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Re: My field trip to Amos and Andy Walmart. (Milwaukee)

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From: ron
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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Subject: Re: My field trip to Amos and Andy Walmart. (Milwaukee)
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