"Watchable wildlife" & ethnic jokes

[George Thompson]

Actually, no, I can't imagine myself ever saying "let's go to Tennessee
this summer; I see from their license plates that there is a lot of
watchable wildlife there."  In fact, I think I have only come upon the
word as the series title of the guidebooks I mentioned in my original
post.

Also, with reference to the butts of ethnic jokes: a few years ago I
bought a book called "Newfie Jokes", based on the stupidity of people
from Newfoundland.  Presumably this stereotype is widespread in the
rest of Canada?  Or else the compiler & publisher would not have used
this hook to hang these traditional ethnic slurs on.  Bibliographic
data and a few sample jokes upon request.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb at UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU>
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:44 pm
Subject: Re: "Watchable wildlife"

> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, George Thompson wrote:
>
> >One never knows what a legislature intends.  But among wildlife-
> >voyeurs, of which I am one, I think the phrase is taken to mean that
> >whereas most wildlife, other than birds, is elusive and seldom seen,
> >there are some spots where the chances of seeing an interesting
> critter>is better than usual.  I recall being referred to the town
> dump in
>
> Interesting. Don't go back into hiding yet, please. Do wildlife
> voyeursactually use the word "watchable" that way - or do you just
> accept that
> others do? I.e., would you say that such-a-such a place has lots of
> "watchable wildlife"?
>
> Bethany
>