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Article #100Re: "Sambo's" etymology [was: California dining advice needed.]
From: Scrye Malon
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:15
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:15
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The last decade I was crawlling on the ground and drinking milk because I turned 12 in a week. This is a google site and the poeple chat about what they want to. Respectfully, Scrye "ian maclure" <ibm@svpal.org> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.02.11.22.47.59.284501@svpal.org>... > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:45:45 -0800, Scrye Malon wrote: > > > I'm a new member to this chat sight but what does this have to do with food talking? > > Terminology for usenet 101: > > "chat sight" > > This is usenet not IRC therefore it isn't "chat". > This isn't a BBS ( where have you been the last decade or so? ) > it is usenet which, I suppose is something like a BBS writ > large but not a site.... > And thirdly, grammar/spelling, that would be "site" not "sight". > Annoys me almost as much as "muzzle break" vs "muzzle brake". > > [snip] > > >> The word "sambo" came from American Spanish and means Negro or mulatto. > > Funny, it sounds in some sense West African. A female fetish > ( voodoo ) priest is IIRC a "mambo". This might be Yoruba... > > [snip] > > >> the old children's book Little Black Sambo, by Helen Bannerman, they > > See: > > http://www.pancakeparlour.com/Wonderland/Highlights/Thefuture/Short_Stories/Bannerman/bannerman.html > > The graphics were not her idea. > > >> adopted the character as their mascot. Despite its Indian setting, > >> Bannerman's Sambo was a black caricature. > > And the British were at one time wont to refer to Indians > using that 6 letter word beginning with "N" as in a passage > in a book on the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to whit: > > "Here come the N______" > > Not politically correct but apparently historical. > > IBM > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > Posted Via Uncensored-News.Com - Accounts Starting At $6.95 - http://www.uncensored-news.com > <><><><><><><> The Worlds Uncensored News Source <><><><><><><><>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110204,29810a57afa062f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid110204,public X-Google-Thread: fe8e7,29810a57afa062f8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe8e7,public X-Google-Thread: 115ce9,29810a57afa062f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid115ce9,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-12 12:15:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: scrye11@yahoo.com (Scrye Malon) Newsgroups: dfw.eats,la.eats,ba.food Subject: Re: "Sambo's" etymology [was: California dining advice needed.] Date: 12 Feb 2004 12:15:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 60 Message-ID: <13e4ee61.0402121215.7f820c6b@posting.google.com> References: <3METb.614$JA5.75@newssvr23.news.prodigy.com> <8YZUb.17351$uM2.12046@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> <060220042319239185%timcmay@removethis.got.net> <H4dVb.21288$So6.17998@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com> <13e4ee61.0402110045.24cc22e@posting.google.com> <pan.2004.02.11.22.47.59.284501@svpal.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.110.75.33 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1076616914 657 127.0.0.1 (12 Feb 2004 20:15:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:15:14 +0000 (UTC)