell that :-)
Once, he heard about a contest to win a thoroughbred foal, and to win, you had to come up with the best name for the baby.
As I recall, the sire was named ‘Porterhouse’, and the dam was ‘Lily’-something. He thought ‘Li’lFilet’ would be a good name.
I thought we should have won, dammit. (Though I have no idea what we’d have done with a racehorse...)
*sigh*
When I began riding, the club had a thoroughbred who was no good on the track, and was sold to the club. He was so tall and long-legged his back hooves would knick his front legs. He was named ‘Highway’.
He was a good, gentle horse; but hard to mount. (It’s been decades since I could do that...)
We had a cocker spaniel named ‘Blackie’..................
What do you call a cow on stilts?..........
RAISING THE STEAKS!..................
Never seen or heard this word before today. Looked it up and it has a negative racial connotation towards blacks. The family claims they didn’t know the meaning, apologized and changed the name. That should be enough, but apparently not for the mob.
How did we get to the point where threats of violence over a word is considered an acceptable response in civil discourse?
1971....................
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
1> “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”
2> “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
3> “Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
4> “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5> “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
6> “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7> “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8> “Keep the pressure on.”
9> “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10> “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
11> “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”
12> “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13> “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
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