[Ads-l] CP Time redux (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

Iss A-ron McGruda an' his _Boondock_ comic-strip fau't. Wadn' f' him,
would/n no De Blasio-nim be knowin' nothin' *'bout* no C.P.Time!

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

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> Reviving an eleven year old thread . . .
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> Wilson Gray wilson.gray at RCN.COM
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> On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:
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> >  From the comic strip Boondocks:
> > http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2004/11/02/
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> > Huey:  I dreamt I talked to God last night . . .
> > Huey:  He said, Don't worry about the election 'cause everything would
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> > itself out soon.
> > Huey:  Of course, to God, "Soon" could be, like, 50 million years.
> > Caesar:  Yeah, He's been on C.P. time lately.
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> > I've seen/heard "C.P. Time" as "Colored People Time", but never in
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> Aaron probably recked without the ADS, figuring that "the other group"
> would be too lame and unhip to have any idea what the reference was.
> Or, perhaps, he just didn't care, since he uses a lot of in-group
> references in his work. If this kind of thing interests you(-all),
> you(-all) may want to watch Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central. He's
> the sketch-comedy version of Richard Pryor, so to speak. Or as it were.
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> FWIW, I know this only as "colored people's time," with the possessive
> "s" pronounced, since I've heard it used only by  boojies as a down
> (sic) of the underclass types who, with their lack of couth, their rap
> music, and their blink-blink (sic) persist in interfering with the
> upward progress of the Talented Tenth. Bill - or, rather, William -
> Cosby, EdD, you know what I'm saying.
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> -Wilson Gray
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