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Re: "Sambo's" etymology [was: California dining advice needed.]

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From: Scrye Malon
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
> 
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From: scrye11@yahoo.com (Scrye Malon)
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Subject: Re: "Sambo's" etymology [was: California dining advice needed.]
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