[svcw]

So?

Sambo was a (complete) black kid who tricked a lion and turned the lion into syrup for his pancakes.

Really it is a complement that Barry was called clever enough to beat HRM.

[JimRed]

Sambo was a (complete) black kid who tricked a lion and turned the lion into syrup for his pancakes.

I thought it was a tiger, who he turned into melted butter for his pancakes...but it's probably 55 years since I've heard or read the story.

;^)

[MozarkDawg]

It was tigers turned into a pool of butter.

[Ditter]

That's the way I remember the story of Little Sambo. Sambo won, what is wrong with that? And the bitch part is right too. LOL!

[RedMonqey]

Sambo was a (complete) black kid who tricked a lion and turned the lion into syrup for his pancakes.

I believe it was a tiger as the story was actually set in India and about an ingenuous Hindu Indian boy and has nothing to do with American blacks at all.

PC gone wild.

[redhead]

"Sambo was a (complete) black kid who tricked a lion and turned the lion into syrup for his pancakes"

Sambo was an INDIAN boy (in India) who tricked the tigers (after they talked him out of his umbrella, slippers, and jacket) into chasing each other around a palm tree until they turned into butter which his mother put onto his pancakes. This is the original story, and it's quite old, probably from the time of the British Raj in India.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Sambo was a (complete) black kid who tricked a lion and turned the lion into syrup for his pancakes.”

In 1st grade (1953), our class play was “Little Black Sambo”. I had a starring role as a pancake. Truth.