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Article #624Re: My field trip to Amos and Andy Walmart. (Milwaukee)
From: ron
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 11:01
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 11:01
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dermer@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Marshall Dermer) wrote in message news:<adnr68$ef3$1@uwm.edu>... > In article <23ffae89.0206060241.6fc02bae@posting.google.com> billpirkle@hotmail.com (bill pirkle) writes: > >First, you notice the security. Then the dirty parking lot. Entering I > >was "greeted" by a simian grunts and chuckles from an aged black > >female. > > "A simian grunts"? This is a clear agreement error. > > > >The customer service area had a line of 8 carts jammed with returned > >merchandise waiting to be logged in. > > "8 carts"? The convention, among educated people, is to spell > the numbers zero through ten. > > In a food aisle, cookies, a > >black employee was talking to the merchandise! "I knows I puts you > >dare yessitdiddy". > > Are you qualified to transliterate Ebonics? > > >Moving away quickly I grabbed a couple of items and headed for the > >checkout. Several overweight black females were jabbering to each > >other. Getting one's attention, she waddled over to the register and > >managed to turn it on and check me out. I suggest that in lieu of > >visiting the circus you go to the Walmart on Capitol Drive, Milwaukee, > >Wisconsin. > > Your "creative" English beats anything I've seen at Walmart! > > --Marshall Checking the paper, huh. Are you some old schoolmarm? The poster "bill" has gotten my attention and I will, with all my incredible investigative skills activated, visit the Walmart in question. I will report to milw.general in a couple of days. Ron Gunderson
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