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Location: 6 String Ranch | thanks to all who contrinuted.
It is past time so it has been wiped out. Thanks to all who posted.
Yes I'm well aware of the "Mexican" term 12 man. My good Mexican friend Tony Murga, of the boots variety, explained it to me.
Maybe people from the left coast aren't aware that one of the more famous products to come from Boston are baked beans. B&M is the leading brand I recall.
If that comment was offensive to any Hispanics, sorry, not intended that way. If it offended someone's sence of PC, then your PC panties are on too tight, maybe backwards too. Enough politispoo, Back to guitars. |
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Location: SoCal | Amen. Click. |
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Location: Sierra Madre, CA | I'm Mexican too, and the fact you knew the term makes it even more offensive. I'm also done here on the OFC. I respect your guitar knowledge but am tired of reading your political views and bad spelling. |
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Location: NJ | 12 stringer
if you have not got by now that the bad spellings are satire. I guess I will be the one to tell you.
I won't tell you to be more thick skinned because I for one get bent out of shape over political stuff on the message board, but I would take it all with a grain of salt. (on the rim of your tequila glass) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Sounds like we're all just having a good 'ol time. Watching election returns on CNN last night had to wonder who had the great idea to put the big observation window out onto the Times Square sidewalk right behind the table of speaking hosts. I particularly liked the passer-by plastered up against the window (in full prime time national TV coverage) wearing the T-shirt that said in BIG letters "F**K THIS S**T" That was just way too cool. |
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Location: SoCal | Dave, I thought CNN was hunkered down in one of those old Minuteman silos...even NBC/MSNBC, Fox, AP, and Reuters had more updated info. Actually felt sorry for Rathers as the evening progressed. He did not look well. For anyone who takes issue of my comment on Dan R. - seriously, without partisanship, he didn't look or sound good. Just disappointment, maybe. |
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Location: SoCal | I heard, yesterday morning at 7 am, that CBS had already called the election for Kerry. |
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Location: SoCal | THIS IS A NON-PARTISAN COMMENT...
fortunately for those not on the East Coast...there were enough local and state issues. Otherwise, the idiots conducting and broadcasting the exit polls could have affected the election...Bush and Kerry supporters believing Kerry was winning critical states such as Florida. As usual, easy to register the younger generation, hard to get them to vote.
The "experts" were sooooooo wrong, as usual. |
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Location: SoCal | Finally, non-PC:
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Who Was That Masked Man?
Wed Nov 3, 8:05 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters
OTTAWA (Reuters) - "Kemosabe," the name given to the Lone Ranger by his friend Tonto in the 1950s TV western, is not a racist term, a Canadian court has found.
The ruling was delivered by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal last week in a case involving a native Canadian woman who complained that the manager of the store where she worked had created a poisoned environment by calling her kemosabe.
The manager of the second-hand sports store, in Sydney, Nova Scotia, argued kemosabe was a term he used to address customers as well as employees.
The court ruling confirmed a earlier decision by a Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission board of inquiry. That decision was made after the board spent a full shift watching "Lone Ranger" reruns.
The board found that at the start of their relationship, Tonto, a native American, had recognized the injured Lone Ranger as the man who had saved his life years before, and started calling him kemosabe.
"When asked what it meant, Tonto responded 'trusty friend,'" the board found. "Both the Lone Ranger and Tonto treat one another with respect...At no time during the episodes is the term kemosabe ever used in a demeaning or derogatory manner." |
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Location: NJ | Evidently, Canada needs to kill as many trial lawyers as the US does . . . |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | What's the difference between a lawyer and a sperm cell?
The sperm cell at least has a one-in-a-million chance of becoming a human being. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Bill Shakespeare was right....... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | ...as was Genghis Khan! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | 12 Stringer. As I said, no offense (however you spell it) meant. Was just thinking about Boston Baked Beans. Now back to 6's and 12's. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | AL and Miles, Ever thought of putting a spell check on the site? As pointed out I am not very good on this subject. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | This is NOT a politial statement, but my preference is Bush's Baked Beans. The damn things are great. Add a grilled Brat and a Corona beer and life is good.
As far as political correctness, I've been known to speak before think on occasion. I was leaving Europe last weekend on my way back to the US and some guy in the airport lounge in Frankfurt asked me if I enjoyed my time in Germany. Overtired and cranky from all the travel, I blurted out "The only reason for Germany to exist is to provide Americans with BMW's." Not realizing I was surrounded by plenty of Germans within ear-shot. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | As someone of part German heritage (great-grandmother was named Krause), I just want to say, Hey, that's a pretty good reason for a country to exist. ;) (I wish I could afford a shiny new Beemer!) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The best one about Germany I heard was from a pilot. He was driving his plane down the taxi way and ground control came on the radio and chewed him out for making a wrong turn. Told him he was a dumkoff etc, and haven't you ever been to Frankfort before? He replied that he had been there several times back in the 40's but never landed........ |
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Location: south of munich, Germany | once my brother was on a trip to France... sitting somewhere in the ring of an old, antique theatre, enjoying the surrounding and the silence.... when about 30 people from northern Germany came.. made a lot of noise... yelling around....
they asked my brother: "Are you German as we are?"
My brother answered: "No, I am not german.. I am Bavarian"
the same do I.. I am Bavarian.. where the BMW's come from (and a lot of good beer)... but far away from Frankfurt.... ;-) |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Irgendeiner:
...they asked my brother: "Are you German as we are?"
My brother answered: "No, I am not german.. I am Bavarian"...
I always thought Bavarian was spelled 'Bayerische'. :) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You have to love Bavaria, a place where beer is classified as food rather than an alcoholic beverage. |
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by cwk2:
AL and Miles, Ever thought of putting a spell check on the site? As pointed out I am not very good on this subject.
What I do is write the post, right click for the pulldown, click 'select all', 'copy' it, open my email & paste it in the message, hit F7 to use spell checker, fix spelling, select all, copy, close email, go back to post, hit delete button to get rid of original & paste. It takes a little screwing around but not too much. I can't spell worth a fcuk either. :)
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Beer - AKA the "barley sandwich." My favorite motto: Beer - it's not just for breakfast any more! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Nils, that all sounds interesting. I got a dickshunairy and keep it next to the computer. Of course I need to hace an idea which words to look up. I was just trying to look up definately to see if it is definately or deffinately. this listing goes from deficient to defog rapidly followed by defoliant. Ah flog it I'll just let it go and claim it's sarcasium. |
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Location: NJ | My boss has a favorite saying when people "whine" to him:
" . . If You're Looking for "Sympathy", you'll Find it in the Dictionary - Between "Suicide" and "Syphilis" . . . " |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | CWK2
I seem to find my solace between "forgetfulness" and "forgiveness" in my dictshunairy. I spell as I see fit, and I welcome the irritation of those who pick of the nit.
No spelling professor ever fought for freedom of expression and no soldier ever spelled "pull the trigger" before he did it and saved the professor's ass from being beheaded by Osama's friends. The professor thinking he was Osama's friend right up until his head was sawed off slowly.
I prefer the quick reaction on the trigger to the sawing off of my head.
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Nils:
...I can't spell worth a fcuk either. :) ...
Apropos of nothing, and not getting into the speling (sic) debacle, but when I was in Vegas, I saw a sign painted on the side of a multi-story, block long building. And it said, 'Fcuk the vote'. Then I saw all these people walking around with shirts that said, 'Fcuk you' and similar phrases. I was mildly amused at first, but then I wondered if the person who came up with such a clever misspelling was rolling in the duogh. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I'm already in trouble with Al, but I just have to tell this story as it happened yesterday Nov 4.
I live a few doors down from the railroad tracks that used to be the Santa Fe and it isn't unusual for Spanish speaking job seekers to show up and ask for work for food.
Yesterday this tall gaunt fellow accompanied by a rotund hispanic swung off the train and headed straight for my door. They were dressed better than most and even had on ties and somewhat wrinkled suits. My first impression was a modern day Don Quiyote and Sancha without the donkey.
I greeted them with fractured spanish, "?tu tienes hambre?", and they answered in perfect and sonorous english, "No, we want your vote in this election." and handed me some really scruffy fliers.
I said, "The election was 2 days ago!". They showed an expression of alarm an maybe fear, so, in sympathy, I asked "Don't you have a calender watch or a computer or even a wall calender?" and the tall, gaunt fellow said, again in sonorous tones from apparently much use of the term, "That technology of keeping time is UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED!".
I had a moment of revelation, as did they, and gave them a political donation big enough to let them buy a sandwich and some pop before they jumped the train to go to where ever it was that they were going to give their usual speech accusing 99 percent of the country of voting for poor technology, and vowing an even tougher fight in 2008 now that they had the major parties on their knees.
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Location: San Bernardino, California | 'UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED' --- WHY does that make me think of my guitar playing?? |
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