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syzygy

6th January 2012, 05:50
Well done.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2answn

As a child in NZ, got the anthology for a birthday. Written in the original dialect, so it was like cracking a code. Those were big back then, e.g. The Secret Seven.

PS: tell MAH about the Add Reply button. (-;
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trevor

6th January 2012, 06:42
tell MAH yourself, i aint risking a wooping!!

Uncle Remus is deemed to be an unacceptable character today.Walt Disneys 'song of the south' never gets shown anymore.
the song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah still reminds me of innocent(unenlightened)times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcxYwwIL5zQ&feature=related
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syzygy

6th January 2012, 09:02
Boy, you're a real sh*t-disturber, aren't you? 0-:
Don't scare off a new person (MAH). We're not all nuts.

I'm guessing you're from the south. Whatever.
Thanks for that lovely video. And what was wrong with that?

Our library is busy purging books like "Tom Sawyer" & "Huckleberry Finn". Not PC. Shades of 1984.
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/ns-dict.html
And there's Colchester again.

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Keep singin' !

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aristophanes

6th January 2012, 17:50
This has been happening for some time now here in the States. The purging is carried out by do-good lefties, who apparently don't want present and future generations to know what life was like in the bad old days (it IS, after all, upsetting, and we can't have that). Thousands of volumes have vanished from libraries, particularly in the South, and naturally there are many African-Americans who aren't thrilled about having their history cleaned up for them. It seems ironic that the more "sensitive" we become the more race-obsessed we are. The first thing we're asked on almost any form we have to fill out is whether we're Hispanic, and then we get to choose from a separate menu of race options (for some reason these are almost invariably set apart). I almost always voice my objection. Heck, it shouldn't matter! Poor Martin Luther King; he just wanted people to be treated equally, not categorized for ease of- well, categorization.
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trevor

6th January 2012, 17:50
Syzygy,
i agree with your 'Shades of 1984' comment.my use of the word 'unenlightened' was sarcastic.
i am from the south tho,south London.

still no reply from MAH as yet! maybe scared off ...or just rude? whatever.

i appreciate that none of this makes your 1st remark (in post 3) any less true.

keep on rockin'
Zip-A-Dee-Day:-)
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aristophanes

6th January 2012, 17:54
How did we pull that one off, trevor?
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trevor

6th January 2012, 17:59
hi Stophy,
are you referring to the fact that, like london buses, you can wait all day for a post and then two come along at once?
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aristophanes

6th January 2012, 18:01
Yes. Would you like some coffee?
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trevor

6th January 2012, 18:03
ha ha,
yeah,why not,cheers.
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pastille

6th January 2012, 19:08
Not a clue what this thread is about, but I am high jacking it to say...

Welcome back Trevor!

Missed you.

p@
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