🚀 go-pugleaf

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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