On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:
How in the hell did this list get into racial
slang anyway?
The same way it gets into cats, food, cars, guns, <insert other
inappropriate topic here>...
A lot of folks here need to get out more often.
<sigh> If only there were someplace to get out *to*... maybe
Bubba and Billy Joe are slugging it out again at the Silver
Dollar... that's always a good show.
We used to have some very cool, dark, smoky blues clubs
around in the 80s... then blues got popular with Gen-X-ers
and it all moved downtown to clean, glitzy, neon-infested
juke joints...
I might point out that some off-topic threads have gone
private and ended up being the beginning of more than one
new friendship...
-dq