Michael Jackson-speak

[Richard A. Spears]

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James A. Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM>; "James
A.
> Landau" <JJJRLandau at AOL.COM>
> >
> > from a Reuters article, available from America
> On-Line News this afternoon:
> >
> > <begin quote>
> > Vanity Fair, in an article for its March 11
edition, > also reports that
> > Jackson bleaches his skin white because he does not
> like being black. The
> > 44-year-old singer sometimes refers to black people
> as "spabooks," the
> > magazine said > > <end quote>
> >
> > Spabooks?
> >
> >                                  - Jim Landau

> I think it's a disguise of _spooks_.

ADD: It's a piglatinish kind of wordplay called
ubby-dubby.

Eg. Pabig Labatabun

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