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Is "KEMOSABE" Racist? ("[Canadian] Highest court asked to rule on old Lone Ranger term")
CBC News ^ | 12/22/04 | CBC News

Posted on 12/23/2004 9:03:24 AM PST by dangus

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To: Twinkie

"This is the reality of it: Kemosabe is not really just one word. It is like this, KEMO SABE, and it means in Tonto's tribal language whatever that was, KEMO SOBBY, just like it sounds. The Lone Ranger's actual first name was KEMO and in private, he cried a lot. So, Tonto often called him (but not in a derogatory manner) KEMO SOBBY. Tonto was very caring and compassionate"

Ha ha ha hha ha ha! I think I understand now why you call your self "twinkie"!(just kidding....:})


141 posted on 12/23/2004 1:40:49 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: Visual Politics
Why are you guys concerning yourselves with the political correctness of the word "Kemosabe" while our troops are getting slaughtered? Haven't you got anything more worthwhile to talk about?

Be sure to eat everything on your plate at dinner tonight because there are people starving in Africa.

142 posted on 12/23/2004 2:04:44 PM PST by usadave
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To: Jaded; Visual Politics
Bye, Visual Politics!

He's dead, Jim!


143 posted on 12/23/2004 2:25:56 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP! ©)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Thanks Meek, I feel better now. Complete even.


144 posted on 12/23/2004 2:31:35 PM PST by Jaded (Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain)
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To: Visual Politics

TROLL!!!


145 posted on 12/23/2004 2:50:22 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: dangus
As I heard the story the writers for the show were making a joke on their audience, way back when (radio version of Lone Ranger).

Tonto is the spanish word for Idiot.

Kemosabe was a bastardized version of "quien no sabe," roughly "he who knows nothing."

An early version of dumb and dumber.

babel fish at least confirms the translations, whether the story is true or not.

The main point is that these mind control fascists are on an even plane with Hitler and Stalin, but they don't have a clue the awful path that they have set themselves on. "Re-education camps" and thought police are all too close. Orwell was right, he was just off by 20 years.

146 posted on 12/23/2004 3:20:37 PM PST by Phsstpok (Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform - Mark Twain)
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To: ken5050

Dale Even's horse was Buttermilk.

Tonto's horse was Paint?


147 posted on 12/23/2004 4:27:09 PM PST by mlmr (Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Chri)
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To: ken5050

Nellebelle was the Jeep!


148 posted on 12/23/2004 4:28:05 PM PST by mlmr (Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas! Merry Chri)
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To: Jaded
heh! :^D

149 posted on 12/23/2004 4:32:39 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP! ©)
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To: dangus

BTTT


150 posted on 12/23/2004 4:37:16 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: mlmr

correctamundo..


151 posted on 12/23/2004 5:39:43 PM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her gene pool. Any volunteers?)
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To: LexBaird

"Correct! The Lone Ranger's brother and nephew were both Dan Reid, and the Green Hornet was Britt Reid.

Tarzan, on the other hand was John Clayton, Lord Greystoke. Not related to the radio serials, but from the original books by Burroughs."

I seemed to remember a family tree that some writer had worked up a while back showing how many of the heros and superheros were related.

That's where I remembered that the Green Hornet was related to the Lone Ranger.

And where I thought I remembered that Lord Greystoke had an American cousin.


152 posted on 12/23/2004 6:27:03 PM PST by chaosagent (It's all right to be crazy. Just don't let it drive you nuts.)
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To: Jemian
Sadly, your information is not accurate.

Complete cast information for 'The Roy Rogers Show' can be had at:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043225/

Pat Brady was played by...Pat Brady, as indeed all the lead characters played themselves in that programme. Pat Buttram, a second-tier star in his own right, had no connection with Roy Rogers, but was Gene Autry's sidekick for years.

Merry Christmas to you!

153 posted on 12/23/2004 7:06:40 PM PST by SAJ
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To: SAJ

I just finished watching the Bells of Coronado w/ Pat Butram in it. Hmmm. Perhaps he didn't transition to the show. Thanks for the correction.


154 posted on 12/24/2004 5:41:57 AM PST by Jemian (I'd be a sun worshipper if I weren't already a SON WORSHIPPER!)
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To: chaosagent; Servant of the Nine
And where I thought I remembered that Lord Greystoke had an American cousin.

Phillip Jose Farmer wrote a couple of books that were pseudo-biographies of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage, purporting to reveal that they had the same father. These books were written as if they were real scholarly works, complete with footnoted references to other "sources". He also based a couple of novels around that concept.

Ping to Servant of the Nine: he may have more info.

155 posted on 12/26/2004 11:28:28 AM PST by LexBaird ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
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To: Red Badger
What if she were called "SQUAW"?........

And here in Phoenix, Governor Dike Dike Reno Neapolitan Napolitano completely by-passed state regulations in order to re-name "Squaw Peak" as "Piestewa Peak" in order to honor a female soldier killed in Iraq.

Nice gesture and all, but she didn't need to violate established procedures to accomplish her ends.

Cheers!

156 posted on 10/01/2005 10:54:53 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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