Plumbing the depths of Joe the Plumber's "dictionary

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Mar 10 02:37:54 UTC 2012


On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Ronald Butters <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
> "It's fine to call them niggers, cuz that just means black."

Damn, motherfucker!!! Ain't nobody said nothing about no "niggers"!
Besides, that sentence is semantically queer. Wouldn't nobody assert
_means_ "black."

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