CP Time

[Beverly Flanigan]

Boojies?  (Sorry, Wilson!)

At 02:25 PM 11/4/2004, you wrote:
>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
>>work
>>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
>>such a
>>mainstream form.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>-Wilson Gray